{"id":20886,"date":"2014-06-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=20886"},"modified":"2014-06-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T08:00:00","slug":"friday-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20886","title":{"rendered":"An Assessment of Cruise Deals Posted"},"content":{"rendered":"

When is a "cruise deal" a good deal?<\/span><\/p>\n

If you book a cruise based on somebody's suggestion or pitch that it's a bargain, and the price goes up after that, then you got a deal. Just like anything else that you buy…you want to try and catch it at its low, low price.<\/p>\n

Every day, we post a new cruise deal here at cruisingdoneright.com. The research is totally subjective. The outcome is always something of a gamble. There are no guarantees the price will go up, or won't come down.<\/p>\n

Today, we are self-assessing. Picking five of this year's Daily Deals<\/i> at random, here's what we discovered:<\/p>\n

1) Posted January 23, Alaska<\/a> cruise on the Grand Princess<\/a> from Seattle<\/a> (return). 
\n\tPrice then: $598<\/span>
\n\tPrice today: $914<\/span>
\n\tDifference: Booking now would cost $316 more<\/b><\/p>\n

2) Posted February 5, Mediterranean cruise on Cunard's Queen Elizabeth<\/a> from Venice<\/a> to Rome<\/a> 
\n\tPrice then: $986<\/span>
\n\tPrice today: $799<\/span>
\n\tDifference: Booking now would save $187<\/b><\/p>\n

3) Posted March 10, Caribbean cruise on the Celebrity Constellation<\/a> from Fort Lauderdale<\/a> (return). 
\n\tPrice then: $699<\/span>
\n\tPrice today: $749<\/span>
\n\tDifference: Booking now would cost $50 more<\/b><\/p>\n

4) Posted March 13, Alaska cruise on the Holland America Zaandam<\/a> from Vancouver<\/a> (return). 
\n\tPrice then: $699<\/span>
\n\tPrice today: $699<\/span>
\n\tDifference: No difference<\/b><\/p>\n

5) Posted May 13, Caribbean cruise on the Norwegian Sky<\/a> (3 nights) from Miami<\/a> (return). 
\n\tPrice then: $159<\/span>
\n\tPrice today: $329<\/span>
\n\tDifference: Booking now would cost $170 more<\/b><\/p>\n

Like we said, no guarantees…but we'll take three out of four and a tie!<\/p>\n

Today at Phil Reimer's <\/span><\/a>portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: Seabourn in European in 2015<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Celebrity Millennium<\/a>
\n\t7 nights<\/span>
\n\tSeptember 5, 2014<\/span>
\n\tAnchorage<\/a>, <\/span>Hubbard Glacier<\/a>, <\/span>Juneau<\/a>, <\/span>Skagway<\/a>, <\/span>Icy Strait Point<\/a>, <\/span>Ketchikan<\/a>, <\/span>Vancouver<\/a>
\n\tInside: $619<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $88<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When is a "cruise deal" a good deal? If you book a cruise based on somebody's suggestion or pitch that it's a bargain, and the price goes up after that, then you got a deal. Just like anything else that you buy…you want to try and catch it at its low, low price. Every day,… Continue reading An Assessment of Cruise Deals Posted<\/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":[32,25,36,19,15],"tags":[45,137,743,138,476,912,1633,72,35,150,703,23,841,30,126,375,26,27,957,241],"class_list":["post-20886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-alaska","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-celebrity-constellation","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-chateau-lafite","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deal-comparisons","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-cunard","tag-grand-princess","tag-holland-america","tag-holland-america-zaandam","tag-mediterranean-cruise","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-sky","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-queen-elizabeth","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886","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=20886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}