Ampurp85 Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 SplashOfWater, WAAAYTOOO, bobroo and 2 others 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampurp85 Posted April 5 Author Report Share Posted April 5 I was checking an offer and noticed this. It gives everyone an idea of when the prime certificates are being released. Also, the points have reset. TXCoastPatriot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXCoastPatriot Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 Should be interesting, we will be 3 days into our cruise before Casino Royale figures out our status. Certainly going to record our points daily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SplashOfWater Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 We'll be on a cruise when our tier certificates are released. Fortunately we'll be in port that day and the next, so we can call and book our tier cruise. WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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billdauterive Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 You can use offer code 24Tier3 if you want to go ahead and see the full exclusion list. http://clubroyaleoffers.com/CertificateOfferCodeLookUp.asp Summary: No Icon at all (even Feb/March) No Christmas sailings No New Years sailings No Thanksgiving sailings A lot of Summer exclusions A few very random exclusions (like 1 Oasis and Odyssey in Sept) JustMeJoe, Snotarni, BrianB and 2 others 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 2 hours ago, billdauterive said: You can use offer code 24Tier3 if you want to go ahead and see the full exclusion list. http://clubroyaleoffers.com/CertificateOfferCodeLookUp.asp Summary: No Icon at all (even Feb/March) No Christmas sailings No New Years sailings No Thanksgiving sailings A lot of Summer exclusions A few very random exclusions (like 1 Oasis and Odyssey in Sept) Thanks, Bill. This is very very helpful. Made my “wish” list much shorter ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SplashOfWater Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 No Icon for Signature 24TIER2 either. We just booked Wonder Junior Suite, combining our balcony offers. WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampurp85 Posted April 16 Author Report Share Posted April 16 Thanks at least I can plan accordingly now. Looks like Icon will be my prime 2026 cruise WAAAYTOOO and LandstromCruise 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 I didn't expect our certs to show up until this afternoon (according to the release schedule) but they both showed up early this morning. I spent ALL morning on the phone (we are in Falmouth and I used the ship's phone to call) BUT we ended up with some great results. I was able to book both Dan's and my Prime comp cruises for B2B SY sailings (Miami) and we were able to get XB (ocean view balcony guarantee) for -0- upgrade as the XB category for our cruises was lower than the 4V interior room on both of our cruises !!! We are on 3-9-25 and 3-16-25. I am not a huge fan of ANY kind of GTY but in this case, it will be worth it, no matter where our OV balcony is. Yes, we will have to change rooms but we saved probably $1000 by opting for the XB over a chance to choose our cabin. ANY balcony will beat ANY interior ! So be sure to check and see if the cost of an upgraded category is actually less than the interior fare, which is most likely what your offer is based on, if you are Prime. bobroo, DoomSlayer, JustMeJoe and 7 others 7 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampurp85 Posted April 17 Author Report Share Posted April 17 Mine showed up 1pm today. I am waiting on my brother to show up so I can book a S2S, I was looking at a Sy sailing and an Indy, with plans to upgrade them both, so thanks for that. WAAAYTOOO and DoomSlayer 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connie360 Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 On 4/16/2024 at 8:17 AM, billdauterive said: You can use offer code 24Tier3 if you want to go ahead and see the full exclusion list. http://clubroyaleoffers.com/CertificateOfferCodeLookUp.asp Summary: No Icon at all (even Feb/March) No Christmas sailings No New Years sailings No Thanksgiving sailings A lot of Summer exclusions A few very random exclusions (like 1 Oasis and Odyssey in Sept) Why do they put Icon on the list if not eligible? Most of page 3. This is the list of NOT available, unlike this list of cruises out the door that looks like this Actually I like this better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 27 minutes ago, Connie360 said: Why do they put Icon on the list if not eligible? Most of page 3. This is the list of NOT available, unlike this list of cruises out the door that looks like this Actually I like this better! AGREE ! They made it SO confusing by not making it clear that the list they cite is a list of EXCLUDED sailings. If I had not already read about it here, I would have totally believed that the cited list was a list to choose from, NOT a list of what was excluded. Leave it to Royal Caribbean to make a simple thing SO confusing ! JustMeJoe, DoomSlayer, Connie360 and 1 other 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connie360 Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 