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- We talk through how much money it took to sail Three Weeks on Casino Complimentary Cruises on Royal Caribbean Cruise Line as well as reach Prime Status in the Club Royale Casino which Royal Caribbean cruisers onboard their caribbean cruises. How much money did we win and did we end up losing money? Number one way to save money is not gambling in the casino but many cruisers try to save money by reaching a Prime Status on Royal Caribbean which give you both Free Drinks in the Casino for every cruise for at least the next 12 months and complimentary cruises as well. Are cruise passengers easy targets as travelers? Should you take the word of fellow cruisers onboard cruise ships regarding casino comped cruises? Should you gamble in the casino on a cruise? How much money does it take to hit Prime Status on Royal Caribbean? Is gambling on cruise ships safe? This is the latest cruise news in tandem across the cruise industry where all cruise lines are making cruise cutbacks for cruise passengers onboard cruise ships during 2024 and we were surprised by how much it took for us to reach Prime Status on Royal Caribbean while onboard our Royal Caribbean Cruise Ships! What do cruise lines do for casino patrons who are cruising and spending enough money in the casino? How do Cruise Ship Crew treat casino cruise passengers? Are cruise ship passengers okay with cruise lines casino promotions to get people to gamble more? We talk through our verified experiences of cruising on 4 side to side cruises through our casino comps, how much we spent onboard, and how much we spent to get Prime Status on these Royal Caribbean Cruises. You could reach Prime Status on your next Royal Caribbean Cruise and receive free drinks as well as a complimentary cruise while onboard all Royal Caribbean Cruise Ships including the worlds largest cruise ship Icon of the Seas or soon to be Star of the Seas 2025, and even the worlds smallest cruise ships. This could happen onboard many cruise ships whether on the Worlds Biggest Cruise Ship Class; or, the Smallest Cruise Ship Class and every Cruise Ship in between. What are your thoughts in our inside cruise chat on how much we spent on our Caribbean Cruise Ships 2024?
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Excellent video! There needs to be more content about "casino deals" and the true cost. You guys got an incredible deal at the end of the day.
We have a 15-day Transatlantic on Carnival next year with free drinks everywhere for "free" besides port fees, etc. If you play smart, you can get fantastic offers.
Well done y'all!
We just got off the Sun Princess on a casino comped interior cabin. Too small for us. However. After racking up over 10k point each in the casino (we had some good hits too). We each received a balcony cabin with 600 free play for 15 days pretty much anywhere. I don't think there was any mention of free drinks. However, we did receive a beautiful bottle of wine and a fruit and cheese platter in our cabin on night 4.
We're already booked on a 14-day HAL cruise from Athens to Rome, including the Adriatic. Free drinks in casino and $300 free play.
Fruit and cheese . 👍
I luv fruit and cheese on a cruise.
I have not paid for a cruise on Carnival for the last 7 years. I have to pay taxes and a $200 deposit but I get a $200 onboard credit. I have won on the majority of them or at least break even. So many factors go into the free cruises, but the longer you play in the casino really increases your chance of getting the casino offers. Sea days are my gamble days...LOL
Sounds like you’ve unlocked a great way to travel!
Sounds like you’ve unlocked a great way to travel!
🤔me thinking all these Carnival offerings are just a scam. Maybe I actually gambled enough to qualify for something extra??🤔
Ok I understand
@@lillis887you don’t have to gamble too much on carnival for offers.
Generally we travel on casino comped cruises. Our most recent was a 28 day Amazon thru Holland America. What type of room were you in? What were your points at the end of 21 days? We find that our cost is similar to yours--but some comped cruises do not include drinks, so we pay extra for the drink package or for drinks outside of the casino. We also frequently upgrade the cabin to a balcony if we are offered a free inside or oceanview. The other big ticket item is transportation to the cruise port--there are lots of free cruises in Australia, South America, and Europe but airfare is so expensive. Another expense is excursions or meals when getting off of the ship--did you do any excursions or spend any money in port on your 21 days at sea? So--the cruise really isn't free at all--but definitely better than paying full price. And of course there is the gambling budget--$748 is VERY low, but congratulations on the wins!
