{"id":26241,"date":"2015-11-26T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=26241"},"modified":"2015-11-26T01:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T09:00:35","slug":"thursday-152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=26241","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving: Time To Make A Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Allure\"<\/a>If you\u2019re wondering what became of Turkey Thursday, well, it was long ago gobbled up by Black Friday. Four or five centuries ago, it was the holiday with a singular purpose: to give thanks, be grateful.<\/p>\n

Today is about parades and football games and, most of all, shopping. It is the busiest day of the year in malls and online, so great are the deals. Black Friday even exists in Canada, where Thanksgiving was celebrated six weeks ago, as it always is on the first Monday of October.<\/p>\n

Did somebody say deals? Nothing attracts a crowd of cruisers faster than a bargain. Most of them are on ships from the mainstream cruise lines, which have the capacity to make a big deal about big deals, such as\u2026<\/p>\n

Carnival<\/a> will take you on a 6-night Caribbean cruise for less than $50 per day if you book it tomorrow. Wait until Saturday and it jumps to $65 per day.<\/p>\n

Princess<\/a> is calling it the biggest sale of the year, up to $300 off the cruise and $300 off airfare, per person. In fact, it\u2019s such a \u201cbig deal\u201d that Princess is just starting it on Black Friday and keeping it alive until December 8.<\/p>\n

\"Divina\"<\/a>MSC<\/a>, trying to get established in the Caribbean with its newest ship (the Divina<\/a>), kicks off a Black Friday sale today with 7-night cruises for just over $50 per day.<\/p>\n

You won\u2019t get on a Royal Caribbean<\/a> ship for that price but you will get on Allure of the Seas<\/a>, for just over $100 a day\u2026and that<\/i> is a deal.<\/p>\n

Norwegian\u2019s<\/a> offer is complex. Book a cruise 30 days or more in advance and pick one of four offers: 250 minutes of Wi-Fi, a specialty dining package, a beverage package or $50 off shore excursions in every port. A week-long promotion, it ends Monday.<\/p>\n

Even in jolly ol\u2019 England, which celebrates this type of thing with a September harvest, Black Friday is taking root \u2014 its most famous cruise line, Cunard<\/a>, has a weekend offer called \u201cThe Ultimate Upgrade.\u201d<\/p>\n

It used to be that the ultimate upgrade was cranberries on the turkey, and whipped cream the pumpkin pie!<\/p>\n

In the news…<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0No more overnights in Istanbul for Celebrity\u00a0Reflection, Equinox
\n\u2022 Five P&O Australia ships in Sydney Harbor to celebrate the latest two
\n\u2022\u00a0Celebrity\u00a0expands culinary enrichment program to include Cuban dishes<\/p>\n

Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em>Favourite river port getting crowded<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nHolland America Eurodam
\n<\/a>7 nights
\nJanuary 3, 2016
\nFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): Half Moon Cay<\/a>, Ocho Rios<\/a>, Grand Cayman<\/a>, Key West
\n<\/a>Inside: $449
\nCost per day: $64<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.hollandamerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re wondering what became of Turkey Thursday, well, it was long ago gobbled up by Black Friday. Four or five centuries ago, it was the holiday with a singular purpose: to give thanks, be grateful. Today is about parades and football games and, most of all, shopping. It is the busiest day of the… Continue reading Thanksgiving: Time To Make A Deal<\/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":[16,32,15],"tags":[2146,2147,137,154,912,72,819,35,150,23,1165,144,126,26,27,957,33,1471],"class_list":["post-26241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-stories","tag-black-friday","tag-black-friday-deals","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-cunard","tag-holland-america","tag-holland-america-eurodam","tag-msc-cruises","tag-norwegian","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-thanksgiving-day-sales","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26241","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=26241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}