My experience winning the “free cruise”.
When you purchase Bingo card$ during the cruise you are given a raffle ticket. You can accumulate these tickets during the entire cruise. They are also given out when you buy pull tab games while waiting for shows to begin. I believe maybe they are also given when playing trivia and such but not 💯 sure about that.
The last night of the cruise I played one game/one board of bingo. I had 2 red tickets. You need to wait for all the Bingo games to be played and then they pull a ticket from a barrel for the “free” cruise winner. People had strips of red tickets.
My ticket was pulled!
I had to wait for the cruise director to go and get my certificate. When he returned he explained the process of redeeming it and made it clear to me that it was a 5 night, inside cabin and I was responsible for the taxes and port fees.
Found a 5 night from NY to Bermuda on the Getaway. Booked it and tried to pay for an upgrade. Was told it wasn’t eligible. Had to pay tax and port fees
However, I was able to do an upgrade bid and did get that a few days before sailing
You are not eligible for the FAS, so no drink package unless we wanted to buy it
Didn’t do that
Cruise was changed to New England and Canada the night before. (Hurricane). Most people didn’t find out till they were on the ship. We froze our rears off. The shops in Newport made a killing selling sweatshirts!! (It was our worst cruise ever. 🙁.)
Free cruise - a bust in our opinion.
Our experience just for info.