Casino Come Back and Sail offers only good for 6 mos now.

[Laminator]

Effective Aug 1st the Come Back and Sail offers will be good for 6 months. This has been implemented on the Zaandam, Volendam, Koningsdam, Westerdam and Rotterdam. All remaining ships will be transitioned by 8/23/24.  

[Euby]

Thank you for sharing this.  Now if only they would send me those offers again.  I took advantage of them with the post-COVID start-up to book 3 cruises at a great rate (especially for a solo).

[Laminator]

4 hours ago, Euby said:

Thank you for sharing this.  Now if only they would send me those offers again.  I took advantage of them with the post-COVID start-up to book 3 cruises at a great rate (especially for a solo).

Yep...if you are a solo traveler and know how to play the game you can come out way ahead. 

[Mary229]

Thanks for the heads up.  I had one I was eyeing, I will have to reconsider. I assume they will continue to offer some deep discounts 

[shadow 123]

On 8/9/2024 at 10:50 AM, Laminator said:

Effective Aug 1st the Come Back and Sail offers will be good for 6 months. This has been implemented on the Zaandam, Volendam, Koningsdam, Westerdam and Rotterdam. All remaining ships will be transitioned by 8/23/24.  

  I'm a 3 star mariner and I've never heard of this? What is it ?

[shadow 123]

3 minutes ago, shadow 123 said:

  I'm a 3 star mariner and I've never heard of this? What is it ?

Oops... I didn't see the word casino.

[Laminator]

32 minutes ago, Mary229 said:

Thanks for the heads up.  I had one I was eyeing, I will have to reconsider. I assume they will continue to offer some deep discounts 

As far as we know only the time frame has changed. We are waiting for responses from those that started sailing after 8/1 as that is when the 6 months started. 

[maraena]

On 8/9/2024 at 10:50 AM, Laminator said:

Effective Aug 1st the Come Back and Sail offers will be good for 6 months. This has been implemented on the Zaandam, Volendam, Koningsdam, Westerdam and Rotterdam. All remaining ships will be transitioned by 8/23/24.  

Can I ask where you found this?

[Laminator]

8 hours ago, maraena said:

Can I ask where you found this?

We had several casino members in another group report the 6 month Come Back and Sail offers last weekend. I then verified it directly with a HAL.

[palmbaytish]

Good to know! My husband and I are sailing for 2 weeks in Japan/South Korea in March of 2025. The cruise leaves the day before the offer expired at the 1 year mark. Gotta take advantage of a free Neptune suite and $2k free play. For our Christmas sailing in the Eastern Carribean I didn't check to see how long the offer was valid for, we just happened to see availability for a holiday sailing in a Neptune Suite booking, this time with $3k in casino play. 

[Laminator]

1 hour ago, palmbaytish said:

Good to know! My husband and I are sailing for 2 weeks in Japan/South Korea in March of 2025. The cruise leaves the day before the offer expired at the 1 year mark. Gotta take advantage of a free Neptune suite and $2k free play. For our Christmas sailing in the Eastern Carribean I didn't check to see how long the offer was valid for, we just happened to see availability for a holiday sailing in a Neptune Suite booking, this time with $3k in casino play. 

As an FYI I do not believe you receive Come Back and Sail offers on Japan sailings. But being on the email list is the key as that is the gift that keeps on giving. 

[palmbaytish]

5 hours ago, Laminator said:

As an FYI I do not believe you receive Come Back and Sail offers on Japan sailings. But being on the email list is the key as that is the gift that keeps on giving. 

It wasn't an email offer, so I might be mistaken on the name of the offer in regards to the Japan cruise. On the last night of our sailing, this past March,  I recieved a certificate in my cabin inviting me back for a future cruise  anywhere in the world for up to 15 days for myself and a guest in a Neptune Suite. I booked the trip when we got home, and I just paid port charges and taxes for us both, just under $700. We're very excited!

 

The Caribbean Christmas sailing was an email offer, though. 

Edited August 13 by palmbaytish

[Laminator]

6 hours ago, palmbaytish said:

It wasn't an email offer, so I might be mistaken on the name of the offer in regards to the Japan cruise. On the last night of our sailing, this past March,  I recieved a certificate in my cabin inviting me back for a future cruise  anywhere in the world for up to 15 days for myself and a guest in a Neptune Suite. I booked the trip when we got home, and I just paid port charges and taxes for us both, just under $700. We're very excited!

 

The Caribbean Christmas sailing was an email offer, though. 

That is a Come Back and Sail offer. There have been a few dozen email offers sent out by the casino since then. Check your account to make sure you are opted in for emails from HAL. If you are then contact the Mariner Society and they should be able to help you getting emails. On email offers you can book up to 3 cruises. Here is the list of offerings that came out yesterday. 
Directory Offers (hollandamerica.com)

[mcrcruiser]

Strange that we get the Casino offers from Carnival Cruise line but not HAL . Isn;t it the same company operating all the carnival corp cruise lines ?

[Laminator]

9 minutes ago, mcrcruiser said:

Strange that we get the Casino offers from Carnival Cruise line but not HAL . Isn;t it the same company operating all the carnival corp cruise lines ?

Yes....But they are very segmented. 

[mcrcruiser]

21 hours ago, Laminator said:

Yes....But they are very segmented. 

I play pnly Craps . & Texas Holdem  .Perhaps that doesn't  count  ?

[Laminator]

4 hours ago, mcrcruiser said:

I play pnly Craps . & Texas Holdem  .Perhaps that doesn't  count  ?

Table play does count but for not as much compared to slot play. 

[Ready2go11]

I last sailed in April 2024 and received some discount offers via email. In addition, I could see discounts on cruises I was researching after I logged in and compared the price before logging in and after logging in.
 

The discount was still in effect as of last week however, yesterday when I went to look at a new booking, there is no discount so my offers expired in less than six months since my last cruise.

 

Real bummer since there was a nice discount on a 27 night cruise I was waiting till I was on board in early October to book. 

[Laminator]

6 minutes ago, Ready2go11 said:

I last sailed in April 2024 and received some discount offers via email. In addition, I could see discounts on cruises I was researching after I logged in and compared the price before logging in and after logging in.
 

The discount was still in effect as of last week however, yesterday when I went to look at a new booking, there is no discount so my offers expired in less than six months since my last cruise.

 

Real bummer since there was a nice discount on a 27 night cruise I was waiting till I was on board in early October to book. 

The offers you can see on the site are from email offers. Many pax do not receive the email offers. The only way they know is by logging and seeing pricing on the site which is what you did. The Come Back and Sail offers are distributed to pax the day before you disembark. They have a different code and are never visible on the HAL site. 

[Ready2go11]

I have received the offers on flyers delivered to my cabin just before disembarkation too, but those have an even shorter expiration for me- 60 days from receiving it. Very likely because I am not a super player only a minor one.  

 

I am disappointed to lose the casino discount though via my account. I am glad I have a couple of trips booked already with the discount applied.
 

One cruise I booked before I started receiving those discounts did go down when my HAL PCC was able to get the casino discount applied to the existing booking. I guess I can always book my new desired cruise on board in October and hope I “earn” a casino discount that could later be applied to that booking.