Rare MicCanberra Posted February 23, 2020 #4926 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Nice one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amatuercruiser Posted February 23, 2020 #4927 Share Posted February 23, 2020 What price does a cruise have to be in Australian dollars to be considered a El Cheapo cruise deal ...deal!!! From reading the last 3 pages of this Forum my feeling is $80 per night per person. The Australian prices appear to be inclusive of Gratuities and all taxes and charges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinbadThePorter Posted February 23, 2020 #4928 Share Posted February 23, 2020 1 hour ago, amatuercruiser said: What price does a cruise have to be in Australian dollars to be considered a El Cheapo cruise deal Everybody has their own opinion on this, but for me $80 pp for a Princess Inside cabin is not just El Cheapo, it's El Stealo. To me El Cheapo for an Inside per day is: $100 for Carnival and P&O Oz $120 for Princess, HAL and RCI $140 for Celebrity and Cunard Of course, recent prices have blown all that out of the water. 😁 1 hour ago, amatuercruiser said: The Australian prices appear to be inclusive of Gratuities and all taxes and charges. Yes they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amatuercruiser Posted February 23, 2020 #4929 Share Posted February 23, 2020 12 minutes ago, SinbadThePorter said: Everybody has their own opinion on this, but for me $80 pp for a Princess Inside cabin is not just El Cheapo, it's El Stealo. To me El Cheapo for an Inside per day is: $100 for Carnival and P&O Oz $120 for Princess, HAL and RCI $140 for Celebrity and Cunard Of course, recent prices have blown all that out of the water. 😁 Yes they are. Thanks for the qualification. My plan is to buy Carnival shares and get the shareholder OBC on any Carnival cruises i take. HAL P&O Carnival Princes Costa I plan to in the beginning of my cruise travels to just go on the cheapest next cruise irrespective of Cruise line until i have tried them all. I heard MSC has been offering the best bare bones value for money cruises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belmont Babe Posted February 23, 2020 #4930 Share Posted February 23, 2020 3 hours ago, amatuercruiser said: Thanks for the qualification. My plan is to buy Carnival shares and get the shareholder OBC on any Carnival cruises i take. HAL P&O Carnival Princes Costa I plan to in the beginning of my cruise travels to just go on the cheapest next cruise irrespective of Cruise line until i have tried them all. I heard MSC has been offering the best bare bones value for money cruises. With regard to buying shares in Carnival to get the shareholder OBC, keep in mind that the granting of this is renewed every year at the AGM of Carnival. It is not set in stone, and if Carnival takes a hit financially, as I think they will, it may be revoked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Kruzer Posted February 23, 2020 #4931 Share Posted February 23, 2020 7 hours ago, amatuercruiser said: Thanks for the qualification. My plan is to buy Carnival shares and get the shareholder OBC on any Carnival cruises i take. HAL P&O Carnival Princes Costa I plan to in the beginning of my cruise travels to just go on the cheapest next cruise irrespective of Cruise line until i have tried them all. I heard MSC has been offering the best bare bones value for money cruises. Good luck. The granting of the shareholder OBC does rely on Carnival making a profit , and if you book these real bargains you would do far better than any OBC , without having to outlay thousands of dollars on shares that could plummet in value if ships have to be laid up ,or they are run at a loss . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted February 23, 2020 #4932 Share Posted February 23, 2020 I agree, only buy them if you A) can afford too, and B) want to invest as a long term investment that provides a good yield each year as well as possibly providing the OBC perk. That said, now is a fairly good time to buy them, the price has dropped to low $40s.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
queenslander Posted February 24, 2020 #4933 Share Posted February 24, 2020 I just booked on a Queen Elizabeth 6 day cruise to Tasmania. It was a nice surprise to get a Princess Grill suite to myself for only $1689! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Big_M Posted February 24, 2020 #4934 Share Posted February 24, 2020 5 hours ago, MicCanberra said: I agree, only buy them if you A) can afford too, and B) want to invest as a long term investment that provides a good yield each year as well as possibly providing the OBC perk. That said, now is a fairly good time to buy them, the price has dropped to low $40s.. Though keep in mind last downturn they fell to about $15.00 You could lose a lot more than you gain in OBC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted February 24, 2020 #4935 Share Posted February 24, 2020 3 minutes ago, The_Big_M said: Though keep in mind last downturn they fell to about $15.00 You could lose a lot more than you gain in OBC... Good point, although that all depends on when you sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mum and son Posted February 24, 2020 #4936 Share Posted February 24, 2020 47 minutes ago, queenslander said: I just booked on a Queen Elizabeth 6 day cruise to Tasmania. It was a nice surprise to get a Princess Grill suite to myself for only $1689! Congratulations! I've booked my parents on the same cruise but can't find any mention of a cabin number anywhere in their personaliser. I know it was only booked as a guarantee but I can't even see where cabin number is supposed to appear. Is it just on the Booking Summary page where the voyage details appear? There are so many broken links/images on the page that it's hard to follow. This is our first time dealing with Cunard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mum and son Posted February 24, 2020 #4937 Share Posted February 24, 2020 (edited) 56 minutes ago, queenslander said: Sorry, duplicate post... Edited February 24, 2020 by mum and son Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amatuercruiser Posted February 24, 2020 #4938 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Do cruise ships or cruise ship travel agents do heavily discounted last minute cruise deals or is it a waist of time in that it just gets too rushed and complicated? When is the cheapest time to get a bargain cruise. I really don't care where I go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleFish1976 Posted February 24, 2020 #4939 Share