Price Drops - Best Method

[Blauelini]

If one normally books through the RCCL site and does not use a TA, what is the best way to check for price drops? In the past I would do a dummy booking to see what the price will be and compare that to what I paid. Is this the best way?

 

I really wish there was a way to set an alert through a 3rd party app to dynamically keep checking and sending you an alert in similar fashion as you can do for flights.

[vegas7df]

Yes, doing a dummy booking will show you the current prices and you can compare to what you've booked. 

[Biker19]

4 minutes ago, Blauelini said:

I really wish there was a way to set an alert through a 3rd party app to dynamically keep checking and sending you an alert in similar fashion as you can do for flights.

There was, but I think they folded.

[Blauelini]

29 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

There was, but I think they folded.

That stinks. 

[Merion_Mom]

4 hours ago, Blauelini said:

If one normally books through the RCCL site and does not use a TA, what is the best way to check for price drops? In the past I would do a dummy booking to see what the price will be and compare that to what I paid. Is this the best way?

 

I really wish there was a way to set an alert through a 3rd party app to dynamically keep checking and sending you an alert in similar fashion as you can do for flights.

 

There are/were such apps, but some are gone and most were not as good as you checking yourself.  🙂

 

[Ashland]

Also if your cabin category has sold out you can still call RCI to do a price check.

[Iamcruzin]

4 hours ago, Biker19 said:

There was, but I think they folded.

I wonder what became of Titus?

[hollon]

1 hour ago, Iamcruzin said:

I wonder what became of Titus?

Oh Wow, I remember that, how time flies.

[bgoff60]

Did a price check today!  Took about 45 minutes.  We had 2 rooms on our reservation.  A LOT of factors go into the repricing but...we got about $360 reduction on the one room and about $390 off the other.  It pays to call from time to time.  

[soremekun]

3 hours ago, bgoff60 said:

Did a price check today!  Took about 45 minutes.  We had 2 rooms on our reservation.  A LOT of factors go into the repricing but...we got about $360 reduction on the one room and about $390 off the other.  It pays to call from time to time.  

Great!  That's such a good feeling.

 

[Cruise a holic]

2 hours ago, soremekun said:

Great!  That's such a good feeling.

 

I also check on line- and sometimes call also.  

[Jenna]

I use the Shipmate app - I usually get an email every day or every other day as the prices fluctuate (unfortunately not in my favor).

[rajacks]

On 11/4/2021 at 12:26 PM, Ashland said:

Also if your cabin category has sold out you can still call RCI to do a price check.

This^^^^

 

I called just yesterday to reprice, because I had checked online via a dummy reservation and had seen that the rate for my kids' cabin had gone down.  My cabin category is sold out, but had them reprice anyway when I called, and saved more on it than on the other!