Black Friday / Cyber Monday Cruise Planner sale details

[jean87510]

55 minutes ago, LadyBerard said:

We're on the Explorer on 1.9.22.  The deluxe beverage package was $84 pp per day.  Today, it is $50 pp per day.  Still too high for us, especially since this is a very port intensive cruise, plus we're diamond members.  We have already purchased the lunch in Chops on the  day of embarkation, but that price didn't change.

 

Agree.  Way too high.  We are Diamond also and drink water during the day so drink package doesn't work for us.  Ill just take whatever drinks we can get as Diamond at night. 10% off a few excursions on both.  Unlimited dining is $154 which isn't bad.  We are on the 1/23/22 ABC/st. Marten cruise.

Edited November 25, 2020 by jean87510

[LuCruise]

I'm seeing a mix.  For my August cruise, it's showing the same DBP price that it's been yo-yoing between the past few months so we have this price already.  Same for our excursion.  Refreshment and soda have better prices.

 

For our December cruise, it has a good price for CoCo Cay so will grab that (best price I've seen in awhile for the waterpark).  The drink packages are the same as our August so need to decide.

 

Seeing some deals for Mar 2022...esp on DBP, but we are double booked in March so not sure which one we'll be going with.

 

P.S. - The banner says Black Friday Preview - 2 days.

Does that mean more/better sales will be coming, or these are probably the prices?

Edited November 25, 2020 by LuCruise

[Smiles1984]

DBP on my 12 night anthem December 2021 cruise is down to £30pppn from £41, pretty decent drop which makes me wonder if they expect my cruise to happen. Meh. Ordered it anyway!

[FionaMG]

Nothing worth writing home about on my Harmony cruise for September 2021. The Key is the only thing where the Black Friday discounted price that is less than the regular sales have been. It's showing at $18.99, which is the cheapest it's been.

UDP is $194, which is the price it's been showing every couple of weeks or so, and the 3-night package remains steady at $124, not having budged a cent since back in May.

No spending spree for me.

[Ourusualbeach]

40 minutes ago, LuCruise said:

Does that mean more/better sales will be coming, or these are probably the prices?

If compared to last years BF sale then those are the prices. 

Edited November 25, 2020 by Ourusualbeach

[later]

22 cruises booked and no real deals over normal sale prices In fact on some the prices were higher. 
 

I booked Coco Beach Club 2 days ago for $79 and today it is $88.99.

[Sunshine3601]

I have 7 future cruises booked.  Still have to check out excursions for baltic sailing in august but so far I'm not seeing any super duper sales except for cococay beach club pass is $48.99 for 2 of my sailings.  I had booked my May Oasis cruise beach club pass for $46.99 pp earlier this year.

The jet ski at 53.99 pp is very enticing for my march or may sailings.  May grab that for may 23rd cruise.

Not sure I will book anything for march 28th sailing as I just dont know if we will be sailing.  If we do, we may just wait and see what the new protocols will be.

No big dining or internet sales on my cruises.  We usually do the Bogo with diamond for first 2 nights.  Then add a lunch at chops for sea day.

 

[Sea Dog]

Last night our Nov. 2021 Explorer,  the DDP went down to $43. BOUGHT! It was $74 a few weeks ago and then went down to $54. I was not expecting $43, I'll take that great price.

[pstone1]

Looked at all six currently booked cruises for next year.  The only change was a $3 price increase on one excursion.  We’re not booking anything since all our cruises are either longer than 7 nights and/or are B2B and will likely be cancelled anyway.  

[Sunshine3601]

I have a Jan 9th cruise which RCL will cancel but I had to check prices on the sale items -- some great deals for that sailing.     shame it will be cancelled. 

I also have a 9 night cruise for September to NE/Canada that will either be cancelled or reduced to 7 nights and that sailing has some great deals too. 

All my other sailings don't have any special prices other than cococay beach club and jet ski rental.   

I don't see much on sale for either of my Bermuda cruises.   

the DBP is $46 is on most sailing the Jan and Sept sailing have it for $43, but I don't buy that since I will use my casino prime for free booze in casino and whatever we will get with diamond HH.   

[NancyIL]

I booked a couple of shore excursions for my August Baltic cruise that were 25% off - just in case that's the only way off the ship. St. Petersburg ship tours aren't available to book yet, but I hope RCI will allow passengers to tour with some of the private tour companies there.

[cured]

16 hours ago, dandi799 said:

I can see the drink/internet sale (unfortunately no better than they have been off and on for the past couple of months) for my cruise next August. Still crossing fingers that maybe some excursion deals have yet to be loaded.

Same here for my August cruise. My DBP went down to the same as it has been about every 10 days.  The refreshment package was $2 off its lowest since I have been tracking. Saved a whopping $14 for the kid. Water park was down to $48.99, so saved $50 on that. All in all, $64 savings. Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

 

No change in what I really was hoping for; the overwater cabanas. They have not budged through all the sales since I booked. 

