Celebrity price drop policy
What Celebrity actually gives you when your fare falls after booking, the deadline that decides it, and the fares it will not cover.
Reprice any time before final payment
You get: Reprice to the lower fare, which means a refund if you have paid in full.
A cabin upgrade when a better category is priced at or below what you paid
You get: A complimentary cabin upgrade, subject to availability.
What does not qualify
Fares that commonly do not qualify. Most lines exclude these, and Celebrity's own terms are the final word.
- Group rates and group bookings
- Casino offers and casino-targeted rates
- Residency, military, senior and loyalty-tier rates not open to the general public
- Travel-agent-only rates and agent rebates
- Charter sailings
- Third-party OTA prices, because every line requires the lower fare to be on its own site
- Rates loaded in error
- Stateroom guarantee cabins, where the line picks your cabin
- Certain promotions Celebrity designates as excluded
- Non-refundable-deposit fares can only be matched against other non-refundable fares
How to file
Call Celebrity on 888-751-7804, or ask your travel partner, with your reservation number and the lower fare you found.
For context on how often this comes up: 29.1% of the 46,885 Celebrity fares we track later fell by $500 or more on a cabin for two. See the data.
Questions
Before your final payment date, reprice any time before final payment. The remedy is reprice to the lower fare, which means a refund if you have paid in full. After final payment, a cabin upgrade when a better category is priced at or below what you paid.
Final payment is the line that matters. A cabin upgrade when a better category is priced at or below what you paid. That window is narrow, so it is worth knowing the moment a fare moves.
Group rates and group bookings; Casino offers and casino-targeted rates; Residency, military, senior and loyalty-tier rates not open to the general public; Travel-agent-only rates and agent rebates; and more besides. The lower fare also has to be publicly bookable on Celebrity's own site at the moment they review it.
Checked against Celebrity's own published terms on Sep 23, 2026. Cruise lines change these programs without notice, so confirm with Celebrity before you rely on a detail here. CruiseSignal is independent and not affiliated with any cruise line.
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