rodndonna Posted October 8, 2022 #1 Share Posted October 8, 2022 (edited) So I have been attempting to use my Princess gift cards for a booking and decided to look into what exchange rate they are pricing at compared to HAL (since our dollar is dong pretty poorly). Surprisingly, I see Princess pricing at 0.75 Can to US and HAL at closer to 0.80 - so already I was thinking ..hmmm .. leaning to HAL again but I have those darn Princess cards to use! MUCH more oddly though, when I take any booking and see the Canadian price (which it defaults to at login), when I follow through the booking to select room type, the price number drops back to the US$ number, but it is still stated as Canadian dollars. At first I thought maybe it was a Casino discount I was unaware of, until I noticed the price was always the USD$ number . Not sure what's going on .. maybe just a very coincidentally priced discount ...but I couldn't resist and booked a 12 day med cruise next year for what I thought was a great price. Curious if any other Canadians are seeing something odd in their pricing. Edited October 8, 2022 by rodndonna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare HappyInVan Posted October 8, 2022 #2 Share Posted October 8, 2022 I've checked. HAL seems normal; before and after logging in. Just CAD. I had had that problem with hotel.xxx. I clear the cookies and caches whenever that happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodndonna Posted October 8, 2022 Author #3 Share Posted October 8, 2022 (edited) 10 minutes ago, HappyInVan said: I've checked. HAL seems normal; before and after logging in. Just CAD. I had had that problem with hotel.xxx. I clear the cookies and caches whenever that happens. You have to have a US VPN to get the US displayed price, but it will still revert to CAN$ when you login (since it knows we are Canadian). In the past, when I want to book in USD I have to call in to do it. But it's a problem I like - my booking went from best rate starting at CAN$2112 down to CAD$1688 after continuing through the booking to select a room type (which was the same as the USD price number - coincidence?) 😃 I went ahead and booked in case it is just a short-lived glitch or something. Edited October 8, 2022 by rodndonna more info 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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