Offers received from Club Royale (Royal Caribbean)

[sushitex]

Well over a year ago, our offers from Royal at first dried up completely, but after playing while onboard recently, we are back to getting $100 off discount offers. Our solution to this dearth of offers is to play onboard enough to get an instant reward certificate, then book it ASAP. A lot of people in my Royal Casino FB groups, even signatures and masters (we're Prime) have gone the "instant reward" route to get cruises, because their offers dried up/disappeared as well. 

[Daghis]

My offers finally dried up as I'd been expecting them to for over a year now.

 

I've got one more Royal Caribbean cruise booked (Symphony TA this fall), but after that, I think my husband and I are moving to Celebrity for future cruises. We feel like we've aged out of RCI's offerings, so we'll move over to somewhere a bit slower and quieter (and with a smoke-free casino).

[sushitex]

Yeah, for awhile, Royal could do no wrong for us...we cruised like crazy during the restart, due to the offers we had been sent during the shutdown. We also took advantage of their double points promotion and now we've been Diamond Plus for awhile. We love the C&A perks, much better than what we receive as Platinum members with Carnival. Those perks are what keeps us cruising with Royal - free drink vouchers, free laundry, free photos, B1G1 free specialty dinners...we are just hoping the flush of new cruisers will settle down so that there may be eventually more casino spots available. 

[texasreb]

On 6/19/2023 at 7:46 AM, Vera/Lee said:

Is that because Allure's moving to a 3 and 4 night cruise? As I said, sometimes I will book a short cruise and search my new offers coming in until I find one to go with it. I check daily on clubroyaleoffers.com and on royalcaribbean.com offers. The later (royalcaribbean.com) has recently added a place to check offers. Just click on find cruises and they have added "offers". There is an online code that you click on (make sure it stays highlighted) and search. I hope this helps! Put two near worthless cert. together and make them count.

No the casino voucher I picked up show Allure in May, Sept and Oct. BUT even before we ended the week. Cruise  Next said all 7 day offers are gone. Then why did the casino even give it out ?

[ZoeyVictoria]

24 minutes ago, texasreb said:

No the casino voucher I picked up show Allure in May, Sept and Oct. BUT even before we ended the week. Cruise  Next said all 7 day offers are gone. Then why did the casino even give it out ?

I earned an instant certificate a few months ago that had all of six cruises listed. Five of them were out of Europe, so we are taking the single choice in Florida. I would have been furious if there was nothing at all out of Florida. 
 

My offers have consistently been $100 off. I could have actually used one for a quick, last-minute cruise on the Serenade last week, but the effective dates were all October 1 - December 31. This week’s offer is effective September 1 and is $100 off plus $25 free play, so I guess I can say they are improving 🙄

[sggolfer17]

I did a status match back in May, finally got approved 6/29 and was offered a sailing list only through Oct, up to a balcony for 5 nights for 2 people. Had a handful of departure ports. 

 

The email states book by today, I called the contact center and they said I can book by 7/29. 

 

If I choose to not book, is there a possibility I get a new offer with later dates that I could make work easier or is it one and done?

[Ralph298]

On 7/12/2023 at 9:16 PM, Lady Hudson said:

So — I am going on a 9 day cruise with my sister because — the casino folks would not allow my sister to book a solo balcony cabin.  So as a solo you are denied a balcony cabin even though you received an offer.  If my sister took an inside instead it would have been ok.  Strange.  

Did you have to pay anything other than taxes, like usual? If not, then you can be a no-show, and get your taxes back.

 

[Lady Hudson]

10 hours ago, Ralph298 said:

Did you have to pay anything other than taxes, like usual? If not, then you can be a no-show, and get your taxes back.

 

No, just the usual fees.  Because of family issues I may not be available for this cruise.  I may end up being a no show.

[RFerrington]

2 hours ago, Lady Hudson said:

No, just the usual fees.  Because of family issues I may not be available for this cruise.  I may end up being a no show.

😔

[EZ1]

On 7/13/2023 at 2:16 PM, sushitex said:

Yeah, for awhile, Royal could do no wrong for us...we cruised like crazy during the restart, due to the offers we had been sent during the shutdown. We also took advantage of their double points promotion and now we've been Diamond Plus for awhile. We love the C&A perks, much better than what we receive as Platinum members with Carnival. Those perks are what keeps us cruising with Royal - free drink vouchers, free laundry, free photos, B1G1 free specialty dinners...we are just hoping the flush of new cruisers will settle down so that there may be eventually more casino spots available. 

We do both Royal & Carnival also, & Princess. Luv the diamond plus perks on Royal.

So much better, than the diamond perks on Carnival-no wifi, one free drink during the entire cruise- breakfast or lunch , & only in dining room(not inc. free drinks in casino for casino offers)

But lately the only great deals on Royal is the offer you get while on the ship, so we've done those at nextcruise. But they're only good up to a year out, or less, while Princess & Carnival have casino deals now till early 2025!! So have to keep some weeks open for Royal.

 

[Sunshine3601]

DH and I are both Prime, have been for several years now, offers are pretty lame so far this prime year.    Our latest one for a balcony with $150 free play is probably the best we have both received in a while.   Unfortunately, majority of the sailings are 3 to 5 night cruises out of FL that won't work for us.     Wish I could book for Anthem Nov or Dec 7 nighter from offer but work schedule won't allow me to take off since we have a 12 nighter booked on Serenade for September and an 11 nighter booked on Anthem for January.    

Darn work - LOL!   

