rere101399
DISmom
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2014
I’ve read multiple posts on some of the social media cruising pages that DCL is allowing placeholders to be extended under the new Cruise Date Flexibility Program.
I’m a little confused and hoping for some clarification and feedback if anyone has used this already this week.
It’s my understanding that they will now allow you to use a placeholder between now and August 31, 2020 for travel on a cruise by April 2022.
So I have a placeholder that expires 8/8/2021. I don’t currently have a sailing booked with it. It’s one of the old ones that includes an OBC so I want to put it to good use!
I want to take advantage of the new flexibility program to extend the placeholder to an Oct 2021 sailing. I plan to book Wednesday morning when it opens for silver booking, and the sailing I want to use it for seems to be a popular choice (8 night HOTHS) so time is of the essence for me on Wednesday.
Here is my confusion: the placeholder isn’t currently booked with a cruise. Am I reading it correctly that I first need to book a cruise that takes place before the original expiration date of 8/8/21 and then tomorrow have them cancel that cruise and move the placeholder and OBC to the October 2021 one? I can’t just call tomorrow and use the placeholder directly for the October sailing? Before I go book a sailing today that I don’t intend to keep using my placeholder, I just want to make sure I’m understanding the process correctly?
thanks so much!
I’m a little confused and hoping for some clarification and feedback if anyone has used this already this week.
It’s my understanding that they will now allow you to use a placeholder between now and August 31, 2020 for travel on a cruise by April 2022.
So I have a placeholder that expires 8/8/2021. I don’t currently have a sailing booked with it. It’s one of the old ones that includes an OBC so I want to put it to good use!
I want to take advantage of the new flexibility program to extend the placeholder to an Oct 2021 sailing. I plan to book Wednesday morning when it opens for silver booking, and the sailing I want to use it for seems to be a popular choice (8 night HOTHS) so time is of the essence for me on Wednesday.
Here is my confusion: the placeholder isn’t currently booked with a cruise. Am I reading it correctly that I first need to book a cruise that takes place before the original expiration date of 8/8/21 and then tomorrow have them cancel that cruise and move the placeholder and OBC to the October 2021 one? I can’t just call tomorrow and use the placeholder directly for the October sailing? Before I go book a sailing today that I don’t intend to keep using my placeholder, I just want to make sure I’m understanding the process correctly?
thanks so much!