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Celebrity has senior rates sometimes.

Whether you book through a TA or on the cruise ship web site, they ask you if anyone is a senior. You just might get lucky.

But the senior and the rate for what state you are from are promotions and not always available.

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On the search engine you have to put in that you are a senior otherwise it won't give you the lower price. Two years ago we had booked a mediterrean cruise and had a price of $1599.00 p/p. We had booked it way in advance. One day I was home sick and playing on the computer and checked and put the info that we were seniors (which we both are) and the cruise went down $400 p/p. It was not advertised so you just have to look and sometimes you get lucky. We saved $800 just like that.

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On the search engine you have to put in that you are a senior otherwise it won't give you the lower price. Two years ago we had booked a mediterrean cruise and had a price of $1599.00 p/p. We had booked it way in advance. One day I was home sick and playing on the computer and checked and put the info that we were seniors (which we both are) and the cruise went down $400 p/p. It was not advertised so you just have to look and sometimes you get lucky. We saved $800 just like that.

 

 

What a pleasant surprise that was!!! You cut the price of your cruise in half.

 

I'm guessing you started to feel lots better soon. :)

 

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With RCI only one person in the stateroom has to qualify as 55+ to be eligible for any discount. The 55+ (as well as residency, military, police/fire) descounts are not offered on every sailing and availability will vary by ship, date, and itinerary.

 

To see what cruises will be offering any of these discounts simply go to the RCI website / plan a cruise / search for a cruise / advanced search / exclusive savings, and check the appropriate boxes and cruises offering any of those discounts will be shown.

 

To see the amount of any offered discount call RCI or check with your TA and they can tell you what it will be, or do a mock booking for your cruise first without those boxes checked, then with to see what the rate difference would be.

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On Norwegian, if you book more than 9 mo out, you can add the AARP promo code and its like 5% off the price. Then throughout the year, they offer discounts for AARP discount on selected sailings and that promo code when aval. is AARP1, that one veries with what it gives you

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I read here that rci senior rate starts at 55. What other lines have senior rates an at what age. Maybe I an nieve, but I thought I had 5 more years before becoming a senior at 65.

 

WE got the rate deduction for Celebrity cruise line. There's is 55 and I am now 57......

I don't know about the other cruise lines just Celebrity.

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I read here that rci senior rate starts at 55. What other lines have senior rates an at what age. Maybe I an nieve, but I thought I had 5 more years before becoming a senior at 65.

 

 

Doesn't AARP eligibility start at age 50? :eek:

 

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WE got the rate deduction for Celebrity cruise line. There's is 55 and I am now 57......

I don't know about the other cruise lines just Celebrity.

 

We monitor prices for our cruises using a third party price monitoring service that emails us whenever a price change occurs for any reason we wish to monitor, all for 99 cents per cruise. We've been able to utilize 55+ senior discounted rates on most cruises, and state residency discounted rates on the others, saving us over $6,000 since we have been using the service. This is not only on Celebrity, but also on Princess, RCI and Disney. I can't mention the site, but a Google search on cruise price monitoring should lead you there.

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Doesn't AARP eligibility start at age 50? :eek:

 

 

Used to be. Now it is age 45. And the membership fee has doubled since I joined more than a dozen years ago.

 

We used the AARP discount in December when we booked the cruise we're taking next month.

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On the search engine you have to put in that you are a senior otherwise it won't give you the lower price. Two years ago we had booked a mediterrean cruise and had a price of $1599.00 p/p. We had booked it way in advance. One day I was home sick and playing on the computer and checked and put the info that we were seniors (which we both are) and the cruise went down $400 p/p. It was not advertised so you just have to look and sometimes you get lucky. We saved $800 just like that.

 

That is great!!

Being home sick paid off for you.

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