Bronx12

How long after the cruise does it normally take to see casino offers?

1 minute ago, kwokpot said:

Sure thing. This is what it will look like (screenshot of mobile browser version)

Wow! That's a nice offer!

6 minutes ago, kwokpot said:

The website is the only place you'll find your casino offers. They will have separate emails when there's special offers like ultra or Elite and they will also send out post cards with the same special offers. But otherwise you just have to keep checking the carnival website under your VIFP offers.

Thank you for replying so quickly 🙂

I did do a search but could not find what I was looking for. We just completed our first Carnival cruise, but have cruised other cruise lines, and I am wondering where I find casino offers, I did check my offers on the Carnival website but I am not seeing anything. Our cruise was March 25-April 5/2024. I am looking to see offers with free play. Thanks for your help.

15 hours ago, crusinthrough said:

What's wild to me is that after spending 9 months onboard and some paying close to $100K for a couple, you don't leave the ship as a Pinnacle member.  Not even if you stayed in a suite with double points.  

They are not receiving the appropriate points?

Jeff, I was wondering if there is a coffee card that you purchased, you commented about getting a free coffee because you filled your coffee card. Thanks 😉

2 hours ago, LAKingsFan said:

From how I understand the comp system in general, the amount you spend or lose is irrelevant. As mentioned, slots are easy to rate with coin in.

 

From my understanding, we are rated at tables on our average bet. Each game has its own theoretical loss % and number of hands or games per hour and that number is extrapolated over our time played and we are turned into a number based on that. 

 

If you sit down with $1000, play $200 a hand over 20 minutes and lose it all and don't return, you have very little value to a casino. 

 

A $25 a hand player that spends 24 hours playing over a week and ultimately loses $1000 is a more valuable player than the $200 bettor.

Do you care to elaborate? A loss is a loss, am I missing something? $1000 is $1000 

11 minutes ago, ProgRockCruiser said:

You may get them via email, you may get a phone call, but you should always be able to see them, if offered, in your Cruise Manager on the Carnival website - it will be listed in the "My To-Do List" area at the left (that's where it is on my screen).  There may even be an alert at/near the top of the screen after you log in.

Awesome! You rock! Thanks for your help, no offer but we originally booked what we wanted so disappoint there.

On 11/9/2023 at 9:46 PM, tree.critter said:

I just received the first upgrade offer I’ve had in a long time. It was laughable. Have a nice location standard balcony, 7280 on Miracle to Hawaii. They just offered me an upsell to extended balcony on deck 5, room 5109 right above the main theater for $480. No rhyme or reason to some of their offers. 

 

Venezia will be our first time on a Carnival ship, I am wondering where I would see upgrade deals, thank you 🙂

Wow! Thank you for such a prompt reply 🙂

Is bottled water included and are you allowed to take a drink with you from the casino when you are done playing, such as a glass of wine to take to dinner? Thanks

I am wondering the same thing 🙂

4 minutes ago, princess76021 said:

@Jamman54 sorry to waylay your review trying to send @Bronx12 a message and it's been dismantled. 

 

@Bronx12 are you really originally from the Bronx?

No, not from the Bronx, when our daughter was young she saw the word Bronx on tv, then the name was used on one of her shows she watched, so she decided to name her puppy Bronx and then I took the name for Cruise Critic lol

Jamman54, I would also like to thank you and Patti for this review. We have never cruised with Carnival before, but we chose Venezia as our first Carnival cruise. This review makes us feel much better about our decision. Thank you again, and you guys really do work well together and I really enjoy the pictures and your writing style. I am going to look for more of your reviews 🙂

Hey Jamman54, I was wondering if there is a usb charger beside the beds, I went back to look at your pictures but make it out very well. Great review and pictures!!! We are going on Venezia in

March 2024, our first Carnival cruise. Thanks

On 9/1/2023 at 9:33 AM, Ellis1138 said:

Because they used to have 2 people doing the job (steward and the assistant). Now, the steward is alone and has more cabins to clean than they used to. Part of it is the cruise line trying to shave costs during this high inflationary period, but there's also less people willing to do this type of work than there used to be. 

