Fredrik Posted December 29, 2023 #1 Share Posted December 29, 2023 FREE $250 WITH CRUISEFIRST Booking Window: December 28th, 2023 - January 4th, 2024 11:59 PM EST. CruiseFirst certificates are valid for new reservations ONLY that book and sail within 3 years of original certificate purchase date. Voyage date must be more than 120 days from original purchase date. Not applicable towards canceled/rebooked reservations. If a guest with an existing reservation cancels and rebooks the same ship and sail date with a CruiseFirst certificate, the additional value of the CruiseFirst certificate will be removed. https://www.ncl.com/about/terms-and-conditions/promotions#insideroffertwopoints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmoopie17 Posted December 29, 2023 #2 Share Posted December 29, 2023 6 minutes ago, Fredrik said: Booking Window: December 28th, 2023 - January 4th, 2024 11:59 PM EST. I don't know why they say there is a "booking window". You can book up to three years from purchase. Unless this is the window to purchase the special $500 promotion and it ends January 4th?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredrik Posted December 29, 2023 Author #3 Share Posted December 29, 2023 2 minutes ago, schmoopie17 said: I don't know why they say there is a "booking window". You can book up to three years from purchase. Unless this is the window to purchase the special $500 promotion and it ends January 4th?? The booking window is the double amount. It’s usually not 500 dollars.it comes and goes, now it’s here 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmoopie17 Posted December 29, 2023 #4 Share Posted December 29, 2023 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Fredrik said: The booking window is the double amount. It’s usually not 500 dollars.it comes and goes, now it’s here 😉 That's pretty much what I said in regard to the promotion. My issue was with them using the term "booking". You book a cruise...you purchase a certificate. Edited December 29, 2023 by schmoopie17 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredrik Posted December 29, 2023 Author #5 Share Posted December 29, 2023 2 minutes ago, schmoopie17 said: That's pretty much what I said in regard to the promotion. My issue was with them using the term "booking". You book a cruise...you purchase a certificate. Ok, let’s call it purchasing window. My point is that the 500 hasn’t been around for awhile and now it’s back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmoopie17 Posted December 29, 2023 #6 Share Posted December 29, 2023 Thanks for the reminder of the sale. I saw @laudergaylehad mentioned the sale on another thread, and after I saw it, I was ready to pull the trigger. But being the old guy that I am, I went into the NCL site and couldn't remember what I went there for. 🤪 Just went back to the site and "purchased" one. Now I'll have to "book" another cruise. I hate when that happens... 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKstages Posted December 29, 2023 #7 Share Posted December 29, 2023 (edited) it comes and goes quite frequently. or as dorothy gale quipped "[cruise first certificates] come and go so quickly here." i think the black friday "sale" was the last time we saw it and it lasted about a week. so, it's been about three weeks. i've been waiting for it to return, as i was unable to purchase last time due to web site login snafus. what's interesting is that the terms say a cruise of six days or more is required. i remember it as being five days previously, but perhaps i'm misremembering. not a concern, as most of my cruises are seven days or more... still, that caught my eye. Edited December 29, 2023 by UKstages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prov2727 Posted December 29, 2023 #8 Share Posted December 29, 2023 So, if the price of your cruise drops and you rebook, instead of $500, you only get the $250 you purchased the certificate for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare laudergayle Posted December 29, 2023 #9 Share Posted December 29, 2023 23 minutes ago, prov2727 said: So, if the price of your cruise drops and you rebook, instead of $500, you only get the $250 you purchased the certificate for? Typically it is not a cancel/rebook just a price adjustment and the booking number stays the same. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefMateJRK Posted December 29, 2023 #10 Share Posted December 29, 2023 1 hour ago, laudergayle said: Typically it is not a cancel/rebook just a price adjustment and the booking number stays the same. It would be nice if somebody who has done this, with a CruiseFirst applied, could educate us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare laudergayle Posted December 29, 2023 #11 Share Posted December 29, 2023 31 minutes ago, ChiefMateJRK said: It would be nice if somebody who has done this, with a CruiseFirst applied, could educate us. I’ve done this without any issue. I did ask my PCC before doing it and she said it was not a new booking, just a change. I know you reprice when possible, if you look at your booking #, my guess is that it doesn’t change. Despite what some say…we have also used $500 CF and later applied $500 CN…not intentionally. We don’t use our PCC when applying our certs, so there was no human intervention. I wouldn’t recommend trying this as I worried the entire time they would cancel our booking. They did not, thankfully. