New Carnival Loyalty program

[tobytovar]

Boy if they count bar bill and casino I would be white card by now. I saw a 49 day cruise on Holland America. I can't even imagine the bar bill on that cruise.

[redrider35]

I think this will be a great program. I will only have 26 points if they convert my current cruises. I have also traveled 2 times on Royal Caribbean. We live in Minnesota so we don't take a ton of cruises we have only done 6 but I am very excited for the new program. It will be more like Royal Caribbean where our number of cruises were converted to points. I would think Carnival would also do that because if they make me start from scratch I will never go on Carnival again and stick with Royal Caribbean where my past cruises were honored. I think Carnival knows to transfer cruises to points and giver past credit. I also thought that after 1 cruise being Gold was too fast. Now I will stay Gold if everything slides over like it should.

[Barryn514]

Guess I missed something, what does that link have to do with Loyalty program?

[ffernandi]

I agree that Carnival needed to change thir Platinum program around a bit. I don't believe in grandfathering anyone. Just becaus you have been on 10 3 day cruises shouldn't give you the same privileges that I have from the 13 7 and 8 day cruises I took. I think that if you look at the amount I spent I should get some additional recognition.

[Barryn514]

I think that if you look at the amount I spent I should get some additional recognition.

If that's the case then I should get credit (points) for booking a balcony and suites.

[Gsyl13]

Originally Posted by ffernandi

I agree that Carnival needed to change thir Platinum program around a bit. I don't believe in grandfathering anyone. Just becaus you have been on 10 3 day cruises shouldn't give you the same privileges that I have from the 13 7 and 8 day cruises I took. I think that if you look at the amount I spent I should get some additional recognition.

Not for nothing but it is called a loyalty program. 10 3 day cruises or 4 7days I'd say the person who booked Carnival 10 times is more loyal then the person who only booked 4 cruises.
I can actually get 7 day cruises cheaper per day then a 3 or 4 day. (a couple months ago could have had the 7 day victory out of San Juan for 299.) I have been taking the shorter cruises because I only need to get a few days off of work to do them.