{"id":1601,"date":"2010-06-08T01:23:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T08:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2010-06-08T01:23:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T08:23:31","slug":"cruise-deals-egypt-mediterranean-nile-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"Ever-Changing World of Cruise Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cruise prices are fluid, as they should be, because where would ships be without water? Okay, bad joke. As occupancy changes, cruise lines shift the pricing accordingly. Sometimes, it happens within minutes. As an example, here are two &#8220;good deals&#8221; we came across this week, deals that changed from previous offers. Both included air fare.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1605\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2010\/06\/cruise-deals-egypt-mediterranean-nile-river\/grandnile\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1605\" title=\"GrandNile\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/GrandNile-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a>For a bottom price of $1,299, you could fly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/\">New York<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touregypt.net\/\">Egypt<\/a> and spend a week on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touregypt.net\/egypt-info\/magazine-mag05012001-magf4a.htm\">Nile River<\/a>, plus one day in Cairo and two in the air \u2014 and the deal includes flights from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touregypt.net\/cairo\/\">Cairo<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touregypt.net\/luxor\/\">Luxor<\/a> and back, 21 meals (but who&#8217;s counting?), transfers and government taxes. Not included are excursions that would enable you to see, presumably, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touregypt.net\/featurestories\/pyramids.htm\">Pyramids<\/a>. By the time we checked on it, $1,299 had become $1,399 for &#8220;first-class&#8221;, but for an extra $400 you get the &#8220;deluxe&#8221; treatment \u2014 who said 22 meals?<\/p>\n<p>The catch is it&#8217;s two and three weeks before Christmas, but when you think about all that&#8217;s included, it&#8217;s attractive if seeing the Pyramids and Egypt is on your bucket list. It&#8217;s called the Grand Nile Cruise, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnylandtours.com\/specials.htm\">Sunnyland Tours<\/a>, which has 400 cruise boats.<\/p>\n<p>And for $1,499, you can fly from one of five U.S. cities to Barcelona, board the Celebrity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritycruises.com\/plancruise\/ships\/ship.do;jsessionid=0000SQ5XwB7yLfTtodxBF0juC52:12hdbcuh7?shipCode=CS&amp;cS=SIDENAV\">Constellation<\/a> and stop at five Mediterranean ports (Nice, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/Tourism-g187823-Genoa_Italian_Riviera-Vacations.html\">Genoa<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/florenceitaly.ca\/\">Florence<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/romeitaly.ca\/\">Rome<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.italyguides.it\/us\/napoli\/naples.htm\">Naples<\/a>). <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1608\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2010\/06\/cruise-deals-egypt-mediterranean-nile-river\/constellation\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1608\" title=\"Constellation\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Constellation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>Besides air fare, it includes all pier transfers and between $150 and $250 on-board cabin credit. It&#8217;s in October, but this catch is that the sale ends tonight.<\/p>\n<p>However, last week, the sale ended on Friday. Clearly it didn&#8217;t sell out \u2014 hence the extension \u2014 and if it doesn&#8217;t sell out today&#8230;as we used to tell our daughter when she was the little girl looking for wildlife from the back seat, &#8220;Keep watching!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This one came to us from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelzoo.com\/cruises\/europe\/824467\/\">Travelzoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, we&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruise prices are fluid, as they should be, because where would ships be without water? Okay, bad joke. As occupancy changes, cruise lines shift the pricing accordingly. Sometimes, it happens within minutes. As an example, here are two &#8220;good deals&#8221; we came across this week, deals that changed from previous offers. Both included air fare.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=1601\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ever-Changing World of Cruise Deals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15],"tags":[205,71,72,51,86,35,206,207,208],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-stories","tag-air-fare-included","tag-celebrity","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-egypt","tag-sunnyland-tours","tag-travelzoo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}