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1 hour ago, hamrag said:
Can anyone advise what the healthcare discount % is for an October 2021 sailing please? I understand the offer is up to 50%, but cannot find anywhere the specific % for each timeframe. Apologies if the answer is contained somewhere on this thread, but I haven't found anything.
10%
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It feels like there must be more to this? When ACL cancelled our August Upper Mississippi cruise we had our refund in about 45 days, much faster than the mass market cruise line refunds we received for several other cancelled cruises.
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My daughter just had this situation. Sept 20 cruise was cancelled. She rebooked (early saver) a Jan 21 cruise with the FCC and the $600 OBC. Decided it was still to risky. She was able to transfer the booking to a December 21 cruise and retain the $600 OBC. Carnival originally told our TA there would be a $50 PP charge but ended up waiving the charge one time only as a courtesy. Kudos to Carnival (and our awesome TA)
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We have a March 2021 Cruise booked in the Yacht Club. My wife is a nurse. We provided them with a copy of her badge and current pay stub. TA had to cancel and rebook but end result was a $2,000 plus savings on the cabin and a $300 OBC via the labor day sale.
That went so well be booked a February 2021 cruise on the Seaside in the Yacht Club for $2,700 for the cabin plus the $300 OBC.
In over 50 cruises, best deal I've every had the pleasure to take advantage of...
Now...we just need both cruises to actually happen..
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My FCD was turned into a FCC when Princess cancelled our cruise. As a result we did not receive our $200 FCD OBC when we booked our replacement cruise. I had my TA call and she was able to obtain a replacement "Goodwill" $200 OBC in place of the FCD OBC. For those who wonder if using a TA is worth it we've lost 5 cruise so far and she has been invaluable in working with the various cruise lines on refunds, FCC's and other issues that have cropped up.
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MSC just switched ships on our 7 night March 2021 Caribbean cruise. Gave us a $200 OBC for our troubles. Doesn't look like Princess feels the need to do the same.....
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Just to clarify it is $5 for the cruise not per day correct?
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Beware of RCCL 50% BOGO sale marketing. The drink package price on our upcoming RCCL cruise under this sale has ranged from $54 PP to $65 PP plus gratuity. Most of the RCCL sales are just marketing
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In my experience you are not charged sales tax on the package but in ports with sales tax like Florida you are charged sales tax on the drinks you consume. If you consume a $10 drink with the package assuming a 7% sales tax rate your sign and sail account is charged 70 cents to cover the sales tax on that drink. If you don't have the package you are charged the $10 drink price, gratuity and the 70 cents of sales tax
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22 minutes ago, lcpagejr said:
We are sailing on Seaside this Saturday(YC Suite) . Today I received offer to bid for Royal Yacht Club Suite....
Has anyone stayed in this type suite? If so... Is it worth it. Only reason I am considering bidding is that there will be 4 of us which would definitely give us more space. Also you only have to pay the PP bid price only for 1st 2 passengers of cabin/Suite.
We received an invite to bid on an upgrade to a RS from a regular YC suite for our January cruise. Minimum bid was $775 PP. We declined to bid.
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9 hours ago, chefchick said:
Thank you Ellbon. Do you know if there are taxis available at the tender drop off on Jost Van Dyke to get you over the hill to the Soggy dollar bar?
Yes there are. The open air trucks with seats in the back for 8 to 10 folks. It's a short trip
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I also paid $65 PP. Do I have to call for the price adjustment? I tried to modify the reservation online but wasn't able to generate a $10 PP refund
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Can you buy this package onboard? I have OBC I want to use. It's a shame MSC doesn't let you use your OBC in advance when pre purchasing on there website
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The boat doesn't do any fast turns or crazy stuff. It is fast. They use a jet boat due to some shallow areas of the river,
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Hi Buck
I thought the tour time was about right, not too long for us.
Yes there was a Marine head on the boat. Not fancy but doable. Also the boat stops about half way through at a place that has nicer restrooms as well as snacks and refreshments.
