Griller

16 hours ago, Colo Cruiser said:

A moreover would be giving up the cruise for a future one.

IMO that was a lousy offer.  

Don't know what a moreover is but it sounds more like a lessover if you are offered a worse cabin.

When I had a similar offer yesterday it was headed Cabin Assignment.

14 minutes ago, famski740 said:

I have talked to them 4 times in the last 3 years and have sent them my paperwork twice and they have it on file but just can’t get it associated with my account. Thus, Princess cliche.

Is what you call a clich or cliché what we call a glitch?

Means something else here.

1 hour ago, john_galt said:

Enjoy your cruise, Griller! 

 

I asked the butler on my last Celebrity cruise if he knew I'd prepaid gratuities. He said he could see that I had. He was wonderful and I left him and the room steward an additional tip at the end of the sailing. It just seems creepy not to leave an envelope at the end of the cruise. Old habits die hard. 

That's Celebrity, this is Princess, that's a butler, we don't get a butler, I am not sure anyone gets to know which guests did or did not pay gratuities on Princess during a cruise except those in the Pursers Office.

1 hour ago, voljeep said:

does you special interline pricing have any whatsoever to do with you booking in any way other than price ?

 

do you still get your Captain level perks, cruise credits, OBC's etc ?

Do get military OBC, Elite Minibar, free Laundry, days credited to total sailed, and number of cruises sailed. Do get invite to MTP party if enough days sailed to get in top 20.

Do NOT get  CC loyalty OBC for more than 51 cruises, do NOT get Stockholder OBC, do NOT get Future Cruise OBC

Sometimes its worth other times it is not. Just have to do the math every time.

5 hours ago, caribill said:

 

Assuming you would normally pay the suggested gratuities, then free gratuities for 25 days is a great offer.

 I try not to assume anything as I was once told it makes an ass of u and me, makes me wonder if they really pay the crew the grats when they credit them to the passenger, if so then why not just make the offer all OBC as it wouldn't cost Princess any different?

However to end the tale Princess did call me and asked if we wanted to move down to an Inside cabin and we said no, not for that remuneration.

I asked about the previous moveover offer where would not go on that cruise at all and they said it was finished and no longer available, they had never called us back on that one unfortunately.

Interesting, but may never happen again.

Start the packing now, leave tomorrow for the airport.

thanks to everyone who contributed in a positive way with helpful suggestions.

10 minutes ago, steelers36 said:

Gotcha.  Cabin location is not ideal for me either.  Thing is if we are happy with the price we paid to go on the voyage, then a good time is had.  Anything else is like a lottery win.  They must be getting desperate as down to the final hours and people will be flying soon.  Interesting as you must have a GTY because I would have wanted to ask the Princess rep what is my GTY assignment before I consider this offer.

 

I think that wherever it is the outside GTY is going to be better than inside A204

I may eat my words yet of course, but we have always been happy with just about any GTY we ever had except the inside over the theater stage, think it was C205 on Royal or close.   Drumming!  It was all about the Bass.

And they moved us without a problem, really should only let profoundly deaf people try to sleep in that one, not just somewhat deaf like me.

1 minute ago, steelers36 said:

Never too late if you are still on the cruise.  Almost.  Anyway, I figure that deal to be worth $1125, and IDK your current cabin, but seems not too bad.  I guess I might counter for more OBC.  Of course, we usually book Insides anyway.  A204 is forward, so I would probably ask them to double the OBC.  

I never really count gratuities as part of a deal as they are discretionary anyway...……………………. now a beverage package would have been worth going for ………………………………. and we don't know our cabin either as its not allocated yet but its  an outside gty  which is a compromise between what I want ( inside cheapest) and what Mrs Griller wants

( balcony whatever it costs) .

I particularly don't like forward insides though as they are around the theater which can mean noise ( though this was A deck on offer, worst we ever had was C deck above the stage) and far from the buffet which means expending calories walking to eat. 

We like aft as we go the theater twice in a cruise but to the buffet 5 times a day or more and we both have had busted ankles etc.

Interestingly we just received an email with another sort of offer, as follows - and we won't be taking this one:

They said on the phone voice message when I called the number that they would get back to us within 48 hours, by which time we will be in Dublin not here at home 5000 miles or so away. Way too late.

