New Coupon Books

[Krazy Kruizers]

New Coupon Books

Exotic Lime and Ginger Salt Glow for just $25 when added to any body treatment while in port.

10% off any Acupuncture treatment while in port.

10% off a Nutritional Consultation.

One Complimentary fitness class with purchase of one fitness class.

Two entries for the price of one to any slot or blackjack tournament.

$5 Casino match play certificate -- match with $5 and play on any even-money bet.

$2 per minute discount on stateroom phone calls.

$10 off the purchase of a second telephone calling card.

Purchase an internet time plan package and receive 15 minutes free.

$10 off monogrammed HAL bathrobe purchased on board.

14K gold earrings with any fine jewelry purchase of $500 or more ($100 retail value).

10% off a 7 bottle Navigator Wine package.

Complimentary chocolate-covered strawberries with purchase of champagne for stateroom delivery (available with the purchase of champagne priced at $50 or higher).

A grande coffee beverage for the price of a tall one.

Dinner for two at the Pinnacle Grill with the purchase of a 7 bottle Admiral's Wine package.

Complimentary souvenir glass with purchase of one souvenir glass.

Complimentary bingo card with purchase of three cards.

10% off order of fresh flowers.

10% off regular or express laundry services.

10% off HAL Master Chef Cookbooks.

10% off a Tuxedo Rental.

10% off Black Label photography purchases (valid for purchases up to $500).

$5 off Voyage or Destinations DVD.

10% off any item in the online store at shophollandamerica.com

Receive Food & Wine magazine for just $1 an issue (That's over 77% off the cover price).

[CPAMom]

Where do you get these coupon books?

thanks

[Bill B]

KK,

Thanks for the information (this is the first comprehensive list I've seen). Unfortunately, everyone who said the books were pretty much useless was right!

[airlink diva]

Thanks for the info Krazy Kruisers do you know when this coupon book will be issue out on the ships? I sail in early December (6th) and if I have this coupon book, I see several that I will use.

[RuthC]

Where do you get these coupon books?
Mine have always been a gift from my TA. That's the only source I've ever heard of.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Some people have reported that they get them on a regular basis.

We have rarely gotten them. And I have no idea why we got them on our recent Ryndam cruises.

They are not issued by HAL to everyone.

The old ones were no use to us and these new ones -- not a single coupon we would use.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Mine have always been a gift from my TA. That's the only source I've ever heard of.

Since 9/11 our TA's company - a major AAA -- have not given out any gifts -- no big deal.

So we know that our coupon books did not come from her.

[Bill B]

I'm wondering about any 'fine print' on the Navigator's 7-bottle wine package coupon. Specifically, if it could be used when purchasing the package with a Beverage Value Card.

[SJSULIBRARIAN]

Are the coupon books the same as the Onboard Value Booklets?

We just booked two HAL cruises for 2011 with our travel agent and the Onboard Value Booklet is listed as a promotion for both cruises. We also got reduced deposits so I don't know if this is a promotion from the affiliation my travel agent has with a larger group or not.

Barbara

[RuthC]

Are the coupon books the same as the Onboard Value Booklets?
One and the same. For everything in there, you have to buy something before you can use the coupon. It either entitles you to another one, or more of whatever, or a discount on something.

There is nothing that can be used without shelling out some of your own money. Now, on some things you might be making the purchase anyway, but there's no way anyone can get much benefit out of all the coupons.

[RuthC]

So we know that our coupon books did not come from her.
So then, where did yours come from? I would like to know if there's another source besides a TA.

[Kween Karen]

Not a thing on there I would use.

[tcook052]

MHO this version slightly better than the previous ones. Get one fitness class free for one purchaed? I might've done that anyway so getting another free is a small bonus.

To each, their own.

[ariawoman]

We got some sort of coupon book the day we left the ship last week on teh Nieuw Amsterdam. I dont know if it's this same list of things because I'm too lazy to go get it right now :-) So, an answer to where one gets these, might be "after you cruise" :-)

[Krazy Kruizers]

So then, where did yours come from? I would like to know if there's another source besides a TA.

I have absolutely no idea!! We have only gotten them 2 other times in the past. And there has never been any kind of a card indicating who gave them to us. They were just sitting on the desk when we got to our cabin.

[Krazy Kruizers]

I'm wondering about any 'fine print' on the Navigator's 7-bottle wine package coupon. Specifically, if it could be used when purchasing the package with a Beverage Value Card.

