Onboard Booking Credit

[eskimoinparadise]

Searches come up empty. What is the current onboard credit for booking onboard?

 

[Geomom]

10% off future cruise plus $100 onboard credit for a cruise less than 7 days, $200 for a cruise of 7 or more days. Blackout dates apply for the 10% off.

You can just book a placeholder cruise for $250 if you want to, when you DO book the cruise, it needs to start within 24 months of the date you booked the placeholder. You can book up to 2 staterooms.

If you're booking an actual future cruise on board, I believe the deposit is 10% vs. the normal 20%. (I just did the placeholder...)

 

[Bree]

The deposit for an actual cruise date is 20% for cruises up to 6 nights and 10% for cruises 7+ nights.

 

[eskimoinparadise]

10% off future cruise plus $100 onboard credit for a cruise less than 7 days, $200 for a cruise of 7 or more days. Blackout dates apply for the 10% off.

You can just book a placeholder cruise for $250 if you want to, when you DO book the cruise, it needs to start within 24 months of the date you booked the placeholder. You can book up to 2 staterooms.

If you're booking an actual future cruise on board, I believe the deposit is 10% vs. the normal 20%. (I just did the placeholder...)

Thanks. Just booked Dream for 2017 while onboard this weekend, and didn't see the OBC anywhere on the invoice. Got the 10% off, and the deposit worked out to about 16% of the total.

 

[Bear3412]

And to follow through. Concierge bookings onboard receive no discount in fare, but they do receive the OBB credit stated previously.

$100 OBC for less than 7 nights, $200 for 7 nights and longer.

If you book CL aboard the deposit is non refundable, but can be transferred at least once to another date, even downgrade to steerage.
You just won't ever get that CL deposit back. But as stated DCL is often flexible at reassigning that deposit to other dates and categories.

Could the deposit for CL be less than 20%? ? ? I don't think so. ? ? ?

Corrections welcome and encouraged.

 

[Geomom]

And to follow through. Concierge bookings onboard receive no discount in fare, but they do receive the OBB credit stated previously.

$100 OBC for less than 7 nights, $200 for 7 nights and longer.

If you book CL aboard the deposit is non refundable, but can be transferred at least once to another date, even downgrade to steerage.
You just won't ever get that CL deposit back. But as stated DCL is often flexible at reassigning that deposit to other dates and categories.

Could the deposit for CL be less than 20%? ? ? I don't think so. ? ? ?

Corrections welcome and encouraged.

I believe that the amount the deposit is based off does NOT include the taxes/port fees, so that could be why OP's deposit looks like 16%.

 

[Bree]

Yup, the deposit is based off the passenger fare. The OBB 10% discount is only off the passenger fare as well. No discount off port fees, taxes, insurance, prepaid gratuities, etc.

 

[BuzzLightyearInTampa]

Thanks. Just booked Dream for 2017 while onboard this weekend, and didn't see the OBC anywhere on the invoice. Got the 10% off, and the deposit worked out to about 16% of the total.

It should be in the email confirming your booking. And you'll see it on your stateroom account when you get on the Dream in 2017.

 

[sammykster]

10% off future cruise plus $100 onboard credit for a cruise less than 7 days, $200 for a cruise of 7 or more days. Blackout dates apply for the 10% off.

You can just book a placeholder cruise for $250 if you want to, when you DO book the cruise, it needs to start within 24 months of the date you booked the placeholder. You can book up to 2 staterooms.

If you're booking an actual future cruise on board, I believe the deposit is 10% vs. the normal 20%. (I just did the placeholder...)

Question on this. When you book up to 2 staterooms does one have to have my name on it and the other my husband who is also traveling or could we both book two rooms? My MIL asked if we could do one for her and family so we could go on another cruise but I wasn't sure I could do that or how it would work. Thanks!

 

[Geomom]

Question on this. When you book up to 2 staterooms does one have to have my name on it and the other my husband who is also traveling or could we both book two rooms? My MIL asked if we could do one for her and family so we could go on another cruise but I wasn't sure I could do that or how it would work. Thanks!

I think that you do need to have people that were on the current cruise in the future staterooms. But, I'm not positive as I've only been on the 1 cruise and booked a placeholder for 1 stateroom.

Can someone else answer this one from personal experience?

 

[CM Dad]

I think that you do need to have people that were on the current cruise in the future staterooms. But, I'm not positive as I've only been on the 1 cruise and booked a placeholder for 1 stateroom.

Can someone else answer this one from personal experience?

It's unclear to me what the policy for onboard booking actually is. From what I've seen other people post, it sounds like some adult from the current cruise has to be listed in each of the two rooms that you can book. It may depend on the cast member doing the booking. My wife and I were on a B2B cruise on the Dream this past January. We talked to the CM doing the future booking and told her that we wanted to go on a cruise next July to celebrate our 40th anniversary and would need 5 staterooms. Cruises for those dates had not yet been released. She let us book two placeholders on the first leg of the B2B (one room for my wife and I, and another for one of our daughters and her family. On the second leg we booked 3 more placeholders for 2 more daughters and (most of their families) and one for our adult son (and the grandkids that wouldn't fit in the rooms with the 2nd and 3rd daughters). The first 4 placeholders got the full OBB benefits even though no one in 3 of the reservations was on the cruise. The 5th did not get a discount or reduced deposit, but did get the stateroom credit. My wife and I went on a Mediterranean cruise this summer and re-shopped the lasted stateroom. The CM seemed confused as to how we had managed to book those, but did suggest that we book 2 more placeholders (one for my wife and I and another for our son) and then let our TA see if she could use those to replace the earlier one. She was able to cancel his original reservation and use the new placeholder to replace it and keep the same room. Not sure if the remaining new placeholder would be usable for another or not.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

It's unclear to me what the policy for onboard booking actually is.

