Royal Caribbean up to date their courtesy maintain occasions this week and the utmost allowed courtesy maintain interval is now 5 days.
Royal Caribbean stated that the explanation for this replace was in order that they may present a extra streamlined booked expertise.
The cruise line additionally stated that it will assist journey brokers by making their bookings simpler to handle whereas encouraging their purchasers to finalize their reservations earlier.
It’s going to additionally unlock cabins so brokers can get correct stateroom availability.
What’s a courtesy maintain?
A courtesy maintain permits company to order a cabin on a future cruise with out paying the deposit instantly.
Royal Caribbean’s courtesy maintain tips are actually as follows:
- 0 maintain days for cruises departing inside 0 to 30 days
- 1 maintain day for cruises departing inside 31 to 45 days
- 2 maintain days for cruises departing inside 46 to 90 days
- 5 maintain days for cruises departing inside 91 days or extra
This is applicable solely to particular person reservations and the deposit schedule for group bookings stays the identical.
To keep away from automated cancellations, the required deposit must be paid by the choice date, previous to the automated course of operating at 11:00 PM EDT every evening. If not, the reservation will get cancelled.
As well as, the cruise line will now not provide extensions on courtesy holds.
This replace from Royal Caribbean went into impact on October 28, 2024.
Reservations made earlier than this date will preserve the earlier maintain occasions.
