Bounce back... what cruises??

[cruzn buckeye]

My husband almost always gets a bounceback offer from the casino on the last night of our cruises. He plays a lot...but always ends up either up a few hundred up, or down not more than a couple hundred. But, throughout the cruise, there is a lot of money in play...so he scores a lot of points. We just got off of the Ecstasy on Thursday with another bounceback offer (PMB).

 

We had already researched future cruises that we'd like to take. We travel with our kids, so sometimes we use the free interior for two, and book a balcony or OV for 3 across the hall. Or sometimes we use the PMB as more of a "discount" offer, and book a room with all 5 of us crammed in together. This time, we found a cruise in December on the Elation that matches our school break dates. We booked a room for 5 using PMB. Ocean view room...and for all 5 of us it was $1200 out the door, including all taxes/fees. Not bad!

 

We tried looking at dates in February that match a school break we have then...but there were no cruises available at all that worked for us. It seems like maybe they use PMB to book out excess capacity on upcoming cruises, so I'm hoping we'll come off of our December cruise with a PMB offer, and that we'll be able to snag a February cruise then. Fingers crossed!

 

Oh, I almost forgot...usually we can't see the PMB bounceback offer online when he looks at his special offers. However, this time we could. We still booked through our PVP...I just prefer to book that way...but we could have done it online.

My offer is pmb. don't show up online. So I am out of vacay days for this year.. only have feb or march options. they said there were 3 in Feb. and 2 in March. They said more would be added on thurs. but don't know if any will be for March. I am debating, book now, or wait to see if something better comes available.

[cruzn buckeye]

I am wondering if anyone here that has bounceback cruises can answer this. I have a total of five cruises I could book from. I have until 10/6 to book. I can only cruise until 3/21. Only two available in March as of yesterday. I was told that they add and remove cruises on Thursdays. What are the chances that more March offers will be added? I am not crazy about the itinerary offered. I do have a nice one out of Peurto Rico. but don't really want to fly that far.

[Lil2Angelic]

Buckeye..Did you find a bounceback itinerary that will work for you yet? How did you find out which ones are on the list. Check back on the casino forum to see my comments about what we're being told.

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?p=51176841&posted=1#post51176841

 

 

 

Something isn't right. It has to be easier than this. We must be doing something wrong.

[cruzn buckeye]

Buckeye..Did you find a bounceback itinerary that will work for you yet? How did you find out which ones are on the list. Check back on the casino forum to see my comments about what we're being told.

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?p=51176841&posted=1#post51176841

 

 

 

Something isn't right. It has to be easier than this. We must be doing something wrong.

I have been asked to provide when I want to cruise. Then they tell me what is available. So haven't booked yet... been super busy at work... hopefully there will be something left for me

[Lil2Angelic]

Okay..Thx! At least they are giving you choices. We can't even get that. Who did you call? Maybe we need to call someone other than our PVP. Please post when you find something. Very interested to hear your outcome.