kearney Posted June 8, 2022 #126 Share Posted June 8, 2022 I cancelled a Feb 22 cruise and moved it to Aug 29 Equinox..10 day... I made the change sometime lat in '22 when Omicron began being a problem... As sales popped up I repriced the cruise. Here is a copy of my spreadsheet... if you look at the change in the gross price.. you will realize that the various 30%, 60% etc deals are not necessarily deals..since the gross price is changing. Candidly.. I booked these realizing that prices would have to rise..although my thinking at the time was the need to make up revenue losses for the period they were shut down.. however given out of control inflation... this trend will likely continue until demand slows. Anyway the charge may be a bit difficult to follow..but you can see the net increases over the original booking both in total and per person per day. I added this last bit when one of the sales offered premium package..and wanted to see how much more I would be paying for that... 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dar & Bob Posted June 8, 2022 #127 Share Posted June 8, 2022 And the cruise that I refared has already risen a small amount, even though the sale is on until the 15th! @kearney LOL glad to see I am not the only one with Cruise spreadsheets. It drives my husband nuts.🤪 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKB Posted June 8, 2022 #128 Share Posted June 8, 2022 That makes my head hurt. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrk2cruise Posted June 8, 2022 #129 Share Posted June 8, 2022 2 minutes ago, PKB said: That makes my head hurt. And is really the only way to fully understand Celebrity pricing moves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kearney Posted June 8, 2022 #130 Share Posted June 8, 2022 13 minutes ago, Dar & Bob said: And the cruise that I refared has already risen a small amount, even though the sale is on until the 15th! @kearney LOL glad to see I am not the only one with Cruise spreadsheets. It drives my husband nuts.🤪 Yes... my husband also... retired product manager.. I have to analyze something...! My real hobby is family history.. and there too I can go off into the tree following strangers who are extremely distantly related..... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mahdnc Posted June 8, 2022 Author #131 Share Posted June 8, 2022 33 minutes ago, kearney said: I cancelled a Feb 22 cruise and moved it to Aug 29 Equinox..10 day... I made the change sometime lat in '22 when Omicron began being a problem... As sales popped up I repriced the cruise. Here is a copy of my spreadsheet... if you look at the change in the gross price.. you will realize that the various 30%, 60% etc deals are not necessarily deals..since the gross price is changing. Candidly.. I booked these realizing that prices would have to rise..although my thinking at the time was the need to make up revenue losses for the period they were shut down.. however given out of control inflation... this trend will likely continue until demand slows. Anyway the charge may be a bit difficult to follow..but you can see the net increases over the original booking both in total and per person per day. I added this last bit when one of the sales offered premium package..and wanted to see how much more I would be paying for that... Nice spreadsheet. I'd like to see some graphs, please! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kearney Posted June 8, 2022 #132 Share Posted June 8, 2022 1 minute ago, mahdnc said: Nice spreadsheet. I'd like to see some graphs, please! That could be arranged.... you should see the charts of my heart rate variability from my apple watch... or my ecg graph... yeah.. I plot that too 🙂 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKB Posted June 8, 2022 #133 Share Posted June 8, 2022 An ECG I can read. Spreadsheet....not so much.....I can...just makes my head hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare C-Dragons Posted June 8, 2022 #134 Share Posted June 8, 2022 1 hour ago, wrk2cruise said: And is really the only way to fully understand Celebrity pricing moves. Cruise line pricing is done much the same way as the airlines do, it is based on demand. When a ship has an abundance of cabins available prices may be lowered to fill empty cabins. Once the desired percentage of cabins are booked, the cruise line will raise the prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-Airbalancer Posted June 8, 2022 #135 Share Posted June 8, 2022 2 hours ago, mahdnc said: Nice spreadsheet. I'd like to see some graphs, please! Forget spreadsheets or graph , I like pie charts 😄 as they remind me of pie😋 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdrinks Posted June 8, 2022 #136 Share Posted June 8, 2022 5 hours ago, Ex-Airbalancer said: Forget spreadsheets or graph , I like pie charts 😄 as they remind me of pie😋 Err, dont forget the good old Venn diagram! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mac_tlc Posted June 9, 2022 #137 Share Posted June 9, 2022 10 hours ago, kearney said: I cancelled a Feb 22 cruise and moved it to Aug 29 Equinox..10 day... I made the change sometime lat in '22 when Omicron began being a problem... As sales popped up I repriced the cruise. Here is a copy of my spreadsheet... if you look at the change in the gross price.. you will realize that the various 30%, 60% etc deals are not necessarily deals..since the gross price is changing. Candidly.. I booked these realizing that prices would have to rise..although my thinking at the time was the need to make up revenue losses for the period they were shut down.. however given out of control inflation... this trend will likely continue until demand slows. Anyway the charge may be a bit difficult to follow..but you can see the net increases over the original booking both in total and per person per day. I added this last bit when one of the sales offered premium package..and wanted to see how much more I would be paying for that... It's comforting to know I am not alone. I have been tracking some December cruises on Edge/Apex/Beyond fora few months and have a similar spreadsheet. I'll save people the "fun" of looking at it, but the punchline is that the latest sale is the worst. mac_tlc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mac_tlc Posted June 9, 2022 #138 Share Posted June 9, 2022 9 hours ago, kearney said: That could be arranged.... you should see the charts of my heart rate variability from my apple watch... or my ecg graph... yeah.. I plot that too 🙂 I'm sure it goes way up everytime Celebrity announces their "sale of the year".