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We have had 1 cruise with Princess and many with P&O (can't remember how many).
The curious thing is that we have only achieved Mediterranean status with P&O but we are in the 'Elite' tier with Princess ???

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Depending on when you signed up to the Princess loyalty club then your P&O points may have been carried across.

You need to do at least 201 nights to get out of the Mediterranean tier - I know it seems to take an eternity unless you can get a couple of long cruises in (25+ nights)


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The tier perks on P&O are really not worth worrying about :D

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Midlandslass wrote: 14 Jul 2021, 10:58
The tier perks on P&O are really not worth worrying about :D
10% discount is :thumbup:

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:thumbup:.......
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david63 wrote: 14 Jul 2021, 11:11
Midlandslass wrote: 14 Jul 2021, 10:58
The tier perks on P&O are really not worth worrying about :D
10% discount is :thumbup:

…..or even 7.5% is if your peasant status like wot we are :)

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We must be inbetweeners - we get 8.5% with P&O.
Apart from that though I agree with midlandslass, not much else to get excited about.

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david63 wrote: 14 Jul 2021, 10:47
Depending on when you signed up to the Princess loyalty club then your P&O points may have been carried across.
Princess cruise was in 2002; first P&O cruise in 2005. P&O cruising days obviously count towards Princess.

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david63 wrote: 14 Jul 2021, 11:11
Midlandslass wrote: 14 Jul 2021, 10:58
The tier perks on P&O are really not worth worrying about :D
10% discount is :thumbup:
As a shareholder, and also someone who takes the maximum OBC when booking, we tend to find that our final on board invoice is never very high, so the 10% discount is a mere pittance. So I would much prefer to have some free wi fi time, or some free drinks instead.
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Kendhni wrote: 14 Jul 2021, 13:14
P&O cruising days obviously count towards Princess.
Not any more - that stopped quite a few years ago.
towny44 wrote: 14 Jul 2021, 13:17
As a shareholder, and also someone who takes the maximum OBC when booking, we tend to find that our final on board invoice is never very high
Could you explain that to my wife please as that appears to be concept that she is unable to grasp :shock:

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We fall into the 8.5% discount category which is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
A glass of bubbly and that’s about it.
I also get the extra obc as a shareholder which is nice.
Somehow, we still usually end up with a sizeable bill at the end.
Mrs B blames my drinking and I blame her treatments.
Whatever, we go on holiday to enjoy ourselves, not to count coppers.
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We too went straight to Elite in our first Princess cruise on the strength of our previous P&O cruises. They no longer credit P&O trips but continue to honour loyalty already earned by that route.

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They must have changed the credit rules sometime after 2015.
Curiously of all our cruises on various Carnival brands the only one that has not added any points to partner loyalty tiers has been our cruise with Carnival itself.

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Kendhni wrote: 14 Jul 2021, 17:31
They must have changed the credit rules sometime after 2015.
Curiously of all our cruises on various Carnival brands the only one that has not added any points to partner loyalty tiers has been our cruise with Carnival itself.
Did you join Carnivals loyalty scheme, and link it to your Princess and P&O scheme?
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towny44 wrote: 14 Jul 2021, 18:31
Did you join Carnivals loyalty scheme, and link it to your Princess and P&O scheme?
A very interesting question, our Carnival cruise was in 1998 and I did join their loyalty program ... I thought it was linked to our P&O account and there is something in the back of my mind though that points were not reciprocal. Still wouldn't be enough to get me into Caribbean tier though :(

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At one time P&O gave, I think, half points for Princess cruises, when they were merged as P&O/Princess before the Carnival days. P&O stopped recognising Princess before vice versa.

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Kendhni wrote: 14 Jul 2021, 20:26
towny44 wrote: 14 Jul 2021, 18:31
Did you join Carnivals loyalty scheme, and link it to your Princess and P&O scheme?
A very interesting question, our Carnival cruise was in 1998 and I did join their loyalty program ... I thought it was linked to our P&O account and there is something in the back of my mind though that points were not reciprocal. Still wouldn't be enough to get me into Caribbean tier though :(
I think that answers your question, Carnival did not take over P&O until 2003, so presumably they would not have been linked until then.
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barney wrote: 14 Jul 2021, 14:47
We fall into the 8.5% discount category which is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
A glass of bubbly and that’s about it.
I also get the extra obc as a shareholder which is nice.
Somehow, we still usually end up with a sizeable bill at the end.
Mrs B blames my drinking and I blame her treatments.
Whatever, we go on holiday to enjoy ourselves, not to count coppers.
If I die with a few hundred quid less in the bank, then hey ho! 😉
I didn’t know there was a 8.5%. I always thought it went from 7.5% to 10. You learn something every day :thumbup:

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We also attract the 8.5% reduction but never had any aspirations of climbing the Tier ladder because we split our holidays between Sea and Riverboat Cruising plus Coaching Tours. Being locked in to P&O simply did not appeal to us but I can accept that others do things differently.

The system that got my vote was Celebrity, we booked a Concierge Grade cabin and had virtually all the perks going even though this was our one and only cruise with them. Booking a cabin grade rather than collecting Green Shield Stamps to get extra perks makes good sense to me because going forward I doubt the majority of passengers will stick to any one Brand for their lifetime.
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