Help, Please, Regarding Celebrity Future Cruise/Cruise Later

[mahdnc]

44 minutes ago, CNSfromHI said:

The Future Cruise benefit depends on the offer available, in my experience. While on our last cruise (March-April 2023), we plunked down $100 per person and have six months to book our next one. We figured there would be new Celebrity cruises available during that time....

 

cjr

 

You may have bought to early if you are expecting new cruises to come out during the 6 month option period.  Although the schedule was temporarily disrupted by COVID, Celebrity typically releases the next season's cruises in Nov and Dec of each year.

[Tangakid]

On 5/4/2023 at 1:20 PM, CNSfromHI said:

The Future Cruise benefit depends on the offer available, in my experience. While on our last cruise (March-April 2023), we plunked down $100 per person and have six months to book our next one. We figured there would be new Celebrity cruises available during that time, and the OBC offered -- combined with any other current offer -- makes this option worthwhile to us. Moreover, there's no downside if we don't book in time; Celebrity just refunds our deposit.

 

As long as you know you want to book another Celebrity cruise down the road, and the benefits remain advantageous vs. what's otherwise available, this seems like a great deal. What fluctuates, based on our past two cruises, is the OBC and the amount of time you have to book your next cruise. Definitely something to watch.

 

cjr

Another consideration on this topic is the pre-existing waiver on travel insurance. We paid the $200 for Future Cruise benefit and received a confirmation number at that time. It never occurred to us that the date we paid this became the booking date even though we had no cruise itinerary, nor dates defined. Now that we turned the booking into a real itinerary, the insurance company won't allow the waiver since the policy wasn't purchased within 14 days of the "initial" payment. At this stage we wish we had never signed up for this and we never will again!  

[Tangakid]

On 9/16/2022 at 2:37 PM, CNSfromHI said:

During our recent cruise aboard Silhouette, the cruise-bug bit us and we wanted more. Unable to decide on a specific next cruise to book, however, we opted late on the last full day to use Celebrity's "Cruise Later" deal. Thus, we plunked down the requisite C-note per person and received a slip of paper with a confirmation number.

 

My bride doesn't care about the 365-days-to-choose aspect and, less than a week off the ship, she wants to book our next cruise now. 🤣

 

Unfortunately, we can't seem to book it online, which we'd prefer to do. It shows up there under "future cruises" or something, but clicking the link delivers an error message of some sort. Do we really need to call Celebrity to use this thing? We didn't use a travel agent the first time, either, and don't wish to now.

 

Also, first-cruise euphoria subsiding, I now note the slip of paper we received onboard says: "IMPORTANT: To secure your exclusive offer, please remember to complete your booking within 90 DAYS by contacting..." What exclusive offer? Don't we have 365 days to take advantage of this deal? Is there some additional benefit to booking within the first few months?

 

Sorry for my caveat-emptor failing and so many questions. Any help/insights will be sincerely appreciated!

 

cjr

 

 

A travel agent costs you nothing and they can take care of issues like this for you. We didn't use a TA for many years but we started again just before Covid and ours has been invaluable!