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Celebrity Single Penalty Rate
I was checking the Travelocity web site for prices on Celebrity
cruises in April. I will be traveling solo. On the April 16 cruise on the Millennium Celebrity offers a category Y ocenview guaranteed rate of $900 per person double occupancy. For a single, the lowest price for an oceanview cabin is a category 08 at $2261. I am prepared to pay a single supplement but this is a single penalty. What would happen if I booked two people at the $900 guaranteed rate and one does not show up? I would not buy insurance so there would not be a case of insurance fraud. |
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On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:51:05 GMT, Odysseus wrote:
I am prepared to pay a single supplement but this is a single penalty. What would happen if I booked two people at the $900 guaranteed rate and one does not show up? I would not buy insurance so there would not be a case of insurance fraud. Hi, If one passenger cancels, the cruise line can and usually does charge whatever the single rate is at that time. That being said, I would suggest you price out the current single rate with a travel agent that specializes in cruises. The automated systems are often wrong. Best regards, Ray LIGHTHOUSE TRAVEL 800-719-9917 or 805-566-3905 http://www.lighthousetravel.com |
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In article ZeUHf.772610$_o.182746@attbi_s71, Odysseus wrote:
I was checking the Travelocity web site for prices on Celebrity cruises in April. I will be traveling solo. On the April 16 cruise on the Millennium Celebrity offers a category Y ocenview guaranteed rate of $900 per person double occupancy. For a single, the lowest price for an oceanview cabin is a category 08 at $2261. I am prepared to pay a single supplement but this is a single penalty. What would happen if I booked two people at the $900 guaranteed rate and one does not show up? I would not buy insurance so there would not be a case of insurance fraud. I did just that, not intentionally though. No penalty beyond paying for the second person. |
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In article ZeUHf.772610$_o.182746@attbi_s71, Odysseus wrote:
On the April 16 cruise on the Millennium Celebrity offers a category Y ocenview guaranteed rate of $900 per person double occupancy. For a single, the lowest price for an oceanview cabin is a category 08 at $2261. I am prepared to pay a single supplement but this is a single penalty. The reason you are coming up with such a high penalty on Celebrity is that it is a guarantee. I don't think they will even book it that way for a single. You have to book an assigned cabin and then rate will be less. -- Charles |
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Charles wrote:
In article ZeUHf.772610$_o.182746@attbi_s71, Odysseus wrote: On the April 16 cruise on the Millennium Celebrity offers a category Y ocenview guaranteed rate of $900 per person double occupancy. For a single, the lowest price for an oceanview cabin is a category 08 at $2261. I am prepared to pay a single supplement but this is a single penalty. The reason you are coming up with such a high penalty on Celebrity is that it is a guarantee. I don't think they will even book it that way for a single. You have to book an assigned cabin and then rate will be less. Is that specific to Celebrity? I've sailed solo on HAL twice and will be sailing solo on Carnival Miracle in a few weeks. All three times I booked guarantees to get the best single pricing. Why won't Celebrity allow solo cruisers to book guarantees? Lee -- Charles |
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If one passenger cancels, the cruise line can and usually does charge whatever the single rate is at that time. That being said, I would In that case, the cruise line is double charging for the empty berth in the cabin. First they impose the 100% cancellation penalty and then they charge the single supplement. |
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In article .com,
LeeNY wrote: Is that specific to Celebrity? I've sailed solo on HAL twice and will be sailing solo on Carnival Miracle in a few weeks. All three times I booked guarantees to get the best single pricing. Why won't Celebrity allow solo cruisers to book guarantees? It is specific to Celebrity. It might include Royal Caribbean. I just started noticing it in the last year with Celebrity. If you see a good guarantee rate it won't come out to double for a single but to some very high price that you don't expect or want to pay. An assigned cabin will come out double less the second persons taxes for a solo cruiser but the assigned cabin rate will probably be higher per person than the guarantee rate was per person that you saw advertised. So you can't really check the rates on websites like Travelocity and get an accurate figure if you are traveling solo. You need to call a travel agent. The exception to this is the Happy Hour specials. Those will be the per person rate plus the single supplement and sometimes those specials are only a 150% supplement than a 200% supplement. What I wrote above does contain a lot of conjecture on my part from getting quotes in the last year. So if someone has had a different experience and been able to get a guarantee cabin as a solo on Celebrity and it was 200% or less supp. please post. Same for any travel agent that can shoot the above down. Maybe it is something specific to the sailings I have been pricing. -- Charles |
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Charles wrote:
What I wrote above does contain a lot of conjecture on my part from getting quotes in the last year. So if someone has had a different experience and been able to get a guarantee cabin as a solo on Celebrity and it was 200% or less supp. please post. I found a mere 25% single supplement online for assigned category/cabin for Mercury's 11 day Alaska/Seattle repo this May. Warren |
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The basic fare pays the mortgage on the ship and running costs. There's
no margin... All profit comes from upgrades, extras, gambling, alcohol, concessions that don't happen when a second person doesn't show up. |
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