 

So, the "why can't they do it" doesn't matter when they don't do it. If they don't do it, then I go do it.

Without being judgmental, I think that might be part of the problem, if they don't do it I will, that is what the cruise line is hoping, they put the gratuities up, cut the service in half, and now the half service barely gets done. I realize that gratuities have been talked about a lot, as well as housekeeping, but personally, I don't get paid enough to do my own job on a daily basis plus do someone else's job. I go on vacation to get a break from my hospital job, which I am sure you realize is busy. 

Cruise lines are trying to recover from Covid, so is the entire world, but as an employee, and not a business owner, I have no one to pass my expenses on to.

Following. We are on Joy in September and we were wondering the same thing 🙂

12 hours ago, Travel Muse said:

Hi everyone,

I have four Cruise Next vouchers that expire next year, August 2024 that I am not going to be able to use.  I wanted to reach out and get any advice from anyone who has successfully sold them in the past.  (Where to start?  How quickly can these be transferred, can they be used in Canadian $ or US$? I paid Canadian $ )  All insights and suggestions appreciated.

How much are they worth and how much are you asking for them? Thanks 🙂

We are on the September 13/2023 NCL Joy going out of Quebec City. We did request the 2 day deviation when we booked the BOGO flight through NCL and they are flying us from Halifax, NS to Montreal to Quebec City, and then coming home we are flying from LaGuardia to Montreal to Halifax. They are good flights considering how inexpensive they were 🙂

This was our first time booking the BOGO deal and we would do it again with no hesitation. NCL did send out an email at the 75 day mark indicating we would get our flight details around the 30 day mark, I called around then and they emailed them to me, the first flights were not great, but they said changes were coming for different flights and the confirmation number was not going to work. A couple of days later the better flights appeared in my NCL account and the email, and I was able to log into Air Canada and book seats 🙂

We just got our flight information, flying from Halifax to Montreal to Quebec City and then LaGuardia to Montreal to Halifax. Our flight leaves Quebec City and returns from New York. We did a 2 day deviation pre-cruise. Our flights are great, no late night arriving home, and saved a ton of money. This was our first time booking the BOGO deal with NCL but would definitely do it again 🙂

3 hours ago, Topdog52 said:

Does NCL have a transfer from Quebec to Montreal airport after the cruise, just in case we book their bogo flight package? 

I was just looking at the cruise and I don't see the bogo flight offer

Looking forward to your review. We are sailing on her in September, 7 night Canada/New England. Could you post the internet prices, as well as the specialty dining prices, but only if it's not too much trouble, don't let it interfere with your vacation 🙂 Thank you in advance, and no worries either way.

7 minutes ago, ontheweb said:

Wow talk about misinformation from the cruise agent!!!!

 

First, it is not the Jones Act, as that applies to cargo ships. Second, and maybe even more importantly, it is a US law which would not apply to a cruise passenger boarding and disembarking in Canada. But, Canada might have a similar law that would not allow this, but that still would not excuse how much disinformation the cruise agent told you.

Thanks for the information! I will check into it further 🙂

We are doing an NCL cruise that starts in Quebec City and ends in New York, with Halifax, NS (our home town), being a stop 2 nights before New York. I called to ask if we could disembark in Halifax and the answer was no in our particular case. The agent indicated that it violated The Jones Act because were boarding in Canada and disembarking in Canada. If we opted to disembark in Halifax we would be fined, and the cruise line would be fined, but we would also be responsible to cover their fine as well.

We have disembarked in Halifax in the past, but we needed to have written permission to downline, and if I remember correctly, it took approximately 2 months for everything to be confirmed. It was NCL and it was before covid.

1 minute ago, gumshoe958 said:

Right. The bar is awesome, especially when the Country Crew Trio are playing. But the restaurant is very meh.

I know food is very subjective, but what makes it meh? We have the Brunch booked for Day 2 on our upcoming cruise. Thanks for any insight 🙂