Price Guarantee Question

[littleleague]

With Royal Caribbean offering the new "price guarantee" and all the websites doing the same, how does that work? Do you actually have to call them week after week until you cruise to find out if there is a better price?

I know they'll either give you the difference in on board credit or credit your card if the price drops, but how are you supposed to know?

[sailingrose]

I follow the fare on their website.......I check weekly at minimum.

[EsterFStravel1]

  littleleague said:

With Royal Caribbean offering the new "price guarantee" and all the websites doing the same, how does that work? Do you actually have to call them week after week until you cruise to find out if there is a better price?

I know they'll either give you the difference in on board credit or credit your card if the price drops, but how are you supposed to know?

[/size]

That's about it. You hsve to check to see if the rate has changed. when you call you can find out the details. Also the taxes can be reduced on a cruise. Cheers Ester

[littleleague]

So you basically have to keep track of the price yourself and notify them it dropped. . . that's crazy, some guarantee. I thought that the companies notified you.

The funny thing is until the economy took the turn it did, I never really thought about it.

[DebbieandJerry]

All of the ships offer this price guaranty and have been since we started cruising in the 90's. It's just that they are advertising it more. My guess is to get folks to sign up.

In all of the cruises that we have taken, I have yet to see where the price had dropped or the incentives had changed (and believe me I check every site all the time.) The only thing that did drop was the fuel surcharge and that came back to us as shipboard credit.

I remember when travel was slow in the mid 90's and Carnival was offereing FULL refund if you absolutely hated the cruise before you got to your first port.

[Jason]

This is an interesting topic, I love the commercials on tv (which company is it??), when the representative from the website flies in to hand deliver checks to the travellers whose ticket prices dropped over night

[KeithnRita]

We've benefited from price drops in the past. The biggest was about $1,000 total for a 11 day New Year cruise on the Zaandam a few years ago. Our TA notified us prior to making final payment.

[DebbieandJerry]

Our November 2010 cruise has actually gone up in price since we booked it. Hmmm. And I thought that 2010 travelling was supposed to be 'giving it away'