47 minutes ago, WAAAYTOOO said: AGREE ! They made it SO confusing by not making it clear that the list they cite is a list of EXCLUDED sailings. If I had not already read about it here, I would have totally believed that the cited list was a list to choose from, NOT a list of what was excluded. Leave it to Royal Caribbean to make a simple thing SO confusing ! I checked and the B2B I wanted was not on the list and I was excited. No eligible when I tried on RC. I'll try turning it off and back on and see if that fixes it WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billdauterive Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 3 hours ago, WAAAYTOOO said: I am not a huge fan of ANY kind of GTY but in this case, it will be worth it, no matter where our OV balcony is. Yes, we will have to change rooms but we saved probably $1000 by opting for the XB over a chance to choose our cabin. ANY balcony will beat ANY interior ! So be sure to check and see if the cost of an upgraded category is actually less than the interior fare, which is most likely what your offer is based on, if you are Prime. Great advice. I didn't think to specify just a gty this morning and the upgrade prices to a balcony were outrageous for the 3 we were targeting. Normally we're fine with just an interior but I made the mistake of saying we would get a balcony for the prime cruise a few months ago when I was wanting to win a different cabin argument (oops...). I just got off the phone after calling again and the gty upgrade was almost $1000 cheaper as well. I didn't get it free like you did but one of our sailings was less than $400 total for 2 so that made the pill a little easier to swallow at least. WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoomSlayer Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 4 hours ago, WAAAYTOOO said: I didn't expect our certs to show up until this afternoon (according to the release schedule) but they both showed up early this morning. I spent ALL morning on the phone (we are in Falmouth and I used the ship's phone to call) BUT we ended up with some great results. I was able to book both Dan's and my Prime comp cruises for B2B SY sailings (Miami) and we were able to get XB (ocean view balcony guarantee) for -0- upgrade as the XB category for our cruises was lower than the 4V interior room on both of our cruises !!! We are on 3-9-25 and 3-16-25. I am not a huge fan of ANY kind of GTY but in this case, it will be worth it, no matter where our OV balcony is. Yes, we will have to change rooms but we saved probably $1000 by opting for the XB over a chance to choose our cabin. ANY balcony will beat ANY interior ! So be sure to check and see if the cost of an upgraded category is actually less than the interior fare, which is most likely what your offer is based on, if you are Prime. Glad you were able to save some money. One thing I learned to is to ask if they have GTY incentives when you call in. Last trip on Symphony, they gave me about $300 for doing a GTY ocean balcony instead of picking my own. GTY's are not too bad in my opinion for the higher category rooms. WAAAYTOOO and billdauterive 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billdauterive Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 35 minutes ago, DoomSlayer said: Glad you were able to save some money. One thing I learned too is to ask if they have GTY incentives when you call in. Last trip on Symphony, they gave me about $300 for doing a GTY ocean balcony instead of picking my own. GTY's are not too bad in my opinion for the higher category rooms. Good advice as well. When I try this it's very hit or miss on the amount. Most sailings are $25 or $0 extra FP when I ask (which definitely isn't worth it imo) but I've hit one that was $200 extra FP. I completely forgot to ask about FP this time though since it was the prime cruise and not an online or instant offer. I guess I just went completely brain dead when I booked this morning because I didn't ask about the GTY or FP, which I almost always do. Let me know if you are successful getting any FP this time and I may have to call back in (again). DoomSlayer and WAAAYTOOO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandstromCruise Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 Doesn’t look like Utopia is excluded from the list. There are a few select ones, but guess since it’s doing 3/4 night they decided people could use certificate before the 1 year mark. I was hoping to get Wonder on Aug 4, but that is excluded WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snotarni Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 waiting.