NSWP Posted August 19, 2021 #601 Share Posted August 19, 2021 (edited) 22 hours ago, Snoopkat said: They look like the paper ones you get from music festivals...I hope they give out a new one each day as they don't really last more than a day or so. Would have made more sense to have the information on the sail card and make scanning into dining venues and what not mandatory. Anti vaxxers will make their own and pretend. It would not happen on Princess Cruise Lines, we are spethial' Edited August 19, 2021 by NSWP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted August 25, 2021 Author #602 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Crown and Anchor update. Pinnacles get their own lounge. Top tier event looks like it’s only for D+ and pinnacle??? The vouchers are still all day ,which I think is great. https://www.royalcaribbean.com/crown-anchor-society/program-updates?fbclid=IwAR0Lt__2gX59v5MPnkcyiefPMXtcUeDPllubptuARNyGvrF9MutSS7QfGAk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted August 27, 2021 Author #603 Share Posted August 27, 2021 Breaking News ! With the RCG cruise with confidence programme ,they have a price Guarantee. It used to be only US agents could honour the price match scheme. But I just got a email from my agent saying Australian agents can now match any cheaper advertised price drop . The cabin category has to be available and RCG terms and conditions have to be met. So if you have a booking with a agent and the price crashes with a extra $1000 OBC. They can match it. https://www.royalcaribbean.com/aus/en/cruise-with-confidence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare OzKiwiJJ Posted August 27, 2021 #604 Share Posted August 27, 2021 56 minutes ago, Chiliburn said: Breaking News ! With the RCG cruise with confidence programme ,they have a price Guarantee. It used to be only US agents could honour the price match scheme. But I just got a email from my agent saying Australian agents can now match any cheaper advertised price drop . The cabin category has to be available and RCG terms and conditions have to be met. So if you have a booking with a agent and the price crashes with a extra $1000 OBC. They can match it. https://www.royalcaribbean.com/aus/en/cruise-with-confidence You mean RCI is finally catching up with Princess re fare drops? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare OzKiwiJJ Posted August 27, 2021 #605 Share Posted August 27, 2021 I wish the cruise lines would do like Amazon does with Kindle book pre-orders - if the price drops it's automatically applied to your pre-order but if the price goes up you still get the lowest price since you ordered the book. I can't see it happening though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted August 27, 2021 Author #606 Share Posted August 27, 2021 31 minutes ago, OzKiwiJJ said: You mean RCI is finally catching up with Princess re fare drops? Finally but did Carnival Group or Princess price match through a agent. And I think I have a good agent but they wouldn’t admit it until I hit them with RC Australian fine print . They seemed reluctant but I have a email confirmed they can do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare OzKiwiJJ Posted August 27, 2021 #607 Share Posted August 27, 2021 2 hours ago, Chiliburn said: Finally but did Carnival Group or Princess price match through a agent. And I think I have a good agent but they wouldn’t admit it until I hit them with RC Australian fine print . They seemed reluctant but I have a email confirmed they can do it. Yes, I got a massive price drop on my Med cruise through the US agent I used for that but she is a top notch agent. I have had slight price drops through Aussie online agents, but both times just after I'd booked but before I'd paid the deposit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted August 27, 2021 Author #608 Share Posted August 27, 2021 1 hour ago, OzKiwiJJ said: Yes, I got a massive price drop on my Med cruise through the US agent I used for that but she is a top notch agent. I have had slight price drops through Aussie online agents, but both times just after I'd booked but before I'd paid the deposit. A good agent would adjust the price if they haven’t paid the deposit to the cruise line. But with RCG they can adjust the price up-to final payment and after final payment they can issue the difference as a OBC It will be interesting to see what agents honour the scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare OzKiwiJJ Posted August 27, 2021 #609 Share Posted August 27, 2021 36 minutes ago, Chiliburn said: A good agent would adjust the price if they haven’t paid the deposit to the cruise line. But with RCG they can adjust the price up-to final payment and after final payment they can issue the difference as a OBC It will be interesting to see what agents honour the scheme. Princess will adjust the price up to final payment but nothing after that. I've had some cruises, booked directly online, that I've refared more than once. Sometimes you lose perks that were part of a previous promotion so you have to factor the value of those into consideration. One time I actually got to keep the perks plus got a decent reduction.😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUT2407 Posted August 27, 2021 #610 Share Posted August 27, 2021 16 hours ago, OzKiwiJJ said: I wish the cruise lines would do like Amazon does with Kindle book pre-orders - if the price drops it's automatically applied to your pre-order but if the price goes up you still get the lowest price since you ordered the book. I can't see it happening though. At one time I had a Princess consultant who did that, she had taken time to know what we wanted, ie weren’t drinkers, valued price over OBC and would action changes then just let us know, one cruise we had 8 different fares, saved thousands (35 nights) and added over $1000 OBC, she also knew we wanted midship (preference one cabin into mid aft or mid fore) sandwich deck and would be happy with either balcony or mini suite if a change to a mini would save money. When she left our following consultants were useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUT2407 Posted August 27, 2021 #611 Share Posted August 27, 2021 Oh we did lose a bottle of wine, and one change lost us a night in the steakhouse but saved us about 3x the price of the steakhouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted September 8, 2021 Author #612 Share Posted September 8, 2021 (edited) Double points run out at the end of this month. So if you book by the end of the month you get double points for sailings till 2023. Use that FCC credit up! You have 3weeks. Also If you have a cruise credit there’s a bit of a glitch. The voucher will say for sailings till September 2022 .That isn’t correct it’s for sailings till April 2023. Edited September 8, 2021 by Chiliburn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted September 15, 2021 Author #613 Share Posted September 15, 2021 It looks like Royal Caribbean may pull out of China. Bad news for our region in the way of new ships. Spectrum is having political problems starting and Wonder is going to the US and Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodscruise Posted September 15, 2021 #614 Share Posted September 15, 2021 Chiliburn, does this only level Spectrum in Asia for 2022? Do you think they will keep Voyager in the area? Do you think they they may leave China altogether? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted September 16, 2021 Author #615 Share Posted September 16, 2021 3 hours ago, woodscruise said: Chiliburn, does this only level Spectrum in Asia for 2022? Do you think they will keep Voyager in the area? Do you think they they may leave China altogether? Spectrum will probably be in Singapore. Ovation and quantum Alaska and Sydney and Brisbane A vision or Radiance somewhere on the east coast OZ. Rhapsody could be here year round. Voyager is in the Atlantic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted October 14, 2021 Author #616 Share Posted October 14, 2021 2024 is looking BIG. The private island on vanuatu ,Lelepa should be open,Celebrity Edge will be here and speculation wonder of the seas will be home ported in Singapore and east coast Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted October 15, 2021 #617 Share Posted October 15, 2021 I was just thinking of Lelepa today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted October 15, 2021 #618 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Just now, MicCanberra said: I was just thinking of Lelepa today. Wonder how the development was progressing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted October 15, 2021 Author #619 Share Posted October 15, 2021 26 minutes ago, MicCanberra said: I was just thinking of Lelepa today. I’ve been researching it over the last couple of years. Nothing with the development has be done but solar power has been put on to the village. Gavin Smith of RC sydney said 2024 ,so 3 years it could be open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted June 11, 2022 Author #620 Share Posted June 11, 2022 https://au.pcmag.com/networking/94497/spacex-working-to-bring-starlink-to-royal-caribbean-cruise-ships 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiliburn Posted June 13, 2022 Author #621 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Freedom of the seas has just got Star link installed. 100 fasting than voom . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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