Price jumps? Seaside April 2018, WOW!

Recently checked out Seaside prices for Fantastica balcony, departing April 2018. Was less expensive than competition (RCI Oasis £1850, Carnival Magic £1624, Celebrity Silhouette £1998) for 7 night sailings.

I'm convinced I saw prices around the £1400 mark, but now £2620! Yikes!

Looks like we're heading back to RCI and Oasis (still not convinced of Carnival).

Are you looking at 15 days (back to back) prices by chance?

It's showing up at about €1,069 on MSC dot IE website for 7 nts in Fantastica. That's without flights, of course.

Are you looking at 15 days (back to back) prices by chance?

Must be something wrong. I'm checking US based site and 7 night Fantastica Balcony is $1203.95 per person (about 962 GBP) and also includes $100 each in OBC

~Brian

Meanwhile prices for the 23rd December 2017 sailing on Seaside have been reduced back to the original prices!

Recently checked out Seaside prices for Fantastica balcony, departing April 2018. Was less expensive than competition (RCI Oasis £1850, Carnival Magic £1624, Celebrity Silhouette £1998) for 7 night sailings.

 

I'm convinced I saw prices around the £1400 mark, but now £2620! Yikes!

 

Looks like we're heading back to RCI and Oasis (still not convinced of Carnival).

This is nothing new

look what they did to Meraviglia which I'm booked on

from an earlier thread of mine

Last year on 9th July I booked a 7 night sailing on Meraviglia for Sept 24th 2017 in a YC1.

I must admit I did get my 20% Black card discount. The total cost , cruise only, was £2686.40 in a specified cabin (well it was as soon as the deck plans were released:- cabin mumber 18009).

if I only had a 5% discount, to do a direct comparison with todays 5%, the price would have been £3190.10

 

 

I did a dummy booking about 30 minutes ago ,and got my paltry 5% discount and the price today £6648.10.

That's a 247% increase in price

 

(or 208% if both discounts were 5%)

 

 

My invoice

 

 

 

 

todays online price

 

Pete

May is the same...I booked for me, DW, DS and DD---4 total. Cruise was $1800 USD. Just checked and now it is $2600 USD. I guess the ship is selling out, although there does seem to be lots of rooms left.

I noticed that too , but then i noticed i was on " brochure price " make sure you select one of the " deals " pricing its much better

I noticed that too , but then i noticed i was on " brochure price " make sure you select one of the " deals " pricing its much better

Yeah, I guess this is stating the obvious, but their website is very confusing.

And the new "2 for 1 plus" promotion they have on Seaside isn't really "2 for 1", it's the same prices they've had for months (and not half of the regular price).

This post got me curious. Here is the advertised sale in the US- the $449 rate is for an inside. Quick search looks like balconies are going for $799. Rates into January- April.

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This post got me curious. Here is the advertised sale in the US- the $449 rate is for an inside. Quick search looks like balconies are going for $799. Rates into January- April.

So your post got me curious. So I checked pricing for my 1/28/18 cruise and the Fantastica balcony is the same $999 ($939 for Bella) it was when I booked several months ago. I checked another couple of cruises around that time and the pricing was the same. This is an old thread, so it's possible that the prices have gone up from what they were a year+ ago, but based on my experience, they haven't changed in the last 6-9 months (when I started looking).