Advertiser Disclosure: Frequent Floaters has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. This is for my instant certificate specifically for earning 2,500 points in a single cruise, which is separate from the annual complimentary cruise you receive as a Prime member.As an Amazon Affiliate, we may earn a commission on eligible purchases made through our referrals. Please feel free to share other data points as well.Įdit: the options we were presented with can be found here: I may post an update in the future about those. It’s hard to imagine I won’t find $520 of value in that time from additional offers I expect to receive, but we’ll see. It’s my understanding that my Prime status is good through March 31st, 2024. We landed on an ocean view for 6 nights on the Harmony in February, which retails for ~$1,150.

About 2/3 of all options included an ocean view upgrade. There were over a dozen European sailings that could’ve been worth well over $2,000 if we only had fly-to-Europe time and money. A large majority were Caribbean cruises, most 3-5 days and a few 6-7. The dates went out through March ‘23 excluding Christmas week. On our last night, we received the cruise certificate and talked to the Next Cruise rep about our options. You can see I had relatively poor luck on night 4 and that cost per point can vary quite easily. It takes $12,500 played to reach Prime, but how much money do you need for that? Here’s my cumulative point total and money spent after each of my 4 casino nights: You gain a point for every $5 played, which is of course not the same as $5 spent/lost.

I played exclusively slots since that’s the fastest way to accrue points. I’m not sure if it’s different for each sailing, but this was for our 8 nights on the Enchantment this June: There is also a separate bonus for points earned in a single sailing. Royal has a pdf detailing the different tiers and benefits linked here: I decided that on my next sailing, I spend however much money it took to reach Prime status. I then found and read many similar anecdotes, but there were few that detailed specific numbers. She said she would regularly spend several hundred per sailing and receive offers for free or discounted cruises in return. We are platinum level cruisers, and we previously had no interest in gambling nor any knowledge of the program until we made a friend on a March sailing who was currently on a casino-comped cruise. The goal of this post is to inform folks who are curious about the Casino Royale program to help decide if playing can be “worth it” by offering my own recent experience of money spent vs.

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