Isn’t the $748 the amount of money lost in the casino? not bankroll.
Great video! It's useful to gauge someone else's casino spend against what we do. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, it is intersting to see. Their cash in for 21 days two people is my daily budget.
We cruised with a man who bragged about NEVER paying for a cruise but Lost at least $6000 on each cruise. On that cruise we had the same type cabin type which we payed less than $1000 for the week,
Right. He prepaid his cruise.
Comped many times on Celebrity. Have always upgraded from inside or balcony to concierge or aqua class. Still, even with casino losses (and some wins) the results vs actual regular cruise costs have been very good. Of course that begs the question of whether we would have taken the “free” cruises anyway. We are big fans of Celebrity.
That’s a good point- when you get the comps you feel like you have to take them. We ask ourselves this question often!
J@@JJCruise
Good for you! We’ve had several of the free inside cabin deals with Holland America and enjoyed every one of them to the
max! I would like some more! Cheers! ❤
I’ve taken 7 cruises in the last year, all from comped casino cruises. I’ve been on MSC, Royal, Celebrity, and Virgin. Couple cruises I have come out ahead by winning in the casino. I do it cheaply and do not buy anything extra like food, drink, shore excursions. Last years best cruise was an 18 night trans pacific cruise on Royal Caribbean Ovation of the Seas from Sydney to Honolulu. All were minimum ocean view balcony, a couple were Jr. Suite. I’ve had internet on a couple that were comped but again, I try to do it cheap and only pay port fees and taxes and with my job, I travel extensively so I use miles or vouchers for flights and points for hotels before and after cruise and if a rental car is needed, i use my free days. LOVE cruising for free!
Yall so good for experimenting beginning at zero to see how good the benefits were! Very interesting video guys
Sounds like an amazing April. Congratulations on all your wins.
Thank you so much! It was a solid three weeks of cruising!
Very helpful!!🥰 Cruising with Disney for years. Now that our daughter is older branching out to other cruise lines!! Love learning how other cruise lines comp for casino play!!❤
We are so glad you found this video helpful! 🥳
You guys are amazing to say the least! Thanks for your direction, insight and booking our cruise, you’re simply the best! We appreciate your continued care with everything start to finish!❤
Very interesting, enjoyed the break down of prices, that was a lot of money cycled but sounds like you still made out OK
You can go on these cruises with just the taxes/port fees and gratuities. But even if you spend extra above that, you still go cheaper than you would normally if you gamble anyway. The first free cruise I won, I didn’t even know I was winning it until I got home. So gamble for fun and be smart about it.
Thank you for the breakdown Jordan. My very first cruise was an 18 day reposition cruise on Royal. I wandered into the casino on day 3 and won about 1000 dollars. The next day 500 and so on until I had won well over 3000 dollars. Lady luck was with me on that cruise! I received lots of free cruises after that. My friend and I went on a free cruise every month for about 6 months. I will reiterate your point though, it is very easy to get in over your head in a casino. Set yourself a daily budget and stick to it!
Thanks for the casino information 😊
We get casino comp cabins several times a year. I just booked two for 2025. We also upgrade our cabin to OVB on most. This is usually a few hundred dollars. Still, it is $600/$800 saving per person per cabin. I want to cruise, so any discount is good. I need to self-control the gambling. Love the Club Royal program.
Just curious, do you still rack up Crown and Anchor credits when you are on the comped cruise?
Wonderful video Jordan. I cruise a lot on Celebrity and have had at least a dozen free cruises through their casino program, I went on three in April on Celebrity all compt. But as you said, you have to be very careful and watch what you spend 😊
I just got back from Alaska on my first Royal Caribbean cruise and I also hit Prime status in the casino. I was lucky enough to hit two jackpots and was able to cover the sea pass bill at the end of the cruise along with everything I spent at the ports, and I still had money left over that I brought home. I had cruised with Carnival previously with casino deals (so this l was the first cruise I paid full price for in a while) but now I understand why the saying “loyal to Royal” exists… the loyalty programs are unmatched.
