Using Placeholder questions

[RweTHEREyet]

On my last cruise I booked two placeholder cabins. I was thinking of using one of them for a November 2022 sailing. DCL has told my TA that because I booked the two placeholders at the same time that I have to use them both for the same cruise. I was not aware of that restriction--has that always been the case. They do say I can put all the deposit money towards one cruise. I don't understand the reasoning of this. I wonder if I had booked one placeholder on one day and then another placeholder on a second day if that rule would still apply.

 

[KantLose]

That has always been the policy for placeholders. If you only need one room then you can use the total paid for the two towards it. And if you need two rooms then they would each be booked with one of the placeholders and have the associated discount.

 

[RweTHEREyet]

Guess I had just never come up against this before so it was a surprise to me.

 

[MomOTwins]

I had used both my placeholders on a single Alaska cruise this August: one room in my name with two kids, and one in my husband's name with our third child. Today, I called in and I was able to move it to two back-to-back cruises on the Disney Wish, each with one of my placeholders, and each with all 5 of us in one room. We just had to keep the lead guest name on each, so the first cruise in the back-to-back is under my name, and the second cruise right after it is under my husband's name.

I don't know if they may have given me a special exception because of the special cancellation period applicable to Alaska/Vancouver restrictions, or maybe it helped that the end price for the Alaska sailing was roughly the same as the back-to-back on the Wish so they didn't feel I was gaming the system to get an "extra discount." Or it could be that you just have to do your initial placeholder cruise reservation on a single cruise for both rooms, and then can modify it to two different sailings at a later date. YMMV.

 

[lanejudy]

I think B2B has been an exception to the placeholder rule -- going back to before the undated placeholders when you had to book a specific date while onboard for OBB.

 

[MomOTwins]

I think B2B has been an exception to the placeholder rule -- going back to before the undated placeholders when you had to book a specific date while onboard for OBB.

Ah, that explains it! Well, good to know that we could do that again if we wanted, and I didn't just get randomly lucky this time.

 

[holula]

I also managed to book a b2b on the Wish using two different placeholders booked on the same cruise.

But other than that the rule has always been they have to be used on the same cruise.