price reduction
 

wife bought a week(sep 23) in a suite from united on carnaval. the price was just cut in half over the weekend. who i contact to get the price i paid reduced? how i go about it? should i contact united or carnival

When I had a somewhat related situation where I spotted a price drop, I contacted the agency where I'd bought the cruise (VacationsToGo). In my case it was a lowly inside cabin. They wouldn't give me any money back, but instead upgraded me to a window cabin and gave me some on-board-credit. I was happy with the deal as the original price I'd paid was already excellent. I know the agent went back to the cruise line to sort things out, but I didn't deal with them. Another later cruise I spotted a price drop and thought I'd go for something similar. No luck this time, the agent explained to me, as I'd passed the full-payment date.

I have to assume the results are pretty arbitrary and depend on all sorts of things. Some of which we will never know.

Hope someone has experience more specifically relate to your situation. But you might check the full-payment date and be sure to act before that.

You contact the agency that made your reservation, in this case, United Vacations or whatever they are called.

I do have a friend whose TA was able to get her OBC and a cabin upgrade on Seabourn after final payment date when the price of suites drastically decline. A case of YMMV.

It worked for me with Seabourn. I booked a cruise and months later talked my in-laws into booking. I cut and pasted the current Seabourn offer to show them and noted that the price had gone down. I called Seabourn and asked for the new deal and they gave me the lower price. I always book direct with Seabourn, don't know if that helps.

Randyk47 and I share the same travel agent (thanks to Randy's referral). She is able to offer 10% off Seabourn bookings. Since I have started to use her 1.5 years ago, I've saved around $7K. Thank you Randyk47

PS: I used to book directly with cruiselines, but these saving are too good to pass up.

Yep, we started using that TA (and my inlaws happened to book 2 Oceania cruises with them at the same time and used us as their referrals, so....) Spread the good cheer! [our Seabourn cruise is in just under 3 weeks and I am SO excited.]

i made a mistake. my wife got the suite for $1100 for 7 nights up front. so we have a suite on the very back of the boat. we going through the chesapeake canal.

Out of eleven cruises, I got a very back of the ship veranda once. The view can't be beat. It is a wonderful place to be. Just tell your wife "good job" and enjoy.

I too was spoiled by an aft-facing suite, love the wake at night and the view. Done it twice.

Always request the new pricing from where ever you book the cruise from.

Totally agree with this. Can't remember when I last booked direct with cruise line.
I paid exactly $2k less than Seabourn was charging on one of their cruises a few years ago using www.cruisecompete.com