hey everybody its Bruce here with traveling with Bruce how you guys doing
today if you've ever wanted to go on a ship like the celebrity edge and who
wouldn't want to try ship like this you gotta wonder what it will cost you to
get on a ship like that and also is there any way to get any kind of cabin
credits or deals that type of thing well a ship like the edge or any of the other
fantastic cruise ships in the celebrity line or Royal Caribbean or any of the
other brands you got to do your shopping you got a shopper out uh you can find
deals from time to time but there are also times where you can be a little
imaginative and make the right phone call so you might be able to get your
hands on some cabin credits and that's what this video is all about what kind
of cabin credits are onboard spending credits can you get and it all depends
on well how hard you look first of all cruise lines offer cabin credits all the
time this is not an unusual thing and depending on the time of the year
depending on how full the ship is depending on the the cabin
classification that you're getting you might be able to get a cabin credit from
as little as $25 a cabin up to five hundred a thousand dollars a cabin it's
not uncommon for a cruise line to offer say a one-week cruise where they'll
offer a 100 dollar cabin credit if you book early or if you are booking you
know say a shoulder season maybe between say Thanksgiving and Christmas a bit of
a slower period and the Caribbean all the ships are coming back from Europe
for the Caribbean cruising season in the winter cruise lines will start offering
all kinds of deals you might find that the the cabin normally goes for a
thousand bucks for a week but you can get it for $8.99 but as a sweetener the
cruise line will offer you $100 cabin credit on top of that so asking the
cruise lines is one way to go to get a cabin credit another way that passengers
find that they can get cabin credits are booking through their travel agents
travel agents are given promotional dollars all the time by the
cruise lines to push business their way so if you're talking to a travel agent
about a ship like the the celebrity edge here you're looking at going on a nice
one-week vacation or ten-day whatever it is you may find that your travel agent
has cabin credits available through Royal Caribbean and their subsidiary
line celebrity but they can pass on to you
so they might tell you look I can get you this cabin for for $8.99 a person
it's a balcony but I can also give you a cabin credit of $50 on top of the the
deal that the cruise line is offering or I can give you a credit towards
specialty dining or I can give you a credit towards other features of the of
the ship unit never hurts to ask your travel agent if you're onboard the edge
for example if you're on board the board the edge and you're thinking boy I'd
love to go on another cruise on either this ship or this Cruise Line they have
offices the folks at Celebrity will have an office on board the ship where you
can book your own future cruise and they'll have incentives that might run
along the lines of hey you've got three days left to go on this cruise if you
book a cruise with us today for say next year give us a five hundred all or
deposit towards the cruise we'll give you a one hundred dollar cabin credit on
this cruise right now that you can enjoy for the rest of the cruise to put it
towards your tips or whatever you want and we'll also give you an advance
booking credit against the cruise that you're going to go on and if you're
giving us a $500 deposit we might give you a $250 cab and credit towards the
next cruise you're taking with us these are also available referral bonus for
first-time first-timers or groups if you're putting together a family cruise
something like that or a church group cruise or any kind of a group cruise you
know a bunch of folks playing bingo all the time you can go after something
called a referral bonus credit because you're bringing in let's say
ten other people to come along and you're looking at five other cabins the
cruise line may throw you a cabin credit as a referral bonus by just referring
others to the to the cruise line it varies if you can book enough cabins
let's say eight cabins or more you'll likely be offered a free fare for at
least one of the two people in your cabin perhaps you might get an entire
cabin as a freebie because of the fact that you're booking
the total of eight it's always good to ask now if your cruise drops in price
your you've booked your cruise a year out and you find that with six months to
go the cabin that you booked for say $1,000 a person is now at seven hundred
dollars a person you contact your travel agent or your contact the cruise line
all depends on who you booked this cruise through you tell them about the
price drop you might be entitled to a cabin credit equal to the drop in price
of the fare that's a way to be compensated for the fact that you booked
early at the higher price the same cabin is going for a lower rate you have the
