Tomorrow’s kind of like Thanksgiving, or Christmas, for cruise shoppers. Bargains galore. And if you’re a husband like me whose first instinct is to wonder where I can find a football game so I don’t have to go, because there’s always football to watch on Thanksgiving and before Christmas, relax.
Tomorrow is, as it says up there, The World’s Largest Cruise Night, although in my world
that doesn’t exactly tell you what it is — the word “sale” is missing — and I don’t think it’s “night” shopping. But as long as I don’t have to get involved, I don’t really care.
In celebration of National Cruise Vacation Month, the non-profit Cruise Line International Association has made this the one day of the year (allegedly) that EVERYBODY has killer sales on cruises. Right, Black Friday for cruisers…only it’s Wednesday the 13th. And like I said, guys, relax. There’s no fighting for the 42-inch flat-screen TV or the latest XBox games that 95 people want when there are only 50 of them. There’s no waiting in the parking lot for the marathon shopping spreed to end. There’s no hauling so many parcels into the trunk that you think she’s been Christmas shopping for the whole neighborhood.
These bargains are either online or on-the-phone.
You will find them — or my case she will find them — on websites and from travel agents or cruise-line agents. That’s where you find them. Last year, travelers bought $45 million worth of cruises on this day. Some people saved as much as $2,000. Some moved up a notch to balconies or suites. Some received great onboard credits.
And the best thing of all about it for people like me is not needing a football game to “take a pass.”