Tips - How to get the best deal on cruises?

[Cloverlady]

Originally Posted by Smilesonfaces

Sorry about jumping on thread but out of interest when you are calculating the pppn figure do you include flights ? I have been pricing up cruises at about £70 a night but that is just the cruise not the rest of it i.e. Hotel night before and after and flights. DH wants to do a cruise this year but I am finding it so much more difficult to price up than other holidays.

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Not sure about others, but my price per person per night was calculated without flights, or compulsory tips.
We fly in the day before and after the cruise we go up to Orlando for a week.

I agree, it's so much harder to price up than a 'normal' land based holiday!
This is our first cruise and think it isn't badly priced yet other cruises I've looked at are silly money - and then again I've seen deals which are comparable roughly with the one we've booked from Miami.

We've since booked another with Thomson sailing the Canary Islands (hoping we don't hate our first cruise! ) and that includes tips and flights which comes out at £114 per person per night, as it was booked as a package.

[CC71]

Originally Posted by Smilesonfaces

Sorry about jumping on thread but out of interest when you are calculating the pppn figure do you include flights ? I have been pricing up cruises at about £70 a night but that is just the cruise not the rest of it i.e. Hotel night before and after and flights. DH wants to do a cruise this year but I am finding it so much more difficult to price up than other holidays.

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Cruise only, e.g. £850 per person for a 7 night cruise in a balcony cabin is £121.43 per person per night, flights and hotel stays obviously add to the overall cost/ affordability. There can be some good package deals for cruises with flights, hotels and transfers, sometimes cheaper than diying

[Smilesonfaces]

Originally Posted by Omega1

To do an accurate pppn comparison you should take the cruise only figure - not including tips, drinks packages, speciality restaurants, obc, etc. If you get any of these then it's a bonus.

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Thank you. I was pricing up Carnival Freedom from Galveston to the Caribbean on a 2 week back to back,4 in a cabin( this was putting me off) in August and it was £70 ish for an outside cabin. Planning a diy cruise seems so much more complicated than Florida was !

[CC71]

We've since booked another with Thomson sailing the Canary Islands (hoping we don't hate our first cruise! ) and that includes tips and flights which comes out at £114 per person per night, as it was booked as a package.[/QUOTE]

That's a good deal including flights and tips I think!

[Cloverlady]

Originally Posted by CC71

We've since booked another with Thomson sailing the Canary Islands (hoping we don't hate our first cruise! ) and that includes tips and flights which comes out at £114 per person per night, as it was booked as a package.

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That's a good deal including flights and tips I think! [/QUOTE]

Yes we thought so, as it also includes all-inclusive drinks too!

[jas72]

Originally Posted by CC71

Have you really paid £205 per person per night for an inside cabin or is that a typo?

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my bad I calculated wrong it was 102 sorry forgot about 2nd person in room haha its 204 for a cabin



The reason I think 204 is that my the money comes from our joint account is its 204 per room

[Smilesonfaces]

I have finally booked our cruise for this year ! We have had a change of plan as we came upon flights to Orlando for £961 for the 4 of us for October half term. So...I have booked Royal Caribbean Harmony of the seas, works out at £80 pppn so I think that sounds about right. We will get the soda package as we don't drink a lot and their alcohol package seems expensive. It will be 6 nights somewhere but not decided yet then 7 nights cruise from Fort Lauderdale and a night in Orlando before flight home.

[jas72]

Sounds great we might cruise from us if we go to Florida again next year