right with more than six months left to go to cancel without any charge you
could theoretically cancel you a cruise turn around and rebook or the cruise
line one might say to you well keep your reservation it will give you the
difference in a cabin credit and enjoy yourself so that's something to keep an
eye out for as well of course if ships miss ports they have mechanical troubles
there's problems on the ship the cruise lines may offer you a cabin credit right
onboard the ship while you're on the on the sailing itself sometimes you can get
cabin credits through casino credits you're going downstairs and playing on a
slot machine every night making sure you put your room card or your casino slot
card in the machine to rack up points you may be entitled to cabin credits
based on your play now it may not give you you may not get any credits on the
cruise you're on but you certainly might qualify for cabin credits on your next
cruise so if they give you a 1-800 number for the casino Department on the
back of that card you're thinking booking a cruise on that cruise line
down the road you may want to call the casino department booked a cabin through
them and see what kind of cabin credits they give you might be more than what
you can get through a regular travel agent other cabin credits that you could
qualify for are over 55 year old cabin credits if you're over 55 you might call
apply for a senior credit part of the military used to be in the military you
could qualify for past military members or current military members you could be
qualifying for a teacher credits you could be qualifying for firefighter a
room principal all kinds doesn't hurt to ask
sometimes cruise lines will offer what are known as regional room credits so
you might live say in a particular province in Canada they might have a
promotion for the province of Alberta for the month of January you might get a
hundred hundred fifty dollar cabin credit just because you're from that
province in the USA it might be a cabin credit for people from the northeast
part of the country or the northwest or just a Americans get a credit there are
a million reasons why cruise lines offer credits to spur business you've got to
ask and find out what's available for you and there you go travel credits in
lieu of airfare sometimes the cruise lines will offer free airfare as part of
their cruise especially the six star lines but you may find that you can get
a better deal on your own for a airfare credit or you might find that you're
close enough to drive to a port of call you don't need an airfare credit you
instead of taking a free airfare deal might get a cabin credit for up to $500
in lieu of the fact that you're not taking the air credit and then don't
forget the other one past guest credits that's the one where you've been on the
ship or the cruise line five times six times eight times as a past guest you
qualify for credits and this again is a way to for the cruise line to thank you
for the business you've given them over the years and it's a no-brainer one
other to consider shareholder credits if you're a shareholder of either Carnival
or Royal Caribbean or Norwegian you're looking at getting a cabin credit every
time you take a cruise on top of any other credits that are being offered you
buy the cruise line even idea if you take a one-week cruise say with any of
the Carnival Cruise Line ships a carnival that would be a princess all in
America Cunard cost of cruising any of these guys
and same with Royal Caribbean all along celebrity or Norwegian you take a
one-week cruise your entire entitled to a 100 dollar cabin credit as a
shareholder of the company you need to have 100 shares of stock in
your account so if you have a brokerage account or you have a visor that you use
through a bank you own 100 shares of the cruise line you can qualify for a 100
dollar cabin each time you take a cruise it's unlimited you take 4 cruises a year
you can get that credit four times a year as long as you hold the stock
you're entitled to the credit you talk to your travel agent about how to get
that or you can always call the 800 number through the cruise line tell them
that you're a shareholder of the company that you want to get a shareholder
credit they'll help guide you as to how to do it there you go there's a whole
bunch of ways that you can get credits cabin credits on these cruise lines
whether it's an inside cabin or whether it's the outside cabin it's one of these
iconic Suites right here where the curtains open up automatically with
electronic buttons and you have a butler you qualify for cabin credits until you
ask you'll never know what you can get there you go I hope you enjoyed this
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making it love these pictures here from from the folks at celebrity some of
these sweets are just to die for I don't know if I can afford one of these myself
but I wouldn't mind taking a look at one of these thanks again have a great day
everybody we'll see you next time bye for now