Fine print on that page:
Cannot not be used in conjunction with any promotional programs, sale items, Mariner Society, Holland America Line discounts, or any other discount programs. Limit one per guest per voyage. Coupons are not refundable, non-transferable and have no cash value. Photo copies not accepted. Beverage offers valid only for guests 21 and over. Service charge applies after discount.

So I would assume that you could not use the Beverage cards along with the coupon.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Are the coupon books the same as the Onboard Value Booklets?

We just booked two HAL cruises for 2011 with our travel agent and the Onboard Value Booklet is listed as a promotion for both cruises. We also got reduced deposits so I don't know if this is a promotion from the affiliation my travel agent has with a larger group or not.

Barbara

Yes -- it is the Onboard Value Booklet.

We always book with the cheaper deposits that we get from booking future cruises while cruising.

Maybe because you book with a larger agency you get them that way.

[Krazy Kruizers]

We didn't use any of the coupons either.

[RuthC]

I have absolutely no idea!!
So then it could have been from your TA, or the umbrella corporation your TA's agency works under. Correct?

[RuthC]

do these coupons work?
If you fulfill the requirements, they do. For example, I purchase an Internet plan, so the coupon gets me extra minutes. If you purchase the BINGO card, you get the second card.
The thing is that every coupon needs a purchase first.

[Krazy Kruizers]

So then it could have been from your TA, or the umbrella corporation your TA's agency works under. Correct?

Not from our TA --- since 9/11 none of the AAA's in our area give any kind of gifts.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Now this doesn't happen on all ships -- but nearly every day on the Ryndam -- for both weeks -- there were all kinds of specials being offered for extra minutes for the Internet - which was great for people who didn't get the coupon book.

[excruisestaff]

Yes -- it is the Onboard Value Booklet.

We always book with the cheaper deposits that we get from booking future cruises while cruising.

Maybe because you book with a larger agency you get them that way.

My agency is a small one and I always get a coupon book and/or some sort of perk from them.

MH

[m steve]

The item I would like is the discount on flowers as I always order them for the cabin when we board.

[zonacruiser25]

We book direct with HAL, would like to see on in the cabin on 11/13!

[whogo]

I used the coupon for "free" minutes on my last cruise. I could not double up with my wife's coupon for more free minutes with the same internet account. Prepare to be disappointed with the coupon books. If anyone tells you that the coupon books are worth $400, snort in their face.

[CrystalLady]

The booklets are either a perk from your TA, or a perk for booking during a special HAL promotion period.

ShipMaven aka

[luvcruisn']

I am supposed to receive a coupon book as part of my booking with my TA for my next cruise. With the previous booklets, I have only used a $2.00 off coupon for a Bingo card purchase.

[buffy13600]

Hi,
WE just got off the Zuiderdam on the 24th. Those books were also on our sailing. We however did not have one in our room but both of my sisters did. We just went to the front desk, and they gave us 2 for my husband and I. There were many others in line also getting the books..all the front desk did was ask for your cabin number and mark down that you had received one for the number of pasengers in your cabin. Everyone in line was getting one.. no questions. So I assume it was from HAL itself.. as eveyone was from different places etc and they were just handing them out. I usd a few things.. good if you were going to spend anyway. You could get a free bingo card if you bought one, free souviner glass etc, you also could use the coupon to get a free entry into one of the slot tournements if you already bought one.Fyi.. only the person who bought slot entry already can us the second..ie you can't share it with Dh ec. So.. it was a little helpful.

Buffy13600

[Krazy Kruizers]

So if all you have to ask is ask for them -- maybe that is why we got them -- sounds like HAL right now if promoting them -- just to see if people are using them. That makes sense to me.

[Krazy Kruizers]

The booklets are either a perk from your TA, or a perk for booking during a special HAL promotion period.

ShipMaven aka

Well -- they aren't from our TA and the cruises we book have never been when there was a special HAL promotion.

[Donder1]

Glad to see the list. No big whoop, though.

[jtl513]

The only time we got the books in our cabin they were marked as a gift from our TA ... but we've used this TA many other times and not gotten them.

[bob brown]

These books are nothing more than a sales aid to sell on board goods and services. The line does not just leave them laying around in a rack as then more people would recognize them for what they are. Instead they use psychology to make recipients thing that they are "getting something".

[RuthC]

We just went to the front desk, and they gave us 2 for my husband and I. There were many others in line also getting the books..all the front
Thanks for the info, Buffy. This is the first source, other than a TA, that I've heard of. And the coupon books have been discussed on this board many, many times.
Very interesting.

