{"id":4134,"date":"2010-10-21T01:19:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T08:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2010-10-21T01:19:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T08:19:57","slug":"shopping-for-cruise-deals-norwegian-sky-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=4134","title":{"rendered":"Chasing The Sky's Best Cruise Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve spent the last couple of days trying to find the “right deal” on a cruise.\u00a0 I was quite specific about what we were looking for \u2014 specific time, specific port, specific ship. Since it’s only a few weeks before that “specific date” it seemed reasonable that I would find a “last-minute deal.”<\/p>\n

Here were my specs: November 22, Miami<\/a>, Norwegian Sky<\/a> (above).<\/p>\n

It’s a five-day cruise and the prices seemed to be starting at under $200 per person (double occupancy). This was looking good. I called some of the cruise agencies listing prices on line \u2014 CruisesToGo<\/a>, iCruise.com<\/a> and CruiseDeals.com<\/a>. I also called Norwegian<\/a>, where I’d developed a phone relationship over the past few months with “Jason.” These things happen when you’re phoning about cruises.<\/p>\n

Rather than bore you with all the details of my day on the phone, here’s the long and short of it:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Starting prices are for inside cabins and, being the princess (or queen) I am, I wanted an oceanview, so I knew going in I wouldn’t wind up with the lowest price available.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The prices at each level are not always available. For example, the best oceanview price I found was $259 but that “category” of oceanview wasn’t available, and the “next” one (different location, different deck) was more.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Once the starting price gets us to phone, the people at the agencies have to try to convince us to pay a little more for the category that is available. It seems to me that the advertised prices are often sold out.<\/p>\n

\u2022 There really were no last-minute deals, perks or onboard credits…and in the final analysis, cruise agents all seem to wind up having about the same price.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In the end, I wound up calling my friend Jason, who sold me an oceanview for $269 (plus taxes, of course).<\/p>\n

\u2022 It’s really not a good idea to look for a last-minute deal the week of Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

Oops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent the last couple of days trying to find the “right deal” on a cruise.\u00a0 I was quite specific about what we were looking for \u2014 specific time, specific port, specific ship. Since it’s only a few weeks before that “specific date” it seemed reasonable that I would find a “last-minute deal.” Here were… Continue reading Chasing The Sky's Best Cruise Prices<\/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":[32,25,15],"tags":[72,51,86,35,374,126,375],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-stories","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-last-minute-deals","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-sky","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134","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=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}