          "    We have an offer for you on your  booking for September 13, 2019 25days Transatlantic, if you were flexible to move into an inside stateroom Cabin A204 we would give you $200 per person of onboard credit plus Free Gratuities for both guest. Please be advised this is a completely voluntary offer so if you wish to stay in your current cabin, you are more than welcome to do so. This offer is based on cabin availability and while space allows. All offers are first come first serve. This offer is only available by calling 1-800-243-7342  x30841."

Relocate to Cabin A204 and receive:    

w  $200 per person of fully refundable onboard credit

w  Free Gratuities for all guest in the Stateroom

9 minutes ago, Coral said:

I have a 22 night European Med cruise for around the same price. After final payment price.

I usually go for after final payment prices but just sometimes they have a low cost way further out from sailing, guess they don't see the cruise selling well in one or more categories and put it in the restricted fare market for family and friends etc.

We have often found low costs per diem on longer cruises which start early in December and finish just before Christmas. we had several nice 29 day Venice to Fll on Pacific for less than $2k several years running.

46 minutes ago, voljeep said:

was/is that a special rate for friends / family or something ?

yes interline and it wasn't available for long

Our cost was $1937 each in taxes but not flights for the 25 days which we thought fairly reasonable even for an oceanview guarantee

20 minutes ago, jennybenny said:

Negotiate that upfront if you want 2 x14

 

We have quite a lot booked up for the coming year, only one on Princess, no idea what we would book instead if we had the opportunity to do so

One we would like is maybe the 28 day roundtrip Tahiti out of San Pedro

Anyway it probably wont happen, first time we even got the chance in 77 cruises on Princess

We would take it though if we could, we were a bit iffy about going on Crown again after it wasn't too good last time, but we liked the itinerary.

And we have our Medalllions for this cruise already.

20 minutes ago, azbirdmom said:

They don't call back to tell you that they already have enough takers.  And they don't want you to leave more than one message.  The Inventory Control folks do change their voicemail messages at a minimum daily to say what they are working on and will say something like "....if you're calling about cruise X, leave a message and we'll get back to you, if you're calling about cruise Y, we are no longer looking for cabins...".  I heard variations of this message repeatedly while working with our assigned person for our two replacement cruises that we received after we accepted a moveover offer.  So if you want to know the status of the moveover offers for your cruise, you can call back, listen to the VM message, and then hang up.  Good luck to you.  It is a great deal if you are flexible!

When you got the  replacement cruises what happened about any price difference or taxes difference?

And this is 25 days, its an odd number to replace, presumably if you say picked a 10 day and a 12 day the other 3 days would be down the plughole and vanish?

Or do you think you could pick 2 x 14 days and pay something extra?

4 minutes ago, tonit964 said:

I don't remember exactly how to do it but I think you go into your settings and choose a sound ( mine is a choo choo train sound) and then choose whose email you want to set that to. Then every time I get an email from them, I hear the train alert and check my email. 

Should it not be "The Love Boat" 

We are booked on the Crown P on 13th September on a 25 day around British isles and Transatlantic.

This afternoon we received an email moveover offer from Princess, not via our travelagent, not a phone call.

Its the usual offer I have seen, full refund of money paid as refundable OBC, another cruise of 25 days with an upgrade, or a couple of cruises totaling 25 days, and air fare cancellation charges of up to $1k each.

Anyway it was about an hour and a half by the time I saw the email and I called the number immediately and had to leave a voicemail for a call back.

Sat by the phone all afternoon and no return phone call,

Now the thing is - if they already have enough acceptances of the deal who called before we did - will they still give us a courtesy call so we can carry on packing?

Or will they just leave us hanging?

We fly out day after tomorrow if we are still going.

I have a similar situation and have always believed that first of all you must enter and leave US on your US passport.

I would not even mention to Cunard that I had another one.

Particularly as my Irish one has a Gaelicized name which is markedly different to the English language name in the other passport.

As a US citizen you do not currently need any Visa or ESTA to enter UK so Cunard cannot ask you for anything to do with this if you cross the Atlantic with your US passport.

But the moment you have to produce a passport to UK Border Control just produce your Irish one and they will wave you through.

What you are doing seems complicated and counter-productive and unnecessary.

On 8/26/2019 at 3:54 PM, smelmel said:

Tom, thank you - I found it

Does a discounted price only appear if you have logged in as an AARP member?

5 hours ago, debgreg said:

Are there restrictions on these certificates. When onboard Epic we were hounded to go speak about them but never did. Now we have booked a second cruise I’m a bit miffed we never but we always book guarantee insides so wasn’t sure if we could use them ? 

