FLORIDA FLOUNDER Posted April 11 #1351 Share Posted April 11 Call Viking at 800-464-3595 or contact your travel advisor 4-DAY SPRING Sale NEW OFFER ON 2025 VOYAGES OFFER EXPIRES IN 4 DAYS Bonus Savings of $500 per Couple for New Viking Guests Plus, up to FREE Airfare | $25 Deposit Ask for offer NTB4 • Expires Sunday, April 14, 2024 CALL 800-464-3595 LEARN MORE This offer is only valid on new bookings. 2025 RIVER VOYAGES CALL 800-464-3595 LEARN MORE 2025 OCEAN VOYAGES CALL 800-464-3595 LEARN MORE 2025 EXPEDITION VOYAGES CALL 800-464-3595 LEARN MORE Offer NTB4: New Offer valid on bookings made from Apr 11 to Apr 14, 2024. Valid on 2025 Ocean, Expedition & River voyages; excludes World Cruise products. New to brand guests receive $500 per couple discount ($250 per person). Not combinable with other offers. Call for details. Prices are in US dollars and for US residents only. Air does not have to be purchased to get cruise/tour offer. All fares reflect cruise taxes, port taxes and fees. Additional restrictions may apply. Airfares vary on other itineraries, gateways and departures. Air offers not valid on Alaska, Hawaii, San Juan and Mexico City; call for details. Offer may be withdrawn at any time without prior notice. Book by Apr 14, 2024. 2025: Pay in full by Jul 31, 2024. Expires Apr 14, 2024. 5700 Canoga Avenue, Suite 200, Woodland Hills, California 91367 ©1997-2024 All Rights Reserved | Advertisement CST: 2052644-40 Unsubscribe | Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions | View Web Version 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BluebonnetTexan Posted April 11 #1352 Share Posted April 11 On 4/7/2024 at 10:02 AM, May B said: When that letter arrives, it emphatically states the final payment date. Perhaps you are correct that a simple request will be met with a positive response. @May B Yes, it does, but we called Viking this week and booked using FV424 and requested the 6 month out final payment for an Oct 25 cruise and got it. It never hurts to ask when you have another cruise already booked. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selion Posted April 11 #1353 Share Posted April 11 (edited) Already posted. I'm blind. Edited April 11 by Selion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare OneSixtyToOne Posted April 11 #1354 Share Posted April 11 (edited) 42 minutes ago, BluebonnetTexan said: @May B Yes, it does, but we called Viking this week and booked using FV424 and requested the 6 month out final payment for an Oct 25 cruise and got it. It never hurts to ask when you have another cruise already booked. We did the same with a different promo and they moved our Oct 25 payment deadline for Far Eastern Horizons to April 25. Edited April 11 by OneSixtyToOne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare May B Posted April 12 #1355 Share Posted April 12 7 hours ago, BluebonnetTexan said: @May B Yes, it does, but we called Viking this week and booked using FV424 and requested the 6 month out final payment for an Oct 25 cruise and got it. It never hurts to ask when you have another cruise already booked. That letter only goes to customers who have a cruise already booked. Congrats to you for getting them to ignore their own extremely restrictive offer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare May B Posted April 12 #1356 Share Posted April 12 7 hours ago, OneSixtyToOne said: We did the same with a different promo and they moved our Oct 25 payment deadline for Far Eastern Horizons to April 25. 8 hours ago, BluebonnetTexan said: @May B Yes, it does, but we called Viking this week and booked using FV424 and requested the 6 month out final payment for an Oct 25 cruise and got it. It never hurts to ask when you have another cruise already booked. It doesn’t surprise me about another promo, OneSixtyToOne, but BluebonnetTexan, I’m still a tad mind-boggled that the comment in the letter is totally ignored. I also just got a six month final payment date, using FV424. And my cruise is in August of 2026! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BluebonnetTexan Posted April 12 #1357 Share Posted April 12 @May B Glad to hear it! I suspect that when people called in and found out they couldn’t get the 6-month out payment that they could get any other time with a cruise already booked, then they weren’t booking with this promo. Thus, agents were told to start allowing it. We won’t book anymore unless we can get the 6-month final payment or we are booking something sailing in less than 6 months. