Exceptionally well done! You are a fine speaker. I can hardly string three words together without stumbling and losing my train of thought. I have been watching a lot of cruise casino videos on TH-cam lately and yours takes the cake for structure, flow, conciseness, and most importantly, being informative.
this coming cruise in december is a casino offer free interior room, i spent about a 100.00 cash on my first cruise but looking back and understanding the coin in value better now i see how i earned this cruise cause i put most of the winning back into the machine just enjoying playing and having fun.
Facebook alerted me that Carnival will offer free cruises when you fill out a form and upload a competing cruise offer. I had Royal offers. When on 8 my Genesis out of NYC in July. Great casino. Spent more than usual but still a low roller. Lots of offers since then but the best is 4 Elite Cruises. I got one for 2025 and one for 2026. Amazing extras. Pinnacle status immediately, full drink pkg,transfers from airport or free parking,free excursion,free room service,etc for myself and companion. I'm so excited. I would never go on a 3 night booze cruise but these 7 and 14 my cruises should be amazing.
About to go on our second "free" cruise on Carnival. We are little fish, and the free offers were not expected as we only play because we enjoy it and only spend $500 max...never knew about and still don't care about points. My guess is this may be our last freebee as they are tightening up and we do not intend to chase perks. But learned alot about the "behind the scenes". Thanks!
I’m going on a cruise in March of next year. I got my offer from my land based casino. Up to 14 days on Carnival or Princess. OV balcony and $200 OB credit.
I received my first Elite cruise offer from Carnival a few months ago. I was very excited and did book one future cruise from this offer. I also have received another Elite offer for a different set of cruises which I plan to also book at least one of those. I doubt my retiree budget will allow me to spend enough to continue to receive these fantastic offers so I plan to take advantage of them while they are flowing to my inbox. Living in the Midwest airfare/major city hotel stay has to be included in my travel budget and is significant portion :( never less I am very excited to have these opportunities!
I just started cruising and that first one i did a bit of gambling within their casino, spent a lot of hour at sea there. By the end of the cruise i got free drink while playing to free drinks everywhere . I also got all those offers from them (carnival) and utilized a few of those offers. Most recently i got their players club premier offers. The one you get to play for big prizes. I haven’t yet taken advantage of that offer due to a sailing on the princess Sun. Princess sent me offers and im going on a 10 day cruise with them in Nov. Always feels good to be able to pick and choice where and when you want to go next. I haven’t yet done the Florida flight to cruise there, just my home port in California as that keeps the cost down too. And as i enjoy cruising solo due to not having to worry about anyone else for entertainment , as i can come and go as desired
@@mikebarnes2294 try to think of it as a hotel. A room cost a certain amount, while sometimes you can stick 4 people in a hotel room you could actually save money. The actual saving are from after the price of the room. Paying for other fees that are usually a per person fee , like ports and tips. One would think the all day buffet would be some of the savings for solo travelers, it’s not really a big savings.
I don’t gamble but last year old man showed me how to get free cruise. i thought only one . but i get offer every other week. so spent 300$ last year for 13day cruise. and so far took 9 cruises this year. and will be hitting prime status. The goal is to keep your $ alive 😂& rolling.
@@jamesguyle4769 watch her won youtube holirolls just search earn free cruise playing craps. a lot of them will show up. is all about how you keep the $$ rolling in and out. craps is th game for it.
Melissa, I was checking out your content and your website. I am going on a free cruise my 7th free cruise actually with a cruise line I noticed you don't seem to sail with or recommend. I am referring to NCL. I even noticed on your website you don't have any guide to their private Island Great Stirrup Cay or Harvest Caye in Belize. What do you have against Norwegians ships and private Islands. If you are going to recommend travel and cruise should you not atleast experience all of them during your every 4 to 6 week trips??