Posted February 24, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, mum and son said: Congratulations! I've booked my parents on the same cruise but can't find any mention of a cabin number anywhere in their personaliser. I know it was only booked as a guarantee but I can't even see where cabin number is supposed to appear. Is it just on the Booking Summary page where the voyage details appear? There are so many broken links/images on the page that it's hard to follow. This is our first time dealing with Cunard. From my experience with the new VP, the cabin assignment will take some time - much closer to sailing - and then they will only be able to see it once their documents, and luggage tags are ready to be printed from the VP. The cabin number will be on their e-ticket and the luggage tags. Edited February 24, 2020 by LittleFish1976 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted February 24, 2020 #4940 Share Posted February 24, 2020 2 minutes ago, amatuercruiser said: Do cruise ships or cruise ship travel agents do heavily discounted last minute cruise deals or is it a waist of time in that it just gets too rushed and complicated? When is the cheapest time to get a bargain cruise. I really don't care where I go. The last few weeks prior to a cruise leaving, are generally when the best last minute sales come out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mum and son Posted February 24, 2020 #4941 Share Posted February 24, 2020 20 minutes ago, LittleFish1976 said: From my experience with the new VP, the cabin assignment will take some time - much closer to sailing - and then they will only be able to see it once their documents, and luggage tags are ready to be printed from the VP. The cabin number will be on their e-ticket and the luggage tags. Thanks for the info. I've seen a number of people who have received cabin assignments so I was just curious. The website is just very "broken". E.g. there are two buttons to choose bed configuration but no wording or diagrams to say what the options are. I guess they're just playing catch up with their website?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleFish1976 Posted February 24, 2020 #4942 Share Posted February 24, 2020 15 minutes ago, mum and son said: Thanks for the info. I've seen a number of people who have received cabin assignments so I was just curious. The website is just very "broken". E.g. there are two buttons to choose bed configuration but no wording or diagrams to say what the options are. I guess they're just playing catch up with their website?? The new website has been in what could only be described as a parlous state since its inception, I'm afraid. In my experience, the buttons surrounding the 'bed configuration' (and almost everything else) do nothing. It'll all be okay when your folks get on the ship, though, which is the most important thing. Similarly, where it asks you to put your insurance details in won't work. I rang them about this a few weeks ago and they said 'it's not working for us either; we know it doesn't work but it's okay, we don't have to have your insurance details anyway', so that's all okay. But don't waste your time struggling with it. My advice would be, that if there is anything important that you need to add or alter and you can't do it on-line, wait a week or so and give them a call. Unless you have an hour to wait in which case you could call them now - they're still super busy with taking bookings for the last-minute changes to sailings as I discovered this morning I'm on one of the Tassie cruises, also. I'm not expecting to see a cabin number or have any docs until about a week before sailing. Your parents are lucky they have you to organise and help them1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
queenslander Posted February 24, 2020 #4943 Share Posted February 24, 2020 45 minutes ago, mum and son said: Thanks for the info. I've seen a number of people who have received cabin assignments so I was just curious. The website is just very "broken". E.g. there are two buttons to choose bed configuration but no wording or diagrams to say what the options are. I guess they're just playing catch up with their website?? Yes - it's the first time on the Cunard website for me too and I agree that it's not working too well at the moment! I'm not expecting to find out the suite number until the last week when I print out the documents. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linanles Posted February 24, 2020 #4944 Share Posted February 24, 2020 9 hours ago, MicCanberra said: Good point, although that all depends on when you sell. Exactly. As with all shares, you've lost nothing when the price falls. You only lose money when you panic and sell when they are low. Hang on to them for the long term and the price will come back up. After all you are looking to purchase them to get the benefit of the onboard credit. As others have said the onboard credit is not guaranteed the benefit is renewed at the AGM along with Director's benefits and I don't think the Director's are going to give themselves benefits but take them away from shareholders. There would be a revolt if they did. Now is a good time to buy while they are low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted February 24, 2020 #4945 Share Posted February 24, 2020 They are down to $38.50 today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjacat8 Posted February 24, 2020 #4946 Share Posted February 24, 2020 18 hours ago, LittleFish1976 said: From my experience with the new VP, the cabin assignment will take some time - much closer to sailing - and then they will only be able to see it once their documents, and luggage tags are ready to be printed from the VP. The cabin number will be on their e-ticket and the luggage tags. Please what is VP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted February 24, 2020 #4947 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Vice President.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosieCanberra Posted February 24, 2020 #4948 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Voyage personaliser? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjacat8 Posted February 24, 2020 #4949 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Thank You Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Big_M Posted February 25, 2020 #4950 Share Posted February 25, 2020 6 hours ago, MicCanberra said: They are down to $38.50 today. A quick loss of about US$400 if you bought yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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