ohiogymrat

Make sure its strong..most of the judges complain the drinks are too sweet without a kick.

Its pretty popular, so most do it.

Yes, but specific activities are up the the cruise director.

If the suite is still selling at the same price she booked, you should be okay.

Actually it doesnt matter as long as she paid 200%,that locks in the rate. The person added just needs to pay the current taxes and fees.

Ive added people often when paying 200%.

I knew that but I've never seen (at least I haven't) a lower rate at the same exact time of booking that I could turn around and price protect against. Usually I wait for the early saver rate I booked to drop or when that disappears there's sometimes another lower rate being offered.

 

Unless carnival thinks that people will automatically book the lower rate unaware for just a few dollars more they can price protect. If people aren't aware, this saves carnival money.

It happens often with resident and military rates. Many people are unwilling to book ES because of the restrictions

I thought Carnival just said they weren't going to keep dropping prices and would let the ships go out less than full to stabilize pricing?

 

Bill

They are still offering pack n go rates and waiving single supplements, so I haven't seen them implementing the less than full plan to stabilize pricing.

They will just drop prices until they sell. Also they havent assigned the gty cabins so its impossible to ever know how many cabins are actually left.

From another thread on this topic

Here is what John Heald had to say about the subject.

 

"The home port advisory is something that we put there for internal use and its not anything we actually offer the guests until such time as text alerts for delayed embarkation etc are needed"

Best thing to do is just book, check a few times and never look back. You will drive yourself nuts otherwise. Enjoy your cruise.

 

But to answer your questions, yes you can keep lowering it as long as you still have that early saver rate. Most of the time a sale will come up and then your rate changes so at that point you would have till final payment to see if you have a better deal (unless it is a non-refundable rate like pack and go) As far as how long early savers rates, that is up to to Carnival.

For some of us checking pricing and getting lots of OBC is far from an activity that drives us nuts. I have gotten multiple price drops and OBC on every cruise I have booked under ES. It helps that I book off season when they always have to drop rates to fill the ship. Its always good to join roll calls, that way you have multiple eyes watching the fares.

But I guess some people like to book and happy with the price and willing to leave that OBC and price adjusfments on the table.

What would be the cost of a taxi to FLL? Would it be less than Carnival transfers ($30 / pp so $60 for DH and I)?

Its about $100 for a taxi

It does say Credits. Thats how it appears

Congrats! Im curious why you would take a cab back to the airport. Divina and Glory are both at port of Miami.

I have done b2b on different ships and just walked from one to the other. Its fairly easy unless you have mobility issues.

Keep a close eye on that Glory rate, it will likey drop even lower closer to final payment date. They are almost giving cruises away these days.

Thanks for sharing!

Im excited about their pricing, if they have to sell late April cruises this low, just image how cheap the fall cruises will be. :)

I want to sail on valor in mid November, so it will be several months before those cruises drop.

Nope they wont come back and ask you for more money, you arent breaking any rules.

Have a great time

The thread is called Post CRUISE LINE Single Supplement/Solo Bargains

Not Post CRUISE LINE Single Supplement/Solo that Jana60 thinks is a Bargain

If it doesn't work for you, just move past it. If someone was thinking about booking allure over those dates, this is a major price reduction

Not sure I see the need to attack the messenger of someone trying to provide information

I would give them a call and ask if they see the hsn obc on your account.

It would be nice if the obc would just show up automatically. Especially since the wait times are crazy lately.

It would be interesting to see a list of bridge tour friendly Captains and those that never or rarely grant free bridge tours.

Youre probably on board by now, having lunch! But just in case youre caught in traffic, reading this from your phone.....

 

The kids dailies would be great! (9 - 11, please!!). Just want to know if they have themed nights I should pack special clothes for.

 

Thanks:)

Fyi the OP wont sail until 4/12

Thanks for the link

Ok, I know this is about to rattle some cruising feathers lol, but I might not take a summer cruise at all.

 

I've recently been looking at travel trailers and am thinking of purchasing one. That may put a hold on cruising money until winter or next year.

Sounds like a great plan, if that's what you want to do.

So many amazing travel options, that the only bad choice is to never go anywhere.

We were going to take that last year, but had to reschedule and did BA to Bermuda instead. If hubs could get the time off, we'd be there in a heartbeat. This is going to be the last TA for the Epic for a long time since she's being homed in Barcelona now. If you've always wanted to do a TA, now's your chance!

 

Jen

Epic will do April 2014 October 2014 and April 2015 transatlantics

As the saying goes ....you ain't seen nothing yet.

Wait until the Sept to early December cruises get closer. If they are slashing spring break and summer cruises, just imagine what will happen to cruises in the off season.

No carib band by pool area and the buffet has lots of options for dinner including stuff for kids, pizza, hot dogs, fries, hamburgers. Gala night lots of dress up people but lots of people go to the buffet to avoid dressing up. The buffet has the largest option of food of any other cruise line that we have been on.

Thanks, I was asking about the free drinks offered during the first gala night

I believe I read it is being dropped completely, but I apologize that I can no longer remember/find where I read that. That's what I remember, and I'm not seeing any future St. Maarten stops beyond fall 2014.

Getaway is calling. On SXM until April 2015

http://www.ncl.com/vacations/norwegian-getaway-sep-2014-oct-2014-nov-2014-dec-2014-jan-2015-feb-2015-mar-2015-apr-2015-2-guests?sailmonths=4294937477+4294937484+4294937476+4294937483+4294936764+4294936763+4294936765+4294936762&ships=4294927095&numberOfGuests=4294915774&pageSize=5&currentPage=1&sortBy=Featured&autoPopulate=f&from=resultPage

Thanks

Im curious,how is gala night? I thought I saw something about free drinks.

Is there a Caribbean band by the pool area?

What were some of the options at the buffet?