3 people With 3 Cabins Booked. Want to give 1 of these up to family couple?

[GSPG]

I won’t go into the reasons, but 3 of us have booked individual inside cabins and received a few hundred pounds obc each, and that offer has now significantly reduced.

 

Since the booking where the final payments have been made, two additional family members wish to come on the cruise with us.

 

Of the 3 people already booked, can two of these share a cabin releasing 1 of the rooms for the two additional family members to share?

 

If allowed, there’s the issue of price paid, would they pay the same as us or the latest price offered, and how would the obc treated also?

 

This is to gauge what the cruise firms reaction may be. The reason for this message is that there appears to be a problem with the cruise line’s booking on line site which says no rooms are available, though a couple of days ago there were at least a hundred available, and you can still see rooms available on other online booking firms (but would rather book through the cruise line itself).

 

In all with these changes, the cruise line would receive an extra £3,000 with the two additional guests sailing, plus potentially another £1,000 to £2,000 on additional expenditure from them.

 

Thank you.

[Essiesmom]

Okay, you can’t move people around before sailing, because to keep the cabin, at least one of the original people in the cabin must sail in it.  But since there is only one in each cabin, it’s a no-go.  What you have to do is book each of the people into one of the existing cabins.  Then once onboard, you can get extra keys for the cabins and move people around.  most lines will do this, MSC will not.  EM

[CHEZMARYLOU]

You don't say what cruise line. Celebrity's policy is one of the names on the reservation cannot be changed. You could book 1 person in one cabin and the other in another cabin.  Once on board Celebrity will give you a key only card giving the couple access to one cabin and the displaced cruiser access to the other cabin.  Hard to know what the current rate would be since all cabins are booked as singles and they might have paid a single supplement. Same with OBC, probably depend on the current offer.

[GSPG]

It’s on P&O.

It was the same price person for 1 in a cabin, hence a reason why we booked all 3.

The price of the sailing now looks quite similar to when we booked, though the obc has reduced by £200.

[Essiesmom]

Well, the. You need to ask on the P&O board here.  EM

[crystalspin]

13 minutes ago, GSPG said:

Of the 3 people already booked, can two of these share a cabin releasing 1 of the rooms for the two additional family members to share?

Not familiar with P&O or UK rules, but any cruiseline it will also depend on having room on the specific zone's lifeboat.

 

So the answer has to be, call or have your TA call, P&O!

[GSPG]

19 hours ago, crystalspin said:

Not familiar with P&O or UK rules, but any cruiseline it will also depend on having room on the specific zone's lifeboat.

 

So the answer has to be, call or have your TA call, P&O!

Yes we will do that thanks.

Just trying to gauge what they may say before we do any contacting.