pepperandchips Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Calling all experts! I am planning to take advantage of the discounted specialty dining by prebooking 3 dinners for my upcoming Freedom cruise. I was only planning two, but the discount makes one of the meals only $8.00, so I think it will be worthwhile to try all 3 restaurants. That being said, I'm planning to prebook all of the meals for my cabin as well as my mother's cabin. Will the 20% onboard credit for the dining purchases be applied to my cabin only or will each cabin receive the OBC allotted for the value of those meals? I think it works out to $34.00 per cabin, so I am wondering if my cabin will receive $68 OBC or each will receive $34.00. I know this is an incredibly specific question so I was wondering if anyone here had any experience! Thanks very much, Melinda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 That's a great question, Melinda ! I don't really know the answer but I suspect that each cabin that fulfills the requirements for the discount would receive the OBC as opposed to 1 cabin getting it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jticarruthers Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 RCI likes to employ an element of randomness in their policies but I would expect it to be applied on a per cabin basis regardless of whether you charged everything to your credit card before the cruise. The onboard crew that applies the OBC would presumably be looking for "3 specialty dinners in the same cabin", if yes apply credit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocLC Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Randomness is a good word for how this works. On my last two trips this year, I had to chase down the credit as it was not automatically applied as it should have been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 I've generally had good luck with the OBC resulting from the specialty dining discount...it's the OBC from our RCI Visa points redemption that has been hit-or-miss with us. On one cruise in particular we had been expecting $250 OBC from the credit card and it never did appear on our SeaPass account. Normally they say to check your account on Day 2 for your OBC, which we did...but it wasn't there. Having learned a lesson about this on previous cruises we had brought the email from the Redemption Center validating the redemption and they still didn't take care of it until we finally just blew up at Guest Services one afternoon. He finally looked at our SeaPass balance, saw that it was quite high and said, "...looks like you are having a good time..." and just gave us the $250 credit to our account. I don't think there was ever any official validation of the redemption at all....he just did it. I learned 2 things from that exchange. #1, they DO have the power to "take care of it" if they want to and #2, document EVERYthing. As noted above, once you get off the ship it is TOO late to settle any kind of OBC dispute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 My expectation is it's per stateroom. So if book 3 and your mom (who is in another stateroom) books 3, you should both get the bonus onboard credit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepperandchips Posted September 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 You guys are awesome. I had a sneaking suspicion that if it comes through "automatically" that it would appear as a credit to each stateroom. I appreciate all the advice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Yeah, and we could be wrong, too ! :) Galveston Steve and DocLC 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocLC Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 If it doesn't happen automatically, just go to guest services to get it resolved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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