AARP Discout

[Nancy&Frank]

Does anyone know if there is a limit as to how many times a year one can get OBC for being an AARP member ?

[mcrcruiser]

As  long as you satishy Holland America's requirements  of signing their form & sending them a photo on the internet of your AARP current card ,you should be able to get as many AARP credit as to the number of sailings in that year . It must be renewed every year to continue to get the AARP on board credits

[crystalspin]

5 hours ago, Nancy&Frank said:

Does anyone know if there is a limit as to how many times a year one can get OBC for being an AARP member ?

There isn't, but you may need to request a Pricing Specialist to get additional (after one) Manually Approved.

[mcrcruiser]

8 minutes ago, crystalspin said:

There isn't, but you may need to request a Pricing Specialist to get additional (after one) Manually Approved.

Crystal We never heard od a "pricing specialist" but we have spoken to a supervisor who manually applied the AARP credits on our booked cruises . It seems to us if a person havs satisfied all the AARP program requirements that when booking to just say add my AARP  on board credit ,it should be a automatic thing .  however ,knowing  that HAL has a revolving door with new people to take the bookings & even to the Phillipines ,it then becomes necessary to ask to speak eo a supervisor who will manually add the AARP credit to that booking . 

 

As a side note . not only us but my Sifes cousin in Florida who books 12 to 20 cruises a year is finding it more difficult to get things done & how much work it is taking to book cruises .They sail on Princess  ,RCL ,Carnival & Norwegian  .not HAL& they are seniors .

 

Personally ,every once in awhile I get dead heads on the phone & then hang up & call back . You are working with a Personal cruise planner .They will not work with us because we use travel agents .

 

  I recently booked a Princess 11 day Alaska cruise  for $4615  . We were going to drive from SD to SF where the ship/ ruby Princess leaves . Because we both have mobility issues we need close in parking .Well there is really no close in parking in SF  like it is in San Pedro ,LA area  where they have a hy=uge parking lot . so we had to cancel the cruise . BYW ,we are hearing horro stories of migrants breaking into  parked cars in SF  . 

 

where parking is a problem & the cruise line knows it is why in the world wouldn't they build a parking structure  that will pay for it self & be a added profit base ? I am not asking you or others to answer that  but ,it seems logical to me 

[crystalspin]

30 minutes ago, mcrcruiser said:

You are working with a Personal cruise planner .They will not work with us because we use travel agents .

You are correct, it was my PCC who connected me to the Pricing Specialist (that was the precise title used). I forget the first issue, but while I was on the phone I mentioned having so much OBC on a future cruise, which she didn't see -- whereupon I realized and mentioned that I had added in the AARP credits that I had not at that time applied for, and she said, I can add them now!

 

I find working with my PCC no harder than ever, which is easy. I email her with a question or desire, and she calls me when she has time to spend with me, and after she has done any research. PS I am nominally a senior as well!