Are Speciality dinning prices about to rise?

[Hammer61]

We sail next month and were looking at some of the dinning options, we only really want Wonderland, and my cruise planner is saying if I book now the price has a 15% discount to the onboard price, now when I log into the app its saying the onboard price is US$59.99 for Wonderland on our sailing in October

 

My RCI account is in Australian dollars so $59.99 is about A$87.50 and guess what the price they are offering in the cruise planner at a 15% discount is its A$87.50??? So just out of curiosity I did the same with Chops Grill, Jamie’s, Izumi, all offering a supposed 15% discount to the onboard price but NONE in fact have any discount if you convert from $US to A$………UNLESS prices are about to go up 15% in the next 5 weeks which is when we board.

[rudeney]

Ignore the discounts - they are marketing hype.  They can claim it's discounted but not be.  As an example, on our next cruise, they claim that $65 for the DBP is a 35% Labor Day sale discount, but the week before it was $70 with no discount.  It's also been listed as 20% off at $75.  There is no "real" price until you get on the ship.