DVC Cruise help

[Disnylvr77]

Ok here it goes--I also posted on cruise board

We are currently booked on March 30 Magic and I want to reshop our Alaska cruise in August 2012 and the Med 2013.

The only problem that I see is that our Alaska cruise was paid for using DVC points for adults and cash for child. Could I still get OBC for that reservation or am I out of luck because it's DVC???? I'm a new DVC owner obviously.

I also want to reshop the Med 2013 cruise we booked opening day to see if we can get a 10% and an OBC. We have two cabins on this cruise one is a cash paid cabin and the other cabin is a DVC cabin.

Since I already paid the deposits for the Med I'm mainly hoping to get the 10% off both points and cash and then OBC for both rooms. Does anyone have any insight as to if this will work?
I plan on taking my reservation numbers with me.

Thanks,


Stephanie

 

[taaren]

Ok here it goes--I also posted on cruise board

We are currently booked on March 30 Magic and I want to reshop our Alaska cruise in August 2012 and the Med 2013.

The only problem that I see is that our Alaska cruise was paid for using DVC points for adults and cash for child. Could I still get OBC for that reservation or am I out of luck because it's DVC???? I'm a new DVC owner obviously.

I also want to reshop the Med 2013 cruise we booked opening day to see if we can get a 10% and an OBC. We have two cabins on this cruise one is a cash paid cabin and the other cabin is a DVC cabin.

Since I already paid the deposits for the Med I'm mainly hoping to get the 10% off both points and cash and then OBC for both rooms. Does anyone have any insight as to if this will work?
I plan on taking my reservation numbers with me.

Its my understanding that cruise reservations booked on points cannot be re-shopped on board. If you were to use the OBB with points, it would have to be a new reservation, you would have to cancel your reservation on points that you made previously, then re-book using the new points chart that they give you on board, and pay the $95 fee all over again (and you'd have 10% of your reservation points leftover).

When I booked my cruise for this December on cash on opening day, then we went on our first cruise last September we had book an entirely new cruise then when we got back we cancelled the previous one since the one we booked on board was roughly the same price (since the price had gone up) but the OBC was better on the second booking.

The only way to get first day pricing on cash with an on board booking OBC is to have one already in a dummy date that you move to the date you really want on opening day. Not sure if that is possible with points, since points expire, you keep having to pay the $95 fee every time you move it, etc.

Happy sailing!