Did I miss where you said what type of room you got comped? That would help determine the value of those comps. Of course, any "free" basic room is a nice way to start any cruise!
We had 3 Oceanview cabins and 1 interior
Cabin. 😀
I usually get an outside but am often upgraded to a Balcony.
@@JJCruise Thanks! We've gotten some Casino discounts from HAL found by our PCC, the funny thing is we've never gambled on any of their ships. But who can turn down $1k off their crusie fare?!
I enjoyed this very much, very informative.
Thank you! Thank you for watching ❤️.
Thank you for sharing! Very interesting!
My friend and I had similar financial investment and similar winnings with NCL years ago and didn't even get a free drink (before packages). We estimated about a $3500 was in and out of the machines (each) and I have never gambled on a cruise since. We had fun though! Congrats - glad you were taken care of!!!
Thank you so much for the valuable info!! We are about to take a b2b comp cruise in Sept on Celebrity Reflection. We got comped interior and are trying to decide if we want to upgrade or not. We didn't get free drinks in the casino but as elite we get happy hour drinks each day. We did buy the non alcoholic drink pkg as I am a big specialty coffee and Evian and San Pellegrino water drinker. So with port fees, taxes, gratuities, travel insurance, and non alcoholic drink pkgs we have laid out $1219.82. And we usually bring 1000.00 for the casino. We'll see how we do. Again thanks guys for all the great content!!
I'm pretty sure that the Celebrity website states that no matter who is gambling or how many points they have celebrity always offers free drinks in the casino. Worth investigating… I'm going to check that out but I do believe I just read that recently,
@@grannyoffive1313 Thanks, will definitely look into that.
Good job Jordan! Hope to cruise with you guys one day!
Thank you so much! Would love to run into you on the high seas some day!
Thank you for the video!
Very informative video! You did a great job of breaking it down. Overall it sounds like it was a pretty good deal for you!
Congrats on getting two Prime statuses with under $750 cash in. That is a good deal, but I also think that is really not a good indicator of casino comp programs. Prime is a pretty easy point to hit and I would expect to hit it after two or three days of the first cruise. Now the Signature level is a bit harder, but for people like you the free internet at Signature level would be a great thing.
Fun meeting you guys on Independence! Take care!
Wonderful meeting you as well! Happy cruising!
Thanks for all of this very interesting and helpful information.
Thank you for your insight on cruising!! Love watching your videos!! ❤
Thanks for this information. I’ll give it a shot if I ever get back to cruising.
As long as it’s for fun and a set budget! ☺️
@@JJCruise lol, yes. I guess I should have said that part out loud.
I am a regular comped cruiser with Princess and Carnival but don’t know anything about RCI. Thanks.
I would like to know about Princess since I like repositioning cruises. Do you have any tips or videos that you made? Thanks
My best hand on a cruise casino was a lucky lady on blakjack in February 2023.
2 euros bet, 2000 euros won.
You should’ve added the kind of cabins you were in on the4 cruises and what kind of cruise cabins your future comped will be. Maybe throw in what slots were the best for your play.
The biscuits are all Carnival shipwide bad. They probably use the same recipe. (PLEASE listen Carnival). But their cookies are the BEST!
Loved your views of the food and the Firenze.
@JJcruise my cousin gets free cruises all the time through Carnival and Royal. She and her husband both won a cruise each. They were so nice to gifted one of their free cruises to me and my husband. I can’t wait to explore these new ports in February.
That’s awesome! It’s great when you can cruise with family and friends on the casino’s dime!
@@JJCruise Yes, it is and this is going to be our first time cruising with them. As well as to the Caribbean which I am really looking forward to doing. I am hoping to get 2 cruises in next year. I kind a want to try NCL, Princess and Holland America to go to Alaska.
