9 Best Tips on How To CRUISE FOR LESS MONEY

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you're about to discover how to cruise
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often without breaking the bank
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I'm Gary beverage this is another of my
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cruising tips for travelers I want to
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share with you 10 tips 10 ways that you
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could cruise for 50 dollars sometimes
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even less up to about $100 per day which
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means it's cheaper and you can go
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cruising much more often so that's 10
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tips that I'm going to share with you
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starting with this one
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the simplest and easiest way to find
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cheap ways of cruising is to follow a
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number of aggregator sites these are
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sites that collect together all the
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really big cruising deals
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there's Cruz sheet calm
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there's Cruz deals calm and vacations to
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go calm those three sites will have the
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absolute lowest best deal so you simply
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go on they look at the monthly wanted
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cruise and you'll find it shows you the
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total price of the cruise and many of
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them will then show you the price per
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day so you can then Zone in on those
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ones that meet that budget and as you'll
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see sometimes you can get cruises for
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even less than $50 per person per day
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the other thing link to that to make it
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easy is if there's any cruise lines you
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like or even some that you're not sure
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about sign up to the email newsletters
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because that's where they will also
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announce if they have any deals or
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promotions that's the easiest and
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simplest way however there are other
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things that you should do to make sure
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that you are cruising cheapest and are
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able to cruise more often it's really
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important if you want to cruise cheaply
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and often to be incredibly flexible so
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this means you need to be open to the
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cruise line you go on you need to be
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open to the itinerary you go on you need
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to be open to different ports you go on
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you need to be open to the different
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times of the year you can go if you're
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very set on going a particular Cruise
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Line or you want to go to very certain
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ports then you're going to struggle to
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find those really amazing cheap deals if
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you basically define a really broad
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scale of things and then get the mindset
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of what is the cheapest way that I can
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go and cruise there so you focus on
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broadly where you want to go and then
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you start looking for price price price
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and everything else you have as flexible
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as you possibly can flexibility is the
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key to cruising cheaply and therefore
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cruising very often if you want to find
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ways of cruising cheaply and often
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you need to focus on lines that are
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giving you value fares overall anyway at
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all times of the year so the critical
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wants to look at I'll take a look at
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Royal Caribbean take a look at a
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Norwegian Cruise Line Carnival Cruise
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Line MSC cruise line those are the
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really key ones to really focus on they
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often have very big ships they have a
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huge wide range of itineraries but also
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they have a lot of people they need to
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get on every single setting so if you
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think some of those ships have 3000 4000
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or more passengers they are constantly
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trying to make sure that their price to
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get people on board also depending on
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the region you live in you could find
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there are some smaller regional lines so
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for example there's quite a few in
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Europe so if you take a look at Costa
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you'll often find good deals if you want
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to sell out of parts of Mediterranean
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you'll also find cruise lines in the UK
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like Marella and cruise the maritime
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voyages so also there may be some more
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regional ones that you can look at but
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you need to focus on those key value
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lines if you're going to subscribe to
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any newsletters those are the key ones
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to sign up for the fourth thing to think
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about is cabins you need to focus on
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inside cabins and ocean view cavern City
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that's where you need to focus when
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you're looking for prices those are
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always going to be the cheapest on board
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and those are also the ones that the
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cruise lines are most likely to discount
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because if they're ever going to do
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promotions are going to try and get
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people to go up to high grades because
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it's easier to sell ocean view and
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inside cabins so you need to accept that
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either you're going to have no windows
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to the outside or you're just going to
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have a portal or small window those are
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the most likely cameras you're going to
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have to go for if you want to cruise
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cheaply and a lot the other thing that
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you need to do when you book though is
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go for what's known as a guaranteed
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cabin cruise lines have two fares one
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where you can specifically choose the
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cabin and the other is guaranteed where
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they allocate the cabin based on what
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they have once those people who bought
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the cabins they really want those are
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always going to be cheaper than choosing
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your own cabin so you need to focus on
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inside cabins oceanview cabins and
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guaranteed cabins so you will get that
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grade as a minimum but you don't choose
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a cabin and there is a discount before
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doing that I mentioned earlier that you
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need to be very flexible about timing
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but also if you are looking to try and
