Greetings fellow cruisers!
Hope you're doing well. Before writing this, I did a search on 340 single supplement. While there are 7 pages of items, I didn't see any entries that matched my question.
The net of my question:
for those solo cruisers who reached 340 points, did you have existing cruise reservations that were repriced after 340 points-- or did you wait to make all your new cruise reservations after you reached 340 points-- and therefore receiving the reduced single supplement when you made those new reservations ?
I currently cruise solo, paying the full single solo supplement. Most of the cruises I have booked for 2024 were booked through Next Cruise. Each time I booked a cruise through Next Cruise, I told the representative that my expectation was that the single supplement for the cruises would be reduced after 340 points. At no time did any Next Cruise representative reply that each existing cruise reservation would be repriced to current day prices first, then the reduced single supplement would be applied.
During the 1 cruise in May on Adventure, the 1 cruise in June on Brilliance, the 2 cruises in August on Jewel, and the 2 cruises in September on Grandeur, I discussed the repricing topic with the Loyalty Ambassadors onboard, none of the six Loyalty Ambassadors mentioned anything about the repricing to current day pricing first before the single supplement is applied.
On the cruise ending September 9, I reached 344 C&A points. My expectation was that the 11 cruises I have booked for 2024 would be repriced to reduce the single supplement. While I was onboard on September 12, I emailed my travel agent and left her a voicemail message about this topic. ( my travel agent works for WTH). We had a call on Monday afternoon ( Sept 18) to discuss this, we agreed that my travel agent would call C&A and ask about repricing. On Tuesday afternoon ( Sept 19), my travel agent called back with this news " C&A shows you have 344 points, that's the good news. The bad news is-- before reducing the single supplement, they will reprice the existing cruises to current day rates and then apply the reduced single supplement. The likely result will not be a savings over the prices of 12 or more months ago."
Before I call C&A to express my disappointment at their process, I wanted to survey the RCB community to see what experience the solo cruisers have had with the reduced solo supplement.
While this may have been a rookie mistake on my part, I think following RC's repricing process would be more expensive than keeping most of my reservations as they are.
Looking forward to your replies.
Have a Wonderful Wednesday and a blest week!