 

My 2022 cabin I booked yesterday went down $35. It said the base price went down by $100 pp and I thought I was going to save $400. But when I went through the whole booking thing on line, it ended up only being $35 total off.  Must not have had any of the "flash sales" or other things that it had yesterday. Not going to bother with that one. Otherwise, nothing in the cruise planner for Aug. '22 yet. Will wait for next year's BF sale.

 

Edited November 25, 2020 by cured

[Ourusualbeach]

24 minutes ago, NancyIL said:

I booked a couple of shore excursions for my August Baltic cruise that were 25% off - just in case that's the only way off the ship. St. Petersburg ship tours aren't available to book yet, but I hope RCI will allow passengers to tour with some of the private tour companies there.

I had some private tours booked for that cruise but I have a huge OBC so I ended up booking tours through Royals as well....just in case.  Either can be cancelled and fully refunded depending on the situation in August. 

[rockmom]

I've been going through each of my cruises and have found some deals that are really great (and random).  For Indpendence this July(hoping it just gets shortened and CocoCay is still on the itinerary) the Beach Club day pass is an insane $38.99.  Deals on Thrill park for that one too at the same price. Balloon ride and zip line deeply discounted as well.  I was able to get Thrill Water Park passes for Jan '22 on Harmony for $43, snagged those right away.  I was also surprised that I was able to grab a Bungalow on Labadee for my March 2022 Symphony sailing for only $130, my friend grabbed the parasailing for that same cruise for about $38.  The Nellies Beach Cabanas for that same sailing are $198.  (overwater ones still normal price).  I swapped out some soda and refreshment packages for three sailings since the price on those is significantly lower, but none of my sailings had DBP as a rate lower than what I've seen all year ($50 is as low as I've seen). So it was hit and  miss but  definitely scooped up a few bargains.  The multi-device wifi packages were as low as I've seen them for all my sailings so took the plunge on those too.  

[Ashland]

WOW prices on my four cruise's cruise planner items have skyrocketed...No thanks.

[Sunshine3601]

3 hours ago, NancyIL said:

I booked a couple of shore excursions for my August Baltic cruise that were 25% off - just in case that's the only way off the ship. St. Petersburg ship tours aren't available to book yet, but I hope RCI will allow passengers to tour with some of the private tour companies there.

I didn't see any great sales for our August baltic cruise so I am just going to hold off for now.     May change my mind in coming days, will talk with hubby.   He'll probably say "it's your piggy bank".    

 

[Ourusualbeach]

21 minutes ago, Sunshine3601 said:

I didn't see any great sales for our August baltic cruise so I am just going to hold off for now.     May change my mind in coming days, will talk with hubby.   He'll probably say "it's your piggy bank".    

 

What week?  

[Sunshine3601]

18 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

What week?  

 

20 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

What week?  

I'm on that Aug 5th Jewel sailing that we all got switched to from Adventure OTS.   That is the one you are on too, right?

[Ourusualbeach]

1 minute ago, Sunshine3601 said:

 

I'm on that Aug 5th Jewel sailing that we all got switched to from Adventure OTS.   That is the one you are on too, right?

Yes, thought you might be but hadn’t seen you on the roll call.  Booked a few excursions yesterday just in case the private ones can’t go.  Wish they’d post the St. Petersburg excursions.

[Sunshine3601]

Whoops I haven't been doing my roll calls.     Will do 

I know I was suppose to be on a b2b baltic/norway cruise this past August.    We had booked excursions for St Petersburg Thanksgiving 2019.    We had some really good deals for St. Petersburg.    I kept my excursion list to rebook for next August.    will be interesting to compare the prices too. 

[newcruzer2]

7 hours ago, NancyIL said:

I booked a couple of shore excursions for my August Baltic cruise that were 25% off - just in case that's the only way off the ship. 

Excellent point, I had passed over the excursions for Dec 2021, but who really knows what the world will look like even that far away. 

QUESTION, if I book and don't want to do the excursion because BY THEN we Are allowed off the ship without excursions .... Can I simply cancel onboard and get obc as refund??

[Ourusualbeach]

13 minutes ago, newcruzer2 said:

Excellent point, I had passed over the excursions for Dec 2021, but who really knows what the world will look like even that far away. 

QUESTION, if I book and don't want to do the excursion because BY THEN we Are allowed off the ship without excursions .... Can I simply cancel onboard and get obc as refund??

Yes as long as you cancel 48 hours prior to the excursion start time. 

[newcruzer2]

11 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

Yes as long as you cancel 48 hours prior to the excursion start time. 

Thank you 😁

[PigsCanFly]

All of our 2021 Soda packages went on sale today @ 6.49/nt.  And several of out 3-day dining packag4s went down to $79./nt.  Not earth shattering, but for 3 of us, I saved some bucks several $100s in total.  Now if only some of these happen.

[sandebeach]

The Unlimited Dining Package is down a few dollars to $179 on some of our cruises. Does anyone know if you can use it for lunch on boarding day?