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Old October 7th, 2009, 10:24 PM
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Smile All you ES bookers sailing soon need to check

the pricing on your cruise. Our 10/19 Miracle sailing has had 3 PRICE DROPS since 6PM today. Prices have dropped hundreds of $$. Check your cruise and get that ES price drop form in right away if your cruise price has dropped. The Miracle sailing we are on went from $789 to $549 for ANY balcony cabin left.
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Old October 7th, 2009, 10:38 PM
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awesome. My next is another B2B in dec, no change, stuck in the mud, but Im glad for you...dont ya love saving money? I love spending OBC too. Now that was fun last cruise.
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Old October 7th, 2009, 11:13 PM
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awesome. My next is another B2B in dec, no change, stuck in the mud, but Im glad for you...dont ya love saving money? I love spending OBC too. Now that was fun last cruise.
I hear you fly. I think your biggest obstacle is sailing from Texas where the price drops are rare. Florida cruises it happens frequently. Yeah somehow it is a lot less painfull spending OBC then $$ right out of you wallet!!
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I still about 5 1/2 months out and mine went up 50 pp.....i will keep checking the closer we get....
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Old October 7th, 2009, 11:17 PM
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Got 11 months for mine, and since I have an aft cabin, I doubt I will see one. But if a suite goes lower than my 8G on the dream, I might have to snag that!
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Old October 7th, 2009, 11:18 PM
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[quote=wvanative;21562568]I still about 5 1/2 months out and mine went up 50 pp.....i will keep checking the closer we get....[/quote

The Dream might be tough. BTW don't you love the fact that carnival will sail from Charleston next year? Only a 3 1/2 hour drive for us as well.
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My wife checks these all the time and found out today that the first leg of our B2B dropped some today and she WILL pursue it!
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the pricing on your cruise. Our 10/19 Miracle sailing has had 3 PRICE DROPS since 6PM today. Prices have dropped hundreds of $$. Check your cruise and get that ES price drop form in right away if your cruise price has dropped. The Miracle sailing we are on went from $789 to $549 for ANY balcony cabin left.
Mine dropped by almost $300 total but I'm not to happy with having to fight to get this. I'm still waiting for confirmation from my TA. He's going to call this morning and submit the forms if necessary. I will NEVER ever book with a TA again if I'm using Early Saver bookings. Luckily this was my last cruise that we have booked with a TA.
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Old October 8th, 2009, 09:35 AM
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Currently we have 4 booked under the ES for the Dream and the price right now for our cabin is $560 more than what we paid for it. I am guessing I won't see it drop that much and still drop below what we paid. I am pretty much resigned to seeing no OBC for us.
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I'm on the Dream Christmas cruise and I checked the other day and it looks like that cruise might be sold out. I couldn't pull any cabins. I got a cove balcony and I doubted the prices would ever go down for our cruise. We were ES bookers on this one.
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We have already gotten $440 OBC last week on our cruise and I am hoping to get another $100 today. We are in a suite and there are more than 10 left for our sailing. We are almost at the same price as our friends who booked a 8d.
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Anyone ever have price drops on the Pride sailing in March 2010
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Anyone ever have price drops on the Pride sailing in March 2010
You might ask on your roll call. The folks on my roll call are actively tracking our prices and post whenever they see a price drop.
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Old October 8th, 2009, 10:14 AM
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Talking Yes, watch for falling prices!

Last week was final payment for my cruise in Dec.-there have been 3 price drops already. I love E.S. I do have a question about OBC, and Upsells-Let's say in theory I'd have $200 in OBC, and I received an upsell call for a suite for $200-could I use the OBC, or would I need to pay another $200 out of pocket? (in which case I'd still have my $200 OBC). Thanks.
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MINE in March on VALOR is still not reduced BUT I got a GREAT aft balcony.I will keep checking
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Last week was final payment for my cruise in Dec.-there have been 3 price drops already. I love E.S. I do have a question about OBC, and Upsells-Let's say in theory I'd have $200 in OBC, and I received an upsell call for a suite for $200-could I use the OBC, or would I need to pay another $200 out of pocket? (in which case I'd still have my $200 OBC). Thanks.
You can't use OBC for cruise payments. You would have to pay the $200 up front, but still have OBC.
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Old October 8th, 2009, 10:22 AM
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Mine has done nothing but gone up since we booked. I don't think we will see a price drop with in the next 30 days, but you never know. I hope we do
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Mine has continually risen and all that is left is the suites so I don't anticipate anything but I will continue to check.
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You can't use OBC for cruise payments. You would have to pay the $200 up front, but still have OBC.
Thanks for the info-now I know!
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I'm on the Dream Christmas cruise and I checked the other day and it looks like that cruise might be sold out. I couldn't pull any cabins. I got a cove balcony and I doubted the prices would ever go down for our cruise. We were ES bookers on this one.
I pulled up plenty of cabins still available today (I have booked two cabins with 3 and one cabin with 4) those are the ones I still check availability for. Current price for past guest rate on the Cove is $1189 per person, when I booked they were $999 for ES. So doubting they will drop, but I believe we are far from being sold out.
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