Originally Posted by
CPT Trips
On the occassions that I dealt with a TA giving me a "group rate", they had the same inventory of cabins available in the category I wanted as the cruise line was showing on their website, and at a significantly lower price.
That's often the case, but agents holding block space can also many times offer cabins in categories which are sold out through the cruise line directly. Some agents even put their own $$$ on popular cabins so they can offer them exclusively to their own clients.