I have lost and won big .. been very fortunate.. took home a 10,000 grand I won on the carnival Mardi Gras last month .. I was up a lot .!!!.. I gamble a lot on these cruises and we receive massive comps .. Free suites ,, drinks for me and my wife all over the ship ,, free steak and seafood dinners etc etc .. the amenities on a cruise Far exceed a land based casino 👍🔥👍
Hi Melissa! Stumbled across your vids and find them very informative. I have questions about cruise tier status. (Not casino status, but actual loyalty reward points) Have you ever done a vid on this? If so, please share link, would love to review it!! ---- If you don't mind me asking, with all your travels -- what tier status have you achieved with NCL? From what I understand, there are specific cruises that qualify for double points like transatlantic/Pacific, Panama Canal, Pacific Costal etc. ...I also understand there may be opportunity for solo cruisers (booking in double occupancy rooms) may also qualify for double lat rewards too...(so, in theory, there may be opportunity to triple or quadruple dip on Lat Reward points😳) Is this your understanding as well? A more practiced perspective could be valuable for newbies like me... Thanks for your perspective and insights!! Best regards --
@profmelissa - As it relates to Carnival What do you average per day in points? Is that a metric you calculate? I have a few Elite cruises planned in the coming months. Never been on one. Have you? If so, can you made a video about your experience?
during covid when the ships were half full the casinos and gamblers single handedly kept them profitable thats why casinos get better perks than everyone else.
I've gone on 3 free cruises and have other offers outstanding, but being fairly new to this, here's my question: You mentioned that you can book up to 5 free cruises when you get a Carnival offer, so spending even $5k in the casino is still worth it.... but if you spent 5k in the casino on 1 trip, wouldn't you still need to spend a fair bit on each of the next 5 free cruises that you just unlocked with that spend, in order to keep future offers coming? I'm trying to learn the balance of how to keep offers coming without having to play big each time.
I set a budget for each cruise and I do not gamble every day. I am not a big spender and I get offers. If I when a jackpot my money goes back in the safe and I gamble with the winnings. Each casino cruise offer has a code, which are letters combined with numbers. Somewhere near this code it will tell you how many cruises you can book with that particular code. I am speaking on Carnival. For example, the offer email might say Free Balcony, free Oceanview, and/or free inside cabin. Each would have a different code. I have friends that are on the cruise ships weeks at a time.
Yes and no, but with Carnival casino hosts constantly telling you "I don't know" and "offers are random", there is no rhyme or reason to Carnival and A LOT of small, medium and really big fish are irritated with Carnival bc A LOT of offers disappeared COMPLETELY in spite of earning over 10k-40k points on their last cruise. September 10th, when new offers came out, A LOT of players received ZERO new offers and still have none...my husband and myself included 8k for me and over 10k for him on Celebration September 22...zero offers other than the onboard bounce back offer, which isn't very good. Royal Caribbean on the other hand, as explained in this video is transparent about what EXACTLY is needed to earn comped cruises onboard, plus you can receive WEEKLY comped cruise offers without even hitting 1,500 points during a single sailing. To answer your question. If you have multiple comped cruises booked, you can play not at all, or even very little on all your cruises, which WILL affect your offers, but with future crises already booked, you just need to play on the last of your comped cruise to get your offers started again, or back up to a level of better offers. Depends on your budget and how much you want to cruise and get offers. If booked through 2026, then in 2026 play to a decent level, but if you play hard in 2024 and 2025, but play less in 2026, then your offers in 2026 can disappear and you have no future bookings left to get them back. For Royal, they would like you to pay to at least 200 points per cruise to keep the weekly offers coming. Mind you, that can drop Balcony offers to Interior or even the eye roll 1 person comped in a double occupancy cabin... but they rate you off your last 3 cruises, so you can balance your play off that if looking for better weekly offers and of course EVERY cruise you can earn an instant certificate based on point levels and the host can show you the lists at each level for you to decide if a certificate is worth going for that cruise or not, or at what point level a specific cruise or ship is on, for you to shoot for... and that could mean what your looking for is at the 800 point list or the 6,000 point list. If at 1,200, you don't want to continue playing your card to 1,500 points or more, where your earned certificate now does NOT have the cruise you want to book on it
here is another one for you. I am seeing guest with the higher tiers such as platium and diamon are getting less casino offers and sometimes none than the newer sailers.
