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Originally Posted by buggyone
Quite a few of the social clubs do cruises from time to time. It is a standard practice for the cruise line to give a free cabin to the originator for every 8 bookings they get.
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Hi Buggy
Well it's not exactly standard practice anymore. Some cruise lines have stopped giving the cabins out. The "free" cabins are one berth for every 8 cabins (generally speaking) but they do not pay taxes, gratuities etc. So there is still a fee. So if there were two of you in one cabin you would need 16 cabins to get two 'free' berths.
Generally when I have a group I ask if they would prefer to use that value and spread it amongst all the group members in the form of an on board credit. Then one person is not benefiting and the other are left out.
Some cruise lines do not offer the 'free' berth anymore. Some lines don't even give you amenities for having a group.