Holland and Princess are top notch cruise lines for Alaska! Make sure to hit Glacier Bay! 🏔️
@@JJCruise Okay, I will definitely start looking at both of them. I will definitely make sure we are going to see the glaciers. I love looking at the Alaskan scenery from my balcony as we cruise into port. I can’t wait to see your next adventure.
Awesome 🎉 on the big wins- We think its great u 2 are having some fun, WHILE being sure to play the system to ur benefit! Why not!?!? If anyone is deserving- its the 2 of u- as u also make amazing content to share with everyone NOT TO MENTION WHAT GREAT TA'S U GUY'S ARE!!
HUGS- 😊❤
Thank you so much! ❤️❤️❤️
Great video! I am going on a My wife and I are going on 2 more cruise in the next year. I have never been in the casino. I plan on visiting this time because I have a $900 credit. My question is, does my wife and I share the points building up or should we just use one of our Seapass cards to build up the points?
By the sound of it - you both did well = & chose wisely! Thanks for sharing.🎖🎖🎖😎😎😎🌟🌟🌟
and over 93 cruises for us in 40 years, we don't gamble or drink. no comps here - and usually find pretty good deals to cruise. not everyone sits behind a gambling table in their vacations (or in life in general)
Interesting video. I don't gamble, so this doesn't necessarily apply to me personally. However, I still geeked out on the details. 🤓 🤓 🤓
I cruise with comp cruises all the time, mainly with Holland America and MSC. This year I’ll go on 5. As I usually sail solo it’s great as there is no supplemental costs.
We are slowly starting to get Holland America offers. We’re wanting to squeeze one in soon!
@@JJCruise it looks like they are better than RC. Your status doesn’t expire and though I don’t spend that much in the casino (usually less than $800 out of pocket) I always get drinks, around $200 free play and often balcony rooms. Good luck.
Thank you..I think that is pretty good..21 days for that amount plus winning more,,wow. I am not savey at all on this.
This is an excellent video!! Wow! Amazing
Thanks!! 🤗
All I'm saying. Love Casino discounts when they work out. Did y'all play any Ultimate this time?
NCL has a terrible casino program. I will have to try other cruise lines.
Great Video.
Great video! Would be interested in your transportation to and from those cruises. Did you drive and have parking expenses at each port?
That's believable. My mom paid about $350 and got prime on Icon recently. She was winning throughout the cruise and just ended up using house money after the first night
I just got off the Celebrity Beyond last week. I dropped a total of 800 during that 6 nights and couldn't get anywhere. Hardly any bonuses and no significant wins. Just couldn't get any traction on this one. I only walked away with about 350 club points. I was so frustrated. It felt like they had the machines locked down tight. Its not that I expect to win but it would be nice if I got some play time for my money. This cruise was more of a donation cruise in the casino.
That is so frustrating- we’ve totally been there and experienced that too. So sorry for the poor experience on that ship!
@@JJCruise Thanks! Otherwise is was a great cruise and the Beyond is my favorite class of ship. To be honest it was already a comped cruise so in a way I was just paying for the fare. ;-)
No drink package??
would love more tips and videos like this! do you find that wins happen more on sea days vs. port days? going on my first cruise since the pandemic next month & I used to play on port days and get bigs wins with NCL.
We haven’t noticed any difference. Though, we feel like we win more frequently when there is a lot of activity and/or big players playing. ☺️
How many nights are the comp cruises for? Or can you just pick any cruise you’d like?
Hey J. 4 casino comped cruises? Amazing.
We have friends who have never paid for a cruise! 100% on casino credits. We have never stepped foot in the Casino so we will never get one😅.
Went on 1st cruise and I am offered several free cruises. Spent approx. $500 in casino on 4 day cruise on Carnival.
Sounds about right, thanks for sharing!
Question: is the free cruise for 2 people? If I’m solo would it still be free?
