{"id":22390,"date":"2014-11-19T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=22390"},"modified":"2014-11-19T01:00:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T09:00:16","slug":"thursday-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22390","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Sale On Internet Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"

If ever a cruise line needs to fill up a ship quickly, or a bunch of them, Carnival<\/a> just did it. The premise is simple: Everybody loves a deal.<\/p>\n

So on Tuesday, Carnival announced a “35-hour sale.” It was actually a 35-35 sale…35 hours to buy a cruise for $35 a day (starting prices).<\/p>\n

How much did the people like it?<\/p>\n

In the first six hours, so anxious were consumers to break the bank that they broke the website.<\/p>\n

The demand crashed carnival.com<\/a>. Within a couple of hours, it was fixed and the sale of select cruises from December through March resumed. It runs through midnight tonight \"Carnival<\/a>and this is not a big deal for one ship, or one port. For example, here’s a few of the per-day, per-passenger prices (some even better) that we found once the website was re-started:<\/p>\n

$25<\/b> — Los Angeles<\/a> (return) to Catalina and Ensenada, four nights (December 1-5) on the Inspiration<\/a><\/p>\n

$28<\/b> — Fort Lauderdale<\/a> (return) to Key West, Grand Cayman and Cozumel (December 7-13) on the Freedom<\/a><\/p>\n

$34<\/b> — Miami<\/a> (return) to Half Moon Cay, Grand Turk, San Juan and St. Thomas, seven nights (January 10-17) on the Glory<\/a><\/p>\n

$35<\/b> — Galveston<\/a> (return) to Progreso and Cozumel, five nights (December 15-20) on the Triumph<\/a><\/p>\n

$43<\/b> — Miami<\/a> (return) to Ocho Rios, Grand Turk and Nassau, six nights (February 22-28, on the Breeze<\/a><\/p>\n

Clearly, Carnival wants to fill empty beds. Chances are the cruise line can still make a profit at these prices, because passengers do spend money once they’re on the ship.<\/p>\n

But with this sale, getting there is a bargain.<\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>Holland America's new look<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Caribbean Princess<\/a>
\n\t4 nights<\/span>
\n\tJanuary 22, 2015<\/span>
\n\tFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): <\/span>Princess Cays<\/a> <\/span>
\n\tInside: $289<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $72<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If ever a cruise line needs to fill up a ship quickly, or a bunch of them, Carnival just did it. The premise is simple: Everybody loves a deal. So on Tuesday, Carnival announced a “35-hour sale.” It was actually a 35-35 sale…35 hours to buy a cruise for $35 a day (starting prices). How… Continue reading Carnival Sale On Internet Overload<\/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":[16,32,36,15],"tags":[137,564,154,782,965,660,442,1795,647,912,72,35,26,27,957],"class_list":["post-22390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-reviews","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-caribbean-princess","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-breeze","tag-carnival-freedom","tag-carnival-glory","tag-carnival-inspiration","tag-carnival-sale","tag-carnival-triumph","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22390","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=22390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}