The boat was not completely full. We were able to move around to different seats as well as hanging out in the back of the boat with the first mate.
Yes, I would do this again
Surmy
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I understand that the motor yachts will be getting brand new tenders when they are stretched. Hopefully that will make tendering a better experience
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Are you able yo purchase the $89 PP per Day A;; Inclusive package on board? or do you have to buy in advance? I'm interested but want to use OBC so i'd like to buy on the ship.
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Check your rates, Windstar has a sale on until July 10th. My price dropped $300 PP
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2 minutes ago, Redtravel said:
Booked a cruise on Monday for 2020. On wed noticed a new lower price for same cruise. Sent my TA a note. He got back stating that Windstar would take up to 72 hours to decide if they would drop my price. TA called 2 days later to tell me that Windstar would drop the price this time without a processing fee. However, they said that going forward any changes would have a fee. What happened to the Price Assurance Policy? My cruise is booked for almost a year in advance. Has anyone else been told about change fee?
After I booked they had a sale, When my TA called them they said their was a $50 per person change fee but they would give us an offsetting OBC so I was satisfied. Without the offsetting OBC I would have escalated the issue up the chain as their Price assurance Policy does NOT indicate any change fee
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I also had a Windstar cruise chartered. They offered $300 per person in air change fees. We had not yet booked air but had booked a 3 night hotel stay pre cruise that we had to move which cost us an additional $382. Windstar did reimburse this to us. I was surprised. Seems like it depends on who you get. I did use my TA for all of this so maybe that helped. Or perhaps since I didn't have any air change fees? We were quite satisfied.
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Looking at booking the new Harmony for 2020. I see that dinner is open seating. What's the chances of a Table for 2 with ACL. I realize this boat hasn't yet sailed but if anyone has any experience with their other "open seating" boats I would appreciate any input on the availability of 2 tops. Thank you.
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Not wild at all. Certainly not a white water type tour. Clarkson, where the boat leaves from is 2.5 hours from Spokane so I'm not sure you would want to do this on your own. The ship overnights in Clarkson the 1st night so we arrived around 4 PM, checked in, there was a 2 hour dinner cruise and then back to the dock for the night.
The Hell Canyon tour was the next morning 7:30 - 12:30. The ship sailed at 2 that afternoon. We missed the hop on hop off tour of Clarkson by taking the Hells Canyon tour. We enjoyed the tour, a little pricey but great scenery and lots of information about the canyon and area. All in all I would recommend it
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We've only cruised Windstar once, on the Pride in January. We had the beverage package. 1st day on board we're at the Star bar and my wife orders a vodka and asks if, perhaps, they have diet tonic. Bartender says no we don't but what is your cabin number. We tell him and he says by tomorrow I'll have diet tonic here at the Star bar and I'll put some in your cabin Fridge since it's included in the package. Sure enough we had diet tonic for the week. We left out of San Juan so, I assume, he or someone else left the ship and purchased the diet tonic. We thought the bar staff (really, all the staff) provided outstanding service on the ship all week. We have our 2nd Windstar cruise booked for next year
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You don't see anything wrong with W/S or any other cruise line making an excursion operator sign a contract which prevents him/her from servicing any of W/S' clients (a tying arrangement) unless they come through W/S? This isn't "business." It's antitrust. You've taken away the ability to "shop around." Now if everyone offered the same excursions so you could shop around, then it wouldn't matter. But when there is only one excursion operator, and he/she is prevented from doing business with you unless you are represented by W/S, IMO it's wrong. Sorry if you still don't see anything wrong.
They don't "make" them sign that contract. In exchange for all of WS excursion customers the excursion owner agree to forgo, for that day, any other ship passengers that want to book privately. I assume the excursion operator has crunched the numbers and decided that it makes the most business and financial sense. It is business. The owner has a choice and decides which option is best for their business.
Special discounted fares through 2021 for healthcare workers
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here's a previous post that I based my response on