What caught our eyes was Free 3-night Winelands & Wildlife Safari Land Tour on 6 Voyages<\/i> promotion. That led us to randomly choose one of the six voyages, a 30-day trip on the Oceania Nautica<\/a> from Dubai<\/a> to Cape Town<\/a>, South Africa, and dig deeper into some of the details:<\/p>\n • 2 for 1 cruise fares<\/b> — Oceania does a lot of this and the problem is that it’s based on a “brochure fare.” On this one, the promotional fare is $9,999 for an inside stateroom, compared to a brochure fare of $26,398. That’s per person. Really? Somebody would consider paying almost $1,000 a day, per person, on the Nautica?<\/p>\n • Free Airfare*<\/b> — The asterisk (*) is for the gateway cities where your coach air fare applies, and that transportation to say, Atlanta, is extra. Fair enough. By the way, ground transportation is not included.<\/p>\n • $500 shipboard credit<\/b> — Okay.<\/p>\n • Free pre-paid gratuities & Internet<\/b> — That’s pretty straightforward, until you read the fine print, where it says “Free Internet is one per stateroom and applies to Concierge Level Staterooms.”<\/p>\n • Free safari land tour<\/b> — Also straightforward, except that it is “capacity controlled, limited availability.”<\/p>\n So, here’s the bottom line: Your cruise fare is half the “rack rate” and your air fare is paid from major airports; on the ship you get $500 credit per stateroom, the Internet is free if you book a concierge room ($13,299) or higher, and you get a free African safari for three days as long as it’s not overbooked by people looking for the same freebie.<\/p>\n Confusing?<\/p>\n We thought so, too.<\/p>\n Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>Beautiful Budapest at night<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Celebrity Millennium<\/a> You may have noticed in our Daily Deals — five days a week, 52 weeks a year — that bargains on "upper premium" cruise lines appear only rarely. There’s a reason for that: The “deals” are often…well, confusing. An example is one we just received from Oceania. What caught our eyes was Free 3-night Winelands… Continue reading Why Upscale Cruise Deals Are Rare<\/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":[1957,45,1958,138,78,912,72,275,35,58,1248,907,898,26,27],"class_list":["post-24049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-reviews","category-stories","tag-african-safari","tag-alaska","tag-cape-town","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-millennium","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-promotion","tag-cruises","tag-dubai","tag-internet-cost-on-ships","tag-oceania-cruises","tag-oceania-nautica","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24049","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=24049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
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\n\t7 nights
\n\tJune 12, 2015
\n\tAnchorage<\/a>, Hubbard Glacier<\/a>, Juneau<\/a>, Skagway<\/a>, Icy Strait Point<\/a>, Ketchikan<\/a>, Inside Passage<\/a>, Vancouver<\/a>
\n\tInside: $549
\n\tCost per day: $78<\/strong>
\n\twww.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"