Did you earn your Platinum the Hard way or the Easy way?

[okgirl]

The hard way

 

4 - 5 day

1 - 6 day

21 - 7 day (actually have 22 of the 7 day cruises but I don't get credit for 1)

1 - 8 day

2 - 9 day

 

Total 199 sea days and I'll be Diamond on our October cruise.

[Georgie562]

1- 4day

2- 7 day

3- 9 day

4- 15 day

5- 3 day

6- 7 day

7- 8 day

8- 8 day booked for October B2B2B

9- 6 day booked for October B2B2B

10- 7 day booked for October B2B2B

I earned my platinum status the hard way!

[arpie05]

I don't think it was the easy way....

1. 4 day First cruise in 87 (had to dig to find proof)

2. 5 day 2005

3. 4 day 2009

4. 4 day 2009 (realized importance of getting to platinum)

5. 7 day 2010

6. 3 day 2010

cancel

7 & 8 4+5 day 2011 b2b since cancel (trying to get to platinum before change)

9. 7 day 2012

10 booked for July 2013! (It will be 50 days after our 10th one - I don't think bad at all! Not like I'm closer to 30-40 days)

 

Living in Missouri it is difficult to get to a ship. My job is difficult to take off a week.

[Alybaby77]

By the end of 2013 I will have 64 days at sea. I did book one CTN to make it to 10 cruises by the end of 2013. Then I got cruise fever and booked another CTN just for the fun of it. So now, my 10th/platinum cruise is a CTN instead of the 8 day cruise on the Breeze in October.

 

By the end of 2013:

2 - 2 days

2 - 4 days

1 - 6 day

2 - 7 days

4 - 8 days

 

I agree with some of the previous posters, that although I have some shorter cruises in there (3 out of Norfolk which is 10 minutes from my house) the cost of the shorter cruises is almost always higher than what I paid for a longer cruise out of Florida.

[Bookbug53]

The easy way! Cruising every chance I got. Ain't nuthin' hard about that!:p:p:D

[waynbo]

How did you earn your Platinum Status?

 

I earned mine the very easy way... sitting in the sun with my DW and a bucket of beers between us.

 

Oh gosh, you meant cruise days!:eek:

 

4 x 7 day

2 x 5 day

2 x 4 day

and upcoming

2 x 5 day b2b for platinum!

 

For a platinum total of: 56 days

 

And not one of those days was very hard. :p

(okay, the debarkation days were pretty tough)

 

Cheers!

[barbatkins]

How did you earn your Platinum Status?

 

We earned ours.....

2 - 8 Day

6 - 7 Day

2 - 5 Day

Total of 68 Days for the first 10 cruises.:)

(26 Cruise Days since then!)

 

Catrin

 

The hard way! 240 days.....34 cruises.....that actually averages 7 days per cruise

[Sparky2]

After our next cruise, we will be Platinum with 49 days. And I couldn't give a rat's rectum what anyone thinks of it. The rules were the rules and the number of nights didn't matter.

 

It was still 10 drives to Florida and Alabama, same amount of luggage, same everything.

 

So if anyone should have a problem with it, it's us! We've done all that work and didn't have as many days at sea to enjoy it. :D

 

I won't complain about you, especially since you did not have a short drive to get to the cruiseports.

 

In our case, we wouldn't choose anything less than a 7 day because of the outrageous airfare we have to pay. Our 2 6-day cruises were part of a B2B.

[Avril]

21 - 7 day (actually have 22 of the 7 day cruises but I don't get credit for 1)

 

Why not? Just curious!!!! :D

[roseaxel]

I wouldn't call it easy, I'd call it smart:

 

6 - 4 day

4 - 5 day

[campdaan]

We have always done 7-8 day Cruises.

 

We were grandfathered in on our 10th Cruise, and surpassed our 75th Cruise day on that Cruise.

 

There was no loyalty program when we first started Cruising.

 

If you were lucky you got 4 issues of "Carnival Currents" per year.

 

I used to get giddy when I could request a new catalog or brochure.

 

That was also when each deck was a different category.

[garland786]

I will have 70 nights on my 10th cruise so I am lucky to get in under the wire to get grandfathered into the old program.

 

I don't know if I would call it easy...flying across the country for a weekend cruise to get an extra cruise booked isnt the easiest!

[Rockee4055]

How did you earn your Platinum Status?

 

We earned ours.....

2 - 8 Day

6 - 7 Day

2 - 5 Day

Total of 68 Days for the first 10 cruises.:)

(26 Cruise Days since then!)

 

Catrin

Ours were

8-7 day

1-5 day

1-8 day coming up in a couple of weeks

We only have 69 days but will be bumped to platinum because of the grandfather rule...I better at least or I will be spending all my time on John Heald's blog asking..........or at the Guests services desk in the platinum line. :)

[luckycruzer]

Started in 2005

1st 10 cruises

1-16 day cruise

2-8 day cruises

3-7 day cruises

4-5 day cruises

10 cruises 73 days

Now 49 Carnival cruises, 333 days, an average of 6.8 days/cruise.

looks like were "together again", Sept 2......YOWZAAH !

[MissKIA]

There's no way I will reach platinum before the end of the year.. lol But at the rate I'm going it would definitely be the hard way. I live in Canada so it's VERY unlikely that I will ever fly in for a 3 or 4 day cruise!

 

SO far I've taken 3 - 7 nighters and a 15 nighter coming up. At this rate I'll have 90 days by the time I reach 10 cruises.