Quote Originally Posted by boots View Post
Last fall Cosmopolitan gave me a certificate for a free 7-night Holland America cruise (Caribbean or Mexico).

BUT:

a) It was an inside cabin, meh. (Guess this proves conclusively that I'm not a high-roller!)
b) It was only good for a handful of dates during a limited timespan, none of which I could possibly make.

Oh well!
It's the same deal more or less with Venetian/Palazzo's comp Princess cruise, inside cabin unless one upgrades and I need my balcony. LOL. However they did offer cruises up to 15 days, so for those who don't mind a inside cabin or paying the money to upgrade it's not a bad deal. Our deal was good for about 6 months but we're not using it.

I give credit for M-Life offering Platinum level the 5 day cruises for 2 with balcony and some other perks such as X amount of minutes of free internet, free drink coupons (good only in ship casino though you can leave with drink) free specialty restaurant for 2, priority boarding and a couple other minor things. If Platinum level wants to do a longer cruise they will give you a credit for it and it turns out that within Platinum level the cruise line see rankings and gives some M-Life members more credit then other Platinum M-Life levels. My discount when we went for the 7 day Caribbean was $750.00 which was nice because I already have a cruise booked at a bargain rate and they applied it to that, I didn't have to do a new booking for the discount. For NOIR level which we no longer are with M-Life we had the 7 day cruise with the perks above but included a free bottle of wine and more casino drink coupons.