Cruise Questions for October

sailingrose · October 16, 2008

Have you ever won anything on a cruise?

I won a blue topaz stone once at the port and shopping talk.......cost $200 to have it set.......so much for free! LOL

cruisetarp · October 16, 2008

I won a Royal Caribbean computer mouse at a Trivia contest at a Meet & Mingle on the Voyager. The next year they asked the exact same questions on the Explorer and I won again (I gave it back that time so the person who came in second got it.)

Joanandjoe · October 16, 2008

Have you ever won anything on a cruise?

Your question can be interpreted in at least four ways:

1) Have you ever won anything at the casino, bingo, or any other type of gambling? Lots of people have; but I've never even placed a bet.

2) Have you ever won a raffle or giveaway on a cruise? No. In fact, we once failed to win a Park West art auction when there were six entrants and five "winners": we were the only non-winners. That was a good deal for us, since we would have had to pay to have Park West ship the art that we would have won. That brings us to # 3.

3) Have you ever won an art auction? Maybe three times; but we haven't even tried for the past five or six cruises. Ever since the raffle incident on the Wind Surf, we've thought of Park West as a rip-off.

4) Have you ever won a contest? Yes, trivia at least 10 times (4 times on our last cruise alone), and an occasional game of mini-golf, quoits, etc. On the lines on which we've sailed, our winnings were tokens that were later exchanged for cruise line logo merchandise.

There probably are more types of winnings than these four.

rogue · October 16, 2008

Not yet!

boba · October 16, 2008

I've gotten LUCKY but never won. :wink2:

DebbieandJerry · October 17, 2008

There have been a few ships that use to give away stuff for logging in "miles". I've won t-shirts, foot massages, facials, baseball caps all for doing what I love to do (walk and exercise).

There were a few Carnival cruises when you were playing bingo they'd have raffles (at no extra cost). If you bought a bingo card you got a raffle ticket. I've won stuff from there: t-shirts, mouse pads, inexpensive jewelry, etc.

There was a Norwegian cruise where your stateroom number was in a balloon. I won something from the spa when my stateroom was called after the balloon was popped.

We've won $$ in the casinos; we've won $$ playing bingo.

Sure hope our luck holds up for our March cruise.

sailingrose · October 22, 2008

Do you use the internet or phone to keep in contact with home or work?

We have always e-mailed the child that was with the house. Wonder who'll check the house while we're gone this time since neither lives with us anymore. Will still e-mail the kids but probably just not as often. We have used our cell but only in St. Thomas and San Juan when it is free.