The Diamond cruises have been changing constantly even before this news was out. The way RSSC is doing the specials now is like this.

They take a "magic number - we dont know what that number is" and as soon as that many cabins are sold they pull that special off. It is all about capacity control. The computer does this not a person so it is very instant.

So they all started at 2 for 1. Then they started to change to the What a Fare deal when they hit a certain capacity. Then when they hit the next level of capacity then the What a Fare deal went away.

There are also some "time sensitive" dates as well you must book by certain dates.

Today there were masses of changes, and I mean masses. Time dates for 12/31 deadlines, and I think also capacity dates as people have been booking the Diamond with the news of the pending sale. Julie was turning gray today.

The computer in reservations and the web hit at the same time now they are linked. We have a software that alerts us to even the slightest change on the web. If they change a capital letter to a lower case letter we know about it. You should have seen her screen today with all the changes. So we are really up to date with the changes so we can fix our web. It just takes a while to change all those tables we have so I am not sure she finished today.

So EARLY booking is the way to go - Mr. Marc and his early planning is very very sensible.