jupiter03 Posted December 15, 2022 Report Share Posted December 15, 2022 I normally like to book refundable deposits when I book out a few years, because you never know. However, I've checked a few cruises from today's deployment and the refundable deposit for each cruise I've checked out is equivalent to the 30% all guests discount. So when I click refundable deposit, Royal is pretty much charging me full price. It's annoying that you can't see this charge until you've fill out all your contact information for everybody. Here is a screenshot from one cruise. Is anybody else seeing this? Is this a bug? FionaMG 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted December 15, 2022 Report Share Posted December 15, 2022 For that sail date and ship it does appear fully refundable is full fare. It's possible they haven't fully loaded all discounts yet. Would need to try any other discounts like CAS, age, state, etc. to see if those are removed as well. WAAAYTOOO and RCIfan1912 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jupiter03 Posted December 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2022 Thanks, I checked a few other sailings (summer 2024, thanksgiving 2024, all the march 2025 sailings) and they all seem to have outrageous refundable deposit add-ons. Is everybody booking non-refundable fares then? What is everybody doing to protect themselves from unforeseen events? I know you can buy travel insurance, but I'm thinking about all the things that can happen in 2 years that wouldn't be covered by insurance. RCIfan1912 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted December 15, 2022 Report Share Posted December 15, 2022 20 minutes ago, jupiter03 said: Thanks, I checked a few other sailings (summer 2024, thanksgiving 2024, all the march 2025 sailings) and they all seem to have outrageous refundable deposit add-ons. Is everybody booking non-refundable fares then? What is everybody doing to protect themselves from unforeseen events? I know you can buy travel insurance, but I'm thinking about all the things that can happen in 2 years that wouldn't be covered by insurance. Christmas 2024 on Adventure and the refundable was the same as non-refundable. At least for a balcony. Wanna guess which I booked? Suites had $400-$500 differences. Allen2, RCIfan1912 and WAAAYTOOO 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jupiter03 Posted December 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2022 Wow, those are some good prices! I live in Texas, so we are limited to Galveston only. Yes, very interesting how the bookings for that sailing all show up as refundable as the default. I spot checked interior/OV cabins in case it was just balcony cabins that didn't have the NR deposit, but they were all like that. Very interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtentions Posted December 15, 2022 Report Share Posted December 15, 2022 we book non-refundable. We have an Oasis 10 day on Jan 5th that was booked at the NextCruise desk with $200 deposit. We have a B2B Alaska in 24 that was also booked at Nextcruise so $400 total deposit and then we have a December 2023 Harmony that was booked on website with a $500 deposit. Had we booked the Dec 2023 with a refundable it would have increased the cost by $350. We buy third party travel insurance with cancel for any reason coverage. Booking far out has some risk and you just need to manage that to us if we lose $200-500 because something came up that is risk we take and hope our insurance will get us something back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevendom57 Posted December 15, 2022 Report Share Posted December 15, 2022 I was checking out a 8 night Harmony OTS cruise for Nov 2024. The surcharge for refundable deposit for a junior suite was $2k. Outrageous. fireclan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steverk Posted December 16, 2022 Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 I checked a couple of fares today. One had an $800 upcharge for refundable. Not gonna do it. I'm on a cruise right now so if I walk to NextCruise, I'll get a reduced deposit so the upcharge is totally unjustified for the downside of losing the deposit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jupiter03 Posted December 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 Looks like Twangster was right! I checked again today and non-refundable deposits are back to the usual ~$200 upcharge. As a bonus, it looks like there is also a flash sale today, so prices are $50 lower than on Thursday. Yay! Allen2 and twangster 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus527 Posted December 17, 2022 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 On 12/15/2022 at 2:17 PM, Xtentions said: We buy third party travel insurance with cancel for any reason coverage. Booking far out has some risk and you just need to manage that to us if we lose $200-500 because something came up that is risk we take and hope our insurance will get us something back. May I ask which travel insurance you use and which plan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtentions Posted December 18, 2022 Report Share Posted December 18, 2022 17 hours ago, Cactus527 said: May I ask which travel insurance you use and which plan? We use travelinsured but have never had to file a claim. It seem like a bunch of folks use Alianz and if we ever have an issue with travelinsured we would give them a try. Cactus527 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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