I know I still need to pay taxes/port fees
Good info but missing hte most important number. How much Play Through (or cash in) did you have to do to get to the top tier? Play through (cash in) is the amount of cash gambled (your money plus winnings put back) total. So if you say you lost $700, did you play through 10K? Without that we really don't know enough as to how you earn free cruises, etc? Also, is there a play through to get a cruise offer while onboard (which you seem to have done 3 times out of the 4)? Please do a follow up where you let us know. I know with MSC to get a free cruise the play though is 30k (10k points x $3 to earn a point).
Here you go! How to earn a Free Cruise on Royal Caribbean (Cruise Secrets Revealed!)
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Love me a cruise comp 🎉
Unreal!
Do you guys tip in addition to the prepaid gratuities? I often wonder what the average person does for stateroom attendants and main dining so I can compare to what I do. Also, do you have Royal cruises where you don't gamble at all or do you play every time? Were the free cruises casino cruise certificates or were they sent as marketing email offers?
Yes - we always do. We tip in cash and didn’t write down how much we tipped in cash throughout the weeks at sea, so that isn’t configured into this. We also tip the casino bartenders $1 per drink we get.
Yes- they send marketing offers through the mail and we will play if we are on a casino comps. If it’s a sailing we paid in full for, we will not play.
🤔 This is interesting
Well since I only have $20 budgeted for the casino I'm going to say comps are out for me.
But look at what you are spending in cash to pay for your cruise. You’re losing out. Find the cheapest cruise you can, 4-5 nights or longer, don’t care what ship it’s on, don’t care where it goes, and play heavily in the casino. You’ll never have to pay for a cruise again.
What games or slots do you play? And at what denomination?
We don’t have any specific machines or denoms, but we do like to change up the denominator to 2 cents or 5 cents when possible and betting low. ☺️
I am totally impressed. Can you estimate how much time you both spent in the casinos?
So you left out what the comp cruises cost! Why? Please tell all the story. Some of this is a bit off.
For informational purposes, the gambling result is no where near as important than the coin-in. It doesn't tell us how much gambling you have to do to get the comped cruises. The real important information is how much did you cycle through to get the points.
My question is you're free cruises what kind of room does that include
Anywhere from Interior to Balcony. ☺️
And we can always upgrade 🥳
It's still so expensive
Are the comped rooms always interior cabins?
No. Your room is based on how many points you earn per cruise. I’ve been in everything from an inside cabin up to a suite fully comped.
WOW, is it the same metrics/amounts for Celebrity?
Every casino stretch trip on any cruise line looks different. I guess that’s why it’s called gambling 😅
Thank you in advance for any answer you can give me to explain my confusion I thought you need 2500 points can you get one point for every $5 in gambling the map tells me $5 * 2,500 is 12,500 dollars that you would have to gamble to make the 2500 points am I missing something also when you get the 2500 points how many nights of cruising do you get for that 2500 points
Yes you do need to do the $12,500 cash in, but the thing is that you will hopefully get multiple line hits or small to medium bonus games along the way to keep playing. I like to play older style games like Pinball and Top Dollar or other three reel machines that will return your bet amount every 4-6 spins with occasional bigger wins and some jackpots. The big flashy games with the firecrakers, pigs, or pots are fun, but need a much bigger bankroll to play because they are highly volitile with few decent line hits but fairly infrequent bonus games paying big.
@@pewing99 thank you so much for your experience, informational insight and tips but once you spend $12,500 and you get 2500 points how do you know the value of free cruising you will receive? Does it go by days? Does it go by a certain dollar amount? Thank you in advance for any information you can supply.
@@truthalways8071 Royal posts a sign with a list of point levels. Say you earn the 3000 points on one cruise you will get an oceanview or balcony cabin and $250 FreePlay on the comped cruise. You will have a list with 12-15 pages of cruises to choose from around the world. Free cabin offers usually start around 1500 points I think. In addition to the bounceback cruise, you will also start receiving emails and postcards with more free offers that you can take. These are usually 4-7 day cruises from US ports but occasionally have international trips as well. Then you can parlay these offers by signing up with a service like URComped or Casino Players Club and send them the Royal offers. They can then use those to get you matching offers on other cruise lines and land casinos.