I have an inkling that Carnival clientele -on average- gamble more than RCCL. (I don't mean more in money, just more in frequency) Hence, perhaps a reason why Carnival's not offering as many freebies as they used to, and RCCL has a more transparent points policy? It's all about supply & demand, right? (Just a thought)
I am a professor of statistics. Typical casino comp of 5% of theoretical loss. So, at a craps table, the house edge is, at best, roughly 0.75% with single odds. $100 per average bet x 4 hours of play with roughly 40 rolls / hour (i.e. $4,000 play by 4 hours or $16,000) gives you a theoretical loss of $120. That might, and barely, get you a comped meal on most ships. So, you had to risk $16,000 of action to save yourself $10 of meal. Crazy to do this. I wrote a book on this subject. Never, ever play for the comps. It is even more of a suckers game that the "Field" in craps or 3:2 blackjack.
This is how the wife and i got our cruise for March 2025 on Carnival. And just received other offer for NCL.... and we are NOT big fish lol, Ballys casino (Atlantic City, NJ) partnered With Carnival and that's how are got our offers. And on our last cruise on RC we did hit the casinos.
We got a free cruise offer from NCL from casino. Not sure why because we didn't play much at all (didn't count it though, but not more than a few hundred). It was an email offer (no CBS offer) and we used it. Despite this one solitary instance, I remain unsure that dumping money into the casino is worth it versus just paying.
I played every day on our cruise last year and only got the normal +7 pts. It was our first cruise. Will that change if I do the same on my next cruise this year?
Heh and to think you can still get free booze in Vegas just by sitting down and playing at the slots for a short while without the need to worry about points...
I need to stop getting these from Carnival. I went at Labor Day week for $200 (plus taxes) and $200 OBC and then a $300 balcony upgrade. I have Christmas (8-day) for $400 for a windowed interior. I spend too much time in the casino if I'm on these ships.
I got a free cruise offer from Princess, but I am unclear whether it would include my spouse or not. Are the free cruise offers usually only for one person? Does my spouse still pay full price?
We went sept 15 and my husbands first cruise and my 5th but it’s been 8 years. We put in 100 thousand in coin turn over and haven’t received one offer and we’re ready to go again! Idk what’s happening! Also my husband works for a casino and offers should have been coming.😢
Don’t worry they will come. That’s my average on a cruise… Did you get a comp cruise offer from the casino host the last day of the cruise? If so, you’ll get identical offers. If your cruise line has special cruises like Carnival Ultra and Elite, you’ll get the offers when they release them (one every 3 months on average). If you don’t see anything by the end of October call the host department of your cruise line.
You mention 10,000 points is a good rule of thumb for comps, but at $2 per point, isn't that $20,000 of churn? $20k would get you several cruises if you paid outright, which is better than a single free inside cabin.
Points are added whether you win or lose. Each bet are points. With that said....lets say you bet $2 and won $100 here, $50 here, etc, etc. And all you bet out of your own pocket was $2. You played all day long with your winnings. All day you win some you lose some all those bets are counted and points are added. At the end of the day you're reached 10k in points all from your $2 bet.
I spent 5k in the Carnival casino. I've taken 8 free cruises, which includes drinks everywhere on board for me and a companion. All the free cruises were 7 days. They also put me in a nice suite. I've booked 6 additional cruises thru March 25, all casino deals. Average cruise cost with everything, insurance, gratuity, $500 per cruise. That includes free drinks on all cruises. Since I spent the 5k., I actually didn't gamble that much on any of the cruises after that. Ps. I didn't lose all the 5k. But that's what I put in the slots. Probably get 3 or 4 offers per week. I prefer finding offers where I can sail back to back on the same ship. Hope this helps.
I don’t think there is really rhyme or reason. I took my second cruise last week. I spent $150, they gave me $5 free play. I spent $1 of that free play and won $258 and cashed out lol. Played $50 back the next day. I got a casino offer of 35%off and free drinks in the casino. Which saved me $300 plus the drink/bubbles package on the cruise I booked for March. Not a big fish and I’m happy with my first offer.
