cruisinsince75 Posted September 17, 2006 #1 Share Posted September 17, 2006 Usually by now SS has all of their Silver Sailings posted on their website for the first part of the year. All I see are cruises to Asia. Is SS eliminating them? Is this part of their overall pricing changes that we have heard about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azgkrudi Posted October 13, 2006 #2 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Don, they are FINALLY posted as of this morning... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DebbieH103 Posted October 16, 2006 #3 Share Posted October 16, 2006 I got an email about them today. There are supposed to be about 40. I checked the 2 cruises we have booked - March 19 San Juan to San Juan and Dec 1 Dubai to Mumbai. In neither case are these rates a savings for us over the rate we had booked. The Dec 1 would be if we were not booked in medallion. They put in 40% on the midship and below on that one, whereas the upper categories are 20% off. This was explained to me a while back when I called to make final payment on the March cruise (explained that they wouldn't be putting silver sailings on categories above midship verandah in most cases). With the 2% onboard discount and the 5% venetian, that gave us 27% off. Evidentally, that is the best to get other than dropping our category. One would have hoped booking almost 2 years in advance that we could have done better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinsince75 Posted October 20, 2006 Author #4 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Thanks! We got our deposit down for the Barcelona to Rome cruise on the Wind. First time on that ship. It was a 50% Silver Sailing and also a 5%Venetian Sailing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJN1 Posted October 20, 2006 #5 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Well done! Do you know how/when SS offers combined discounts? We just changed our reservation from 1709 as SS changed the original itinerary on us by dropping Libya and instead going to some Greek islands where we have been with them - and you :) - before. With 1709 we had onboard/Venetian Society/EBI and APB. We now switched to 4718 which has a 40% SilverSavingsoffer. As our TA finalized the pricing we were told that this os not a cruise where on-board saving/Venetian society were offered before (which I understand and accept), but also that Silversailings can't be combined with EBI and APB - despote the sailing date still being more than 7 months away. Could you explain how their discount policy works? THANKS! Mjn1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DebbieH103 Posted November 10, 2006 #6 Share Posted November 10, 2006 The APB ended a while back, and there was a gap between that and when silver sailings came out 4 weeks ago. APB worked for lal categories, but none of the higher categories got the silver sailings deals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinsince75 Posted November 10, 2006 Author #7 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Well done! Do you know how/when SS offers combined discounts? We just changed our reservation from 1709 as SS changed the original itinerary on us by dropping Libya and instead going to some Greek islands where we have been with them - and you :) - before. With 1709 we had onboard/Venetian Society/EBI and APB. We now switched to 4718 which has a 40% SilverSavingsoffer. As our TA finalized the pricing we were told that this os not a cruise where on-board saving/Venetian society were offered before (which I understand and accept), but also that Silversailings can't be combined with EBI and APB - despote the sailing date still being more than 7 months away. Could you explain how their discount policy works? THANKS! Mjn1 You can combine the onboard booking discount, Venetian Society discounts, and SilverSailings discounts, but I as far as I know not the EBI or APB discounts with the SilverSailing discounts. Plus the discounts are off the total fare, not the discounted fare. It seems though that once a fare goes to a SilverSailing, they do not offer the onboard booking discounts on those anymore. Something new this year. Only CERTAIN cruises even offer onboard booking discounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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