Is this true?

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

That means, if you want to keep the discounts/credits you have to keep the date you booked for while onboard.

Is that true?
If so, that changes my mind COMPLETELY about rebooking while onboard on our first cruise. What this would mean is that you can only rebook while onboard with the discount &/or stateboard credit within the time frame that they already have dates available... which means come back quick or we won't let you have the discount. It also means you HAVE to know exactly what date you can cruise while onboard- or you lose the discount. I mean even if you did want to cruise again within the next year of dates already available- you change jobs, your schedule changes, your vacation has to be the next week instead of when you thought- before you could have changed your dates within a reasonable amount of time but now if you change it the day after you get off the ship and are back home to check your schedule/calendar you lose the discount?

Well, if this is true- it totally blows any motivation I had to rebook while onboard. Totally not gonna now.

 

[debm]

I think whoever wrote that was talking about the "special" cruises. So many people booked "bogus" dates while they were onboard just so they could switch to the summer 2005 dates. I can understand Disney not giving the credit for those switches I suppose. But if they didn't make it clear ahead of time than it really isn't fair. I believe, someone correct me if I'm wrong, is that if you book onboard and you need to make shedule changes you may do that without penalty. We've always done onboard booking for our next cruises , but then again we've also always kept the date. If you book thru DVC onboard booking it is a bit different. There are other rules. I'm sure someone else can answer this better but I didn't want you to give up hope!!

 

[ivanova]

I think ThreeCircles posted that in another thread ... and it did sound like it would apply to ALL future bookings done onboard, not just the special cruises. It could be that DCL meant for it to only apply to the special cruises, and you'd have to confirm that when you're onboard to make sure.

I agree that it blows the whole idea of rebooking onboard. I definitely won't rebook when onboard this November, and when I'm onboard in Aug 2005 I won't do it unless the exact dates I want in 2006 or 2007 are available.

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

That's why I was asking now. I'd rather know now about this than wait a year to find out when I'm onboard. Just personal preference- I'd rather know now. LOL If that's possible from someone who's asked this onboard recently or was told this onboard recently or something like that.


I think it's really "not nice" (trying to stay PG here LOL) of Disney to let people rebook with discount when the current policy was that they could change the dates and then LATER decide oh but not for THESE dates (if this is just for the CA cruises).

It's really bad if they are going to do this all the time. If they DO make this a policy- that you can only get the rebooking discount if you keep the same dates you have to pick while onboard... I assume that means they'll have a LOT more people not bothering to rebook (because they want to actually cruise later than the available dates at the time or plan on changing the date later when they know when they can go for vacation time/etc.) -but I guess that means DCL doesn't really care... must mean they think they can book easily without all the rebooking onboard- so why give the discount away so easily. *sigh*