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I believe it doesn’t work like that. The onboard booking promotion is a fleet wide. It changes from time to time but not specific to the particular cruise you’re onboard at the moment. You can get the same discount even if you aren’t on board but have a cruise coming within the 30 days time frame.

We were seeing long lines at the future cruises sale desks even on the longer cruises in the past.

Well, this is my best answer to your question. By “best results” I didn’t mean after the final payment savings in particular. That being said, if I remember correctly one time we got a cabin upgrade after the final payment date. Our cruises normally don’t go on any sales because of the strong demand for that sailings. But the one we have booked now for some reason have already been through three sales and every time we had our price adjusted correctly. And occasionally there were some other issues that our TA got resolved to our complete satisfaction.

I’ve been following that thread and noticed that you advocated for another person. Sorry he wasn’t successful. I’d suggest that he needs a new TA. We have an excellent one who is always persistent with O and gets us the best possible results.

We’ve previously cruised with Oceania not two but almost twenty times and I can tell that it was really unusual based on our experience.

Sorry for the autocorrection typo that made you think it was very funny. No, we normally get a sale price for the cabin that we booked originally. It might be some other type of compensation if one is past the final payment date. Most of the time we get to keep the promotions that we have already had. Though, some sales and promotions are not combinable with all booking onboard benefits, but the “Best buy guarantee” was always honored in our experience.

On our recent cruise in April we booked another cruise on board like we do most of the time. The OBC was the same $250 for the duration of the cruise. Though we also saw it changes on the some other occasions. The feature that we value most is the “Best price quarantine” for booking onboard that potentially can result in much more savings than just OBC. What I actually found very unusual there was barely someone at the future cruises sales desk every time I was passing by. Nevertheless, the sales person stated that the sales were going very strong for the O cruises in the future.

So if one’s TA can get the discount that Oceania supposed to apply based on their terms (booking on board benefits?) and the other one can’t do the same I’d think it’s the time to look for a new TA.

That’s interesting. Not that I suggest booking air through them but for our June 2025 cruise out of Oslo Oceania included air is $1400 total both ways. And it was even less for the European cruise this spring.

What fare class O was charging you $1700 one way to Stockholm?

My husband and I both received similar emails. The sender’s email looks weird like it wasn’t sent from Oceaniacruises. Just sent them to the junk folder.

Thank you very much for your posts. Your positive attitude, which I like the most, will definitely help you to enjoy your first O cruise.

The post that you were replying to pointed that the port for Kyoto is Kobe on the itinerary and Osaka on the accompanying map. One off many omissions on Oceania website. Actual port is probably Kobe that to be accurate not anywhere near Osaka.

We sailed with Azamara twice. First time for the “Amazing” event they brought the whole ship to the real theater in town where the big company produced the whole show on stage. And all passengers participated in the after show festivities in the foyer afterwards. It was top quality and just wonderful. The second time, it was still COVID, for “Destination Immersion” they brought three singers and a small band on board and they performed on the pool deck. It wasn’t the same. I’m curious if with the “new” Azamara they are doing the “Amazing Evenings” again or they just permanently replaced them with the “Destination Immersion” on board.

I think Oceania figured it out that mailing all these brochures generates more revenue than they actually spend on printing and postage. In this case no amount of complains will stop them from doing it. The cost of the publications is included in the price, therefore no discount on the cruise fare is expected.

If your OBC comes from the TA it’s most likely a refundable credit. And you will have two options. If the credit either non refundable or refundable you will be able to cancel original bookings that were paid by credit card and rebook on board given the classes and excursions aren’t sold out. That’s the way to go with the non refundable credit. But you can also leave everything as is and then cash out unused refundable credit on the last day of your cruise otherwise the balance will be refunded to the credit card on file.

No need for the capital letters. And what’s is acceptable to you doesn’t mean it’s the same for everyone. Anyway you were so unlucky. We haven’t experienced the service to be bad to that extent on any of Oceania ships. But if I was so dissatisfied with the service I would look for another cruise line.

For us the choice is the result of the equation of the accommodation, the food, the price/value and most importantly the itineraries. So far Oceania won big. But probably if you look at the other boards the result will be different.

Even if the ingredients are similar the presentation and the final product is different when it’s plated and served to you from the kitchen. I believe that this is what matters when we choose to eat in the restaurant.

After cruising on O many times we often prefer to dine in the GDR over the specialties. Even we’ll not “write home about” it we always know what to choose of the menu and find the quality of the food and menu selection well above the average and completely satisfactory to our tastes. Everybody’s taste is different and yours is obviously not the same as ours.

All funds that were paid with cash/credit card will be returned as refundable OBC. If not used refundable OBC can be cashed out at the reception desk on the last day of the cruise. Otherwise it will be refunded to your credit card on file.

One time change free of charge.

I posted based on what we were told by the Future Cruises Consultant onboard Sirena last month.

Probably it’ll be about September this year.

Booking onboard discount is a fix amount which is scaled based on the length of the cruise and the cabin category. If I remember correctly it could be something between $150 and $1,500 per cabin and normally is about 5% discount of the total cost of the cruise depending upon whether it’s more or less expensive based on the per day price of the particular cruise. There's also a not cabin related ship board credit which varies from $100 to $300 depending on the current promotion in our experience.