Then there's reality! To reach comps that are more than a meal you could pay for them quicker than playing for points to get them. NCL now don't even give free drinks in the casino onboard with your players card until you play enough to get to player level Pearl at 4000 points which at $5/points costs $20,000
No, play for fun but play for comps if your budget can handle it. Carnival gives me at least the value of 6x of comps if I lose and if I win, I’m even happier. Don’t care if I win if I get my comps. I get on average a cruise for 6 people 1 suite, 2 balconies for $800 out of pocket but over $6k in comps on each cruise.
Exceptionally well done! You are a fine speaker. I can hardly string three words together without stumbling and losing my train of thought. I have been watching a lot of cruise casino videos on TH-cam lately and yours takes the cake for structure, flow, conciseness, and most importantly, being informative.
this coming cruise in december is a casino offer free interior room, i spent about a 100.00 cash on my first cruise but looking back and understanding the coin in value better now i see how i earned this cruise cause i put most of the winning back into the machine just enjoying playing and having fun.
I have to say you have given the best advice and information I have ever heard on cruising and gambling 🔥… New subscriber as of today !
awww thanks! I hope you find my info helpful!
Facebook alerted me that Carnival will offer free cruises when you fill out a form and upload a competing cruise offer. I had Royal offers. When on 8 my Genesis out of NYC in July. Great casino. Spent more than usual but still a low roller. Lots of offers since then but the best is 4 Elite Cruises. I got one for 2025 and one for 2026. Amazing extras. Pinnacle status immediately, full drink pkg,transfers from airport or free parking,free excursion,free room service,etc for myself and companion. I'm so excited. I would never go on a 3 night booze cruise but these 7 and 14 my cruises should be amazing.
That's so exciting!
Very interesting advise, tips etc. I'm a cruise gambler and I will take these with me on next! Thanks for sharing
good info. i just played on carnival freedom for the 1st time EVER in august. spent $8 and won $37.77 lol
A win is a win lol
About to go on our second "free" cruise on Carnival. We are little fish, and the free offers were not expected as we only play because we enjoy it and only spend $500 max...never knew about and still don't care about points. My guess is this may be our last freebee as they are tightening up and we do not intend to chase perks. But learned alot about the "behind the scenes". Thanks!
Enjoying a free cruise from NCL right now on the Breakaway. One of my favorite strategies.
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I’m going on a cruise in March of next year. I got my offer from my land based casino. Up to 14 days on Carnival or Princess. OV balcony and $200 OB credit.
I received my first Elite cruise offer from Carnival a few months ago. I was very excited and did book one future cruise from this offer. I also have received another Elite offer for a different set of cruises which I plan to also book at least one of those. I doubt my retiree budget will allow me to spend enough to continue to receive these fantastic offers so I plan to take advantage of them while they are flowing to my inbox. Living in the Midwest airfare/major city hotel stay has to be included in my travel budget and is significant portion :( never less I am very excited to have these opportunities!
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I just started cruising and that first one i did a bit of gambling within their casino, spent a lot of hour at sea there. By the end of the cruise i got free drink while playing to free drinks everywhere . I also got all those offers from them (carnival) and utilized a few of those offers. Most recently i got their players club premier offers. The one you get to play for big prizes. I haven’t yet taken advantage of that offer due to a sailing on the princess Sun. Princess sent me offers and im going on a 10 day cruise with them in Nov.
Always feels good to be able to pick and choice where and when you want to go next. I haven’t yet done the Florida flight to cruise there, just my home port in California as that keeps the cost down too. And as i enjoy cruising solo due to not having to worry about anyone else for entertainment , as i can come and go as desired
Do casino cruise offers make you pay extra for sailing by yourself?
@@mikebarnes2294 try to think of it as a hotel. A room cost a certain amount, while sometimes you can stick 4 people in a hotel room you could actually save money.
The actual saving are from after the price of the room. Paying for other fees that are usually a per person fee , like ports and tips. One would think the all day buffet would be some of the savings for solo travelers, it’s not really a big savings.
