Crown & Anchor Accumulation - Married Traveling Solo

[firefly333]

37 minutes ago, RoperDK said:

Fairly new to Royal and am getting a bit confused.  We get casino cabins on another cruise line often, but are wanting to switch to Royal.  Do casino offers/free cabins still get full Crown and Anchor points?  We usually book a suite and get 2 points per night.  If we use casino offers will that affect our point accumulations?

 

Would someone explain linked accounts?  How do the accounts get linked?  Does anyone sailing in a cabin with lets say a Diamond member get the same benefits as the Diamond member? That doesn't seem right.  

John  is talking about his wife. Husband and wife with same address share the same tier. Sounds like laura has some good luck in the casino ... and John  sits around and drinks lol. .. just kidding but laura does sound lucky. So laura might get more casino offers than john but they can both go lol. Because they are married. 

 

It's not just some diamond member in the cabin .. though they are pinnacles. 

 

It's like me going on celebrity. I match to elite I think and got top perks... but as I do more on celebrity I dont go higher. The new pts just get added to the few measly pts i earned..but my tier is from matching rcl to celebrity.

[steamboats]

11 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

I truly don't see how someone could call them 'inherited' points. They're just linked points

 

You can call them however you like... "inherited" came up here years ago. There´s no official name for those points. "Linked" sounds good as well. It´s just to express the difference to those points someone earned cruising on his own.

 

steamboats

[brillohead]

14 hours ago, RoperDK said:

Fairly new to Royal and am getting a bit confused.  We get casino cabins on another cruise line often, but are wanting to switch to Royal.  Do casino offers/free cabins still get full Crown and Anchor points?  We usually book a suite and get 2 points per night.  If we use casino offers will that affect our point accumulations?

 

Would someone explain linked accounts?  How do the accounts get linked?  Does anyone sailing in a cabin with lets say a Diamond member get the same benefits as the Diamond member? That doesn't seem right.  

Regular casino players do get offered free cruises, and those rooms accumulate points just as any other room would.  

Linked accounts are for married/partnered couples and any minor children.  They all share the same Crown and Anchor Society level as the highest person in the family.  

So if Mom has 180 points and Dad has 60 points and 16yo Son has 14 points, all of those people would be linked together (by notifying CAS of the family relationship) and all would be D+ based on Mom's points. 

When logged into the Royal website, they would all "show" 180 points, but Dad still only has 60 points of his own and Son only has 7 points of his own.  This is why people get confused and think that they share / have their spouses "linked/inherited" points, when in reality they are only seeing their linked point level, not their actual personally-earned point level.  

If all three of them go on a weeklong cruise together in a standard room, their points would increase to Mom=187, Dad=67, Son=14, and they would all have D+ benefits on the cruise.  If they took Son's friend along with them on that same cruise, the friend would NOT have D+ status/benefits just b/c he's in the room with them -- the linking/sharing only extends to members of the same household.

When Son turns 18yo, his account will be unlinked from his mother's, but he will retain his D+ status.  However, he cannot advance to the other levels (340, 525, and Pinnacle) until his own earned points reach those levels -- he's still at the 14 points he was at before.  

Hope this helps -- let me know if anything is unclear. 

[SRF]

21 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

I truly don't see how someone could call them 'inherited' points. They're just linked points

 

 

Exactly.  If they were "inherited" you would keep them if you split.  But you do NOT keep them.

 

I see that as just showing the points level that is giving you your current status.

[John&LaLa]

12 minutes ago, SRF said:

 

 

Exactly.  If they were "inherited" you would keep them if you split.  But you do NOT keep them.

 

I see that as just showing the points level that is giving you your current status.

 I finally made Pinacle on my own points 😁

 

But no recognition 😕 

All good though😇

[island lady]

1 hour ago, John&LaLa said:

 I finally made Pinacle on my own points 😁

 

But no recognition 😕 

All good though😇

 

 

Aww...I recognize you . 😄 

[RoperDK]

8 hours ago, brillohead said:

Regular casino players do get offered free cruises, and those rooms accumulate points just as any other room would.  

Linked accounts are for married/partnered couples and any minor children.  They all share the same Crown and Anchor Society level as the highest person in the family.  

If all three of them go on a weeklong cruise together in a standard room, their points would increase to Mom=187, Dad=67, Son=14, and they would all have D+ benefits on the cruise.  If they took Son's friend along with them on that same cruise, the friend would NOT have D+ status/benefits just b/c he's in the room with them -- the linking/sharing only extends to members of the same household.

When Son turns 18yo, his account will be unlinked from his mother's, but he will retain his D+ status.  However, he cannot advance to the other levels (340, 525, and Pinnacle) until his own earned points reach those levels -- he's still at the 14 points he was at before.  

Hope this helps -- let me know if anything is unclear. 

Thank you brillohead!  That was a great explanation and now everything makes sense to me.

[molly361]

4 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 I finally made Pinacle on my own points 😁

 

But no recognition 😕 

All good though😇

I know I am in the minority but if I ever make P I don't want a public recognition thing.  They wanted to present me with a block on the Mariner last year (first time for that) and I didn't show up to the party😇

[Old Fart Cruisers]

On 2/14/2022 at 8:49 PM, billslowsky said:

Based on what others have said, this wouldn't get me the result I want.  But the all-in cost (with taxes and all) is about $700, while the drink package for two even discounted is over $900, so yes, along with a cheap cruise we'd save $200 on the resulting one.

 

If you are planning on going on a 7 day cruise after turning Diamond, you would get 28 drink vouchers (7days X 4 per day). They are good for drinks up to $13.00, so the actual value is UP TO $364.00 on a 7 day cruise. Your wife already will be getting her free drinks, so it doesn’t make any difference there. If this short cruise is going to cost $700.00 and the most you could save on the next cruise is $364.00 there would be a net loss of $336.00 or more, not a savings of $200.00.

 

So if you are doing the 4 day just to get to diamond, it wouldn’t be cost effective. If, on the other hand you are doing it to enjoy the cruise and have a great time then I would go for it!

 

Edited February 16, 2022 by Old Fart Cruisers

[SRF]

14 hours ago, Old Fart Cruisers said:

 

If you are planning on going on a 7 day cruise after turning Diamond, you would get 28 drink vouchers (7days X 4 per day). They are good for drinks up to $13.00, so the actual value is UP TO $364.00 on a 7 day cruise. Your wife already will be getting her free drinks, so it doesn’t make any difference there. If this short cruise is going to cost $700.00 and the most you could save on the next cruise is $364.00 there would be a net loss of $336.00 or more, not a savings of $200.00.

 

So if you are doing the 4 day just to get to diamond, it wouldn’t be cost effective. If, on the other hand you are doing it to enjoy the cruise and have a great time then I would go for it!

 

 

Read again.  Wife is not yet Diamond either.  If the wife was Diamond, he would be Diamond also.

 

It would be better to send the wife on the short cruise, so both are Diamond on the next cruise.