So a few months ago booked two rooms -- same cruise, same room type, same floor, etc -- for an upcoming cruise. Guests in one of the rooms sailed with Crystal before, the others had not. Received a 3% Crystal Society discount on the one cruise fare, but the new cruisers were given a $250 credit per person per stateroom.
So to make math easy if the cruise fare was $10,000 per room, the return guests would receive a $300 discount and the new guests received $500. The 3% only applied to the fare, whereas the other to excursions or other costs.
Does this seem accurate? Is this typical, or a sales 'trick'? (perhaps I should say strategy).
