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Thanks! I've definitely seen those, but usually by the time you click on them, they're already sold out. But we'll try again another time. My mother is a retiree, so she's got a lot of time on her hands. She was playing MyVegas throughout Covid lockdown, so she has tons and tons of points and doesn't know what to do with them. 😆 Assuming this cruise goes well, I hope my mother gets hooked and will want to go on more.

Thank you to all who replied--I feel better about this now. I was just unsure because it's my first time using the MyVegas reward. UPDATE: So I guess I just got unlucky with the first agent I spoke to. She was not very good at explaining the prices, spoke very quickly, and seemed to get irritated when I asked her for the per person price breakdowns. I also found out she tacked on the cruise protection without telling me. I tried again the next day, and the agent quoted me another price that was $1,000 more than the estimate I got yesterday, but this agent quickly caught the error and acknowledged there was probably a glitch in the system. After retrying the price did indeed come out to what I expected it to be. So for those of you who were curious and asked for actual numbers: Upon booking, I got the receipt, and the math mostly checks out. The per person fares are (including the discount): Pax 1 ($0) + Pax 2 ($629) + Pax 3 ($449) + taxes & gratuities ($1,006). The error that happened was that the 3 Pax fares somehow jumped up to $380/$1073/$859, which the agent quickly realized could not have been correct. So I'll chalk it up to just bad luck that I was dealing with errors my first time. After re-trying, things seemed to work out. Thanks for all your replies!

I apologize if this sounds like a newbie question (I'm totally new to Cruise Critic, though not new to cruising)--but I'm just trying to see if other people had good or bad experiences redeeming MyVegas rewards on NCL. My mother redeemed a $750 off on MyVegas; I was skeptical at first, and after digging in a little more, it seems my skepticism is justified. I went on the NCL site to look for cruises we may be interested in, then I called in to try to make my booking. It felt very scammy; the representative quoted a price way higher than what I saw on the NCL website, so that after applying the MyVegas discount, we ended up saving only $400. I get it, the $750 is applicable to only one passenger, and doesn't cover gratuities, taxes, and the booking fee. But I cranked through the numbers, and the fact remains that they they're taking the $750 discount off of a much higher price than was advertised on the NCL website. This feels very similar to the "buy 1 airfare get 1 free" scams that companies try to push. They tell you the 2nd passenger is free, but they double the first passenger's airfare, so the net amount is about the same. We'll probably still do a cruise anyway, but maybe choose a cheaper one. A discount is still a discount (yes, we're being cheated out of the $750 discount, but still, we'll take any discount). That said, this arbitrary raising of prices left a sour taste in our mouth. Anyone else experienced this?