CCL shareholders and shipboard credits.

[billroddy]

On Jan 3, 2009 the Oosterdam to Mexico features a Carnival shipboard credit of $100 for one shareholder.
Sample fare for two in an E category is $2017 and one shareholder gets the $100 credit.
Sample fare for two non-shareholder Mariners in an E category is $1917 without the credit.
Any questions?
Bill

[gizmo]

Hi Billy,

This is not making sense.

Where did you get this information ?

[LAFFNVEGAS]

Yes, Bill that makes no sense. I have always gotten a fair price competive price from my TA and still get the CCL stock credit. As a matter of fact I Tuesday at about 4 PM my time I faxed in my request for our June cruise and as of 10 AM the next morning it was already showing.

[billroddy]

From Polar, Hal's booking engine for travel agents.
Bill
Hi Billy,

This is not making sense.

Where did you get this information ?

[DesertDogs]

Yes, Bill that makes no sense. I have always gotten a fair price competive price from my TA and still get the CCL stock credit. As a matter of fact I Tuesday at about 4 PM my time I faxed in my request for our June cruise and as of 10 AM the next morning it was already showing.

Where can you see it?

[Dave M]

What doesn't make sense about that is that, as suggested above, most of us book without any request for the credit. Thus, we would be booking at the non-shareholder rate, if there is such a thing. Only later do we submit the required proof of stock ownership to claim the credit, thus reducing the original "non-shareholder" price.

[LAFFNVEGAS]

Where can you see it?
I cannot see it but my TA can and advised me of the information.

[billroddy]

I am only posting what Polar shows. You may have other arrangements with your agent.
The Polar site requires a password. HAL's regular site will not show shipboard credits for stockholders.
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More sample fares, plus taxes, etc. Multiply by two.
The left column gets the $100, the right is the Mariner fare, no credit, but $100 less for two.

Stockholder fare----Mariner fare.
C 4 Outside 939----C 4 Outside 889
D 4 Outside 919----D 4 Outside 869
E 4 Outside 879----E 4 Outside 829
F 4 Outside 859----F 4 Outside 809
G 3 Outside 839----G 3 Outside 789
Bill

[LAFFNVEGAS]

I am only posting what Polar shows. You may have other arrangements with your agent.
The Polar site requires a password. HAL's regular site will not show shipboard credits for stockholders.
--------------------------------------
More sample fares, plus taxes, etc. Multiply by two.
The left column gets the $100, the right is the Mariner fare, no credit, but $100 less for two.

Stockholder fare----Mariner fare.
C 4 Outside 939----C 4 Outside 889
D 4 Outside 919----D 4 Outside 869
E 4 Outside 879----E 4 Outside 829
F 4 Outside 859----F 4 Outside 809
G 3 Outside 839----G 3 Outside 789
Bill
Yes, but many of us get the discounted fair and then some plus the CCL credit so I am confused and what your point is:confused:

[gizmo]

I am still confused too. :confused:

I have been getting the stock credit for years and booking through TA's.

[CruiserBruce]

Is this the OBC we get for owning 100 shares, another way of getting that money, or something entirely different?:confused: