Promoting private excursions on board

[skurvish]

We are attempting to book some private shore excursions but are not getting the response we need from the roll call. Anyone have any thoughts on how the cruise line might react if we attempted to promote these ourselves while on board? Person to person should not be a problem, but we thought we might drop fliers at each door.

 

Thoughts?

[operafan]

We are attempting to book some private shore excursions but are not getting the response we need from the roll call. Anyone have any thoughts on how the cruise line might react if we attempted to promote these ourselves while on board? Person to person should not be a problem, but we thought we might drop fliers at each door.

 

Thoughts?

 

How would the cruise line react? They may just "shorten" your cruise. Not a good idea.

[paul929207]

Person to person would be fine, but distributing flyers may be frowned upon. It the past, we have found a couple to share a rental car for a day just by asking around.

 

There has also been some firming up of private excursions amongst the Roll Call members.

[Gonzo70]

I would fully expect that you would be booted off the ship if you dropped flyers about a private excursion under people's doors.

[suezyq50]

Not a good idea.

[alicam]

We are attempting to book some private shore excursions but are not getting the response we need from the roll call. Anyone have any thoughts on how the cruise line might react if we attempted to promote these ourselves while on board? Person to person should not be a problem, but we thought we might drop fliers at each door.

 

Thoughts?

How do you spell tacky????

[Cuizer2]

We are attempting to book some private shore excursions but are not getting the response we need from the roll call. Anyone have any thoughts on how the cruise line might react if we attempted to promote these ourselves while on board? Person to person should not be a problem, but we thought we might drop fliers at each door.

 

Thoughts?

 

The cruise line sells excursions. How do you think they are going to react when they find someone competing with them on their own ship?

 

If you do this, make sure you have a passport. You may end up flying home from the first port stop.

[kitty9]

On every cruise line, it's against the rules to promote yourself as a travel agent or promote any kind of travel agent activities-----and you need not be a travel agent to break those rules. I think it would be frowned upon to even do this one on one

[skurvish]

Fair enough. We figured this would be likely answer. Thanks all for your replies.

[lady_cruiser]

How do you spell tacky????

 

As in "this is a tacky answer to someone's legimate question?"

[klfrodo]

As in "this is a tacky answer to someone's legimate question?"

 

Classy response :rolleyes:

[alicam]

As in "this is a tacky answer to someone's legimate question?"

OH...thankyou very much...I guess I missed the "Proper Etiquette to Respond to a Excursion Flyer Handout" class:D

[Fergus]

We used to get a real kick out of watching our office building's security guard jump and run when he would hear that some unauthorized party was going floor to floor selling something. I would LOVE to see the cruise ship staff's reaction when they get wind of somebody promoting private excursions onboard.........I just think that would be hysterical!

[navybankerteacher]

On every cruise line, it's against the rules to promote yourself as a travel agent or promote any kind of travel agent activities-----and you need not be a travel agent to break those rules. I think it would be frowned upon to even do this one on one

 

Of course the line would object to any marketing effort, but certainly there can be no objection to one on one. On every cruise I've taken I have shared non-line-sponsored excursion costs (or airport transportation at debarkation) with people I've met on board. I cannot imagine any line attempting to discourage such interaction among passengers.

[Krazy Kruizers]

We are attempting to book some private shore excursions but are not getting the response we need from the roll call. Anyone have any thoughts on how the cruise line might react if we attempted to promote these ourselves while on board? Person to person should not be a problem, but we thought we might drop fliers at each door.

 

Thoughts?

 

 

Talking to someone about an excursion -- fine.

But dropping off flyers door-to-door -- NO WAY!!