I just used two of these certs on an NCL booking through an agent in the UK and the agency has told me I will have to pay more than their original quote as they wont get so much commission.

Yes an inside GTY seems OK, its what we just booked, and due to the August double up promotion we could use 2 certs on one cabin.

15 minutes ago, All-ready2cruise said:

Can't you request an extention? Been a while since I've purchased any. 

You can request anything you like but it seems from what people say that NCL won't now grant that request.

5 hours ago, RockiesLori said:

No, you just have to book it before then, or if you have one booked already you can use it.

 

I looked at the rules here and it definitely didn't say that

https://www.ncl.com/popup/cruisenext_terms

7. All CNDs (including Haven and Lite options) are valid for new reservations that book and sail within 4 years from purchase date. CNDs become null and void after expiration. Failure to redeem and sail within 4 years will result in forfeiture of your CND(s). Not applicable towards existing reservations.

35 minutes ago, pghflyer said:

Good question Griller, wish I knew the answer. The T&Cs simply say "Once the cruise has concluded, the CND will be converted into the currency of your current reservation and your CND(s) will be added to your Norwegian Cruise Line guest record (Latitudes Rewards account). Currency exchange rates are set at the time of purchase. To change the currency of a CND; simply email cruisenext@ncl.com with your Latitudes Rewards number and request the currency for your new reservation."

 

It sure sounds like how you describe but I am really surprised, just because it seems it would be more difficult to track the exchange rate on every purchase, multiple times a day, by numerous customers all over the world daily buying certificates. Impressive if they do this when they can't even show me my transaction history on my TV on every ship right now! 🙂

 

Having never done one in another currency, I don't even know if the rate of reference is a legit independent exchange rate, the rate for the day on board, or just them referring to whatever rate your credit card gives you when NCL processed it in USD.

 

Yeah, GBP has been swirling down unfortunately, I am sure others have done this and can chime in for you or just email (address above) or call NCL to ask.......(and let us know back here!). Good luck!

 

...nevermind, see someone already verified you were correct.

My credit card used to purchase the CN certs was in fact a US one, I have them in both currencies as I have income in both places and pay taxes in both and other boring reasons.

I just googled the date it says on NCL website that I bought them and saw it was $1.26, and now its $1.22ish  so it can't be a big deal whatever.

Don't think I will buy any more CN certs as we don't seem to really cruise NCL as much as we thought we might, we live  near Port Canaveral and thought we would cruise Epic more but we have now seen Priscilla Queen of the Desert 4 times and its enough. And the bathrooms are weird.

This next inaugural transatlantic on Encore should be fun, the show is Kinky Boots. And the extremely wonderful and liberal drinks package is included as booked in the UK we get it on an Inside GTY which we wouldn't if booking in the US, even though its a bit cheaper in the US for the basic cabin.

So worth it, and we can use 2 x CN certs before they expire on us. Just one left then.

8 minutes ago, KeithJenner said:

The vouchers should be listed on your account. If you log into myncl then you should see them with the sterling amount. You are correct that this was set when you purchased them, rather than the current rate.

 

My ones I bought last week are worth £30 more than the one I have from last year.

No unfortunately it only shows them in $ - My NCL account is a US one so I don't think it would show in pounds.

Anyway it really doesn't matter as I see that the date I bought them the pound was only 5 cents higher than it is now.

I am about to use 2 CN certs of $250 each against a new booking I am just about to make under the double up promotion.

However the booking is with NCL UK - it seemed from the FAQ's I read that the conversion to pounds will be at the rate it was when I bought the CN certs several years ago, whatever that was.

Is that correct?  -   It would be better for me if they used the current $ - GBP conversion rate as the pound sadly is down the proverbial toilet due to Brexit  etc.

20 hours ago, camper49 said:

Opinions? Which ship & why.

Just to begin with please at least get the name of the ship correct - its Regal Princess.

If you like more entertainment then go NCL Epic

If you want to just chill out more then go Regal Princess

If you like a better variety of specialty dining go NCL Epic

If you want somewhat better behaved less pushy  passengers then maybe Regal Princess would have that on many cruises.

If you want a better drinks package usually at a lower price then NCL Epic. Promotions may vary.

We have 77 cruises on Princess ships and about 20 on NCL over 20 years and like them both in different ways.

I just hope that when we board next month we can get a regular old keycard and not have to take the Medallion, I can't see that we will have any use for it. Frankly it makes me nervous.