Cruising (2)

The emails are still coming.   The latest one to arrive was a “move over” offer:   accept a lesser cabin and we’ll give you a heap of “on board credits”.

The cruise company is obviously fine tuning the allocation of cabins.  We had a similar offer the last time we took a cruise, although then it was more generous but involved going on a different cruise.  This time, we chose our cabin (sorry, “stateroom”) as part of the booking process, but there’s also an option just to specify the category you want but not the actual cabin.  I read that  some cruisers do it this way in the hope that they’ll be upgraded, and no doubt the cruise company is arranging things to meet the commitments they’ve given.

Be that as it may, we “passed” on this offer.   Some of the lesser category cabins on this ship are not at all desirable, so we wouldn’t want to take that risk.  On top of that, I’m hopeful that we won’t spend as much on board as the credit that’s on offer (although time will tell!) – although I see that the offer is for a “refundable credit”……..

EDIT – and after posting the above, yet another “offer” arrived by email:    “Move over” to another cruise (can’t be longer than this one), and it will be “free”, with fare (but not taxes) paid on this one transferred across as “refundable onboard credit”.   Well, we actually paused for a couple of nanoseconds this time before we rejected it:   challenges in finding another cruise, packing well advanced for this one…..

But if anything had arisen in our lives that had us wavering whether we wanted to go ahead on this trip, the offer could be attractive (and probably easier than claiming on travel insurance).   The challenge would be not to spend the “onboard credits” so as hopefully to get at least something by way of an eventual refund!