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare May B Posted April 12 #1358 Share Posted April 12 8 hours ago, BluebonnetTexan said: @May B Glad to hear it! I suspect that when people called in and found out they couldn’t get the 6-month out payment that they could get any other time with a cruise already booked, then they weren’t booking with this promo. Thus, agents were told to start allowing it. We won’t book anymore unless we can get the 6-month final payment or we are booking something sailing in less than 6 months. Good thinking! I have my eye on one other Viking, but it’s offered multiple times and we can’t figure out when to book it. I hope we’ll get another FV offer in the mail, that will work for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selion Posted April 12 #1359 Share Posted April 12 I've found Viking to be more accommodating with cruise changes and applying promos in 2024. I recently changed my 2026 ocean cruise to river cruise, and asked them to apply FV424. Done in a jiffy with no fuss given. Compared to my experience of asking to apply a promo, or OBC, or a paid upgrade in 2022, this difference felt like night and day. Guess IPO and bad publicity don't mix well. Or could it be Viking has finally listened to our complaints? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squawkman Posted April 16 #1360 Share Posted April 16 I just wanted to share this as it wasn’t obvious when I first read this promo announcement. The current promo code for Med cruises - AAM24 - is also good for two sailings of the Southern Atlantic Crossing (which does have 2 port stops on the Med). This 22 day cruise sails from Buenos Aires to Barcelona and includes 8 excursions in 6 countries and 3 continents. The promo provides free air and free cabin upgrades - pay for a V2 and get a DV2. Both sailings have several DV2s available. The package for the 10/18/24 sailing is $4,999 PP before the past guest discount which is currently $400 PP - or a total cost of $9,198 per couple for a DV2 with free air. The 3/24/25 sailing is from Buenos Aires to Barcelona and costs $500 more per person. This promo expires 4/30/24. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare FetaCheese Posted April 16 #1361 Share Posted April 16 5 hours ago, Squawkman said: I just wanted to share this as it wasn’t obvious when I first read this promo announcement. The current promo code for Med cruises - AAM24 - is also good for two sailings of the Southern Atlantic Crossing (which does have 2 port stops on the Med). This 22 day cruise sails from Buenos Aires to Barcelona and includes 8 excursions in 6 countries and 3 continents. The promo provides free air and free cabin upgrades - pay for a V2 and get a DV2. Both sailings have several DV2s available. The package for the 10/18/24 sailing is $4,999 PP before the past guest discount which is currently $400 PP - or a total cost of $9,198 per couple for a DV2 with free air. The 3/24/25 sailing is from Buenos Aires to Barcelona and costs $500 more per person. This promo expires 4/30/24. Thanks, just tried code, but does not give double past guest discount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squawkman Posted April 16 #1362 Share Posted April 16 1 hour ago, FetaCheese said: Thanks, just tried code, but does not give double past guest discount. That will be added in the final stage of booking. I booked mine with my Viking agent - I assume any travel agent - or booking with “price and build” will do the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare FetaCheese Posted April 16 #1363 Share Posted April 16 3 minutes ago, Squawkman said: That will be added in the final stage of booking. I booked mine with my Viking agent - I assume any travel agent - or booking with “price and build” will do the same. Thanks, also rang up my V agent to ask. He said just $200pp past guest discount, not double. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squawkman Posted April 16 #1364 Share Posted April 16 1 minute ago, FetaCheese said: Thanks, also rang up my V agent to ask. He said just $200pp past guest discount, not double. We booked this past Friday and got $400 past guest discount each. My Viking agent is on vacation this week or I would ask him for you. We revised an existing booking to do this - and our original booking was $200pp past guest discount. Maybe this offer expired mid-April? Maybe ask your agent again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare FetaCheese Posted April 17 #1365 Share Posted April 17 1 hour ago, Squawkman said: We booked this past Friday and got $400 past guest disco each. My Viking agent is on vacation this week or I would ask him for you. We revised an existing booking to do this - and our original booking was $200pp past guest discount. Maybe this offer expired mid-April? Maybe ask your agent again? Thanks for this info. Will ring him up tomorrow. May have been part of a weekend sale. Quote was for Southern Atlantic crossing 18 October 2024, BCN/Buenos Aires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squawkman Posted April 17 #1366 Share Posted April 17 4 minutes ago, FetaCheese said: Thanks for this info. Will ring him up tomorrow. May have been part of a weekend sale. Quote was for Southern Atlantic crossing 18 October 2024, BCN/Buenos Aires. We booked March 24 2025 which is Buenos Aires/BCN and $500 more per person than your date. We also used $200 Viking River certificates we bought a year ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deec Posted April 17 #1367 Share Posted April 17 we moved the date of our Zurich to Paris that we had