The paper flier that spells out the restrictions says "This offer is non-transferable; name changes to the reservation may be made so long as one adult on the original booking remains on the reservation."

I take that to mean, if you book two rooms, one with Joe and Martha and one with Same and Judy, as long as at least one of those people remain on the reservation(s) you can change out the other 3 names and still get the perks.

 

[ajo]

I think that you do need to have people that were on the current cruise in the future staterooms. But, I'm not positive as I've only been on the 1 cruise and booked a placeholder for 1 stateroom.

Can someone else answer this one from personal experience?

Our experience is one OBB per adult in the same household (same home address). We were on a cruise in two separate rooms (DH in one and me in the other) and we could only book one future cruise each. As a plus though, we did not have to book the same cruise with those two future bookings. DCL let us book two separate cruises.

 

[SillyInventor]

Yes, it's one OBB-booking per household, so if you are cruising with your significant other who lives together with you: 1 OBB. If you travel with your sister or a friend who doesn't share your home: each an OBB.

One OBB consists of 1 or 2 staterooms with full perks (10% discount, $100/$200 OBC and reduced deposit or 7n or longer). Additional staterooms will only receive the OBC ($100 6n or shorter, $200 on 7n or longer).
A B2B or even a B2B2B counts as 1 cruise. You will receive full perks for all legs of a B2B, but they must be sailed as B2B, so no splitting them in two separate cruises afterwards. You must specify the B2B when booking onboard, nothing can be added to your OBB after disembarking. Placeholders can also be purchases as B2B (doubling the amount per stateroom) and later applied to the actual B2B.

 

[lanejudy]

Many people will book 1 person from their own party into each stateroom when making an OBB, simply to give both staterooms the same Castaway Club status, but it's not required. Assuming your own family only needs 1 stateroom for the future cruise, you can book a 2nd stateroom on the same cruise for another party. If your own family needs/wants 2 staterooms, you cannot book a 3rd with full OBB benefits though I believe it would receive just the OBC. Now, YMMV as there have been reports of some OBB reps not allowing it, but I don't believe it's against policy. Just make sure you are prepared to cover the deposit for the other party, or that you have permission to use their credit card for their deposit. As mentioned, while you can change names and/or add/remove passengers later, at least 1 name must remain from the original OBB to retain the benefits. You cannot book it with Joe, Mary, Tommy and Susie, then later switch it to Ralph, Sue, Joey and Sally. It is best to book with all possible passengers, as anyone added at a later date will be at the prevailing rates when added.

Enjoy your cruise!

 

[eskimoinparadise]

It should be in the email confirming your booking. And you'll see it on your stateroom account when you get on the Dream in 2017.

Thanks. This statement was on the confirmation email, but there was no dollar amount listed:


"Onboard Booking: Includes a non-refundable, non-transferable stateroom onboard credit. Guests must sail
within 24 months after the date the original booking was made onboard. Block out dates for this offer
apply."

 

[eskimoinparadise]

I believe that the amount the deposit is based off does NOT include the taxes/port fees, so that could be why OP's deposit looks like 16%.

YEP I went out to the booking site and did the calculation again off of just the rack rate, and it is 20%.

 

[CM Dad]

A B2B or even a B2B2B counts as 1 cruise. You will receive full perks for all legs of a B2B, but they must be sailed as B2B, so no splitting them in two separate cruises afterwards. You must specify the B2B when booking onboard, nothing can be added to your OBB after disembarking. Placeholders can also be purchases as B2B (doubling the amount per stateroom) and later applied to the actual B2B

Is this still true that you can get full benefits for all legs of the B2B cruises? We have done that in the past, but I thought DCL had changed the policy in the last year (or so) so that you could only get the benefits on one of the legs.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Is this still true that you can get full benefits for all legs of the B2B cruises? We have done that in the past, but I thought DCL had changed the policy in the last year (or so) so that you could only get the benefits on one of the legs.

If you book both legs of the B2B as an onboard booking (on two separate cruises), both legs would get the perks.

But, you cannot book both legs while on the same cruise and get the perks.

Does that make sense?

 

[CM Dad]

If you book both legs of the B2B as an onboard booking (on two separate cruises), both legs would get the perks.

But, you cannot book both legs while on the same cruise and get the perks.

Does that make sense?

Yes that does make sense and that was my understanding. The post I was responding to said

A B2B or even a B2B2B counts as 1 cruise. You will receive full perks for all legs of a B2B, but they must be sailed as B2B, so no splitting them in two separate cruises afterwards.