I don’t gamble but last year old man showed me how to get free cruise. i thought only one . but i get offer every other week. so spent 300$ last year for 13day cruise. and so far took 9 cruises this year. and will be hitting prime status. The goal is to keep your $ alive 😂& rolling.
Well, what’s the trick?
@@jamesguyle4769 watch her won youtube holirolls just search earn free cruise playing craps. a lot of them will show up. is all about how you keep the $$ rolling in and out. craps is th game for it.
@@angelobautista7250 watch what? Is there a type in that sentence?
Thank you for this info. You are awesome. I have just started to gamble on the cruises... This helps. Have a blessed day/eve.
Great info!!
Melissa, I was checking out your content and your website. I am going on a free cruise my 7th free cruise actually with a cruise line I noticed you don't seem to sail with or recommend. I am referring to NCL. I even noticed on your website you don't have any guide to their private Island Great Stirrup Cay or Harvest Caye in Belize. What do you have against Norwegians ships and private Islands. If you are going to recommend travel and cruise should you not atleast experience all of them during your every 4 to 6 week trips??
I also get "free" CAS cruises on NCL :)
I have lost and won big .. been very fortunate.. took home a 10,000 grand I won on the carnival Mardi Gras last month .. I was up a lot .!!!.. I gamble a lot on these cruises and we receive massive comps ..
Free suites ,, drinks for me and my wife all over the ship ,, free steak and seafood dinners etc etc .. the amenities on a cruise
Far exceed a land based casino 👍🔥👍
Is there a way to figure out what kind of cruise it is? If it’s a high roller cruise for example
Hi Melissa! Stumbled across your vids and find them very informative. I have questions about cruise tier status. (Not casino status, but actual loyalty reward points) Have you ever done a vid on this? If so, please share link, would love to review it!! ---- If you don't mind me asking, with all your travels -- what tier status have you achieved with NCL? From what I understand, there are specific cruises that qualify for double points like transatlantic/Pacific, Panama Canal, Pacific Costal etc. ...I also understand there may be opportunity for solo cruisers (booking in double occupancy rooms) may also qualify for double lat rewards too...(so, in theory, there may be opportunity to triple or quadruple dip on Lat Reward points😳)
Is this your understanding as well? A more practiced perspective could be valuable for newbies like me...
Thanks for your perspective and insights!!
Best regards --
Great info.😃
Excellent video, and I learned a lot, but....
The flashing commentary is very distracting and annoying.
@profmelissa - As it relates to Carnival What do you average per day in points? Is that a metric you calculate? I have a few Elite cruises planned in the coming months. Never been on one. Have you? If so, can you made a video about your experience?
On my last elite cruise, I ended up spending 20k on the tables walked off with 40k. The cruise before that I spent 10k and brought 42k home.
@@rickoelkers5366very nice and considering the odds on board these ships, very lucky.
Thanks for the insights.
during covid when the ships were half full the casinos and gamblers single handedly kept them profitable thats why casinos get better perks than everyone else.
I've gone on 3 free cruises and have other offers outstanding, but being fairly new to this, here's my question: You mentioned that you can book up to 5 free cruises when you get a Carnival offer, so spending even $5k in the casino is still worth it.... but if you spent 5k in the casino on 1 trip, wouldn't you still need to spend a fair bit on each of the next 5 free cruises that you just unlocked with that spend, in order to keep future offers coming? I'm trying to learn the balance of how to keep offers coming without having to play big each time.
It is definitely a balance.
I set a budget for each cruise and I do not gamble every day. I am not a big spender and I get offers. If I when a jackpot my money goes back in the safe and I gamble with the winnings. Each casino cruise offer has a code, which are letters combined with numbers. Somewhere near this code it will tell you how many cruises you can book with that particular code. I am speaking on Carnival. For example, the offer email might say Free Balcony, free Oceanview, and/or free inside cabin. Each would have a different code. I have friends that are on the cruise ships weeks at a time.