[buffy13600]

Hi Ruth,
I also found it interesting, also very rarely have every seen them before on several cruises. I thought maybe it was a "test' to see what people were interested in..lol

Buffy136

[GTVCRUISER]

I received a coupon book on the Oosterdam last week , you have to buy something to use them

[MardiGras316]

I emailed my HAL PCC the other day asking about the coupon book. He said he/they weren't availble to give out but that someone going through a travel agency could get one.

I'd love to have one for my Dec. 23rd Noordam cruise. Is it a HAL generic coupon book good on any one of their ships? If so, if someone had one they weren't using could you get in touch with me? I'd be happy to send a SASE to get it from you before I leave on the 21st of Dec.

I would actually use a few of the coupons for things I am going to be purchasing on the cruise. I do LOVE to spend money on cruise ships! And they see me coming!!! The $55 bottle of body wash on Celebrity one time was the most outlandish thing I have bought.......

[gjohnson75]

I have one of these from the cruise I just got off. The only one I used was the match play in the casino and the free slot tourney entry.

I would be happy to drop it in the mail for anyone going out soon. Just PM me if you are interested.

[MardiGras316]

I have one of these from the cruise I just got off. The only one I used was the match play in the casino and the free slot tourney entry.

I would be happy to drop it in the mail for anyone going out soon. Just PM me if you are interested.
GJohnson I would love to have the coupon book. But I am a little tech slow and don't know how to PM you!! Can someone help me with that!
Thanks,
Tricia

[sunny54]

Hi, the one thing that looks interesting in the new coupon book is the Pinnacle Grill dinner with purchase of 7 bottle Admiral's wine package. As a 3*** Mariner, we would get 25% off the wine package...does that mean we wouldn't be able to use the Pin Grill coupon?
Anyone run into this? Thanks!!

[Krazy Kruizers]

Hi, the one thing that looks interesting in the new coupon book is the Pinnacle Grill dinner with purchase of 7 bottle Admiral's wine package. As a 3*** Mariner, we would get 25% off the wine package...does that mean we wouldn't be able to use the Pin Grill coupon?
Anyone run into this? Thanks!!

As a 3 star Mariner you will get the 25% discount on the 7 bottle Admiral's package -- yes -- you will get the Pinnacle dinner coupon.

[SilvertoGold]

As a 3 star Mariner you will get the 25% discount on the 7 bottle Admiral's package -- yes -- you will get the Pinnacle dinner coupon.

Thanks, KK!
Sounds great: 50% off and a free Pinnacle for 2. Since everything varies ship by ship these days, I am hoping my ship accepts this offer!

[Krazy Kruizers]

Thanks, KK!
Sounds great: 50% off and a free Pinnacle for 2. Since everything varies ship by ship these days, I am hoping my ship accepts this offer!

Hope you get the coupon book -- many people do not get them.

And I still have no idea how we got them.

[kazu]

I'll take the coupon book any day of the week (I rarely get them). we take longer cruises and always order the 7 admiral pack of wine, so a free Pinnacle Grill dinner is just fine with me.

there were a couple of other things I have used in the past. Not really big ticket items, but they were used.

Now if the NA hadn't had noro last cruise, I probably would have tried the spa & thermal pools, but with the pools shut down, I couldn't do it.

Too bad, one didn't know if advance if they were in use for the cruise and could just go get one.

I rarely get the books - in fact my last one was courtesy of a kind cc member on the boards who sent me hers :) now how nice is that :D:D
but although they are coasters to some, they can be of use to others.

If you are going to spend the money anyways, it's nice to get something back - and a free PG dinner is just fine - and no problem at all :)

[the2ofus]

Hmmm...in 15 HAL cruises I have never seen a coupon book. Guess I will ask at the front desk next July. I might use a spa coupon and Dear Sis and I might use the wine package.

[airlink diva]

On my December cruise, I received two coupon books via my travel agent. Now I guess it was a promotion because this was the first HAL cruise that it was offered.
I used the 10% off the laundry coupon and the coffee coupon. I didn't use the majority of them because they didn't appeal to me.

[SilvertoGold]

Hope you get the coupon book -- many people do not get them.

And I still have no idea how we got them.

It seems that these coupon booklets are a promo put on by HAL at certain times. Maybe they are based on GAP points, but each time we have had them, there has been advertising about them as part of a sale, usually along with OBC and/or Pinnacle dinners.

[Juanita462]

We got two on the last cruise and gave them to a TA that was on our trivia team.

Next time we get them we will take them to our CC meeting and offer
them to anyone that wants them. Shame to waste them.

[JamesEM]

We were on the Noordam last week and only used one coupon, the one for 15 free Internet minutes.

