Onboard booking discount?

[dizneyrulz]

I was wondering if they always offer the onboard booking discount for your next cruise? We are thinking about taking a cruise in September of this year so we can take advantage of the onboard booking discount to book our honeymoon since we are getting married next year. If they do always offer it, is it usually around 50% off? Any comments would be appreciated!!

Thanks

 

[pal2pluto]

I'm wondering about it, too. We are doing our $99 cruise in October, and I wonder what they'll come up with. I'm sold on Disney Cruising, but even the early booking discounts posted on their website for next year are not enticing enough to me or my dh.....yet....will they get better as the year goes on? I wonder.....

 

[tkd lisa]

Related question, if you do book a discounted rate, is it transferrable? I'm thinking that if they do offer a great deal, I'd like to send my in-laws on a cruise for their 50th wedding anniversary. If I could book it in their name, I'd do it right then. Anybody know if it has to be the same person travelling, or just the same person paying?

 

[Michelle]

From what we have been told by DCL, they will be continuing the onboard booking offer throughout the year, but that is always subject to change.

The rates are about 50% off BROCHURE rates and generally less than the lowest tier of early booking savings. You can book a cruise for another party while on the ship, and you do pay the deposit right at the time.

 

[albiats]

tkd lisa -

I didn't book a cruise while on board (they didn't offer it) but I did book a cruise for my daughter and her family as a present, with me paying for it.

The reservation has their names and ages on it but it has my address listed and my phone number. So billing and information related items come to me first. I paid the deposit when I booked it for them and I'll pay the balance two weeks before the due date.

It should work in a similar way for you.

 

[Mickey7811]

WE BOOKED A HALF PRICE CRUISE ON OUR NOVEMBER CRUISE AND WE ARE TAKING THAT CRUISE ON MAY 11 - THE FIRST WESTERN CARRIBBEAN.

WE ARE HOPING THEY WILL OFFER IT AGAIN - AS NEXT FEBRUARY IS OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY.

I WOULD LOVE TO DO BACK TO BACK - EASTERN AND WESTERN CRUISES FOR THAT.

DARLENE

 

[Gina]

Boy, I wish they had offered us a 50% off cruise last week!! I was summarily unimpressed with the onboard re-booking deals... it was $200 more than the cost of the cruise we were just on! Just rebooked with DU, and got a better deal.

-gina-

 

[jkester]

We booked while on the Magic to receive the Special Discount last December. The discount was good... however, any changes to the existing reservation winds up being very expensive. When we booked 2 rooms we were told that the dates were flexible and that changes could be easily accomodated. We called when we got home to change the week (due to school conflicts) and it was $100 more-even though it was in the same time frame that they specified in their rates! If you add anyone to your reservation after leaving the ship they do not receive any discount (they charged us $549 for a 3 year old child) and appear to cost the highest brochure rate. We decided to have Dreams Unlimited quote us a price on the 2 rooms and we wound up saving $1000 (that is after we had to make some changes to our original cheap, discounted, cruise). My advice is to book as many rooms as you think & hope you will need and just list people under TBA (that is how Disney did it for us while on the cruise). We had no idea that we would wind up talking 7 additional people into going with us and we could have reserved rooms for them at a substantial savings which included on-board credits. Next time we will plan much better since the deposits are 100% refundable.

 

[dizneyrulz]

Originally posted by Gina
Boy, I wish they had offered us a 50% off cruise last week!! I was summarily unimpressed with the onboard re-booking deals... it was $200 more than the cost of the cruise we were just on! Just rebooked with DU, and got a better deal.

-gina-

Did you go on the 7 day cruise or one of the 3 or 4 day cruises?

 

[Gina]

I was on the 7-day. The DCL sales rep onboard said that the prices reflected early-booking savings, and next year's Fall Fantasy rates. (FF in February??) There was also an offer of a shipboard credit. But I figured I could do as well or better through DU, so I passed on the onboard booking. I left the paper at home with the prices, but I think someone else a while back had already posted the onboard rebooking prices. I guess I just expected more of an "exclusive" savings.

-gina-