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UPDATE: Surprise -- adding the FV324 offer moved our PIF date from 05/09 to 03/31. We learned this in an automated Viking email received 03/10. My TA was told that Viking erred in giving us that discount because we had booked one day before the promo was announced/became effective! After some lengthy back and forth, Viking allowed us to keep the discount and moved the PIF to 04/30 -- we can live with that.

We booked a Viking China cruise on Feb 29, found out about offer code FV324 while reading this topic, sent our TA on March 5 the "Dear Valued Future Guest" letter kindly provided by Travel Lion (thanks, Travel Lion!), and got a $500 pp reduction that same day.

Oops, I fear I may have disqualified myself from using a referral discount by creating the account. Yikes. We’ll see.

Thanks very much, Becky2010! BTW, I was able to create a Ponant account using my desktop. Awaiting a response to my status match request. 🤞🏼

What was the process for getting the 7.5% discount on your first Ponant cruise? Did you get an email confirmation of your new Admiral status that you then mentioned/forwarded to your TA? A number of folks have remarked that they did not receive any indication that their status match request had been approved, while others found out their status had been matched only after they logged into their account. On my mobile, I am not seeing a way to create a Ponant account — is this only available to those who have already booked a cruise?

Thank you, Becky2010, for your specific answer (very helpful) and jpalbny for the encouragement! Appreciate everyone's contributions -- happy sailing!

Is the status match only available to those who have already sailed with Ponant? I am about to book my first cruise on Ponant.

https://us.ponant.com/ponant-benefits#modal_referral-program So if your wife refers us, she’ll get €500/$600 to use towards your cruise.

https://us.ponant.com/ponant-benefits#modal_referral-program

Here are the particulars re your circumstances: ✓The sponsor and the person sponsored refers may not share the same stateroom. ✓The sponsoring request will be rejected if the person sponsored or any member of his/her household has already been sponsored. ✓A sponsor can refer any number of people, but only one per household.

We are interested in an NZ cruise. Would your wife (or anyone reading this) give us a referral for Le Ponant? Many thanks.

Hi. Does Atlas Ocean Voyages have a guest referral program? If yes, details, please. Thanks. Happy cruising!