Price reductions and final payment

[carolinesmom]

I have read a couple of places that RC will not apply price reductions after final payment is made. Does this apply to the final payment date or if you pay early would it apply to the earlier date? Friends we are traveling with can get 5% back on their credit card if they pay in full by 3/31/12 for an August cruise we are going on. The final payment date is 5/21/12. Would they miss out on any price reductions that might happen between 3/31 and 5/21?

[megr1125]

It applies to final payment DATE not when you paid in full......so if your final payment date is July 1, but you paid in full now, and on June 8th the price drops, you'd get OBC...

 

so...if they pay now, and the price goes down before the DATE of final, they'd get the difference in OBC....as long as the rate is not restricted to new bookings, etc if that makes sense...

[Tony O]

I recently had the price reduction applied to my credit card and not onboard credit.

[kc320]

Any price drops prior to the actual Final Payment date are refunded back to the credit card used on final payment..

[carolinesmom]

Great, thanks!

[CyberTag]

The warehouse travel agency we are going through requires payment to be at 90 days prior to departure on International cruises. RCCL requires payment at 75 days. Somewhere around 85 days before departure, the price went down. We had already made final payment and was able to get a credit back to our credit card for the difference. I think they have to do this since technically you can cancel any time up until 75 days before departure without penalty.