Move over offer on P&O AUS

[sewgood]

We had a move over offer today for our june 14th cruise on the Pacific Explorer. Our first move over offer ever on any line.

I think this shows how popular the early cruises are.

We were offered our "cruise fare to be reduced by 50% if we moved to a balcony instead of our mini suite.

Or would you like to take a different cruise and receive a FCC with $400 per person onboard credit?"

The offer wasn't good enough to tempt us but I'm sure someone will snap it up.

We have already booked our hotel and flights to Sydney so we're not taking them up on their offer and we know how good the mini suites are on the Explorer so not interested in moving to a balcony.

We were lucky to grab a mini and our other family members have a suite so I'll be interested to hear if they have had a move over offer.

[GUT2407]

Wow I’d have snapped up the 50% off in a heartbeat.

[sewgood]

1 minute ago, GUT2407 said:

Wow I’d have snapped up the 50% off in a heartbeat.

I'm sure somebody did as there hasn't been another offer come through.

It was good offer for some but we would probably end up in a balcony right at the front of the ship.

No for little old super seasick me. 😵

And besides we would lose our priority boarding which we need to stay with our other family members in a suite who will need help with their carry-ons. We have to stay on their good side so that we can use the padded chairs on their balcony. 😁

[rkmw]

1 hour ago, sewgood said:

I'm sure somebody did as there hasn't been another offer come through.

It was good offer for some but we would probably end up in a balcony right at the front of the ship.

No for little old super seasick me. 😵

And besides we would lose our priority boarding which we need to stay with our other family members in a suite who will need help with their carry-ons. We have to stay on their good side so that we can use the padded chairs on their balcony. 😁

Pre covid we scored a move over offer with Princess to go from an inside to a balcony and we got a free cruise and our fare we paid as fully refundable OBC

[Rassa]

5 minutes ago, rkmw said:

Pre covid we scored a move over offer with Princess to go from an inside to a balcony and we got a free cruise and our fare we paid as fully refundable OBC

Us also.   From window to balcony, money on original cruise refunded and a new cruise for 4 weeks for free.   It sounded like they overbooked.   It's going to be a long time before this happens again.

[arxcards]

In the mad scramble, they over subscribed  some of the guarantees, so when the jigsaw puzzle was being put together, some of the pieces couldn't fit. There are so few minis and suites on Explorer, they have very little wiggle room. 

 

Sometimes you can get lucky, and I had one late in the days of Pacific Sun. We ended up with a full refund plus a free replacement cruise. It was super lucky, as we were only days from cancelling the original one due to ill health.

[stki]

2 minutes ago, arxcards said:

In the mad scramble, they over subscribed  some of the guarantees, so when the jigsaw puzzle was being put together, some of the pieces couldn't fit. There are so few minis and suites on Explorer, they have very little wiggle room. 

 

Sometimes you can get lucky, and I had one late in the days of Pacific Sun. We ended up with a full refund plus a free replacement cruise. It was super lucky, as we were only days from cancelling the original one due to ill health.

I also wonder if the cruise lines have been told how many people are allowed to sail. I cant imagine they would be  allowed  100% capacity to start with.

 

 

[arxcards]

8 minutes ago, stki said:

I also wonder if the cruise lines have been told how many people are allowed to sail. I cant imagine they would be  allowed  100% capacity to start with.

 

 

I am not aware of any restrictions, but they might need to keep a section vacant for a possible quarantine area as they have done in the US. If an area exists it wouldn't be located near any of the minis or suites though, and if they had a passenger cap, they would keep the cheapest cabins empty.

[sewgood]

15 minutes ago, arxcards said:

I am not aware of any restrictions, but they might need to keep a section vacant for a possible quarantine area as they have done in the US. If an area exists it wouldn't be located near any of the minis or suites though, and if they had a passenger cap, they would keep the cheapest cabins empty.

I've had a look at the Coral Princess and they are keeping the mid ship obstructed view windows on the left hand side of the ship free from bookings * so I think that these would be the quarantine cabins.

If they have a section for isolation I would have a guess that P&O would as well.

This is all speculation of course.

