Cruise Suzy Posted September 11, 2023 #1 Share Posted September 11, 2023 Just noticed on the Plan Your Cruise page: Once you see results from your filters, you can view the "From price" of all stateroom categories, not just insides. Click on "View date(s) and fares", then cycle thru categories. Granted this is the non-refundable price, but at least you can do a quick comparison without additional steps. Some itineraries will show the prices for other dates as well as the one you click on. Using Windows 10 with Edge or Chrome on a desktop - have no idea if it's the same on smartphones. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveOKC Posted September 11, 2023 #2 Share Posted September 11, 2023 That is a helpful upgrade IMO. Another thing I noticed is the ability to select your cabin on casino offers (for a reasonable price). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayfairers Posted September 12, 2023 #3 Share Posted September 12, 2023 On 9/11/2023 at 6:36 AM, Cruise Suzy said: Just noticed on the Plan Your Cruise page: Once you see results from your filters, you can view the "From price" of all stateroom categories, not just insides. Click on "View date(s) and fares", then cycle thru categories. Granted this is the non-refundable price, but at least you can do a quick comparison without additional steps. Some itineraries will show the prices for other dates as well as the one you click on. Using Windows 10 with Edge or Chrome on a desktop - have no idea if it's the same on smartphones. That is a nice feature. Thanks for the heads up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minoushka Posted September 12, 2023 #4 Share Posted September 12, 2023 On 9/11/2023 at 8:50 AM, DaveOKC said: That is a helpful upgrade IMO. Another thing I noticed is the ability to select your cabin on casino offers (for a reasonable price). Please tell me how to get those Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveOKC Posted September 12, 2023 #5 Share Posted September 12, 2023 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Minoushka said: Please tell me how to get those RE: casino offers - selecting your cabin Nothing to it. Just do a dummy booking and when you go through the process (after you select the Private Fare option) a screen will come up asking you to select one of two options - Let HAL assign your cabin OR select your own cabin. Obviously chose Select Cabin and then the website will walk you though your options (like a normal non casino booking). You will pick the section of the ship and then deck, after that it will show you which cabins are available and you select one. After that a new page will show up that indicates the price and total fare. Edited September 12, 2023 by DaveOKC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodndonna Posted September 12, 2023 #6 Share Posted September 12, 2023 22 minutes ago, DaveOKC said: RE: casino offers - selecting your cabin Nothing to it. Just do a dummy booking and when you go through the process (after you select the Private Fare option) a screen will come up asking you to select one of two options - Let HAL assign your cabin OR select your own cabin. Obviously chose Select Cabin and then the website will walk you though your options (like a normal non casino booking). You will pick the section of the ship and then deck, after that it will show you which cabins are available and you select one. After that a new page will show up that indicates the price and total fare. I don't see it either - where do you "select Private Fare" option? I don't see it listed in either of the "Show results for" or the "sort by" pull downs. Would it be in there? I have casino discounts on cruises when I follow through the booking , but I still have to just go through the booking to see what my discount is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveOKC Posted September 12, 2023 #7 Share Posted September 12, 2023 33 minutes ago, rodndonna said: I don't see it either - where do you "select Private Fare" option? I don't see it listed in either of the "Show results for" or the "sort by" pull downs. Would it be in there? I have casino discounts on cruises when I follow through the booking , but I still have to just go through the booking to see what my discount is. You have to go through a dummy booking process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodndonna Posted September 12, 2023 #8 Share Posted September 12, 2023 2 minutes ago, DaveOKC said: You have to go through a dummy booking process. I do go through the dummy booking ..which will eventually display the fare at the discounted Casino rate, but that is always how it worked for me. I never see mention of "Private Fare" or get to select Private fare, the price just drops as I go through the booking so I see what my fare is then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveOKC Posted September 12, 2023 #9 Share Posted September 12, 2023 6 minutes ago, rodndonna said: I do go through the dummy booking ..which will eventually display the fare at the discounted Casino rate, but that is always how it worked for me. I never see mention of "Private Fare" or get to