NCL launched Premium All-Inclusive back in April 2017 for the UK and Irish market with the option to include unlimited premium drinks, bottled water, service charges, and gratuities. There is also another fare option called Just cruise which includes tips and nothing else, the negative of this is that you don’t have the choice of cabin number and the feedback I have had from customer is that the people who possibly wouldn’t use a drinks package to its full advantage were being penalised in no being able to choose their preferred location & cabin number.
Well, this is all about to change………
Norwegian are wanting to give its customers the freedom of choice, based on a 7-9 night cruise if you pay £99pp you can choose from two benefits,
- Premium Beverage Package – With alcoholic and non-alcoholic branded drinks served in all bars, lounges, and restaurants throughout your cruise.
- Specialty Dining Package With up to five dining opportunities in selected specialty restaurants.
- WiFi Package With up to 125 minutes of WiFi per person.
- Shore Excursion Package With $50 shore excursion credit per stateroom per port of call.
- Family and Friends Offer On selected sailings guests three and four in the stateroom pay only the applicable tax for their cruise.
This is how the overall pricing will look for different durations and is applicable to Studio through to Mini- Suite categories only. Customers booking The Haven By Norwegian®, Concierge Stateroom or a Suite
will receive all applicable benefits at no additional cost.
1-6 nights £49pp
7-9 nights £99pp
10-13 nights £149pp
14-17 nights £199pp
18+ nights £249pp
It makes me wonder how this will affect pricing, quite a lot of the time the just cruise option with tips included was much cheaper and benefited those who didn’t feel they would have great use of the additional benefits by upgrading, and when I say much cheaper I mean sometimes £900pp cheaper.
This will be interesting, what are your thoughts on this ?