Folks, what would be good time to look for cruise for a couple? I would be departing from east coast (probably Baltimore), and my destination is pretty much open. possibly caribbean islands? Travel duration is about a week.
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jaimelobo
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posted: Mar. 27, 2012 @ 9:50a
therisingsun14 said: Folks, what would be good time to look for cruise for a couple? I would be departing from east coast (probably Baltimore), and my destination is pretty much open. possibly caribbean islands? Travel duration is about a week.
What can I get affordable?
TIA!Affordable to Jed Clampett or his cousin Pearl?
SinglePapa
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posted: Mar. 27, 2012 @ 9:58a
that season is all low. Baltimore is not optimal port (Port Canaveral, FL has cheaper departures + you don't have to spend chilly days at sea).
Your ages are Crucial, if one is over 55 - the entire cabin may be discounted. If just over 50, u may be able to shop thru AARP website
dstankus2
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posted: Mar. 27, 2012 @ 9:59a
Sept-Oct will be cheaper to the Caribbean because it's hurricane season.
Departing from Baltimore your choices will be more limited. Check on cruise.com for an idea of the prices of the various cruise lines/itineraries leaving from your port. Keep watching, sign up for the emails from the cruise lines you're interested in so you can get notified of sales.
Once you've settled on one or two possibilities, have them priced on cruisecompete.com for some competitive bids.
zane8521
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posted: Mar. 27, 2012 @ 10:19a
Visit travel sites such as Vacations To Go, Smart Cruiser, CruCon..you can see hundreds of cruises from dozens of ports.
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20419 7 nights departing November 25, 2012 on Carnival's Carnival Pride
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owenscott said: Takes me to a login / email capture page ... can you give us any other information?
Sign up and you'll see their offers. It's a legit site and they're quite good, though some of the offers are delayed (i.e. sold out). Still, good for finding itineraries and general costs. Use a spam email if you'd like.
BTW 99% of the the requesters and responders in this forum are excruciatingly lazy.
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posted: Mar. 27, 2012 @ 4:53p
DSJ said: Wed Nov 28 Port Canaveral, FL 7:00am 7:00pm Thu Nov 29 Nassau, Bahamas 11:00am 10:00pm Fri Nov 30 Freeport (Port Lucaya), Bahamas 7:00am 2:00pm That is a really crappy itinerary. I guess he could go to Atlantis and either Cape Canaveral or Disney/Universal (but will have to do the VIP ticket to make sure he can do as many rides as possible -- or is that Universal that has that)? I think we were in Freeport on a cruise and people told me the best thing to do there was stay on the ship. I ignored their advice, only to discover that they were correct.
The Royal Caribbean cruise leaving on 11/24 goes to their private island Cococay, which is going to be much nicer than Freeport.
Tue Nov 27 San Juan, Puerto Rico 4:00pm 11:30pm Wed Nov 28 St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 8:00am 5:00pm Thu Nov 29 Samana, Dominican Republic 9:00am 6:00pm Fri Nov 30 Labadee, Haiti 8:00am 4:00pm
Cheapest Oveanview is $849 but it's possible that there are regional deals.
Royal Caribbean has a special today and tomorrow where they have reduced deposits and free onboard credit.
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20419 7 nights departing November 25, 2012 on Carnival's Carnival Pride
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Brochure Balcony $2,194 Our Balcony $589 You Save 73% Brochure Suite $2,669 Our Suite $1,049 You Save 61%
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DAY DATE PORT ARRIVE DEPART Sun Nov 25 Baltimore, MD 4:30pm Mon Nov 26 At Sea Tue Nov 27 At Sea Wed Nov 28 Port Canaveral, FL 7:00am 7:00pm Thu Nov 29 Nassau, Bahamas 11:00am 10:00pm Fri Nov 30 Freeport (Port Lucaya), Bahamas 7:00am 2:00pm Sat Dec 1 At Sea Sun Dec 2 Baltimore, MD 9:00am
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I've done that exact cruise twice. It's fine, if you accept that it's a cheap cruise on a Carnival ship, and you're OK spending a week with sort of people who take a cheap cruise from Baltimore. I'd do it again, but then I sometimes like buckets of beer, cheeseburgers and reggae I also like sea days.
