Do you get better deals booking onboard at the end of the cruise?

[waytoodeep03]

At the end of the cruise I recall them saying if you book your next cruise onboard then you get special deals. Is this true? 

 

Also on another note staying on deck 2 in the back of the ship, do you feel alot of rocking and get motion sickness?

[Joe817]

No, it's not true. They stopped that offering many years ago. Can't answer the second question.

[TheSeagoer]

15 minutes ago, waytoodeep03 said:

At the end of the cruise I recall them saying if you book your next cruise onboard then you get special deals. Is this true? 

 

Also on another note staying on deck 2 in the back of the ship, do you feel alot of rocking and get motion sickness?

 

15 minutes ago, waytoodeep03 said:

At the end of the cruise I recall them saying if you book your next cruise onboard then you get special deals. Is this true? 

 

Also on another note staying on deck 2 in the back of the ship, do you feel alot of rocking and get motion sickness?

Probably not but it depends on the seas

[ober134]

No   cruise deals on  board. In fact the staff at the kiosk seemed clueless

[DUCHESSRN]

59 minutes ago, ober134 said:

No   cruise deals on  board. In fact the staff at the kiosk seemed clueless

Couldn't agree more ,got. off Panorama today  .No future cruise stuff nothing and nobody had a clue .

[frito58]

You want a deal , go spend some time in the casino. Use your card . Just sayin. They are offering deals galore for casino players and I mean fantastic deals . Don’t think I have to break the bank either. 

[Stick93]

1 hour ago, frito58 said:

You want a deal , go spend some time in the casino. Use your card . Just sayin. They are offering deals galore for casino players and I mean fantastic deals . Don’t think I have to break the bank either. 

This is true. If you stay long enough at the casino they always win. Either you book again or you lose at the games. It’s a win win for all. 
Or so I heard from my friend 🤪

[firefly333]

6 hours ago, waytoodeep03 said:

At the end of the cruise I recall them saying if you book your next cruise onboard then you get special deals. Is this true? 

 

Also on another note staying on deck 2 in the back of the ship, do you feel alot of rocking and get motion sickness?

I had a ov toward the back and I heard the motors or engine noise more. Wasnt bad where I was but noticeable. 

 

Idk if it's been 10 years but a long time since carnival had a onboard booking desk. Long gone.

[Drazil65]

Also on another note staying on deck 2 in the back of the ship, do you feel alot of rocking and get motion sickness?

 

For my husband who has motion sickness (needs patch for cruising), ANYTHING in the aft of the ship is the worse place for motion/movement if seas are even slightly rolling more than usual.  We do not even eat in MDR that night if that is the case due to a lot of rolling.  

 

 

[Purvis1231]

The future cruise desk is a thing of the past.

[Janet&Carl]

On 7/24/2022 at 1:14 PM, frito58 said:

You want a deal , go spend some time in the casino. Use your card . Just sayin. They are offering deals galore for casino players and I mean fantastic deals . Don’t think I have to break the bank either. 

 

 

This is what a Carnival agent told me to do 🙂 recently 

[Honolulu Blue]

On 7/23/2022 at 8:28 PM, waytoodeep03 said:

At the end of the cruise I recall them saying if you book your next cruise onboard then you get special deals. Is this true? 

As others have noted, the future cruise desk (the way to book cruises onboard) has been gone from Carnival for several years.

 

I'm surprised no one has reported on its replacement - when you embark, you'll get a code for a special rate (maybe - YMMV) and $50-100 OBC per cabin.  It expires two weeks after the cruise ends.  This does have two advantages over the old way - you don't have to rush to book anything during the cruise, and you don't have to stand in what could sometimes be formidable lines.  

[ladychater]

18 hours ago, Honolulu Blue said:

 

 

I'm surprised no one has reported on its replacement - when you embark, you'll get a code for a special rate (maybe - YMMV) and $50-100 OBC per cabin.   

I don't recall ever getting this and I was just on Carnival in November.  Has anyone else heard of this?

[DrSea]

58 minutes ago, ladychater said:

I don't recall ever getting this and I was just on Carnival in November.  Has anyone else heard of this?

I didn't. I was on the Elation <30 days and didn't get jack.

[wemjam]

On 7/23/2022 at 8:28 PM, waytoodeep03 said:

At the end of the cruise I recall them saying if you book your next cruise onboard then you get special deals. Is this true? 

 

Also on another note staying on deck 2 in the back of the ship, do you feel alot of rocking and get motion sickness?

NO more on board booking cruises, but I have seen special "welcome home" offers in my profile when I returned after a cruise.

