10 Uncommon Ways To Save Money On Carnival Cruise! Cruise Hacks

Welcome back to Life With Us TV. It's your girl, Lynette

And it's your boy, Stanley. All right, we're coming in with our top 10 most uncommon tips

to save money on a carnival cruise. We're gonna go ahead and hit it. We're gonna get to it

And then at the end, I want y'all to write in the comments, what did you learn that you did not know before? Right

Did we put y'all on anything? Let's get into it. Tip number one

If you're looking for a cruise and you're at double occupancy, there's guest one and there's guest number two

When you go into there to look for your offers, usually we say go to carnival.com forward slash offers

Go ahead and that's where you're able to put in your VIFP number

You know, that very important fund person. So if you do not have that number

go ahead and go ahead and register yourself on carnival.com. Once you get that number, they'll start to send you deals immediately

So get your number. And then what you'll do is on that screen, I told you about carnival.com forward slash offers

Put in guest number one's VIFP number. Look for the selling that you are interested in going on

Look at the deals that they are offering guest number one. Make a mental note

Are they offering a good rate? Are they offering onboard credit? Are they offering just other things that may be attractive to you

Keep note. Clear that information out. Use that same screen and put in guest number two's information

Put in that VIFP number. See what deals they have offered to them

See whoever has the better deal. And once you start booking that cruise

use the person with the better deal's VIFP number as primary on that booking

It will change the game. We do it all the time. Sometimes my deals are better than his

Most of the time, his is way better than mine. Yeah. So do it that way

Save you a ton of money. Tip number two. Did y'all know that Conor Recruits has an actual wine package, man

I know we know about the infamous cheers package, but they actually have one for the wine

As you can see, these are the prices up on the screen. So you might want to definitely look into that if you are an avid wine drinker

and you know you like to buy bottles of wine while you're on ship. This could possibly save you some money, man

And then also keep in mind that you cannot buy this package online

They actually got it hidden from us. For real. They got it hidden. So you actually have to call Conor in order to buy this package

Tip number three. Now this is for people that do not have a problem with gambling

If you have a problem with gambling, go and seek some help. If you're against gambling, then this tip is not for you

But the tip that I'm about to give you is once you are on board

go ahead and put your sign and sell card into one of those slot machines

Find an amount of money in your heart that you are willing to lose

Not win because gambling means that you could lose. So for instance, you have $20 that you're just willing to piss away

Go ahead and add that $20 onto your sale and sign card

as something that you're willing to gamble while you're on in the casino

What that does is it now enters you into Carnival's Players Club database

so that they can start to send you casino deals into your email

So you know how you get those deals from Carnival already? Like, hey, we get ready to do a deal

Memorial Day deal, Valentine's Day deal. No, they're going to start sending you Players Club deals

That's when you get into the nitty gritty. $1 cruises, $25 cabins, onboard credit to use in a casino, free drinks, things like that

So go ahead and do that. That's another way to trick out the system so that you'll just get deals from this way

You'll get deals from this way. Tip number four, y'all. For those of us that cannot disconnect from social media while we're on a cruise ship

you want to think about possibly pre-buying your Wi-Fi package because you can save up to 20% from the price you pay once you get on the boat

So if that's you, consider doing that, man. Tip number five, and this is for people that want to be a little bit more economical

and they want the benefits of having an outside cabin, but the budget of an inside cabin

you can have the best of both worlds. Go ahead and book you a porthole room or what they call a 4J category room

What that is is, of course, porthole speaks for itself. It's a porthole where it's usually a double porthole where you're able to see outside

So you have some sense of direction and what's going on at the outside

It's just not the big picture window. 4J category cabins have the big picture window

They are usually located at the very front of the ship and they are facing the front walkway of the ship

No one is ever out there. It's very quiet and you get a great view of the front of the ship

at the price of an inside cabin. All right, y'all. Tip number six

If you are a water drinker, I advise you to pre-buy the 12-pack of water

before you get on the ship, which is at this point is only $4.95

because y'all know that big bottle of water that be in your room. If I'm not mistaken, I think that water is like..

