Odd Pricing

[Waynetor]

I booked through Princess on the phone the Enchanted Princes 20 day B2B2b when the 2025 cruises opened up this week.  I looking over the bookings I see the prices are much higher than the lead in prices that had been published (part of that is guarantee vs non guarantee.   

 

I've booked accessible/inside cabins

 

When I looked closer today I see all similar cabins are gone so I looked at other inside on the same deck.  There are small differences between the cruises but as an example is a forward or aft inside is $3,050 Cdn, and mid forward or mid aft is $3,847 Cdn and a mid ship inside is $4,292.  Needing an accessible cabin we are limited to one of the 2 higher priced cabins locations.

 

I've never seen anything remotely close to this type of pricing range for the same cabin type and deck.  Anybody else seen this type of pricing?

 

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[nini]

Theoretically, mid ship cabins are more coveted, therefore typically cost more.

[Waynetor]

I realize the mid ship will cost more but the % here is abnormal.  I checked the Jan 2024 near identical cruise and going from aft to mid-aft is about 5% increase and aft to mid ship is about 10% higher while the 2025 cruise is about 40% higher for mid ship.

 

I booked the 3  20 days on Wed the first day they were available.  By Friday the price had dropped about 5%.  I compared the price of doing the 20 day voyages versus B2B 10 days and got even more surprise.  Princess was saving the accessible inside cabins on deck  8 for 10 day voyages while selling the 20 day voyages using deck 9 cabins.  I have changed all my bookings to deck 8 immediately under what I had on deck 9 and saved saved over a $1,000 Cdn per 20 day segment .  There is no real diff between booking deck 8 or 9 but it unusual to have such a saving booking B2B vs a combined booking especially just after the voyages are released. 

[Cruise till you drop]

On 4/20/2023 at 10:02 PM, Waynetor said:

I booked through Princess on the phone the Enchanted Princes 20 day B2B2b when the 2025 cruises opened up this week.  I looking over the bookings I see the prices are much higher than the lead in prices that had been published (part of that is guarantee vs non guarantee.   

 

I've booked accessible/inside cabins

 

When I looked closer today I see all similar cabins are gone so I looked at other inside on the same deck.  There are small differences between the cruises but as an example is a forward or aft inside is $3,050 Cdn, and mid forward or mid aft is $3,847 Cdn and a mid ship inside is $4,292.  Needing an accessible cabin we are limited to one of the 2 higher priced cabins locations.

 

I've never seen anything remotely close to this type of pricing range for the same cabin type and deck.  Anybody else seen this type of pricing?

 

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What’s most frustrating is that Princess not standing by their incorrect prices 

Edited April 23, 2023 by Cruise till you drop

[cruzsnooze]

In the past the deposits were refundable and there wasn't a penalty for choosing your cabin. Princess has changed it's pricing structure and for the worst for consumers.

[SargassoPirate]

It also pays to check prices and perks with other travel resources online - but I can't mention them here.