moki'smommy Posted February 16, 2018 #1 Share Posted February 16, 2018 I was just curious when I popped onto the Princess site and saw the new cruise prices. Guess it doesn't matter since we are already booked and the "deal" came to within a few dollars if I exclude the grats. We booked under the Anniversary sale and got OBC + dinner and then the complimentary grats just appeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yags Posted February 16, 2018 #2 Share Posted February 16, 2018 I was just curious when I popped onto the Princess site and saw the new cruise prices. Guess it doesn't matter since we are already booked and the "deal" came to within a few dollars if I exclude the grats. We booked under the Anniversary sale and got OBC + dinner and then the complimentary grats just appeared. Saw your post and did some investigating and calling. We are booked on a premium balcony on the Grand for its June 25th sailing SF-Alaska-SF. We are booked under the 3 for free promo. We could save an additional $90 per person Figuring the lower rates and loss of grats. Not sure it is all worth that amount. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moki'smommy Posted February 16, 2018 Author #3 Share Posted February 16, 2018 The free grats + anniversary sale makes my booking better than it would be today...so I'll keep what I have and laugh a little at the lower fares. I thought it was interesting that the new promotion was to very close to the previous when all benefits were considered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dchip Posted February 16, 2018 #4 Share Posted February 16, 2018 I just checked our booking for Alaska, June 25 on the Grand. We booked with the Anniversary? Sale. With the OBC and Speciality dinners, we are better off keeping the booking we have. Cheers, Denise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishywood Posted February 16, 2018 #5 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Even as a solo for my Alaska B2B I am still ahead of the new promotion despite only free specialty dining and gratuities just for one--though thankfully double the OBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocklinmom Posted February 16, 2018 #6 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Yes the fares did indeed go down. Even with the loss of OBC and free gratuities (booked under 3 for Free) I am tempted to move us from balconies to OV's and save some money. From what I can tell Summer on Sale does not include free gratuities for this summer in Alaska (it doesn't have any perks, just the lower fares, and the deposit is non-refundable). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunny2runner Posted February 22, 2018 #7 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Yeah we were looking to book a summer cruise and it looks like Summer on Sale requires a 10% non refundable deposit. I am wondering if our Future Cruise Credits will work for deposits on non refundable cruise. I guess we will call Princess to check but wondered if anyone here knew about that and why they are requiring the larger deposit and having it be non-refundable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caribill Posted February 22, 2018 #8 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Yeah we were looking to book a summer cruise and it looks like Summer on Sale requires a 10% non refundable deposit. I am wondering if our Future Cruise Credits will work for deposits on non refundable cruise. I guess we will call Princess to check but wondered if anyone here knew about that and why they are requiring the larger deposit and having it be non-refundable. Yes, the $100 future cruise deposit can be used on a sale such as this. If you cancel, you would only lose that deposit assuming you are in in a penalty period. 10% is not a larger normal deposit. They usually want (I think) 15%. Why non-refundable? To discourage people who might book a number of cruises and then decide later which one to actually take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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