John Heald would you please tell Carnival that we want "Carnival Fare Viewer" back.

[Galleon1234]

John Heald would you please tell Carnival that we want "Carnival Fare Viewer" back. Doing "mock" bookings wastes Carnivals time and ours. Cruise Critic people want it back.! Thanks so much for your assistance in this matter..

[theboatahoy]

I'm not sure how you waste a website's time

 

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[Micahs Grandad]

Why not post it on his fb page probably leaving out cc from pos.

[Galleon1234]

Posted it there too:)!

[riffatsea]

I have never really found Fare Viewer to be necessary.

I don't think doing mock bookings on the web site is at all a problem.

[ray98]

You need to go to the website anyway because OBC's and such factor into the overall price.

[teknoge3k]

Wasting a websites time doing mock bookings? :')

[Micahs Grandad]

I have never really found Fare Viewer to be necessary.

I don't think doing mock bookings on the web site is at all a problem.

 

That is how we have always checked pricing and works for us.

[ray98]

I bet that website has more important things it could be doing....

[StolidCruiser]

Who is this “we” you speak of?

[crooooze]

I have three future cruises booked. Every other day, I check if the prices dropped and spend no more than 1 minute total.

 

I have the URLs for mock bookings stored in my bookmarks. I literally click 4 times for each one and know immediately if the price changed and what promotion categories exist.

 

This works better and faster for me than Fare Viewer ever did.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Saint Greg]

I find mock bookings to be better than fare viewer because fareviewer just gives you the base price. It doesn’t include the upgrades for various decks and whatnot which can swing the price significantly.

[dsotm73]

Just curious since I don't remember ever using "Carnival Fare Viewer," but do any of the competing lines have something similar to that, so I can see what I am missing?

[beerman2]

Once booked let's use 8E as an example. Carnival web you need to know what "color" an 8E cabin is. As there are what 5 different (8) categories?

 

Fare viewer you matched number and letter (8E) . It was simpler and quicker than doing mock booking.

 

I was one who did the mock bookings until someone showed me the way to fare viewer.

[bury me at sea]

Fare Viewer was quick and easy to use. Also showed very clearly what Carnival's two category upgrade truly meant.

 

I think the chances of bringing it back are about the same as bringing back tablecloths in the MDR.

[joepeka]

Once booked let's use 8E as an example. Carnival web you need to know what "color" an 8E cabin is. As there are what 5 different (8) categories?

 

Fare viewer you matched number and letter (8E) . It was simpler and quicker than doing mock booking.

 

I was one who did the mock bookings until someone showed me the way to fare viewer.

 

Fare Viewer was quick and easy to use. Also showed very clearly what Carnival's two category upgrade truly meant.

 

I think the chances of bringing it back are about the same as bringing back tablecloths in the MDR.

Agree with both of these posts. While bookmarking a specific cruise does save a few steps, Fareviewer showed better information in terms of cabin categories and pricing. Unfortunately, it did not show military rates. As to the question about other cruise lines having a similar tool, I've never seen or heard of one but then I don't frequent all the major cruise lines web sites (or their CC boards) that often.

[winddawn]

I never used fare viewer because it did not display offers Carnival targeted to me, such as casino fares. If I had relied on fare viewer, I'd have missed some great deals.

[beerman2]

I never used fare viewer because it did not display offers Carnival targeted to me, such as casino fares. If I had relied on fare viewer, I'd have missed some great deals.

 

I think the point being missed is "after" you have booked at whatever special/rate, you could just looked at fare viewer and see the rate for 8E etc. or whatever category booked.

[CoW mAn]

I still miss it - made a video on the subject

 

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[thecruiserofships]

I miss it too. It was a quick & simple tool to use for checking base prices.

[Rudyard]

I think what the OP meant by wasting Carnival's time was that a mock booking sometimes triggers a call from a PVP. It's their time being wasted.

[spleenstomper]

I also want fare viewer back

[Pellaz]

I think what the OP meant by wasting Carnival's time was that a mock booking sometimes triggers a call from a PVP. It's their time being wasted.

 

That, plus the website server has to spend more time, processing muscle and bandwidth during mock bookings serving up different cruise offerings and pages, images, etc. Not a big deal but it's certainly annoying for us. (WHY they can't let you select and drill-down your cruise parameters and THEN initiate a shorter, easier search I'll never know...and all of the Big Three are guilty of this...which is why I use that vee-tee-gee website to find sailings and then book them direct with the line.)

 

I DO miss FareViewer as it made checking for price-drops easier, but I can survive without it. :)

[1AL]

OP,

Though crowd!

[siestakeys04]

Doing mock bookings don’t bother me. It’s all I’ve ever done.