select Private fare, the price just drops as I go through the booking so I see what my fare is then. I cannot run it right now as the website has once again locked me out. However, what I do is click on the fare on the new page, select my category and then it comes up with the box on the left sayine Private Fare and the one on the right showing the HIA price. I click on the Private fare box and proceed from there. When the site is up again I will try to run an example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodndonna Posted September 12, 2023 #10 Share Posted September 12, 2023 5 minutes ago, DaveOKC said: I cannot run it right now as the website has once again locked me out. However, what I do is click on the fare on the new page, select my category and then it comes up with the box on the left sayine Private Fare and the one on the right showing the HIA price. I click on the Private fare box and proceed from there. When the site is up again I will try to run an example. I just tried again to see where the discount happens and see if it mentioned "Private Fare" I get the display of all the categories and their prices .. but then when I pick a category (like inside), the price drops to my discounted fare, but no mention of "private fare" for my bookings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Gail & Marty sailing away Posted September 12, 2023 #11 Share Posted September 12, 2023 Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveOKC Posted September 12, 2023 #12 Share Posted September 12, 2023 42 minutes ago, rodndonna said: I just tried again to see where the discount happens and see if it mentioned "Private Fare" I get the display of all the categories and their prices .. but then when I pick a category (like inside), the price drops to my discounted fare, but no mention of "private fare" for my bookings. Go further along the process Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveOKC Posted September 12, 2023 #13 Share Posted September 12, 2023 Lets try this. Log into Gamblers account. Find cruise. Select cabin category (Verandah in this example) and then I get this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveOKC Posted September 12, 2023 #14 Share Posted September 12, 2023 I select PRIVATE FARE box and then get this screen: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveOKC Posted September 12, 2023 #15 Share Posted September 12, 2023 (edited) Then select the CHOOSE YOUR ROOM box and it takes me to the options for Verandah cabins - such as section of ship, deck and finally shows me the available cabins and fares (may vary a bit once you select your cabin). I hope this helps. Edited September 12, 2023 by DaveOKC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodndonna Posted September 12, 2023 #16 Share Posted September 12, 2023 7 minutes ago, DaveOKC said: Lets try this. Log into Gamblers account. Find cruise. Select cabin category (Verandah in this example) and then I get this: Aha! We don't get the same thing.... Mine looks like this - it just says "Cruise Fare" - but that fare is a reduced fare from the original fare in the search by our Casino discount (usually 20-30%). I think your "Private Fare" is a better Casino offer ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveOKC Posted September 12, 2023 #17 Share Posted September 12, 2023 (edited) Yes, your fare is commonly referred to on the message board as a Casino Discount. Mine is a Casino OFFER (either a free or deeply discounted fare). Your fare you have always been able to pick your cabin. but on my OFFER in the past you had to accept a guarantee or pay a huge amount to select a cabin. This new option is MUCH better! Edited September 12, 2023 by DaveOKC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare POA1 Posted September 13, 2023 #18 Share Posted September 13, 2023 14 hours ago, DaveOKC said: You have to go through a dummy booking process. The first thing I thought of when I read this is that you need to write up a "Dummy Bookings for Dummies®" tutorial. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodndonna Posted September 13, 2023 #19 Share Posted September 13, 2023 13 hours ago, DaveOKC said: Yes, your fare is commonly referred to on the message board as a Casino Discount. Mine is a Casino OFFER (either a free or deeply discounted fare). Your fare you have always been able to pick your cabin. but on my OFFER in the past you had to accept a guarantee or pay a huge amount to select a cabin. This new option is MUCH better! We have been lucky enough to get a couple of "free" staterooms offers in the past but really aren't expecting anymore - but I see what you mean, it is a nice feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deliver42 Posted September 14, 2023 #20 Share Posted September 14, 2023 I found as you get close to the elevators, the fares go up. I just booked the Eurodam, aft balcony, and from 7098 forward the fare went up $50.00pp. I booked 7102, and the fare came down to what the lowest fare for aft was. This doesn't count aft facing balcony=ies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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