Greetings, my excellent friends!

I seem to recall, on one or two of the many boards I frequented before finding my "home" here, that our suite already receives a $200 (?) shipboard credit just for booking with Radisson. We did not use any type of AMEX, so that credit wouldn't apply to us.

Our TA says that is the norm, but we won't know for sure until we embark.

Anyone familiar with this possible policy?

Getting closer! Gathering funds for fun!!!! Any un-budgeted surprises from the line would be gravy!

Be well,
Ash <img border="0" alt="[vhappy]" title="" src="graemlins/icon_vhappy.gif" />

Really? I've never heard of such a thing! But that, in and of itself, means nothing...

Like Robert i am not educated in this area - but we had $300 credit for a couple by using amex platnium - joanna

I think some agencys provide $200 shipboard credit but it is coming from the agency, not RSSC. I can't remember if Radisson had any shipboard credit promotions this past year but they used to offer them quite often.

We had a $200 shipboard credit on Mariner in January and I think it came from Radisson. (We don't use Amex). The card said "complements of Radisson".

If memory serves me right on VOF in October we had a $300. credit from AmEx (Platinum card) and a $100. credit from Radisson....(maybe it varies from sailing to sailing)? This is per cabin/couple...not per individual.

:cool: Our travel agent gave us 200.00 shipboard credit but when we got our docs it said we had 400.00 shipboard credit. I thought I misunderstood our travel agent but maybe the extra 200.00 came from Radisson. Off to the SPA I GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :banana: :)

Radisson offers promotions for shipboard credit on various cruises. Mostly South America and the World cruise but others as well from time to time. Sometimes there can be an on board credit as a compensation for a problem. When these are offered everyone gets the credit.

Then some agencies are associated with Virtuoso and Giants. These consortiums (Virtuoso and Giants Select) often offer a $100 shipboard credit either per person or per cabin on "select" voyages, those that the consortium is sponsoring as special voyages.

So if you get a combination of these it can add up for you which is what it sounds like in this case.

Anyway as you say ---- here you go to the spa.

Thank you very much for the informed information! I guess we will all have to wait and see what happens!

Any 9 March Mariner sailors back, or posting from onboard? Maybe they can add recent info.

Regardless, I'll be sure to remember whether or not we got the credit from Radisson and will certainly add that in with my other review items! Keith and I have vowed to keep separate travel journals (our personal custom anyway) so that we won't forget a thing and can also "remember" events through the eyes of the other.

Cheers,
Ash <img border="0" alt="[vhappy]" title="" src="graemlins/icon_vhappy.gif" />

Hi Ash,

No shipboard credit for us (not that it deterred us from dropping a few bucks here and there!!). I'll detail more on what we dropped the bucks on on my cruise journal that I plan to post later this week). BTW we used an internet agency and we were in a category H suite.