🙃 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kearney Posted June 9, 2022 #139 Share Posted June 9, 2022 15 hours ago, mac_tlc said: I'm sure it goes way up everytime Celebrity announces their "sale of the year".🙃 I started doing this when I kept reading how people were saving hundreds of dollars during earlier sales..and I wondered..how is this possible ..when I looked the sales were higher...and I didn't book that long ago.. I must have caught a low spot during covid peak or something...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare terrydtx Posted June 9, 2022 #140 Share Posted June 9, 2022 14 minutes ago, kearney said: I started doing this when I kept reading how people were saving hundreds of dollars during earlier sales..and I wondered..how is this possible ..when I looked the sales were higher...and I didn't book that long ago.. I must have caught a low spot during covid peak or something...... My TA is very good about alerting me when any of our booked cruises goes down in price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHEZMARYLOU Posted June 9, 2022 #141 Share Posted June 9, 2022 I didn't think our price on our December cruise would be lower because we've had a number of price drops and the category is sold out. I called our CVP and she took a look. We saved $150 on this cruise. It would have been more but the cruise care increased because of the way they price it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrk2cruise Posted June 9, 2022 #142 Share Posted June 9, 2022 So your category is sold out but your CVP was still able to adjust the price lower? How are they able to see current pricing on a sold out category, my TA can't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oceangoer2 Posted June 9, 2022 #143 Share Posted June 9, 2022 On 6/8/2022 at 10:22 AM, Dar & Bob said: And the cruise that I refared has already risen a small amount, even though the sale is on until the 15th! @kearney LOL glad to see I am not the only one with Cruise spreadsheets. It drives my husband nuts.🤪 Me too...13 yrs of spreadsheets but the reference has come in handy on occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerelmx Posted June 9, 2022 #144 Share Posted June 9, 2022 New promo picture, Here no way to reprice, X first rise the price more that the future discount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dar & Bob Posted June 9, 2022 #145 Share Posted June 9, 2022 1 hour ago, wrk2cruise said: So your category is sold out but your CVP was still able to adjust the price lower? How are they able to see current pricing on a sold out category, my TA can't. We got OBC after final payment on out April cruise ($700) by doing a chat and then filing the Best Price Guarantee form. I realize that they don't need to do this. What I will say is if you don't ask you definitely won't get it. Our current cruise dropped and I was refared and at the one category upgrade. So far I have been very please with Celebrity vs NCL and even Princess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzbo Posted June 11, 2022 #146 Share Posted June 11, 2022 I check prices all the time. I haven’t seen anything close to the price we have for an AQ cabin on the Reflection TA in October. Multiple Lift & Shifts may be responsible for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarolCoupon Posted June 12, 2022 #147 Share Posted June 12, 2022 X site has this sale ending today. Their ad on this site has it thru 6/15. Post and flyer state 6/30. TA is closed today. Am I safe to think the sale will be "extended" tomorrow? TIA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-Airbalancer Posted June 13, 2022 #148 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Our TA has a hold on a cruise she said it is alway include but I do not see on the invoice there is a code GOVIRTUOSO , which I do not know Should the also Always include be shown on the invoice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrk2cruise Posted June 13, 2022 #149 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Virtuoso is a TA group your TA is probably a member of. I suspect there is some promo which is a collaboration between Celebrity and Virtuoso. At times a portion of the OBC given by the TA actually comes from Celebrity so it could be something like that especially if you know your booking is part of a group rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-Airbalancer Posted June 13, 2022 #150 Share Posted June 13, 2022 2 minutes ago, wrk2cruise said: Virtuoso is a TA group your TA is probably a member of. I suspect there is some promo which is a collaboration between Celebrity and Virtuoso. At times a portion of the OBC given by the TA actually comes from Celebrity so it could be something like that especially if you know your booking is part of a group rate. Thank you Our TA is with Virtuoso, and has confirmed Always included this morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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