Yes and no, but with Carnival casino hosts constantly telling you "I don't know" and "offers are random", there is no rhyme or reason to Carnival and A LOT of small, medium and really big fish are irritated with Carnival bc A LOT of offers disappeared COMPLETELY in spite of earning over 10k-40k points on their last cruise. September 10th, when new offers came out, A LOT of players received ZERO new offers and still have none...my husband and myself included 8k for me and over 10k for him on Celebration September 22...zero offers other than the onboard bounce back offer, which isn't very good. Royal Caribbean on the other hand, as explained in this video is transparent about what EXACTLY is needed to earn comped cruises onboard, plus you can receive WEEKLY comped cruise offers without even hitting 1,500 points during a single sailing. To answer your question. If you have multiple comped cruises booked, you can play not at all, or even very little on all your cruises, which WILL affect your offers, but with future crises already booked, you just need to play on the last of your comped cruise to get your offers started again, or back up to a level of better offers. Depends on your budget and how much you want to cruise and get offers. If booked through 2026, then in 2026 play to a decent level, but if you play hard in 2024 and 2025, but play less in 2026, then your offers in 2026 can disappear and you have no future bookings left to get them back. For Royal, they would like you to pay to at least 200 points per cruise to keep the weekly offers coming. Mind you, that can drop Balcony offers to Interior or even the eye roll 1 person comped in a double occupancy cabin... but they rate you off your last 3 cruises, so you can balance your play off that if looking for better weekly offers and of course EVERY cruise you can earn an instant certificate based on point levels and the host can show you the lists at each level for you to decide if a certificate is worth going for that cruise or not, or at what point level a specific cruise or ship is on, for you to shoot for... and that could mean what your looking for is at the 800 point list or the 6,000 point list. If at 1,200, you don't want to continue playing your card to 1,500 points or more, where your earned certificate now does NOT have the cruise you want to book on it
here is another one for you. I am seeing guest with the higher tiers such as platium and diamon are getting less casino offers and sometimes none than the newer sailers.
Great tips
I have an inkling that Carnival clientele -on average- gamble more than RCCL. (I don't mean more in money, just more in frequency) Hence, perhaps a reason why Carnival's not offering as many freebies as they used to, and RCCL has a more transparent points policy? It's all about supply & demand, right? (Just a thought)
I am a professor of statistics. Typical casino comp of 5% of theoretical loss. So, at a craps table, the house edge is, at best, roughly 0.75% with single odds. $100 per average bet x 4 hours of play with roughly 40 rolls / hour (i.e. $4,000 play by 4 hours or $16,000) gives you a theoretical loss of $120. That might, and barely, get you a comped meal on most ships. So, you had to risk $16,000 of action to save yourself $10 of meal. Crazy to do this. I wrote a book on this subject. Never, ever play for the comps. It is even more of a suckers game that the "Field" in craps or 3:2 blackjack.
What's the book called?
What she is talking about isn't so much playing for the comps as it is spoofing the casinos and cruise lines into believing that you are going to.
This is how the wife and i got our cruise for March 2025 on Carnival. And just received other offer for NCL.... and we are NOT big fish lol, Ballys casino (Atlantic City, NJ) partnered With Carnival and that's how are got our offers. And on our last cruise on RC we did hit the casinos.
Yup. You definitely don't need to be a big fish to get offers.
We got a free cruise offer from NCL from casino. Not sure why because we didn't play much at all (didn't count it though, but not more than a few hundred). It was an email offer (no CBS offer) and we used it. Despite this one solitary instance, I remain unsure that dumping money into the casino is worth it versus just paying.
I played every day on our cruise last year and only got the normal +7 pts. It was our first cruise. Will that change if I do the same on my next cruise this year?
Is the card you are using, your cabin card? Can you use cash in the casino?
Yes!
carnival used to be 1500 points for free drinks in the casino and 5000 for a free cruise.
Heh and to think you can still get free booze in Vegas just by sitting down and playing at the slots for a short while without the need to worry about points...
Are the points cumulative from cruise to cruise? Or do you have to start over at the beginning of each cruise?
They accumulate each time you play.
