{"id":12105,"date":"2012-04-17T01:26:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T08:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=12105"},"modified":"2012-04-17T01:26:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T08:26:43","slug":"12105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=12105","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Bargains for AARP from NCL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When you get to a certain age — and sometimes even before then — one of the things that becomes important is getting a deal. A bargain. A discount cruise.<\/p>\n

In fairness, this fact of life often is precipitated by having a fixed income with no realistic hope that it'll ever go up.<\/p>\n

Now, AARP<\/a> and NCL<\/a> have put their acronyms together for OAPs.<\/p>\n

Cruisers who are members of the Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons can get a 10% discount and free upgrades on select Norwegian Cruise Line ships to ease the hit on their Old Age Pensioners.<\/p>\n

Does anybody but us find this is a little ironic…the self-professed "youngest cruise fleet" attracting the self-admitted "oldest cruisers?"<\/p>\n

The NCL ships are the magnificent Epic<\/a>, Gem<\/a>, Spirit<\/a>, Sun<\/a>, Star<\/a>, Jade<\/a>, Jewel<\/a>, Pearl<\/a> and even the Pride of America<\/a>, the oft sold-out ship that sails only in the Hawaiian Islands. In other words, every NCL ship except the Sky<\/a> and the Dawn<\/a> are involved in this AARP promotion.<\/p>\n

The length and the destinations of the cruises range from a lot of weeklies to the 24-day Transatlantic return of the Sun, from Copenhagen<\/a> to Miami<\/a> in the fall. The Sun is being replaced in Europe, the current cruising hot spot, by the Star next year and will join the Jade as NCL's two-ship European base. This is the first year Norwegian will have four of its 11 ships in Europe.<\/p>\n

Independent of its AARP promotion, which ends May 14, NCL is also offering to subsidize select flights.<\/p>\n

OAPs like that, too.<\/p>\n

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Royal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas<\/a>
\n\t7 nights
\n\tMay 13, 2012
\n\tRome<\/a> (return): Messina<\/a>, Ephesus<\/a>, Athens<\/a>, Crete<\/a>
\n\tInside: $599
\n\tCost per day: $85<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.rccl.com<\/a>
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