Florida Resident Rates - Does Everyone have to be a FL resident?

[itutorfortravel]

If one person in your party is a FL resident and they are the lead name on your reservation, can the other people in the group be non-residents of FL? Or do they check ID's of all those booked in the room?

 

[Morgey24]

1 guest per STATEROOM has to be a FL resident. So the answer is no, only 1 person per cabin.

However, f you & hubby are FL residents and were traveling with non-FL residents you theoretically could book 2 rooms with each of your names as the leads on the reservation and one of each of the other two guests as guest #2 on each. Once onboard you'd have to get new keys and assign credit cards to each account accordingly, but you you manage for the substantial savings a FL res rate can offer.

 

[itutorfortravel]

actually, it is step-DD who is a FL resident. we had her and her dad booked in a cat 12 for our cruise, but i am thinking maybe of switching them to another cat with the FL rate...she is 19, so she could be the lead person i assume? and we could just use our cc's for the ones on file, right? could i also use our phone number for the contact number as long as i put in her FL address?

 

[calmpets]

We've done exactly that, and the Florida resident does not have to be the lead name on the reservation. They just have to be on the reservation. My dad & his girlfriend are Florida residents, and my husband & I live in CT. When the Florida resident discounts came out for our sailing, we changed the rooms around putting the ladies in one and the gents in the other. My husband and my dad's girlfriend will then have two cards each: their KTTW card for charging and ID (that unlocks the room they are assigned to), and a plain card that just functions as a room key for the room they are actually staying in.

 

[itutorfortravel]

so does this mean that as long as one person is a FL resident that all the other people can be non-residents? i would love it if we could all four book in one room using the FL resident rate!

 

[calmpets]

As long as one person in the stateroom is a Florida resident, everybody in that room gets the Florida resident discount. I don't believe there is any discount to the 3rd and 4th guest rates, though, I think it only makes a difference to the cost of the 1st and 2nd passengers.

 

[itutorfortravel]

wooohooo! we just switched our reservation! now have our one cat 12 and a cat 7 (secret verandah cabin no less!!!) with a fl resident rate...add'l OOP was less than if we had upgraded one of the cabins to a verandah at the port ...here's hoping that the cat 12 is upgraded to a cat 11 right across from our cat 7.that would be the icing on the cake! i would have done all 4 of us in a cat 6, but that was only $100 less than doing a cat 7 plus a cat 12 and i'd rather have some extra storage space and the extra bathroom