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare cruiser2015 Posted December 30, 2023 #12 Share Posted December 30, 2023 1 hour ago, ChiefMateJRK said: It would be nice if somebody who has done this, with a CruiseFirst applied, could educate us. I did this last summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinkyharriet Posted December 30, 2023 #13 Share Posted December 30, 2023 5 hours ago, Fredrik said: Ok, let’s call it purchasing window. My point is that the 500 hasn’t been around for awhile and now it’s back. They had them for a Black Friday sale last month. I bought one a couple of days after booking a cruise and using a $250 Cruise Next for that. It’s nice having that $500 certificate; it makes a cruise almost seem like a bargain! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleClark Posted December 30, 2023 #14 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Am I missing something here? I buy a $500 cruisenext certificate for $250? I've been away from NCL for awhile, is this the way this promotion works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare shof515 Posted December 30, 2023 #15 Share Posted December 30, 2023 25 minutes ago, KyleClark said: Am I missing something here? I buy a $500 cruisenext certificate for $250? I've been away from NCL for awhile, is this the way this promotion works? yes thats how it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleClark Posted December 30, 2023 #16 Share Posted December 30, 2023 35 minutes ago, shof515 said: yes thats how it works So, is the regular promotion $150 for $300? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinkyharriet Posted December 30, 2023 #17 Share Posted December 30, 2023 1 hour ago, KyleClark said: So, is the regular promotion $150 for $300? Yes. Still a 50% savings but you don’t get as much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reveur15 Posted December 30, 2023 #18 Share Posted December 30, 2023 (edited) I got one cruise first yesterday and i have another from last year. In my account they don't show any expiration date but the terms still says 3 years ? Will they expire or not ? Edited December 30, 2023 by reveur15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare shof515 Posted December 30, 2023 #19 Share Posted December 30, 2023 3 hours ago, reveur15 said: I got one cruise first yesterday and i have another from last year. In my account they don't show any expiration date but the terms still says 3 years ? Will they expire or not ? no, they do not expire. 3 years is old information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistertomatoe Posted December 31, 2023 #20 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Typical NCL mess. Their people are saying CruiseFirst and CruiseNext certs don't expire anymore but don't update their website. I suspect other things are changing for the worse.. (since I doubt they will let the certs go on forever without some way for them to end). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmoopie17 Posted December 31, 2023 #21 Share Posted December 31, 2023 I don't worry about expiration dates on the certs. I'll probably expire before they do. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare laudergayle Posted December 31, 2023 #22 Share Posted December 31, 2023 8 hours ago, mistertomatoe said: Typical NCL mess. Their people are saying CruiseFirst and CruiseNext certs don't expire anymore but don't update their website. I suspect other things are changing for the worse.. (since I doubt they will let the certs go on forever without some way for them to end). My guess is NCL removed the expiration dates for accounting purposes. Without expiration dates they have an indefinite time to reduce projected revenue. In other words, they can claim revenue today for selling certs, but don’t have to reduce future revenue projections on a three year model. It’s really just a smoke and mirrors tactic for NCL bottom line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warriorcruiser Posted January 2 #23 Share Posted January 2 how often do they do the $500 offer. i just got one and booked for 2024. is it worth it to grab another for 2025? or will there be aother opp before then? thanks for any insights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare shof515 Posted January 2 #24 Share Posted January 2 27 minutes ago, warriorcruiser said: how often do they do the $500 offer. i just got one and booked for 2024. is it worth it to grab another for 2025? or will there be aother opp before then? thanks for any insights not that often. It is only done 1-2 times a year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKstages Posted January 3 #25 Share Posted January 3 i haven't kept track, but i think it's done a bit more often than once or twice a year. they did it for black friday, and here we are, about five or six weeks later and, oops, they've done it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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