OTownNick Posted August 23, 2017 #1126 Share Posted August 23, 2017 I thought you weren't going to gamble this weekend. [emoji6] Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Forums mobile app I know!! It was going to be one out of the next two weekends so that was the one I did it. So now no gambling this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Life is Good Cruising Posted August 23, 2017 #1127 Share Posted August 23, 2017 For those that have sailings booked in 2018 and 2019 with CR, you may want to give them a call and have them check on your cruise fare. Just saved closed to $4000 on 6 of our sailings and I was still able to keep the refundable rates for all sailings and still got quoted casino rates for those 6 cruises. All of our price drops are on sailings that are 9, 11 & 12 nighters, so that may be why the HUGE price drop on each one. None of our sailings in the next 6 months went down, only up. The price drops I just received started with cruises sailing May 2018 to April 2019. Five out of the 6 sailings we're in a SJS on Anthem so don't know if the ship and category could be the reason for these huge price drops and our other price drop was for a balcony. Today was my lucky day in more ways than one, I felt like I got a few hand-pays today :'), wishing you guys the same luck I had today. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFerrington Posted August 23, 2017 #1128 Share Posted August 23, 2017 For those that have sailings booked in 2018 and 2019 with CR, you may want to give them a call and have them check on your cruise fare. Just saved closed to $4000 on 6 of our sailings and I was still able to keep the refundable rates for all sailings and still got quoted casino rates for those 6 cruises. All of our price drops are on sailings that are 9, 11 & 12 nighters, so that may be why the HUGE price drop on each one. None of our sailings in the next 6 months went down, only up. The price drops I just received started with cruises sailing May 2018 to April 2019. Five out of the 6 sailings we're in a SJS on Anthem so don't know if the ship and category could be the reason for these huge price drops and our other price drop was for a balcony. Today was my lucky day in more ways than one, I felt like I got a few hand-pays today :'), wishing you guys the same luck I had today. :D Woohoo ! Were you already booked with CR casino discounts ? When you went to the website was there a visible price drop for your category ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Bee Posted August 23, 2017 #1129 Share Posted August 23, 2017 For those that have sailings booked in 2018 and 2019 with CR, you may want to give them a call and have them check on your cruise fare. Just saved closed to $4000 on 6 of our sailings and I was still able to keep the refundable rates for all sailings and still got quoted casino rates for those 6 cruises. All of our price drops are on sailings that are 9, 11 & 12 nighters, so that may be why the HUGE price drop on each one. None of our sailings in the next 6 months went down, only up. The price drops I just received started with cruises sailing May 2018 to April 2019. Five out of the 6 sailings we're in a SJS on Anthem so don't know if the ship and category could be the reason for these huge price drops and our other price drop was for a balcony. Today was my lucky day in more ways than one, I felt like I got a few hand-pays today :'), wishing you guys the same luck I had today. :D Linda, Nice to hear that you was able to do it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Life is Good Cruising Posted August 23, 2017 #1130 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Woohoo ! Were you already booked with CR casino discounts ? When you went to the website was there a visible price drop for your category ? Yes I was already booked with casino rates when all these sailings first came out. Didn't see any updates on the website, I was just calling to check on a sold out cruise in which I was put on a wait-list. Anyway, I mistakenly said these were all refundable rates, my mistake. Even though the rep was telling me they were ALL refundable rates, I'm okay with this since we hardly ever cancel a cruise and the amount of money we save was well worth it to us. Saving $700 or $800 on one cruise is a lot, even if I move it or change the sail date, I will only lose $200, still worth it to me to go non refundable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Life is Good Cruising Posted August 23, 2017 #1131 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Linda, Nice to hear that you was able to do it :) Hi Alla, I spoke too quickly and wanted to give everyone a heads up and come to find out my savings were due to non-refundable deposit. I'm okay with this, the savings was quite nice, now I'm going to book another cruise anyway with the money I saved-------lol. Looking forward to us getting together once again :D, say hi to Boris for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Life is Good Cruising Posted August 23, 