Help - Booking on board current offer

[gordylad]

Can anyone confirm what the latest offer is if booking onboard in June 2016?

 

Thanks

[jbuch02]

Perks for onboard bookings generally conform to what corporate is offering for any particular cruise to anyone who is booking from a US location.

 

However, your on-board cruise specialist might have additional perks authorized for your cruise in June. It's been my experience that these may be in addition to the standard credit you will receive to be used on your current cruise or a future cruise.

 

For example, aboard Millennium in January of this year we booked three future cruises one each (2016, 2017 and 2018) in OV cabins. We received two perks included in the GBB program (OBC and Gratuities), instead of the standard one perk for this cabin class on two of the three. The exception was the Solstice repositioning cruise from Sydney to Honolulu in 2018. No perks there. I know these were only offered on the ship as checking other web sites I use to search cruises, these particular bookings only offered one perk for an OV booking.

 

I also think this varies so, it would be hard to determine exactly what you might find being offered on board your cruise in June. When I inquired about this of the cruise specialist we made these future on-board bookings with he noted corporate sends out bulletins almost on a daily basis with new offers and pricing, the purpose I would suspect, of incentivizing the purchase of select future cruises using on-board booking services.

 

At the two ends of the buying spectrum (way in advance and short notice) I've found that there are good reasons to book on-board or ashore in these two windows to optimize your value, the obvious advantage of booking on- board being the immediate credit incentive. Toward the end of that January cruise word started circulating that cabins on the Constellation TA in April (now just inside the final payment date) were practically being given away. On checking, that rumor turned out to be accurate - maybe the lowest fare for comparable East Bound TAs I had seen. Previous commitments prevented the booking. That pricing was gone within a week.

 

Good hunting.

Edited June 1, 2016 by jbuch02

[gordylad]

thanks hopefully someone will post an image for June onwards...

[Tiggertastic]

Got off yesterday, it was pick 2 of 4 perks or have all 4 for a suite. The 4 were, free classic drinks, free internet, free gratuities or $300 obc plus they did an extra obc between 100 and 500. Reduced deposit and a choice to take the extra obc on current or future cruise. I realise we booked 30 May so maybe different for june.