Rex008

I realise that, just seems rather perverse that loyalty is ignored for OBC. I'd rather have lower fare and less OBC when I'm getting loyalty discount, but didn't get that choice (obviously if I'd know price reduction was coming, I would have waited). Just feel that it's a mean thing for them to do, it should be easily fixable to apply discount to OBC spend, and it would keep loyal customers happier (and loyal!). It annoyed me enough to fire off an email to them when I realised loyalty discount wasn't applied. It is stated in T&Cs but the mypocruises account viewer makes it far from obvious, you have to dig.

As a quick aside on something else mentioned, our OBC situation is interesting. They booked a week after us, the cruise price had gone down by exactly £300 but with exactly £300 less OBC. So we've got nearly £600 OBC and they have £300. P&O don't discount OBC spend by the tier discount, which I've whinged at them about with "tough" basically being the answer. However, the point about buying drinks on one card is valid - once we do run down both OBCs (which will probably take the majority of the cruise at our drinks spend rate) it would make more sense to buy any further stuff on our card and get them to pay us back later. We do it all the time when we go out together on dry land so no trust issues there.

Thanks. Seems very clear my cunning plan is not going to work! Oh well. Thanks for all the responses anyway.

Ok, thank you. Makes sense, if a bit of a pity :).

Me and DW are fairly experienced cruisers (13th coming up), but for our next Fjords cruise in May a couple of new-to-cruising close friends have booked on the same cruise. We're not going to live in each other's pockets but are likely to join together for dinner and some excursions. I was wondering if I link our bookings whether we can book shore excursions for all of us? I've googled and can't find an answer. We get 7.5% discount for Atlantic tier, so if we could book theirs with the discount it helps them out a bit. Given we're not going to be together all the time, are the any disadvantages to linking bookings? I know OBC is still separate, so that's not a problem. We're both on freedom dining so if we did want to dine separately that's not a problem either. Can't really see any other possible downsides but might be missing something. We've both booked through the same TA, so linking should just be one phone call as I understand it.