2017 #1132 Share Posted August 23, 2017 For those that have sailings booked in 2018 and 2019 with CR, you may want to give them a call and have them check on your cruise fare. Just saved closed to $4000 on 6 of our sailings and I was still able to keep the refundable rates for all sailings and still got quoted casino rates for those 6 cruises. All of our price drops are on sailings that are 9, 11 & 12 nighters, so that may be why the HUGE price drop on each one. None of our sailings in the next 6 months went down, only up. The price drops I just received started with cruises sailing May 2018 to April 2019. Five out of the 6 sailings we're in a SJS on Anthem so don't know if the ship and category could be the reason for these huge price drops and our other price drop was for a balcony. Today was my lucky day in more ways than one, I felt like I got a few hand-pays today :'), wishing you guys the same luck I had today. :D My mistake, my savings were due to NFD, I'm okay with it. I still feel like I won a few hand-pays :D without paying taxes :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milwaukee Eight Posted August 23, 2017 #1133 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Hi Mary. Good for at least winning something! I agree with your observation.- this weekend I played the most I've played on a 3 night cruise and I lost a large amount too. Probably the MOST I ever lost. All I got was a comp. inside stateroom. VERY disappointing. At this level i used to get at LEAST OV or balcony certificate. There is definitely a scale back of what they are giving us for our play! Not much else to do except I'm just going to gamble LESS It's difficult to rack up points of a 3 or 4 day cruise. I think this is a flaw in the grading play system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milwaukee Eight Posted August 23, 2017 #1134 Share Posted August 23, 2017 For those that have sailings booked in 2018 and 2019 with CR, you may want to give them a call and have them check on your cruise fare. Just saved closed to $4000 on 6 of our sailings and I was still able to keep the refundable rates for all sailings and still got quoted casino rates for those 6 cruises. All of our price drops are on sailings that are 9, 11 & 12 nighters, so that may be why the HUGE price drop on each one. None of our sailings in the next 6 months went down, only up. The price drops I just received started with cruises sailing May 2018 to April 2019. Five out of the 6 sailings we're in a SJS on Anthem so don't know if the ship and category could be the reason for these huge price drops and our other price drop was for a balcony. Today was my lucky day in more ways than one, I felt like I got a few hand-pays today :'), wishing you guys the same luck I had today. :D Was this after you book with CR? The reason I ask, typically we have been getting about $2-3K per cruise discount with the CR (7 nights). Is this $4000 above what you already received? Thank you..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Life is Good Cruising Posted August 23, 2017 #1135 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Was this after you book with CR? The reason I ask, typically we have been getting about $2-3K per cruise discount with the CR (7 nights). Is this $4000 above what you already received? Thank you..... Sailings were booked when itineraries first came out, each sailing originally had a hefty discount like yours :D The $4000 is an addition to the hefty discount and was due to changing the sailings to the NRD (Non Refundable Deposit) on 6 sailings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milwaukee Eight Posted August 24, 2017 #1136 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Sailings were booked when itineraries first came out, each sailing originally had a hefty discount like yours :D The $4000 is an addition to the hefty discount and was due to changing the sailings to the NRD (Non Refundable Deposit) on 6 sailings. Oh, ok.... thanks for the reply. Under new plans, Suites are NFD going forward, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Life is Good Cruising Posted August 24, 2017 #1137 Share Posted August 24, 2017 I just called CR back to confirm if the deposits are indeed NRD or RD. The 6 sailings I just received a hefty price drop on, ALL have the deposits that are refundable. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milwaukee Eight Posted August 24, 2017 #1138 Share Posted August 24, 2017 I just called CR back to confirm if the deposits are indeed NRD or RD. The 6 sailings I just received a hefty price drop on, ALL have the deposits that are refundable. :D So, did you get further discounts based on your play? Sent from my iPhone using Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Life is Good Cruising Posted August 24, 2017 #1139 Share Posted August 24, 2017 So, did you get further discounts based on your play? Sent from my iPhone using Forums No mention of my play, rates went down, play may have been a factor, I don't really know, most sailings are in the winter months when rates are low to start with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maryjaden Posted August 24, 2017 #1140 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Oh, ok.... thanks for the reply. Under new plans, Suites are NFD going forward, I think. Yes I do believe you are correct. I was looking at some cruises in 2018 and when I chose the refundable deposit I that came up were JS, when I chose NFD then the other suite categories come up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daghis Posted August 24, 2017 Author #1141 Share Posted August 24, 2017 I checked two of my upcoming sailings and, according to Club Royale, both went up. No savings for me. