Does anyone know what “apo” means?

[sboh]

I’m taking a cruise in October. I decided I wanted to upgrade my cabin and called my cvp and at first she could not give me rates because my booking had an “apo”. After a short hold she came back and I was able to upgrade. Now I’m wondering what is an “apo”?

[TRLD]

apo means army post office and applies to army and air force mail locations out side of the US

[Abercrombie2019]

58 minutes ago, sboh said:

I’m taking a cruise in October. I decided I wanted to upgrade my cabin and called my cvp and at first she could not give me rates because my booking had an “apo”. After a short hold she came back and I was able to upgrade. Now I’m wondering what is an “apo”?

Just a guess, but maybe it’s something like Agency Promotional Offer?

[dog]

Military, promo rate

[sboh]

I have no connection to the military and have never lived outside the USA.

[dog]

4 minutes ago, sboh said:

I have no connection to the military and have never lived outside the USA.

Ask Princess

[Rick&Jeannie]

Since you already have a CVP you're working with...ask them.

[startedwithamouse]

3 hours ago, sboh said:

I’m taking a cruise in October. I decided I wanted to upgrade my cabin and called my cvp and at first she could not give me rates because my booking had an “apo”. After a short hold she came back and I was able to upgrade. Now I’m wondering what is an “apo”?

Ask them. 

[dforeigner]

APO: Army Post Office

[Rick&Jeannie]

3 hours ago, dforeigner said:

APO: Army Post Office

OP has already stated he was not in the military...

[dog]

11 minutes ago, Rick&Jeannie said:

OP has already stated he was not in the military...

They need to ask their TA, if it really matters.

[voljeep]

SAP APO ... Advanced Planner Optimizer

[InTheWASide]

On 9/9/2024 at 10:40 AM, sboh said:

I’m taking a cruise in October. I decided I wanted to upgrade my cabin and called my cvp and at first she could not give me rates because my booking had an “apo”. After a short hold she came back and I was able to upgrade. Now I’m wondering what is an “apo”?

Princess uses the system POLAR for their bookings. APO in Polar means "at price of"
In short, maybe because of a promotion, compensation from some sort of issue, maybe you're close and won a bid to another room, you have an APO on your booking.

 

An example of how it would read would be that you're in a balcony category BD at the price of an inside IC. In other words, BD APO IC. The system can't allow a change because it would then either lose the APO if it's truly supposed to still be there, OR it would inappropriately still give you that benefit if it should go away because of the change you've now made.

 

There's a lot that gets into internal princess policies and the specifics of how THEY utilize POLAR for their needs, but I hope this gives you a little bit more of an idea since I saw no one answered yet based on booking a cruise with a brand using POLAR. 🙂

[sboh]

2 hours ago, InTheWASide said:

Princess uses the system POLAR for their bookings. APO in Polar means "at price of"
In short, maybe because of a promotion, compensation from some sort of issue, maybe you're close and won a bid to another room, you have an APO on your booking.

 

An example of how it would read would be that you're in a balcony category BD at the price of an inside IC. In other words, BD APO IC. The system can't allow a change because it would then either lose the APO if it's truly supposed to still be there, OR it would inappropriately still give you that benefit if it should go away because of the change you've now made.

 

There's a lot that gets into internal princess policies and the specifics of how THEY utilize POLAR for their needs, but I hope this gives you a little bit more of an idea since I saw no one answered yet based on booking a cruise with a brand using POLAR. 🙂

Thank-you, I think that makes sense in my situation. It was just a regular booking in an inside cabin to start. I did put in a bid to upgrade to deluxe balcony then decided to call and inquire about paying for an upgrade as the cruise now is just a month away, which I did. I suspect I missed out on a free upgrade. I wish my cvp had explained this to me, I might have waited.

[Rick&Jeannie]

Finally...a reasonable explanation!