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plan there's a couple of areas where
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you're most likely or more likely to
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find cheap
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cruisers and that is the shoulder season
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what I mean by that is often at the
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beginning and end of the season so the
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ships will move say from the
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Mediterranean to the Caribbean around
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about March April time you'll find that
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as often when it's cheap because the
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weather's perhaps less predictable they
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then move again back to say the
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Mediterranean around about September
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October time so those sort of shoulder
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periods when it's not school holidays
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not public holiday times those are
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always going to be when it's harder for
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the cruise lines to full the ships and
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they're more likely to be discounting
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also you may want to choose times when
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the weather is less predictable so
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choosing the Caribbean more in hurricane
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season there may be some disruptions to
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the cruise but people are less likely to
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book those things so you need to think
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around those times of the year when it's
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going to be less popular don't look for
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cheap cruises in school holidays or
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Christmastime those kinds of things
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because you know I'm extremely unlikely
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to find us so be thinking out of season
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shoulder period times a really good way
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of getting inexpensive cruisers is to
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look at repositioning so I mentioned
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there that they move ships between the
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Mediterranean and the Caribbean so they
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have transatlantic trips at the
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beginning the end of the season
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because there's so many sea days people
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are less reluctant to book those however
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that is when you're going to find great
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deals and you'll find repositioning
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cruises if you really want inexpensive
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cruises and you want to go on lots of
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different cruises those two big time
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periods of the year reposition
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cruising's are a great thing to look at
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a great way of cruising cheaply is
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cruising with others you'll find that
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many many cabins onboard will be able to
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have three passengers or four passengers
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and sometimes even more so if you want
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to travel with friends or family so
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perhaps you have kids or you just have
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friends you want to travel with actually
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booking into one cabin is a great way of
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cruising more cheaply normally you'll
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find there's a discount for the third
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person and sometimes even the fourth
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person travels for free it does of
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course mean you're going to be in
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relatively confined spaces so you need
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to make sure that you get on with those
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people but if you're going somewhere
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nice and warm like the Caribbean or the
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Mediterranean in season you probably
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have a lot of time your cabin there's
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lots of things you can do on the ship
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but that could be a great way of
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cruising cheap use and setting in to
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cabins cruise with friends or family and
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share cabins it's really a great way of
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reducing price the other thing you could
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do if you really want to go the extra
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level is organize
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group crews so if you've got a bunch of
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friends family that want to go cruising
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I want to do it inexpensively one of the
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things you can do is most cruise lines
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will offer a free cabin out depends on
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the cruise line on the numbers but for
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example if you can sell say eight cabin
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so that 16 people they might throw in a
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free cabin and it as I said the numbers
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vary a little bit by cruise line so
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cruising with people and then sharing
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cabins or doing group bookings is a
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great way of cruising more cheaply and
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of course then because it's cheaper you
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can go more often what's also very
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important about finding ways of cruising
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cheaply and more often is understanding
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how the cruise industry works and the
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best time to book now there's two really
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key periods where you can get great and
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inexpensive cabins and deals the first
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of those is when cruise lines first
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announced itinerary so this could be
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eighteen months to two years ahead so
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they announced that in Ares they put
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them on sale now what they want to do is
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they want to try and sell as much as
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possible at that particular time because
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of course they do take your deposit but
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what they do at this time of year which
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I like doing which is one things that I
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do a lot is they will normally bundle
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things together so this is the time when
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you're gonna find lots of things grouped
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together so you might find they're
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thrown in a drinks package excursions
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especially dining Wi-Fi those kinds of
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things so actually you're getting lots
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of other things for your fare so you're
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paying what you would normally pay for
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that cabin but you're getting lots of
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stuff bundled in now I like doing this
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because I like to plan way in advance
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and I find that I have often got kind of
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almost all-inclusive deals by booking at
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this time so that's one great time to
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look if you like to plan ahead or you're
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more restricted or copy's flexible the
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second time is once you hit 90 days
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before a cruise goes most cruise lines
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you have to pay your final balance if
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you've got a booking 90 days before some
