Richard, where do you see that you must complete 2 cruises before you get SSS benefits? This is taken from the website:

Become a Member
Membership in the Seven Seas Society is automatic. All you have to do is sail. Full fare adult guests achieve Society Membership on their second sailing, including all applicable benefits.

Karen:

I may well be misinterpreting the following sentence, which appears right after the one you quote.

"Full fare adult guests achieve Society Membership on their second sailing, including all applicable benefits."

I read this to mean that one would not get full membership benefits (read, discounts on future cruise) until AFTER the second cruise. However, it may also be interpreted as granting these benefits FOR the second cruise. This is why I asked.

Thanks,
Richard

I am guessing it means you get your benefits for your second sailing as that's the way it's always been worded in the past and that's what it has meant.

Thanks,Karen:

It is good to be in error on this matter.

Thanks,
Richard :) :) :)

We got the SSS benefits on our second cruise.

But I look at my trips a little bit differently, I guess (and not just cruises). I find the destination I want, the accomodations I want, and the way to get there that agrees. Once I have that decided I see if there's a price I can live with. If there is, that is my starting point; if I can find discounts to bring the pricing lower then Hooray! But if I can't, that's still the price I was willing to accept. I'll persue voraciously the percervied bargains that are lurking around the corner, but if it isn't still there, it's not going to kill my trip.

Just read this thread. Could not read the threads when I was gone. I did see a tentative list of sailings with NO SSS discounts. Mostly prime cruises, Alaska, Baltics etc. The majority of cruises that probably most of you will take will still have the 5% discount as usual. I really think for those that cruise a lot this new program could turn out to be better. To have the 5% for everyone after one cruise on all sailings and then nothing for the multi night people was not really right and they have received a lot of flack over that issue for several years. Change is hard but often if you just give it all time to develop things turn out better than you first anticipated.

I do agree they should have announced it all at the same time. I think since people would start to book as soon as 2006 was out they needed to have the cruises identified as to the SSS discount applicable on release of the 2006 schedules. The other benefits offered are bound to not be price related hence not affect 2006 bookings immediately. Rather things such as upgrades, or free cruises at a certain point level, or the laundry or whatever they come up with for the additional benefits. The decision on what to offer is a big one and I think with all the other issues they just did not get this all figured yet. I do think they SHOULD have done that but my guess is other things had priority.

I found this description over on the news page at rssc.com.


I wonder what the tiers will be? After one cruise, obviously the party and 5 or 10% discounts on "select" sailings. How about the tiered benefits; do they start at 25, 50, 100 days? More? What makes sense?

Marc, if I am reading it right (your post, not the RSSC website thing) Only thing is, they said on "select" sailings. Sounds more like what Silversea offers to past passengers to me. I like the freedom of what we have now, always 5%, but I like the Silversea policy as well, further discounts on "select" voyages just for past passegers. Hope they will offer these for the cruises I want!