Is it a $4.95 or $5.95? Yeah, something like that. So for less than that cost, you can get you 12 bottles, man

Definitely pre-buy your water before you get on a cruise if you want to save money on water. Absolutely

Tip number seven. There are so many ways that you can book a cruise, right

But what if you book your cruise and then later on you see that

oh, the rate went down, but I already booked it at such and such price

the price has gone down. Did you know that on certain cruise rates

you can actually have them price match that amount? So for instance, if your current cruise is at $7.99

and you see it went down to $6.99, that's a difference of $100. What you can do is you can submit a price match guarantee form online at Carnival

And when they verify that that is the truth, they'll go ahead and credit you $100 as an onboard credit

that you can spend while you're on board. Isn't that crazy? That is crazy

Another tip that goes along with this tip is you have to continue to look to make sure that those rates are changing

A great day to do that is on Tuesdays. But if you're not a person that's going to keep up with things like that

get you a travel agent. That's their job. That's what they're going to do

And you don't have to do anything. Matter of fact, they'll just send you an email or send you a text

and be like, just saved you $100. Have a great day. Tip number eight, which is one of my personal favorites

And a lot of people don't know that it exists. The Fly to the Fun program

Carnival has a program that they have teamed up with the major airlines

and they can give you flights to and from your cruise port at a discounted rate

And what I love about it is usually you don't have to pay extra

to select your seats when you do this through Carnival's Fly to Fun

So what happens is you book your cruise, you go to categories at the top left corner at this moment

scroll down, Fly to Fun is right there. It will pre-populate the information based off of your home location

and where the port is that you're going to. You can fly in a day before or the day of

You can also do it for your departure flight. Go ahead and, but you can't go a day late on that one

They want your hotel to go home the day that your cruise ends

But on arrivals, you can come in a day early. The reason that I love this program so much is for this particular reason right here

We know that you should, listen to me when I say this, should fly in a day before your cruise

It is not always possible to fly in a day before your cruise

especially if your cruise is leaving out on a Saturday. People like me, I fly out the morning of my cruise

But this is where it gets real juicy at for me. Carnival has a guarantee

And let me read you what this guarantee is because I don't want y'all to think I'm making it up

This is right from their website. Carnival's Fly to the Fun has travel protection built into the price

And the price is usually way cheaper than what you're going to get on Expedia, any of that

So let's go ahead and say that. You can change your flights, how many times you need to

up to 60 days before you fly out. No penalty, no charge

Then here's where we get good with it. Y'all ready? Y'all ready

You're covered for all weather related cases and conditions where your flight changes or delays your arrival to the cruise port

Carnival Cruises will get you to the next port of call and also take care of your lodging for the price that you paid for your cruise

I mean, for your flights. Wow. So you have that added extra layer of protection

that if anything were to go wrong related to weather or anything that happens at the airport

Now, will it cover these people that's just not showing up to work

I don't know. But they are responsible to get you to that next port of call

so that you can catch that ship and have fun on your cruise

So if there is no valuable way to get you to that next port of call

for instance, you may not have a passport, so they can't fly you to Ocho Rios, Jamaica

because you don't qualify to be flown over there. What they'll do is no loss

We'll take all of this money and put it on your account as a future cruise credit

You can't beat it. That's a hot idea. That's excellent. This is why this is my favorite thing

Even if I don't use it for my departure flight, I always use Fly2Fun when I fly out

Tip number nine, y'all. Now, this one might be a little controversial

for those of y'all that are overpackers. I used to be. Yeah, and we used to be

We was guilty. So we're not judging you, but we are recommending to you to try carry-on only

And the way that that'll save you money. First, it will save you money on check bags

if you're gonna fly. And then number two, y'all know when we go on vacation

we buy a bunch of booze kit that we bring back that we can barely fit in our luggage

and spending all this extra money for no reason. So if you know that you ain't got room in your bag for it

you ain't gonna buy it. Yeah, carry-on is gonna save you a lot of money. Tip number 10

And this is for my avid travelers, specifically, our avid cruisers. Look into maybe becoming a travel agent

Travel agents get crazy, insane deals when it comes to cruising. And if you are a person that is very organized

that person that your family always comes to when it's time to book a cruise

how do I do this? How do I do that? Let me give you my card number. Let me... you're doing it anyway. Right

Go ahead and start getting paid for your time and your pain

And then sometimes you can even get free cruises out of the deal

So go ahead and see if that option is even appealing to you

You can become a travel agent and let your cruises pay for themselves

If you're a person who like to buy pictures on account of a cruise

you already know that if you... They take some really good pictures

Yeah, they do. And when you go to that little dash over there, I can't remember what floor is it on right now

but it's on the same floor it's always on. But you know, you can easily spend $300, $500

in some pictures. For no reason. So it's best to pre-buy some pictures

before you go on the cruise. They have a package that's like $9.99. I think you get like five, eight by tens

or something like that. $99.99. Yeah, well, not... Well, $100. I'm just saying. $400

You get like five pictures. They like eight, I think like eight by tens or something like that

Yeah, and then the big ones. Yeah, so you get the big ones. So if you're going pictures

you want to do that. If not, amen. They're going to stick you in the butt

with them pictures, man. I'm telling you. So pre-buy them. So I hope y'all, man

we hope y'all enjoyed those tips because one of the things that's about all of us as human beings

we love to save time and we love to save money. So we're hoping that these tips

are going to save you some money on your next carnival cruise, man. And if you have enjoyed this video

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