Stacking Casino Offers Across Sailings: A Worked Example

Three offers, three legs, one home port: how to put each offer on the right sailing so a three-week trip costs the least out of pocket.

Theory is nice; let’s do a real one. Say you hold three Club Royale offers, all good for sailings out of Miami this fall, and you want to sail as long as you can for as little as possible. Which offer goes on which cruise is not obvious, and getting it wrong can cost real money. Here’s how to think it through.

The pieces

Three offers, simplified:

1. Offer A. Covers the cruise fare on some 7-night Western Caribbean sailings, with a discount for the second guest.
2. Offer B. Covers the cruise fare on 5-night sailings. The second guest pays the full fare.
3. Offer C. $200 off almost any sailing, second guest included.

And a ship, the Freedom of the Seas, sailing a mix of 7-night Western Caribbean and shorter 4 and 5-night cruises out of Miami, so each cruise ends in Miami on the morning the next one leaves.

The obvious plan

Spend them in the order they arrived: A on the first cruise, B on the next, C on the third. The problem: Offer A is your most valuable offer (it covers a whole 7-night fare), and if the first cruise is a short 5-night sailing, A can’t even be used there, since it only works on 7-night Western Caribbean sailings. Spend offers in the order they reached you and you often waste your best one.

The right way to think about it

Put each offer on the leg where it saves the most, among the sailings it is good for:

• Offer A only fits a 7-night Western Caribbean sailing, so it goes on the one cruise that qualifies. No choice there, and it’s worth the most there anyway.
• Offer B fits the 5-night legs and covers the whole cruise fare, so put it on the priciest 5-night cruise in your dates. A free cruise fare saves more on an expensive sailing than on a cheap one.
• Offer C is only $200 off, so it goes on whatever’s left, ideally a leg where $200 is a big slice of the fare, and where the second guest matters (C includes them).

That reshuffle (A on the 7-night, B on the expensive 5-night, C on the cheap leftover) can save a few hundred dollars over spending them in the order they came, across a three-week trip. Over a year of offers it’s the difference between one extra free cruise and none.

The offers don’t care what order they arrived in. Spend them where they save the most, not where they showed up.

Where it gets hard

With three offers and three legs you can work it out on a napkin. With five offers, two travelers who each have their own offers, sailing lists that overlap, and a dozen possible cruises, the number of ways to mix them grows fast, and that’s before you check which sailings even follow on from each other as legs. This is exactly the puzzle legtolegcruises.com works out for you: it takes your real offers, the real list of sailings each one is good for, and every back-to-back from your port, and finds which offer belongs on which leg so you pay the least. On a back-to-back, read the shared-date rule before you put an offer on each leg.

You can absolutely do it by hand. We did, for years, in a spreadsheet we’re still slightly proud of. But the first time you watch the site find a better mix of offers and legs than the one you’d penciled in, the spreadsheet starts to feel like doing long division for fun.

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