Re: Freeport. There's a really nice beach ~10 miles away. Wherever the Westin is.
ecorichardrobertryan
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posted: Mar. 27, 2012 @ 8:36p
Bermuda
billrubin
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posted: Mar. 27, 2012 @ 10:19p
ecorichardrobertryan said: BermudaThat's possible. RCI does one out of Baltimore to Bermuda in September and October. Only 6 nights. From Bayonne you can get Explorer for 7 nights and it's a bigger ship than what sails out of Baltimore.
billrubin
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posted: Mar. 27, 2012 @ 10:20p
ganda said: Re: Freeport. There's a really nice beach ~10 miles away. Wherever the Westin is.Cococay would be nicer on an RCI ship.
OP intends to buy low-price first cruise. We haven't seen any solid numbers yet...
Still hadn't posted age, though
billrubin
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posted: Mar. 28, 2012 @ 8:58a
SinglePapa said: OP intends to buy low-price first cruise. We haven't seen any solid numbers yet...
Still hadn't posted age, thoughNor what they want to spend. Affordable (what was mentioned in the OP) does not = low-price. Also don't know that it's a first cruise.
SinglePapa
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posted: Mar. 28, 2012 @ 9:39a
we don't want to turn Fatwallet Travel into Internet. We want to see price breakdowns here
ganda
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posted: Mar. 28, 2012 @ 12:14p
billrubin said: ganda said: Re: Freeport. There's a really nice beach ~10 miles away. Wherever the Westin is.Cococay would be nicer on an RCI ship.
RCI food sucks
markbyte
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posted: Mar. 28, 2012 @ 2:52p
SinglePapa said: that season is all low. Baltimore is not optimal port (Port Canaveral, FL has cheaper departures + you don't have to spend chilly days at sea).
Your ages are Crucial, if one is over 55 - the entire cabin may be discounted. If just over 50, u may be able to shop thru AARP website
Don't leave from Baltimore as your choices will be severely limited. You do not want to go to Bermuda, trust me. Leave from Ft. Lauderdale or Miami for maximum choice and best prince. Western Caribbean or Southern Caribbean would work for you.
billrubin
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posted: Mar. 28, 2012 @ 9:13p
SinglePapa said: we don't want to turn Fatwallet Travel into Internet. We want to see price breakdowns hereWhy, when there are sites like VTG which do such a great job of it? And since when do you speak for everyone here?
billrubin
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posted: Mar. 28, 2012 @ 9:15p
markbyte said: Don't leave from Baltimore as your choices will be severely limited. You do not want to go to Bermuda, trust me. Leave from Ft. Lauderdale or Miami for maximum choice and best prince. Western Caribbean or Southern Caribbean would work for you.Some people like Bermuda. And leaving from Baltimore (or NJ) can avoid flying. Let me tell you, it is WONDERFUL to be able to drive to the port and not have to worry about paying to check your luggage and being able to take whatever you can fit in your car. I sailed out of NJ in December and it was so much nicer than putting up with flying. Yes, it's cheaper to sail out of Florida but what will it cost you in airfare and hotel (since you never want to fly in the day of your cruise)?
Obviously if you're nowhere near a port, you have no choice.
billrubin
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posted: Mar. 28, 2012 @ 9:17p
ganda said: RCI food sucks Except for the pizza, I don't think that Carnival's is anything to write home about.
SinglePapa
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posted: Mar. 28, 2012 @ 9:21p
VTG doesn't list full breakdown of what you "will be out of pocket", it only lists indications of product rate.
On the subject of Fatwallet, members rely on it to get Hot Deals that they can't quickly find elsewhere
billrubin
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posted: Mar. 28, 2012 @ 9:34p
SinglePapa said: VTG doesn't list full breakdown of what you "will be out of pocket", it only lists indications of product rate. Since someone will invariably complain that the rate quoted does not include tips, there is little sense in asking for a complete price. Cruise fares that are quoted do not include port fees and taxes and I don't know that anyone is going to go to the trouble of coming up with a complete quote for the OP who posted a single sentence here and hasn't been back since. On the subject of Fatwallet, members rely on it to get Hot Deals that they can't quickly find elsewhereFortunately this is in Travel Discussion and not Hot Deals.