[Krazy Kruizers]

It seems that these coupon booklets are a promo put on by HAL at certain times. Maybe they are based on GAP points, but each time we have had them, there has been advertising about them as part of a sale, usually along with OBC and/or Pinnacle dinners.

Sorry -- don't know what GAP points are.

Our cruises have never "sale" cruises -- thus no promations, no extra OBC and/or Pinnacle dinners.

[Krazy Kruizers]

We were on the Noordam last week and only used one coupon, the one for 15 free Internet minutes.

I no longer use the ship's internet -- service too slow -- waste too much time trying to get on and post anything.

[sapper1]

I'll take the coupon book any day of the week (I rarely get them). we take longer cruises and always order the 7 admiral pack of wine, so a free Pinnacle Grill dinner is just fine with me.

there were a couple of other things I have used in the past. Not really big ticket items, but they were used.

Now if the NA hadn't had noro last cruise, I probably would have tried the spa & thermal pools, but with the pools shut down, I couldn't do it.

Too bad, one didn't know if advance if they were in use for the cruise and could just go get one.

I rarely get the books - in fact my last one was courtesy of a kind cc member on the boards who sent me hers :) now how nice is that :D:D
but although they are coasters to some, they can be of use to others.

If you are going to spend the money anyways, it's nice to get something back - and a free PG dinner is just fine - and no problem at all :)
Kazu---we usually get a couple from our TA and all we use would be the internet minutes, although we can only use one of those coupons--can't double up. We will use the new laundry discounts as well.
If we get them in April, I will bring them home, instead of discarding them, and pass them on to you. Maybe we can have a coffee at TH in KV and make the pass.

[kazu]

Kazu---we usually get a couple from our TA and all we use would be the internet minutes, although we can only use one of those coupons--can't double up. We will use the new laundry discounts as well.
If we get them in April, I will bring them home, instead of discarding them, and pass them on to you. Maybe we can have a coffee at TH in KV and make the pass.

Oh Sapper, how nice of you. :):)

Love to have coffee with you at TH (or even green tea) and finally meet you. Thanks so much. We'll pray they don't change the books :)

I will definitely put them to use on our 20 day Canary Crossing. Hope the Prisendam accepts them ;)

[Sulo]

Krazy Kruisers, I'd be interested to know if the coupon is still inside the front cover for the subscription to Porthole Cruise Magazine. It's such an excellent deal, even for us Canadians at $15.00.

It's the only thing I've used in my previous coupon books.

[Krazy Kruizers]

This is the list for the newest coupon book -- no Porthole magazine subscription being offered:
New Coupon Books

Exotic Lime and Ginger Salt Glow for just $25 when added to any body treatment while in port.

10% off any Acupuncture treatment while in port.

10% off a Nutritional Consultation.

One Complimentary fitness class with purchase of one fitness class.

Two entries for the price of one to any slot or blackjack tournament.

$5 Casino match play certificate -- match with $5 and play on any even-money bet.

$2 per minute discount on stateroom phone calls.

$10 off the purchase of a second telephone calling card.

Purchase an internet time plan package and receive 15 minutes free.

$10 off monogrammed HAL bathrobe purchased on board.

14K gold earrings with any fine jewelry purchase of $500 or more ($100 retail value).

10% off a 7 bottle Navigator Wine package.

Complimentary chocolate-covered strawberries with purchase of champagne for stateroom delivery (available with the purchase of champagne priced at $50 or higher).

A grande coffee beverage for the price of a tall one.

Dinner for two at the Pinnacle Grill with the purchase of a 7 bottle Admiral's Wine package.

Complimentary souvenir glass with purchase of one souvenir glass.

Complimentary bingo card with purchase of three cards.

10% off order of fresh flowers.

10% off regular or express laundry services.

10% off HAL Master Chef Cookbooks.

10% off a Tuxedo Rental.

10% off Black Label photography purchases (valid for purchases up to $500).

$5 off Voyage or Destinations DVD.

10% off any item in the online store at shophollandamerica.com

Receive Food & Wine magazine for just $1 an issue (That's over 77% off the cover price).

[SilvertoGold]

Sorry -- don't know what GAP points are.

Our cruises have never "sale" cruises -- thus no promations, no extra OBC and/or Pinnacle dinners.

Dear KK
GAP means Guest Amenity Points. Apparently when an agency books a group, they get amenities to offer their clients based on points. Lisa would know about this a lot better, but each amenity "costs" so many points.
If you get a copy of the Polar Online booking info, the "GAP" term shows up, for example, GAP Pinnacle Grill Dinner, 2011 GAP 10x7 candid photo sheet.
Since it is my aim in life to book "sales", we get these regularly.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Thanks you -- had not heard about them before.