"Free Room" offer

[hard_eight]

16 hours ago, kwokpot said:

That's how complementaries work both on land based casinos and cruiseships. My point being people want an easy way to get a 'free' cruise and it's really not that easy if you have a limited budget. As I have said my husband and I have been doing this for years both in land based casinos and cruiseships. To be very frank It's a lot of work and record keeping. We report on our joint tax returns over 6 figures in W2-G income for many years. The amount of record keeping my husband needs to do in order not to have to pay taxes on the total amount of reported winnings is pretty onerous. On our last cruise 2 weeks ago on the Odyssey of the Seas my husband generated 15 W2-G forms for a 7 day Europe cruise!

We never win enough to worry about it...maybe that's how we keep getting offers!!🤣

[MagnoliaBlossom]

We have an 8 day cruise in October free courtesy of WinStar Casino, and we hardly ever play there.  But free is good and 8 days of “free”dom is great.

[KKB]

On 2/10/2023 at 12:56 PM, Chelle111213 said:

I have been getting emails for years now (literally) with offers for "free rooms"  (just port fees and taxes)...well, I have never really looked at any because always thought they were not "free".  But for kicks and giggles yesterday I went on to my account and clicked the email and off to the Carnival site.  I just put in the info just to see if it really was "free".  Well, to my surprise I was able to get a Aft Balcony for "free"...just had to pay the port and taxes, plus I added the gratuities.  I still think it's too good to be true.  I even called to pay for it versus the website to ensure it was! 🙂 Anyone else ever gotten this??? I do spend a lot of time in the casino on the ship and here at home 🙂 

We booked our 1st every Carnival cruise via Urcomped (casino match service); sailed Miracle to Hawaii last January. Loved it!

We certainly do not gamble as much on a cruise as in Vegas; but 9 sea days, well were there each night. We honestly usually only budget about $100 each per night on a cruise. 

We have had ENDLESS free or dirt cheap cruises emailed to us. 

I am doing New Caldonia & New Zealand in Feb--2 cruises for 20 days total.

$100 plus port fees for each; but $200OBC for each cruise, so essentially costing me $300.

Can't beat that! (Used OBC for wifi already)

Plus I snag a number of Carnival gift cards at 10% off from AARP to put on my account (OK, to gamble with...)

One of my Chase cards also currently has 10% off up to $86 ($860 charged) if I do excursions, drinks, etc. 

Most generous of any line we have sailed that's for sure!

[kwokpot]

19 minutes ago, KKB said:

We booked our 1st every Carnival cruise via Urcomped (casino match service); sailed Miracle to Hawaii last January. Loved it!

We certainly do not gamble as much on a cruise as in Vegas; but 9 sea days, well were there each night. We honestly usually only budget about $100 each per night on a cruise. 

We have had ENDLESS free or dirt cheap cruises emailed to us. 

I am doing New Caldonia & New Zealand in Feb--2 cruises for 20 days total.

$100 plus port fees for each; but $200OBC for each cruise, so essentially costing me $300.

Can't beat that! (Used OBC for wifi already)

Plus I snag a number of Carnival gift cards at 10% off from AARP to put on my account (OK, to gamble with...)

One of my Chase cards also currently has 10% off up to $86 ($860 charged) if I do excursions, drinks, etc. 

Most generous of any line we have sailed that's for sure!

I'm curious about your opening statement. I have never seen a Carnival cruise being offered through URComped. They work with Royal, Celebrity, Virgin, MSC and just recently some limited NCL, but I have never seen Carnival. Can you speak about that? Do you see additional Carnival cruise offers in your URComped account? 

Edited August 30, 2023 by kwokpot

[KKB]

2 hours ago, kwokpot said:

I'm curious about your opening statement. I have never seen a Carnival cruise being offered through URComped. They work with Royal, Celebrity, Virgin, MSC and just recently some limited NCL, but I have never seen Carnival. Can you speak about that? Do you see additional Carnival cruise offers in your URComped account? 

OOPS--u r right! I have done RCCL & MSC thru them!

During COVID I saw an ad on FB to send your casino players card to Carnival.

THAT is how we got it!

[kwokpot]

6 minutes ago, KKB said:

OOPS--u r right! I have done RCCL & MSC thru them!

During COVID I saw an ad on FB to send your casino players card to Carnival.

THAT is how we got it!

Thank you for the clarification. That makes sense! 

[mimi_j]

All of our recent & upcoming cruises are free!  The first one my husband booked he called to make the payment because he was afraid it was an internet glitch.  He isn't a huge gambler, but it does like watches and jewelry. 😂 The only free cruise we have been wanting to book but haven't booked is a cruise out of Australia, and that's due to their vaccine requirements.  Enjoy!!