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That's Catch 22...

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I work though a TA. I see the same list, including "Final Payment Made," but I have no option to make that final payment online. It's not like the shore excursions or guest registration which have active links. The dining reservations becomes active on the date it opens.

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I think @ArtistsWife had her waitlisted cruise repriced, but I think it was directly with an O Agent. I hope she chimes in and confirms or corrects me. But in any case, the ball is in the pax court as O is not reaching out proactively as @basor posted.

I guess you can't reprice because you had to split the 31 day cruise because only one segment was covered by the sale. I missed that subtlety.

I'm not sure your TA is correct when he/she said there has to be a cabin available to take advantage of the sale. I believe @ArtistsWife had her booking repriced and her cabin category was waitlisted. If you reprice, instead of rebook, you retain the same cabin, booking number and original booking date. For rebooking, instead of repricing, you effectively cancel you current booking and rebook at the new price, which can't be done if all the cabins are waitlisted.

It's marketing so the folks who haven't cruised O before and are considering O, know what included, when they compare O to other lines.

A savvy TA should be able to reprice (not rebook) your cruise to SM with the summer sale if it's an included itinerary, even if it's waitlisted, but you can do SM summer sale without air.

In Martinis, you should look at the regular bar menu, as some special items on the Martinis bar menu are not cover by 2 4 1

Maybe some (mostly American) folks would think they should add an additional tip if it wasn't explicit?

Our experience is that if there is a sale with a better price, you can usually reprice your cruise at the lower price. But if you have previous sales price incentives (e.g. extra SBC) you lose them and there could be other restrictions on other perks like AMEX, Share Holders, etc. You need to check with your TA about this, and the lower price might affect the the perks he/she can offer. The devil is in the details. (No, we did not book originally onboard.)

You are misunderstanding the packages. The $40.33 per day Prestige package is the cost to upgrade from the House Select, should you chose the House select as your OLife benefit, or should you buy the House Select package outright. The quoted section says it is an Upgrade price. The $94.07 per day Prestige package is the cost if you buy it from the get-go. If you add the the House select package to the Prestige upgrade ($53.73 pp + $40.33 per person) you find it's cost is the same at the cost of the Prestige package ($94.07), as buying House package then upgrading it to the Prestige package ($94.06...rounding issue). The Prestige package is the same either way.

Hmmm...Seems to me you need a new agent. Ours has been frustrated with wait times and call backs, but hung in there and got our accounts corrected. It wasn't easy or fast, but I would not keep an agent who wasn't committed to me. It needed patience on both of our parts, but we've been lucky to have an agent that shows that commitment...and it's not even her preferred line. We will stick with her through whatever is thrown our way, since she sticks with us.

Interest free loan to to the Feds 🤣.

Good question. Really not new information, but just word of mouth, which has no credibility, especially on CC 😉. Our server always brought one at a time, but I guess I thought that was the norm. In reality, why would they care?

Just a generous bartender.

That is correct.

Is that an annual policy or by-the-trip policy? I don't recognize the policy name...but I'm not that familiar all that Allianz offers.

Don't know about skipped ports coverage. Ours was a medical emergency that cancelled the whole trip.

Congratulations. It sounds like you made the right decision and it's win-win. BTW, the cost of the 2nd internet package would have been $25 per day...but still a good savings. Enjoy your cruise.

Yes, the listed prices are NOT the sale price. You must call your rep to get it. I know because our TA repriced one of our booked sailings that is on list at a considerable savings (26%) off the listed price.

Our TA repriced one of our cruises today from OLife to SimplyMore with a 26% savings (because of the silent Summer Sale). There was no necessity to do a physical rebook as we kept same booking number and our original booking date of a year ago. The date of our original deposit did not change since no transfer was needed with the same booking number. We only lost a modest SBC that we received for an itinerary change. The cruise is not waitlisted, but given that we were repriced and not rebooked and kept the booking date suggest rebooking is not necessary. It seems most folks who were denied because of waitlisting were by O reps who insisted on cancelling and rebook. It pays to have a good TA.

We have done ours on line and directly with Allianz. Online, you select which annual policy (they are something like family, single, business). We go with the family. The medical/evacuation insurance was fixed and quite good, and then we were given the option of $2,000, $5,000, or $15,000 trip cancellation/interruption, etc. This is the total annual coverage for everyone. The medical evacuation is per trip per person. When we did it with an agent, we told them the amount we wanted for cancellation. You get a pre-existing condition waiver on any trip purchased after the policy purchase, and as long as you renew annually, that waiver carries over. Our trips are normally more than $15K, but we are also covered for trip cancellation by our CC up to $10,000 pp per trip, $20,000 per trip, $40,000 annually. We had to use the Allianz portion recently and it was it settled within a month or so.

We emailed our TA late last night to review our current OLife bookings with the excursion packages for 2024 and let us know how the pricing compares to the SM promotion versions. She called us early this morning and told us that one (the 18-day Norway-Scotland) was included in the Summer Sale that the SM pricing was 26% less than our original OLife booking. The SM pricing for other two had substantial savings if we were to add the second WiFi account and the basic beverage package, even when we accounted for the loss in purchasing power for the OLife excursions and the bonus SBCs we'd lose. If we didn't want to add the basic beverage package to the OLife pricing, but kept the 2nd WiFi account, the SM pricing would be somewhat higher. So we took the sale upgrade for the Norway cruise and kept our original OLife booking for the other two.