You guys should be getting full non revenue passenger status which generally forbids play in casino. As travel agents and youtube promoters I don't understand why you have to pay anything possibly except very reduced fares on any cruise.
The cruise lines don’t give free cruises to TH-camrs (most of the time). Out of 80 cruises we’ve received a total of 2 comp’d cruises for being TH-cam promoters. We have received about 6 discounted (but not free) cruises for being travel agents, but as much as we are traveling - we have to get creative.
@@JJCruiseI will meet you on villa vie and show you what you should really be doing I use my badges from the different cruiselines to get either comped or at most pay cost for tours off the cruise ships worldwide. I have escorted and evaluated over 800 cruise shore excursions on most of the major cruise lines including rccl
It seems to me that in order to get 2500 points @ $5 = 1 point, you would have to put $12500 through the machines. For the 2 of you that would mean you had to put $25000 through the machines. Now, if I’m right, true transparency would have been the amount of money you put through and your total returns not just the 2 bonuses you mentioned.
I'm seeing people online that say the slots at least are posted as paying back 80%. A lot of people online are quoting their numbers at like 85~90%... So if all of that is to be believed, to get Prime status and a free cruise you can expect to put in anywhere from $1250 to $2500
Hi Laurie, of course- everyone must play through 12,500 to reach prime, but you win and lose the entire time you’re playing. You may put (1) $100 bill in and play on it for hours before losing and get 1,000 points OR you could put (1) $100 bill in, win nothing and only get 20 points. We shared exactly what we spent, it’s impossible to try and track dollar by dollar and what each dollar gets you in terms of points. Hope that helps!
I came back to my math on this based on your reply (because I agree - you can put in $100 and play for awhile)
It turns out at 80% returns that the points come out 1:1 dollars to points. If you put in $100, you can expect to get $500 of play out of it, which equates to 100 casino points
With the hand pay and the loss would they counter act each other when it comes to income tax?
The casino will provide you with a gambling income form when you hit a hand pay and they will file it with the IRS. You can request a profit and loss statement from the casino club (Club Royale on Royal) to offset the hand pay when you file your income taxes.
Yes, to a point. For US Federal taxes, gambling losses are only deductible to the extent that they offset gambling winnings.
Was your free drink just available in the casino or anywhere on the ship?
The free casino drinks are only available in the casino.
April Fools day appropriate
Are you just playing slots?
Yes- only playing slots.
I’m not a lucky gambler. You could give me the money you made with your winnings and very shortly I would be broke.
I never doubt anyone but nobody ever seems to lose at casinos and yet the casinos make billions. Hmm.
I have a question if you both live in the same home or share the same cruise cabin can’t you both share your cruise points together. Only asking because I cruise with my sister and I am the only one that gamble. So I get all the free cruises and I have had the prime level since 2020. ❤Lol but she needs to start helping me 😂😂😂
You unfortunately have to each reach individual points even if you live in the same household. So if one person reaches Prime, only that person has access to the perks.
You need to use her card to gamble!!
@@JJCruise Oh ok, thank you ❤️
@@tduck828 😂😂😂😂 elllllllll no, I want all my credits if she not spending her money and I use her card I lose out. So I’m fine I’ll gamble alone… 😂😂❤️
My fiancee and I used my card until prime, then hers to prime. It worked like a charm.
Gamble on the first night only .
Umm yeah no.
Interesting. I guess if you are a real gambler it makes a lot of sense. Drinking and gambling are not for me under any circumstances.
We believe that’s the majority of cruisers out there (and that’s important to note), which we are thankful for as Travel Agents! If everyone cruises the casino program we may be out of a job 😅.