Cornishrex1

A few days ago I was being offered options for the drinks package on a celebrity millennium cruise from Mumbai in feb 2025. Now, there is no option at all for choosing a drinks package. I can only book a room, and an option to include gratuities. Why would it change like that? I can still book the drinks package if I try to book the same cruise on celebrity’s own website.

Fantastic !!! Thank you so much for replying - that’s exactly the know how I needed! I’ll book it now ….

Thank you all. Yes it is a real shame that we cannot get deposits back in the U.K. I have seen the talk of refundable deposits in the US. I’ve checked our Ts and C’s - we definitely cannot. So unless I can book via a US travel agent benefiting from US terms, then we have to gamble. Very difficult to work out prices for this year as so few cruises heading out of Rio for the rest of this year with MSC. Plus this particular cruise kicks off mid way through the Rio carnival, so who knows, that might make it more popular. Unless anyone else has specific experience of this problem, I guess I will have to close my eyes and jump and hope we don’t lose out on pricing.

Hi, we are in the U.K. We just finished a cruise out of Miami on Seascape. We loved every minute of it (apart from a few shocking examples of a complete lack of organisation). We got a really good deal (booking directly through MSC U.K.) including premium drinks when booking in October ‘22 for that Feb ‘23 cruise - as a package it was cheaper than even adding on the easy drinks package as a standalone. We want to book our next MSC cruise for Feb 2024, out of Rio de Janeiro. I now have MSC Voyager club membership at silver level. Do I book now and take advantage of the 9-12 month in advance of cruise date discount pricing, or hold off? Are these 9-12 month advance discounts the best we are going to get, or do they drop in your experience? Or it is just anyone’s guess? From what I can read, the view seems to be that prices are likely to go up, not down, due to increasing demand. Is that your experience? There don’t seem to be any drinks packages even available yet, so it will bump the price of the cruise up quite a bit if we lock in to the price now and book the drinks package later (we’d ideally want easy plus). Not in yacht club - looks lovely but we were happy with what we got at that price in our standard family balcony cabIn. And it looks like the deposits are not refundable, so we can’t book now and get the booking changed later if prices drop in 6 months time. thanks for any thoughts - the seascape booking for feb 2023 was a last minute thought so I don’t have any longer term data on how MSC cruise prices tend to pan out across a year.