truck1
Growing older but not up.
- Joined
- Jul 7, 2009
Now this. I answered someone's riddle regarding RCCLs pricing policy recently. I am guessing almost no one pays what you are showing as the original price. They use the sales as a marketing tool to get people to book. What we have found is that the price differs in the tens of dollars with each sale. RCCL lets our TA rebook the same room at the new lower price if that occurs, but it only did once for us with the difference being under 100 bucks. What I see in the prices you show is the RCCL cruise is about 60 bucks per person per night cheaper. I pay the sale price not the original price.
Also wanted to add that at least on RCCL, we never felt we needed to specialty dining or pay extra to get any food upgrades or do any pay activities. To be fair the most we ever did on DCL was Palo brunch. On the 4 night cruise the soda package for two should be under 100 bucks. The only extras we would buy is alcoholic drinks and we had to pay for those on both. Maybe we are unique in how we spend money onboard, but we have yet to feel the need to spend extra on a cruise when we can get another option for free.
From what I'm seeing, RCCL almost never uses a full fare for a cabin. Its like you said. A booking tool. Everyone today is looking for a deal. The former owner of Arabian Nights in Kissimmee probably put it the best. Every one wants a $100 a plate dinner show. But they only want to pay $50 for it. Im not knocking RCCL, Carnival, or any of the other lines out there that run sales and specials. On the surface its a level field, and they all have some sort of discount. We've been lucky enough to rate a Florida residents discount once or twice. Most of the time it seems to miss us for some reason.
We're with you on the specialty dining. When we finally make it over to Royal, were not planning on doing the specialty dining. Soda package at most. We have a cruise planned for Carnival in the near future to see what's changed since we've been on them last.
We've done Palos a few times, really don t have a desire to do Remy. Last time on the Dream we passed on Palo since we didn't have a sea day.