 

Back of the ship always has more vibration.  You can feel it even on higher decks (like when sitting eating in dinning rooms etc. several floors higher than 2).  Some ships it is pretty bad, others not as much.    Some ships I have been on it is a full on "shutter" when you are aft.

[Honolulu Blue]

On 7/25/2022 at 6:47 AM, Honolulu Blue said:

I'm surprised no one has reported on its replacement - when you embark, you'll get a code for a special rate (maybe - YMMV) and $50-100 OBC per cabin.  It expires two weeks after the cruise ends.  

 

7 hours ago, ladychater said:

I don't recall ever getting this and I was just on Carnival in November.  Has anyone else heard of this?

 

6 hours ago, DrSea said:

I didn't. I was on the Elation <30 days and didn't get jack.

 

It's called a "welcome home" offer as @wemjamreminded us.  Login to Carnival, go to your profile,  and head to "My Offers".  If you've taken a cruise recently, it should show up.  It is tied to your VIFP account, so if by chance you don't have one, you wouldn't get this offer.  And it may not show up as the default if you're logged in and looking for cruises but not specifically this offer.  It might be beaten by some other current sale or offer.

[UpstateCruizer]

5 minutes ago, Honolulu Blue said:

 

 

 

It's called a "welcome home" offer as @wemjamreminded us.  Login to Carnival, go to your profile,  and head to "My Offers".  If you've taken a cruise recently, it should show up.  It is tied to your VIFP account, so if by chance you don't have one, you wouldn't get this offer.  And it may not show up as the default if you're logged in and looking for cruises but not specifically this offer.  It might be beaten by some other current sale or offer.

Definetly not the good deal we used to get with future cruise certificates. Most of my cruise offers are better than the welcome back offer that the OBC is tied to. I loved the previous way where it applied to any cruise offer. 

[Honolulu Blue]

29 minutes ago, UpstateCruizer said:

Definetly not the good deal we used to get with future cruise certificates. Most of my cruise offers are better than the welcome back offer that the OBC is tied to. I loved the previous way where it applied to any cruise offer. 

True, true.  I wasn't cruising when Carnival used to hand out FCCs, but that had to have been even better than today's welcome back offer and yesterday's future cruise bookings.

[DrSea]

1 hour ago, Honolulu Blue said:

 

 

 

It's called a "welcome home" offer as @wemjamreminded us.  Login to Carnival, go to your profile,  and head to "My Offers".  If you've taken a cruise recently, it should show up.  It is tied to your VIFP account, so if by chance you don't have one, you wouldn't get this offer.  And it may not show up as the default if you're logged in and looking for cruises but not specifically this offer.  It might be beaten by some other current sale or offer.

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[frito58]

On 7/25/2022 at 4:44 AM, Janet&amp;Carl said:

 

 

This is what a Carnival agent told me to do 🙂 recently 

We have 2 upcoming cruises where we are getting $1000 money to play on $200:OBC and free drinks anywhere on the ship , the cruise cost me like $500 for 2 basically paid tax and fees for balcony rooms . I haven’t paid for a Carnival cruise in a long time , don’t be pay for Royal Caribbean cruises either. But we do play in the casino so we do pay one way lol . 

[ninjacat123]

I play in the Casino every cruise (5 cruises since restart) and I have only received one Casino offer with DOU while in the Casino.  Do I need to look for these deals somewhere other than my VIFP offers?  Thx!

[MMastell]

Simple answer is: "No".

 

Take care,

Mike

[wemjam]

1 hour ago, ninjacat123 said:

I play in the Casino every cruise (5 cruises since restart) and I have only received one Casino offer with DOU while in the Casino.  Do I need to look for these deals somewhere other than my VIFP offers?  Thx!

I get emails about my offers, and also in your "my offers" section in your profile

[BlerkOne]

On 7/25/2022 at 5:47 AM, Honolulu Blue said:

As others have noted, the future cruise desk (the way to book cruises onboard) has been gone from Carnival for several years.

 

I'm surprised no one has reported on its replacement - when you embark, you'll get a code for a special rate (maybe - YMMV) and $50-100 OBC per cabin.  It expires two weeks after the cruise ends.  This does have two advantages over the old way - you don't have to rush to book anything during the cruise, and you don't have to stand in what could sometimes be formidable lines.  

As with Oprah's audience, everybody gets the offer. You can book yourself while on the cruise or up until the offer expires. It made the Future Cruise Desk obsolete.

 

https://help.carnival.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4565/~/carnivals-future-cruise-vacation-welcome-home-program