booked in January while onboard the Octantis and LOST the $400/pp past passenger discount...Viking would not budge on it! It can be soooo frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare CCWineLover Posted April 17 #1368 Share Posted April 17 3 minutes ago, deec said: we moved the date of our Zurich to Paris that we had booked in January while onboard the Octantis and LOST the $400/pp past passenger discount...Viking would not budge on it! It can be soooo frustrating. Dee - we've had the same thing happen to us recently. You have to be careful about what you gain/lose when transferring. In our experience, Viking is NOT being more flexible these days as someone had said earlier. And we have an outstanding TA who battles hard for us. Looking at the IPO notes, it would appear Viking has very high occupancy rates in the industry and has a large percentage of 2024 and into 25 booked. So perhaps they are lenient more on the very future bookings rather than 2024. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squawkman Posted April 17 #1369 Share Posted April 17 12 minutes ago, deec said: we moved the date of our Zurich to Paris that we had booked in January while onboard the Octantis and LOST the $400/pp past passenger discount...Viking would not budge on it! It can be soooo frustrating. The only thing we lost was the $200 pp OBC we earned by booking within 2 weeks of disembarkation. Ironically, we gained it back as we got $400 pp past guest discount on the revised booking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike07 Posted April 17 #1370 Share Posted April 17 8 hours ago, deec said: we moved the date of our Zurich to Paris that we had booked in January while onboard the Octantis and LOST the $400/pp past passenger discount...Viking would not budge on it! It can be soooo frustrating. I'm personally not a fan of booking onboard. What they're offering is generally not worth signing up for. Plus, the last onboard cruise consultant either thought I was a pushover or we just didn't mesh --- it was liked used car salesman cringe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deec Posted April 17 #1371 Share Posted April 17 We have always been very happy with the cruise consultant and found their suggestions valuable plus the OBC is always useful to use toward our gratuities. Not the consultant's fault that Viking would NOT honor the double pass passenger credit 😞 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare CCWineLover Posted April 18 #1372 Share Posted April 18 1 hour ago, deec said: We have always been very happy with the cruise consultant and found their suggestions valuable plus the OBC is always useful to use toward our gratuities. Not the consultant's fault that Viking would NOT honor the double pass passenger credit 😞 I'd agree, Dee, with one exception we had (the last cruise). We didn't mesh. He wasn't a used car salesman. He was an order taker and didn't volunteer any information. I had to know the questions I wanted to ask and maybe he might answer them. It was like pulling teeth! And he kept looking at his watch - and then finally said - well are you going to buy or not (i.e. please leave it you aren't)... but that was only once! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike07 Posted April 18 #1373 Share Posted April 18 14 minutes ago, CCWineLover said: I'd agree, Dee, with one exception we had (the last cruise). We didn't mesh. He wasn't a used car salesman. He was an order taker and didn't volunteer any information. I had to know the questions I wanted to ask and maybe he might answer them. It was like pulling teeth! And he kept looking at his watch - and then finally said - well are you going to buy or not (i.e. please leave it you aren't)... but that was only once! Similar to me... increasingly become more adversarial when it became clear that I don't take the first offer presented, and I sleep on decisions. The MVJ app started spamming my notifications that I still had an opportunity to book last minute cruise deals. I would hope for Viking's sake, it was a ship wide push thru the app notification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVTAM Posted April 18 #1374 Share Posted April 18 World cruise.... Sky.... Jan 5 LA to London. Reserved this last year only to cancel and booked the Orion for 91 days which we are on presently. Last years World promos came out in Aug. If anyone sees sooner let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Clay Clayton Posted April 18 Author #1375 Share Posted April 18 Just now, WAVTAM said: World cruise.... Sky.... Jan 5 LA to London. Reserved this last year only to cancel and booked the Orion for 91 days which we are on presently. Last years World promos came out in Aug. If anyone sees sooner let me know. Actually the first promos on the World Cruise came out in March or April 2023. I know because I missed it and didn’t see until August. Someone on our (Sky) rollcall told me that I was late. 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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