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianB Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 I made the same mistake as a lot of others….thinking this was the list of available cruises. Got excited until I read it here. C’mon Royal IT! Even a non-IT savvy person like me would at least put an ‘Excluded Cruises’ watermark diagonally over the pages. Connie360 and WAAAYTOOO 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 So here I go...."telling" on myself. Sheesh... I made the rookiest of rookie mistakes. I double-booked (overlap) cruises ! I still can't believe I made such a stupid, rookie mistake but I sure did ! When I booked our annual tier casino cruises yesterday, I booked the 9th and the 16th of March B2B on SY. All was well until I realized that we had JUST booked a 10 night EX cruise (an instant casino comp from leg #1 of this trio) for 3-20-25. That means that I would still be ON SY when it was time to board EX. OMG, the panic ! I felt like I was going to be sick. I had JUST spent HOURS on the phone with Club Royale to get these 2 bookings (plus fix another comp that had gotten totally FUBAR, but that's another story....) made and now I had to go BACK and move the March 16th to March 2nd. I was fully prepared to have to pay a $200 fee to move this cruise but it had to be done....moving the EX cruise was not an option since there was no other 10 night cruise in the casino offer to choose from. I got BACK on the phone with Club Royale and honestly, it could not have gone more smoothly. No change fee, she simply changed the sail date and that was that. I didn't deserve such an easy fix to a TOTALLY avoidable blunder on my part. The only problem was that there was a very small upharge for upgrading from the interior offer to the XB, Ocean View Guarantee for this sailing. For this particular cruise, the XB was slightly more than the 4V (which is the way it usually is.....I just got super lucky with my original bookings) but I gladly paid it to have my mistake behind me. In retrospect (this is not an excuse....just an explanation) this pricing upcharge is the reason that I originally chose the 9th and 16th instead of the 2nd and the 9th. The fact that I was already booked on EX never entered my pea brain. Anyway....crisis rectified. We are still on B2B on SY but slightly earlier than we were, originally. UGH JustMeJoe, DoomSlayer, BrianB and 5 others 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMeJoe Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 49 minutes ago, WAAAYTOOO said: booked a 10 night EX cruise (an instant casino comp from leg #1 of this trio) for 3-20-25 I had thought you said you booked that EX but didn't see it in your signature block, so I didn't think much about it. We are on that 3-20 and 3-30 for the B2B so we will meet you there as well! WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 27 minutes ago, JustMeJoe said: I had thought you said you booked that EX but didn't see it in your signature block, so I didn't think much about it. We are on that 3-20 and 3-30 for the B2B so we will meet you there as well! GREAT news !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandstromCruise Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 1 hour ago, WAAAYTOOO said: So here I go...."telling" on myself. Sheesh... I made the rookiest of rookie mistakes. I double-booked (overlap) cruises ! I still can't believe I made such a stupid, rookie mistake but I sure did ! I think you’re being a little hard on yourself. Look at the bright side, the only reason this happened is because you are fortunate to be able to cruise so often. Now if someone like me who only gets to cruise like once or twice a year did this, that would be a rookie mistake. In your case, I could easily see that happening trying to keep track of all your cruises. I would definitely need a detailed spreadsheet for that WAAAYTOOO and OCSC Mike 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billdauterive Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 4 hours ago, WAAAYTOOO said: I made the rookiest of rookie mistakes. I double-booked (overlap) cruises ! I still can't believe I made such a stupid, rookie mistake but I sure did ! I'm surprised this was even possible. I almost did this one time when I told the rep the wrong date and he told me the system wouldn't let him book it because I was already booked on another sailing that date. I wasn't meaning to try and book that date, I just misspoke. But I remember thinking how I wasn't surprised the system wouldn't let him double book me as obviously no one can be 2 places at once. It's been a while since then so maybe it was just my rep noticing the possible double booking and it wasn't actually the system preventing it? WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billdauterive Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 4 hours ago, WAAAYTOOO said: I was fully prepared to have to pay at $200 fee to move this cruise but it had to be done. You shouldn't have any worries there, since it's a full comp there isn't any change fees. You can't pay a penalty on a $0 rate since you have no money invested for them to withhold from and they have to return port fees and taxes (I think it's a law but don't quote me). The only "penalty" for canceling or changing a full casino comp is you may not be able to use the code for a different sailing if it's expired. But in this case since it's the prime cruise, that code doesn't expire until March next year. You could technically change that sailing with that code many more times over the course of this year. As long as the sailing you're moving to has available casino comp inventory you'll never have to pay any change fee. Now upgrade payments are a different story, especially after final payment date... WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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