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Bee Posted August 24, 2017 #1142 Share Posted August 24, 2017 I checked two of my upcoming sailings and, according to Club Royale, both went up. No savings for me. :( Anyone in this thread sailing Nov 11 or Nov 18 on Harmony? Or April 14 and April 22 on Freedom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFerrington Posted August 25, 2017 #1143 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Had my TA check on all of my bookings and can only save on one of them - the Panama Canal cruise on Vision in Nov 18. If I am willing to switch from Refundable to Nonrefundable I will save $2K. Since this is one cruise that I will definitely be keeping (not that I'm not planning on keeping them all, right now) I told her to go ahead and make the change. Saving $2K is worth a low risk chance of losing $200. All 5 of my other bookings are higher even with switching to NRD so no savings there. Thanks for the heads up. Since the Panama Canal cruise is sold out my category (suites) I could not determine that there was that big a difference in the baseline prices. Having my TA was the only way to know about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFerrington Posted August 25, 2017 #1144 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Oh, ok.... thanks for the reply. Under new plans, Suites are NFD going forward, I think. Yes, my TA verified (although I already knew this) that any changes made to a suite booking would change from a refundable deposit to a non refundable deposit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daghis Posted August 26, 2017 Author #1145 Share Posted August 26, 2017 I checked two of my upcoming sailings and, according to Club Royale, both went up. No savings for me. :( I thought I'd check to see whether non-refundable deposit pricing might be cheaper. Indeed, my March 2019 cruise could save a bit if I switched to a non-refundable deposit, but for a net savings of just $80, it's not worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFerrington Posted August 26, 2017 #1146 Share Posted August 26, 2017 I thought I'd check to see whether non-refundable deposit pricing might be cheaper. Indeed, my March 2019 cruise could save a bit if I switched to a non-refundable deposit, but for a net savings of just $80, it's not worth it. I wouldn't do it for $80 either, Marc. ...but for $2000 I think the risk to reward factor makes it a good move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTownNick Posted August 28, 2017 #1147 Share Posted August 28, 2017 Table players- verify your average bets onboard. My average bet is always $75 on roulette. Last night of the cruise, I checked and they said my average bet was $28! I'm was pretty upset. I told them to correct it. It's not even CLOSE to my avg. Will they or did they correct it? I don't know and I have no Way to know. At Baha Mar Saturday, they were able to tell me everything - avg bet, time, points. They were accurate. Why can't RCI do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFerrington Posted August 30, 2017 #1148 Share Posted August 30, 2017 I looked back over the last several pages and couldn't find the post I was looking for....but for whomever was looking for the Beach Bash announcement, I just got one in my email. Nov 19 (5 nights) on NAV out of MIA Dec 4 (5 nights) on Vision out of Galveston Nov. 19 (7 nights) on Rhapsody out of TPA Dec 10 (7 nights) on Oasis out of PC Dec 3 (6 nights) on Freedom out of PE Dec 11 (7 nights) on Brilliance out of TPA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robinhill Posted August 30, 2017 #1149 Share Posted August 30, 2017 I have never gotten even one email from Club royale but they always give me a free cruise in the casino and the club always books my cruises with a decent discount as well- why dont i get any emails? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Bee Posted August 30, 2017 #1150 Share Posted August 30, 2017 I have never gotten even one email from Club royale but they always give me a free cruise in the casino and the club always books my cruises with a decent discount as well- why dont i get any emails? Simply just call CR and ask to verify if your email in their marketing list :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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