* This is just for the new winter cruises.

[sewgood]

1 hour ago, rkmw said:

Pre covid we scored a move over offer with Princess to go from an inside to a balcony and we got a free cruise and our fare we paid as fully refundable OBC

Wow, now there is an offer I couldn't refuse.

[CDaze71]

1 hour ago, sewgood said:

I've had a look at the Coral Princess and they are keeping the mid ship obstructed view windows on the left hand side of the ship free from bookings * so I think that these would be the quarantine cabins.

 

I have been reading in the "First Time Princess Cruises, Got Covid" post. They currently have a lot of covid cases, and I think they have put the quarantined guests in balconies on Aloha deck, and allowing smoking on their balconies. eewwwwww. They said this was because the smokers in quarantine can't just walk out and go to the smoking section to have a ciggie. YUK. Now if you are correct, I wonder what the rule will be for these folks in the obstructed cabins. 

Edited April 8, 2022 by CDaze71

[arxcards]

1 minute ago, CDaze71 said:

I have been reading in the Ruby Princess post (I think it was). They currently have a lot of covid cases, and I think they have put the quarantined guests in balconies on Aloha deck, and allowing smoking on their balconies. eewwwwww. They said this was because the smokers in quarantine can't just walk out and go to the smoking section to have a ciggie. YUK. Now if you are correct, I wonder what the rule will be for these folks in the obstructed cabins. 

Easy, no smoking, and a cleaning fee if they do. Our Q hotels had plenty of nicorette users.

[joejoe 59]

21 hours ago, rkmw said:

Pre covid we scored a move over offer with Princess to go from an inside to a balcony and we got a free cruise and our fare we paid as fully refundable OBC

Wow I would love an offer like that😍

[bazzaw]

21 hours ago, stki said:

I also wonder if the cruise lines have been told how many people are allowed to sail. I cant imagine they would be  allowed  100% capacity to start with.

 

 

How can they even sell cabins? or take bookings for selected cabins if they don't even know how many passengers they are allowed to take onboard. The giant PONZI scheme continues. 

Edited April 9, 2022 by bazzaw

[Aus Traveller]

19 minutes ago, bazzaw said:

How can they even sell cabins? or take bookings for selected cabins if they don't even know how many passengers they are allowed to take onboard. The giant PONZI scheme continues. 

I don't think it is a Ponzi scheme.

 

The fact that the cruise lines are selling cabins, suggests that discussions with the government have not indicated that they must severely restrict pax numbers. Someone else mentioned that one whole section of obstructed view cabins on the Coral Princess is not available for sale. Maybe these are being reserved as isolation cabins.

[arxcards]

20 hours ago, CDaze71 said:

They said this was because the smokers in quarantine can't just walk out and go to the smoking section to have a ciggie. YUK. Now if you are correct, I wonder what the rule will be for these folks in the obstructed cabins. 

I have just heard they are allocating a quarantine smoking area. Like the old days, they are allowing half of the casino to be used for their smoking area, but they have to wear their masks between puffs. 😏

[arxcards]

25 minutes ago, bazzaw said:

How can they even sell cabins? or take bookings for selected cabins if they don't even know how many passengers they are allowed to take onboard. The giant PONZI scheme continues. 

Not Ponzi, and not even a rookie error of not sliding an abacus bead across.

 

These are offers due to the ship being changed, not because of overall passengers. They are still selling inside & outside cabins for this cruise, so it is not yet at capacity - whatever that may be.

 

The cruise affected was to be the first cruise on Pacific Adventure until they swapped it over to Pacific Explorer. The offer is for areas of the ship where they have more of the same type of cabin on Adventure than on Explorer. They would have expected cancellations from passengers who wanted to try Adventure, but obviously didn't get enough.

[MicCanberra]

On 4/8/2022 at 2:53 PM, rkmw said:

Pre covid we scored a move over offer with Princess to go from an inside to a balcony and we got a free cruise and our fare we paid as fully refundable OBC

Similar, went from balcony to minimise, free cruise and all. It was a cruise just by ourselves, no family  or friens cruising with us, no flights or other plans booked with it, so we took it.