SinglePapa
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posted: Mar. 28, 2012 @ 10:23p
I agree that OP's M.O. is disappointing; this happens in way too many cases. A topic can still help those who participate - no need to be "the OP".
I can't stop people from not sticking to pure arithmetic in Travel; but I try
billrubin
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posted: Mar. 29, 2012 @ 7:38a
SinglePapa said: I can't stop people from not sticking to pure arithmetic in Travel; but I tryThere is a difference between someone who posts "I found this great cruise for $299" and you find out it's closer to $500 with fees and someone who posts "find me a cruise".
SinglePapa
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posted: Mar. 29, 2012 @ 8:22a
My point is that on Fatwallet we try to cut impulsive. People may go travel all they want, and write about travel all they want - but keep Fatwallet out of THAT KIND of process. In the infinity of internet, members use Fatwallet to isolate unique cost/profit nuances
owenscott
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posted: Mar. 29, 2012 @ 4:49p
ganda said: billrubin said: ganda said: Re: Freeport. There's a really nice beach ~10 miles away. Wherever the Westin is.Cococay would be nicer on an RCI ship.
RCI food sucks Disney fruit, especially the watermelon, was the best i have ever tasted. One and only cruise so i dont know if that is par for ships regularly sailing the Caribbean.
billrubin
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posted: Mar. 29, 2012 @ 8:20p
SinglePapa said: My point is that on Fatwallet we try to cut impulsive. People may go travel all they want, and write about travel all they want - but keep Fatwallet out of THAT KIND of process. In the infinity of internet, members use Fatwallet to isolate unique cost/profit nuancesThis section of FW is called Travel Discussion. Not Travel Hot Deals. If you don't like it, feel free to complain to TPTB about changing it. Until then, stop trying to police a rule that does not exist.
SinglePapa
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posted: Mar. 30, 2012 @ 12:49a
not a matter of policing or rules. Matter of sense
dstankus2
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posted: Mar. 30, 2012 @ 2:45p
This used to be "Travel Deals," and was pretty rigorously self-policed to keep the focus on Deals (much like Hot Deals is).
A few years ago FW decided to broaden the scope, and renamed it Travel Discussion. There was lots of spirited, um, Discussion at the time, but they were firm.
Agree that FW as a whole is more oriented on money-saving, but they've made the explicit decision to broaden this forum, so I don't think you should criticize people for having a travel discussion on a forum called Travel Discussion.
Ironically, this forum is also the source of some of the worst travel advice I've every read....people looking for advice on good cruises belong on Cruise Critic first. Folks looking for airfare/FF mile info should visit FlyerTalk. And the endless "where should I go/what should I do there" questions really will be answered much more usefully on Trip Advisor.
SinglePapa
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posted: Mar. 30, 2012 @ 2:55p
correctly re-directed by dstankus2! "And in other news: water is wet!" doesn't belong on Fatwallet. We try our best with dollars'n'cents
billrubin
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posted: Mar. 30, 2012 @ 10:16p
dstankus2 said: people looking for advice on good cruises belong on Cruise Critic first.I'm in 100% agreement on this.
shank
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posted: Mar. 31, 2012 @ 1:58p
dstankus2 said: This used to be "Travel Deals," and was pretty rigorously self-policed to keep the focus on Deals (much like Hot Deals is).
A few years ago FW decided to broaden the scope, and renamed it Travel Discussion. There was lots of spirited, um, Discussion at the time, but they were firm.
Agree that FW as a whole is more oriented on money-saving, but they've made the explicit decision to broaden this forum, so I don't think you should criticize people for having a travel discussion on a forum called Travel Discussion.
Ironically, this forum is also the source of some of the worst travel advice I've every read....people looking for advice on good cruises belong on Cruise Critic first. Folks looking for airfare/FF mile info should visit FlyerTalk. And the endless "where should I go/what should I do there" questions really will be answered much more usefully on Trip Advisor.
You can say the same thing for people looking for advice on audio / video systems (avsforums.com), VoIP providers (dslreports.com), etc.
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