I need to stop getting these from Carnival. I went at Labor Day week for $200 (plus taxes) and $200 OBC and then a $300 balcony upgrade. I have Christmas (8-day) for $400 for a windowed interior. I spend too much time in the casino if I'm on these ships.
only thing i hate about carnival is they comp the spots players WAYYYY better than table players and its not even close
I got a free cruise offer from Princess, but I am unclear whether it would include my spouse or not. Are the free cruise offers usually only for one person? Does my spouse still pay full price?
It should say in the details.
We went sept 15 and my husbands first cruise and my 5th but it’s been 8 years. We put in 100 thousand in coin turn over and haven’t received one offer and we’re ready to go again! Idk what’s happening! Also my husband works for a casino and offers should have been coming.😢
Don’t worry they will come. That’s my average on a cruise… Did you get a comp cruise offer from the casino host the last day of the cruise? If so, you’ll get identical offers. If your cruise line has special cruises like Carnival Ultra and Elite, you’ll get the offers when they release them (one every 3 months on average). If you don’t see anything by the end of October call the host department of your cruise line.
Is it better for only 1 person of a couple to do all the gambling on their card/account to try to get better offers?
Yes, it’s better to have one person get 10,000 points than two people each getting 5000 points. You would get better offers.
You mention 10,000 points is a good rule of thumb for comps, but at $2 per point, isn't that $20,000 of churn? $20k would get you several cruises if you paid outright, which is better than a single free inside cabin.
Points are added whether you win or lose. Each bet are points. With that said....lets say you bet $2 and won $100 here, $50 here, etc, etc. And all you bet out of your own pocket was $2. You played all day long with your winnings. All day you win some you lose some all those bets are counted and points are added. At the end of the day you're reached 10k in points all from your $2 bet.
Its the only reason why we cruise carnival free cruises and drinks in the casino
We have played in the Carnival casinos and get nothing in emails or anything - how do we get them?
I spent 5k in the Carnival casino. I've taken 8 free cruises, which includes drinks everywhere on board for me and a companion. All the free cruises were 7 days. They also put me in a nice suite. I've booked 6 additional cruises thru March 25, all casino deals. Average cruise cost with everything, insurance, gratuity, $500 per cruise. That includes free drinks on all cruises. Since I spent the 5k., I actually didn't gamble that much on any of the cruises after that.
Ps. I didn't lose all the 5k. But that's what I put in the slots.
Probably get 3 or 4 offers per week.
I prefer finding offers where I can sail back to back on the same ship.
Hope this helps.
I don’t think there is really rhyme or reason. I took my second cruise last week. I spent $150, they gave me $5 free play. I spent $1 of that free play and won $258 and cashed out lol. Played $50 back the next day. I got a casino offer of 35%off and free drinks in the casino. Which saved me $300 plus the drink/bubbles package on the cruise I booked for March. Not a big fish and I’m happy with my first offer.
While on the cruise I also got a few comps, A $50 spa gift card and a free bottle of wine in a specialty restaurant.
Then there's reality! To reach comps that are more than a meal you could pay for them quicker than playing for points to get them.
NCL now don't even give free drinks in the casino onboard with your players card until you play enough to get to player level Pearl at 4000 points which at $5/points costs $20,000
Pro Tip #1: Gamble to win MONEY not comps.
No, play for fun but play for comps if your budget can handle it. Carnival gives me at least the value of 6x of comps if I lose and if I win, I’m even happier. Don’t care if I win if I get my comps. I get on average a cruise for 6 people 1 suite, 2 balconies for $800 out of pocket but over $6k in comps on each cruise.
We gambled for comps and hubby hit .. we got free suites and balcony cruises
@@KraftyKraftchakWow, impressive.
Pros actually include comps into the win / loss ratio.
😂
If you hit then you get everything free. I won 10k on a cruise and they really want their money back
You forgot Princess
Lol where u from? U said vegas weird.
Ohio!
Be safe, from this Hurricane Milton...
Its Vegas
wunnerful
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We have 12k points and we’ve received nothing. 😮 good way for us to switch to another cruise line even though we had an awesome time!
VEGUS????.😂
are there a lotta single ladies on these cruises? if they look like you.. I'm booking something right away!
Nice but long lol