[Lady Hudson]

My latest offer — “one complimentary guest in a double occupancy cabin”.  Trade in value $125.  Sounds like no offer at all!!  Another way of saying for a free offer your cabin partner has to pay.Katherine 

[RFerrington]

7 minutes ago, Lady Hudson said:

My latest offer — “one complimentary guest in a double occupancy cabin”.  Trade in value $125.  Sounds like no offer at all!!  Another way of saying for a free offer your cabin partner has to pay.Katherine 

😒

Even if it is a shi**y offer, at least you got one !  We've gotten bupkis for months now !

[texasreb]

11 hours ago, Lady Hudson said:

My latest offer — “one complimentary guest in a double occupancy cabin”.  Trade in value $125.  Sounds like no offer at all!!  Another way of saying for a free offer your cabin partner has to pay.Katherine 

My wife got that offer. Well actually a nothing. This after earning PRIME on first cruise of this new season.

[RFerrington]

10 hours ago, texasreb said:

My wife got that offer. Well actually a nothing. This after earning PRIME on first cruise of this new season.

😒

[edrussell]

Mostly 4 or 5 night offers for us.  Some 8 night (out of Baltimore).  Definitely far less than previous years.  Sadly we are out of vacation days anyway so offers are not useful for us right now.

 

[ZoeyVictoria]

On 7/22/2023 at 12:47 PM, Lady Hudson said:

My latest offer — “one complimentary guest in a double occupancy cabin”.  Trade in value $125.  Sounds like no offer at all!!  Another way of saying for a free offer your cabin partner has to pay.Katherine 

 

3 hours ago, RFerrington said:

😒

I received that offer and thought it was nothing, but called anyway. Four nights on the Serenade for $395 total for two ($89 pp plus port fees/taxes). Definitely better than the math would indicate, and I am glad I called. My first call was made before my SO was awake, so I called again and the second rep had the same price. Not an isolated error made by the first rep. We booked the cruise.  

[Ralph298]

On 7/23/2023 at 1:54 PM, ZoeyVictoria said:

 

I received that offer and thought it was nothing, but called anyway. Four nights on the Serenade for $395 total for two ($89 pp plus port fees/taxes). Definitely better than the math would indicate, and I am glad I called. My first call was made before my SO was awake, so I called again and the second rep had the same price. Not an isolated error made by the first rep. We booked the cruise.  

the Serenade isn't on my list of applicable itineraries. Was it on yours?

[ZoeyVictoria]

15 minutes ago, Ralph298 said:

the Serenade isn't on my list of applicable itineraries. Was it on yours?

Yes, it was the only one that didn’t conflict with something we already had booked. Dates ranged from November 27 through mid-December.  I believe there was a total of 6-8 choices. We realized quickly that there was only that one possibility and called immediately to make sure we got it.  The rep said, “There is plenty of availability”.  I didn’t keep the list, sorry.

[NRWPA]

On 7/12/2023 at 9:16 PM, Lady Hudson said:

So — I am going on a 9 day cruise with my sister because — the casino folks would not allow my sister to book a solo balcony cabin.  So as a solo you are denied a balcony cabin even though you received an offer.  If my sister took an inside instead it would have been ok.  Strange.  

I doubt this is a Club Royale rule...I am booked solo for 16 free cruises right now - all in balcony or above. Possibly if she had chosen a different cruise, she would have been able to book the balcony solo. However, I was on the RC website a couple of months ago and tried to do a fake booking just to see which balcony cabins were available for an offer I had. When I listed one guest it said there were no balconies available. When I changed it to two guests a few cabins came up. I'm not sure if this is some RC internal policy or what it is. I think I ended up just booking a different cruise with Club Royale.

[Lady Hudson]

3 minutes ago, NRWPA said:

I doubt this is a Club Royale rule...I am booked solo for 16 free cruises right now - all in balcony or above. Possibly if she had chosen a different cruise, she would have been able to book the balcony solo. However, I was on the RC website a couple of months ago and tried to do a fake booking just to see which balcony cabins were available for an offer I had. When I listed one guest it said there were no balconies available. When I changed it to two guests a few cabins came up. I'm not sure if this is some RC internal policy or what it is. I think I ended up just booking a different cruise with Club Royale.

Thanks for the information.  My sister was trying for a solo on a cruise that was listed as available to her.  Who knows??  Things seem to be changing rapidly.  

[NRWPA]

2 minutes ago, Lady Hudson said:

Thanks for the information.  My sister was trying for a solo on a cruise that was listed as available to her.  Who knows??  Things seem to be changing rapidly.  

Don't know...I just booked a free solo balcony yesterday

[Vera/Lee]

On 6/19/2023 at 10:48 AM, Vera/Lee said:

Yes, mine was added yesterday afternoon also. My guess, is it was added to my account by mistake because the pdf offer listed with that code that maketime4cruisin posted was for a JS or Balcony. My offers are normally for bal, ov or interior. I'm watching to see if it will be replaced with a lower offer.

I got a nice offer a few days ago for a balcony or ocean view. Anywhere from 3 to 7 nights, one 8 night offer. I booked Oasis for 7 nights in March. 

[RFerrington]

1 hour ago, Vera/Lee said:

I got a nice offer a few days ago for a balcony or ocean view. Anywhere from 3 to 7 nights, one 8 night offer. I booked Oasis for 7 nights in March. 

Still nothing for me or Dan. 😢

[Sunshine3601]

16 hours ago, RFerrington said:

Still nothing for me or Dan. 😢

😒Sorry to hear that.    We have three 3 offers right now and unable we are unable to use them.   Wish I could share them