Andyd513

If this spoils your outlook and attitude on life, your in for a long dissapointing journey, get over it move on and grow up....:rolleyes::rolleyes:

I'm usually happy to let a thread die, but I felt like replying to you.

You sir/madam, are a troll. Not once did I say anything so drastic as you described. You have come onto a thread, taken license to put words in my mouth, and seen fit to give "life advice" or insult me.

This experience will impact Royal Caribbean's ability to get my money in the future, and I felt like posting about it. I also hope that seeing and reading this post prepares other people like me for the fact they won't get to keep their cruise points.

That is all. This thread is now dead to me. I'm taking your advice and moving on. I'm afraid I'm already all grown up so I can't take that one, but you should feel free to do so yourself. :D

When my father passed away, he had two credit cards with points accumulated.

 

I called each company.

 

American Express said, "Do you have an American Express card? We can move his points into your account?"

 

Yes, please, I replied! :)

 

MasterCard said, "Drop dead. We are closing his account."

 

Did I moan and complain? I did not. I was grateful for what I received and understanding that different companies do things differently.

Last time I checked anonymous message boards on the internet were open for moaning and complaining ;)

Beyond moaning, complaining, and getting this off my chest, I think this is something useful to know for people that are going to encounter the situation in the future.

Also, of those two companies - which are you more likely to give your business to today?

I think I am following. If my free loading kids were sailing with me for their first cruise and I was D+, they would be D+ for that cruise. AND earn points in their on right for that cruise only (let's say 7). If years later after they are 18, they keep the 7 cruise points legitimately earned but they would not enjoy my D+ status? Interesting, but I get it.

I think my kids have legitimate points up to Diamond but not D+. This was a very helpful thread. I never actually thought about it.

The interesting part is that even though my points were 'taken away', I'm still an Emerald member despite being below the threshold.

So, they're probably still D+ but it will take them forever to reach any status above that.

I understand, and it's unfortunate that they take something away after so long.

 

Have you checked the cruises you have been on yourself to confirm that the points they have given you now are accurate? There was a major change in how the credits/points were give in Jan 2011, and sometimes they get the conversion wrong. If you list your Pre-2011 cruises, with date, length, and stateroom type, we can at least confirm they did the conversion correctly.

Thanks Clarea - I think they are missing a cruise or two, but the ones they have seem to be calculated correctly (1 cruise credit = 7 cruise points + a bonus for your overall tier status is my understanding of the conversion).

I'll contact them to get the missed ones added.

I'm definitely not saying that the adjustment when you turn 18 is unfair, but waiting 13 years to do it and being inconsistent is going to make a lot of angry people, including me!

Hey all,

I'm pretty disappointed right now, but I thought I would share my very recent story here, in case it helps someone avoid this in the future or just prepares you for what is to come.

I sailed the Independence in February of 2016. Prior to that, my most recent sailing was Majesty in February of 2008. I had an 8 year gap of sailing the best deals available, or with family, and not sticking to an individual cruise line.

My wife and I missed the 'premium' experience of RCCL, and we had 69 cruise points so we were closing in on Diamond member status, so we decided we wanted to book and stick with RCCL for a bit. We booked first an Alaska cruise on Explorer for August '16, and then we found a deal on Independence and took it for Feb '16.

My parents were big RCCL loyalists and I was lucky enough to go on 3 cruises with my parents in my teens/early twenties, where I was in the same house-hold and inherited points and status from them. This plus my own cruises got me to the 69 point mark.

Well, after I went on Indy, I check my C&A expecting to be at 74 points, but instead I'm at 43.

I think.. okay, there must be a mistake, something miscalculated. But two e-mails later and RCCL is sticking by the fact that

"Once a member reaches 18 years of age, our program is designed to recognize them as an adult and their membership number is removed from this relationship with their parents."

Ok, I get that, and it seems fair. But I've sailed 5 times since I turned 18 in 2002 with Royal Carribean and they had every opportunity to adjust my totals before now.

I feel like this is a load of garbage, and I have 3 future cruises booked with RCCL (Alaska August '16, Anthem February '17, Allure April '17) but am now debating cancelling Anthem and Allure and going back to sailing the best deal available. Being 37 cruise points away from a C&A tier upgrade coupled with the copy + paste e-mail responses I got from C&A seriously has me ticked off.

I think I'll give this one more shot on the phone when I am not angry, and finish that call with the cancelling of future cruises.

Anyone else that inherited household C&A points experience this?

It's way too early to tell, the 5 day forecast of a hurricane is suspect at best. Different computer models are portraying vastly different paths for this storm after tomorrow evening.

No one likes the unknown but we pretty much have to wait until the storm turns North (which is almost all they can say for sure it will do) and a hurricane hunter flight happens for them to hopefully run computer models again and narrow down the projected path.

I'm starting my journey to the pride on Friday from Canada, so I really hope it veers NE by then :)