cbfb Posted May 16 #1 Share Posted May 16 We are new to MSC with just one previous sailing. My husband was able to status match to Diamond. We are looking to book another cruise for July 4th. Will the 5% discount be automatically applied or do we need to call MSC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Essiesmom Posted May 16 #2 Share Posted May 16 Try a mock booking. The first screen you see asks you to choose your offer, and has the bare bones fare, and the fare with WiFi and drinks. But above that you choose number of guests, etc., and you input your voyager number. When you have entered your number and it recognizes it, the price will change. EM 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbfb Posted May 16 Author #3 Share Posted May 16 19 minutes ago, Essiesmom said: Try a mock booking. The first screen you see asks you to choose your offer, and has the bare bones fare, and the fare with WiFi and drinks. But above that you choose number of guests, etc., and you input your voyager number. When you have entered your number and it recognizes it, the price will change. EM Thank you!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisgp999 Posted May 16 #4 Share Posted May 16 41 minutes ago, cbfb said: We are new to MSC with just one previous sailing. My husband was able to status match to Diamond. We are looking to book another cruise for July 4th. Will the 5% discount be automatically applied or do we need to call MSC? I've always had to call MSC customer service to get the 5% (or sometimes 5%+5% special promo) applied. Never had any problems with this method. The calls were always answered promptly and the discount applied immediately. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare JamieLogical Posted May 17 #5 Share Posted May 17 I always just enter my voyager's club number and birth date as @Essiesmom described and get the 5% automatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizfish Posted May 17 #6 Share Posted May 17 Just so you know, the 5% discount is not applicable on flash sale rates. Other sale bookings accept the discount. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbfb Posted May 17 Author #7 Share Posted May 17 Thanks for all the help. I was able to add the voyager club number as @Essiesmom described and the discount was applied. Now to decide if I have the guts to sail on a July 4th sailing that I know will be packed with kids! 🤣🤣 No offense to anyone with kids, we love them and have them, but we are sailing as a couple! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare wolft927 Posted May 17 #8 Share Posted May 17 Always call as I get the 5% for status as well as 5% for booking more then 9 months out too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyinpa Posted May 18 #9 Share Posted May 18 i just booked my 2nd cruise a few days ago. my TA gave me my price with the discount applied, unsure his mechanism that he got the price but i'm glad i got it. it was a tad off compared to the site price but immaterial enough to me that i didnt argue. saved that 5 plus his 9 percent is pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark_T Posted May 18 #10 Share Posted May 18 (edited) 24 minutes ago, luckyinpa said: i just booked my 2nd cruise a few days ago. my TA gave me my price with the discount applied, unsure his mechanism that he got the price but i'm glad i got it. it was a tad off compared to the site price but immaterial enough to me that i didnt argue. saved that 5 plus his 9 percent is pretty good Around 9% is about right as it isn't 5+5=10%, it is 5% off then 5% off the remaining 95%, this is why it is written as 5+5%. So you get 9.75% discount rather than 10% Edited May 18 by Mark_T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyinpa Posted May 18 #11 Share Posted May 18 msc gave me 5 percent..my TA gives me 9 so i get 14% off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
80sGal Posted May 21 #12 Share Posted May 21 I too am new to MSC. A few weeks ago I asked about this here on CC and was advised to call to get the 5% discount applied as we had just matched to Gold. Strangely though no one mentioned exactly how it worked by calling after already booked. What I discovered and may be helpful to others is that I didn't actually GET the full 5% discount because the cruise insurance increased from my original price.i even called back to talk to a different rep to verify the first one was correct. Hypothetical with Easy Math: Booked for 2000 fare, insurance at 150. Total 2150. Five percent discount should take 100 off fare for a new total of 2050. But that's NOT what happened. Instead: Five percent discount was applied bringing fare down to 1900 but insurance was NOW higher because the insurance is based on the current prevailing rate of the cruise (which I did not know would happen) so now insurance is 200, so the new total is 2100. So yes I saved 50 bucks over the original total but the insurance increase negated some of the 5% discount. And I suppose if I had called even closer to the cruise I could have ended up worse off as rates increased .... which doesn't seem right .... but 2 reps both said it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Illbcruzn4life Posted May 21 #13 Share Posted May 21 On 5/17/2024 at 8:37 AM, wolft927 said: Always call as I get the 5% for status as well as 5% for booking more then 9 months out too I couldn't do that today as I booked this morning and will be leaving in 3 weeks. I did get the 5% discount when I entered my voyager # as Essie stated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartgrove Posted May 21 #14 Share Posted May 21 We just booked a cruise on the MSC Meraviglia for January yesterday. Under the Flash Sale the fare was about $450+ more than the Voyager 5%+5%. Luckily I had done a dummy booking the day before! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwfpb Posted May 22 #15 Share Posted May 22 On 5/17/2024 at 5:37 AM, wolft927 said: Always call as I get the 5% for status as well as 5% for booking more then 9 months out too Aha! I'd been looking at March 2025 cruises for weeks without logging in and always assumed it would be 5% off those rates. When we finally booked it last night, the rate dropped almost 10% so I thought it must have been the 5% plus a Memorial Day sale - or just a mistake on their site. Good to know that booking 9+ months out yields another 5% off - I never knew that before, Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailorfromBrazil Posted May 22 #16 Share Posted May 22 8 minutes ago, markwfpb said: Good to know that booking 9+ months out yields another 5% off Check out your booking info (cruise details), you should also get $50 OBC/each if you are a Silver, Gold or Diamond VC and booked at least 9mo earlier. It may take some days for the OBC to show up. BTW I didn't buy the insurance, it show as cancelled in my booking but still appears in the site. 🤷♂️ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwfpb Posted May 22 #17 Share Posted May 22 T 59 minutes ago, SailorfromBrazil said: Check out your booking info (cruise details), you should also get $50 OBC/each if you are a Silver, Gold or Diamond VC and booked at least 9mo earlier. It may take some days for the OBC to show up. Thanks for that info too - news to me! Going forward, I'll keep an eye on the calendar for cruises 9+ months out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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