Celebrity, RCCL, Azamara-Combine points

[sailawayjack]

:cool: Three cruise lines, one parent company. How about changing the rules and allow sail credits to be accrued on all three cruise lines to be earned and totaled on one account. After reaching Diamond on RCCL, I have taken (and scheduled) two Celebrity Cruises. I get no more earnings on Crown and Anchor for RCCL, and basically am starting to accrue points with Celeb, even though they will let me have Elite status as a courtesy. BUT--I am not helping myself if I want to achieve Diamond Plus. Anyone else like this idea??:cool:JACK IS SAILING AGAIN

[Algebralovr]

We all like the idea, but don't see it happening. Each brand is expected to show an independent profit so that the parent company shows a profit. Their goal mm is to get us all to sail more on all the lines!

[LOP]

RCCL owns all three lines...Celebrity, Azamara, and RCI just to quantify and I do believe the points are combinable on Celebrity and Azamara, but unfortunately RCI is not included although you can enjoy the level across the lines...but yes I believe Diamond plus is only achievable by earning points on RCI.

 

Perhaps with their new earning system they can figure out a way to combine earnings as we would see it as a plus as you do.

Edited July 24, 2014 by LOP

[waterbug123]

:cool: Three cruise lines, one parent company. How about changing the rules and allow sail credits to be accrued on all three cruise lines to be earned and totaled on one account. After reaching Diamond on RCCL, I have taken (and scheduled) two Celebrity Cruises. I get no more earnings on Crown and Anchor for RCCL, and basically am starting to accrue points with Celeb, even though they will let me have Elite status as a courtesy. BUT--I am not helping myself if I want to achieve Diamond Plus. Anyone else like this idea??:cool:JACK IS SAILING AGAIN

 

On the surface it seems great, but what happens when the RC diamond lounge or concierge lounge is suddenly a can of sardines because with the combined points there are suddenly a LOT more pax with D or D+ status than if they could only count RC points? RC would be forced to change the program and we all know how well those changes go over. :rolleyes:

[hcat]

I am not in favor of combining although we would spurt to the top fairly easily on two of them. Combining would crowd upper tiers which is why new levels were added..

 

Ques: If we are Elite Elite Plus on Celebrity, we know we get Diamond perks on Royal..what about Azamara ? It now has its own tiers sep from Celeb, correct.?

 

We want to give them and Oceana a try now that Modern Luxury is being re-defined on X. We have 2 more booked on X but are open to other experiences...would be nice to preserve some status on Azamara unless everything is included anyhow.

[miched]

I think this will happen when Carnival combines points with HAL, Princess and etc.

 

All of the loyalty clubs have or are being changed because of the overload of

memebers with too many points. Frequent fliers, casinos and etc have all made drastic changes over the years because of it.

 

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[Phxazzcruisers]

I am not in favor of combining although we would spurt to the top fairly easily on two of them. Combining would crowd upper tiers which is why new levels were added..

 

Ques: If we are Elite Elite Plus on Celebrity, we know we get Diamond perks on Royal..what about Azamara ? It now has its own tiers sep from Celeb, correct.?

 

We want to give them and Oceana a try now that Modern Luxury is being re-defined on X. We have 2 more booked on X but are open to other experiences...would be nice to preserve some status on Azamara unless everything is included anyhow.

 

If you are elite + on Celebrity you are discoverer + on Azamara. Their points and levels are still joined. They talk about separating them in the future, but it has not happened yet. Unfortunately there is a discoverer + level on Azamara, but no special benefits other than what discoverer offers.

[Cruise Junky]

I think it's great that your status gets even recognized on the other lines. The Carnival lines certainly don't do that. I don't see anyway they're going to combine points, that would create a monster.

[Big_G]

I'm OK with the system as is. I'd hate to see a watered down program because people were accelerated to higher tiers.

[FLACRUISER99]

I'm OK with the system as is. I'd hate to see a watered down program because people were accelerated to higher tiers.

I agree every time a program changes someone looses.

[Cruising89143]

I do not want the points combined. I like it the way it is.

Edited July 24, 2014 by cruisingator2

[Cruzaholic41]

Nope. I prefer it the way it is.

[Honeybearhollow]

On the surface it seems great, but what happens when the RC diamond lounge or concierge lounge is suddenly a can of sardines because with the combined points there are suddenly a LOT more pax with D or D+ status than if they could only count RC points? RC would be forced to change the program and we all know how well those changes go over. :rolleyes:

 

 

It seems this is already happening on Celebrity with all the Diamonds coming over. That is why we have been having vouchers, isn't it?

[waterbug123]

If you are elite + on Celebrity you are discoverer + on Azamara. Their points and levels are still joined.

 

The question wasn't about reciprocal status; that exists between RC and X as well. It was about whether you can combine points earned on 2 different lines to total enough to have a higher status on one or the other.

 

On another note: Keep in mind that it would be difficult to combine points on RC and X, as they are earned differently, with X awarding vastly different numbers of points depending on the cabin category booked. RC awards more for being in a suite, but it's not as complex as the new X system. Earning points on one compared to earning points on the other is a bit of an apples and oranges comparison and would be difficult to combine points unless the points-earning methods were changed to be exactly identical.