Last week, Norwegian announced its 2013 winter cruises would be available to the general public before Christmas. The same day, Viking River Cruises put tickets on sale for 2013.
On Royal Caribbean’s website, you can book a cruise for September 2013 and on Celebrity through December 2013. It is possible to book on NCL’s Pride of America, today, for December 2014.
Really?
Do people really book their cruises two or three years in advance? Have they not heard about the apocalypse? The end of the Mayan calendar? Armaggedon? Is it possible that they think a cruise ship will be mistaken for an ark, and that their chances of survival are better if they’re among the limited number of human species on board?
The point is, in this age of everything today, how can cruise passengers look so far into tomorrow? We of the instant-gratification, impulsive-decision and last-minute-deal demographic don’t do anything that far in advance.
In a world when things can change in a minute, planning to be on a cruise ship three years down the road just seems so…well, foreign.
Doesn’t it?
DAILY DEAL:
Celebrity Century
12 nights
January 18, 2012
Sydney (Australia), Hobart (Tasmania), Milford Sound, Doubtful Sound; Dusky Sound, Dunedin, Akaroa, Wellington, Napier, Tauranga, Bay Of Islands, Auckland (New Zealand)
Inside $1,029
www.celebritycruises.com