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Over the past several years whenever we were considering a Carnival cruise we were reminded about "Military" fares. But every time we checked the promotional fare of the day was always less than the Military fare - so it never got used and we never received Shareholder credit. Not apples to apples but on a booked 14 day Princess cruise we have $250 Military credit, $250 Shareholder credit and received a discounted fare along with OBC from our TA. We always check which works out better for us.

We received a "bidding" email today for our Christmas cruise. I am really happy with our current cabin so it would take something great to get me to change. But out of curiosity, and seeing the prices Princess puts on each category I decided to go look at those categories of cabins on our cruise just to see what the real difference was (not that I don't trust Princess...). I really never did find out because none of the categories they wanted me to bid on (that I was interested in) were available! So now I'm wondering if they take everything off the availability list once they send out the bidding emails for the cruise - or if they just don't realize I'd be spinning my wheels bidding on cabins that aren't available....