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of them do you make it six days what
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happens in is they take a look at the
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imagery they've got how many empty
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cabins they are and they then start to
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work very hard to fill those cabins
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cruise lines want to sail at a hundred
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percent occupancy so they want to make
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sure that every cabin is full with at
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least two people so what they do is they
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first of all they will start to
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encourage people to upgrade so they'll
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go to people who perhaps an ocean we try
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to get me to go into balcony people in a
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balcony up to a suite the reason to that
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is it's much easy to sell
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inside cabins at Ocean
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new cabins than it is to sell higher let
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great cabins and also they don't want to
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be seen to be discounting those higher
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value cabins so at the 90-day period
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it's a really good time to start looking
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for deals because this is when you're
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gonna get much cheaper fares
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particularly for inside and push of your
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cabins now you're not gonna likely get
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all those things bundled in however if
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you've already booked your cabin as I
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mentioned much earlier this could be a
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chance to get a better cabin without
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paying any more money or paying very
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little money so although you've settled
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or decided you're gonna go on an inside
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ocean view you could find yourself in a
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balcony for almost no extra money now
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what I think is also very important if
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you live in a country or a place where a
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port is very easily accessible I
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recommend that you then focus on that 90
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day booking period because you're not
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gonna have to worry about the cost of
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getting to the port and so you can
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really take advantage of low fares
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however if you live a long way from a
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port so you're going to have to fly to a
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port it's actually better to focus on
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the longer booking period now why do I
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say that cruise fairs will tend to go
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down the closer you get to a sailing if
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this capacity whereas LR fairs tend to
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go up so what I like to do as I
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mentioned I've booked way in advance and
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then I booked my air fares way in
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advance because that's the cheapest time
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so when air fares
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come on sale they're at their cheapest
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and they will go consistently upward so
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if I find a great deal within 90 days
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which I was actually just looking at
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recently the airfare was prohibitive it
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canceled out all of the benefits so
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basically if you close to a port you can
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drive to a port or get there really
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easily without lots of airfare costs
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focus on that 90-day periods if you're
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gonna have to fly to a port you probably
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on a book further in advance understand
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that Cruise Lines work and what works
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best for you based on your location
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what's absolutely critical if you want
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to cruise cheaper and more often it's
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you're going to have to be absolutely
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brutally ruthless once you get on board
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the cruise lines are giving these really
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low deals $50 or $100 or whatever to get
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you on board because once you're onboard
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they are hoping and they're going to
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work really hard to get you to spend a
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lot of money on board so you could of
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course cancel a lot of that out so what
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you need to do is focus really really
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hard on understanding what your maximum
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are going to spend on board
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things that you need to focus on is
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gratuities gratuities are normally auto
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added now some people do go and take
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those off and of course that is
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something you could do the crew do rely
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on those gratuities for their salary
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because in reality that's part of their
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salaries so that's a an ethical choice I
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guess that you need to make so do you
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think about budgeting gratuities you're
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going to be brutal on drinks because
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drinks packages could cost you more than
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your cruise fare if many of those cruise
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lines you might be cruising for $50 $100
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a day but the actual drinks package
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could be more you also need to think
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about excursions you pretty much need to
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exclude excursions and do all self
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touring yourself where you're either
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going to beaches or you using a hop-on
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hop-off passes so really really no cost
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and then avoid specialty dining so all
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those things along cost you don't be
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really really strict in terms of those
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otherwise you could find out that you
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basically not saving any money because
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you're spending a lot of money on board
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the advantage of course of what our
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saying is if you've booked way in
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advance like I like to do a lot of
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things are then covered within that
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lower fare because I've got little
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packages of course you could also look
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at all-inclusive Cruise Lines however in
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my experience some of the all-inclusive
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lines like the new virgin voyages in
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reality and we're not seeing a lot of
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discounting for those and actually the
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entry-level fares are still pretty high
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because they do bundle things like your
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Wi-Fi some basic drinks gratuities or
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within that one of the things I
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mentioned of course is proximity to port
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because that could affect where you'll
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find that the best and sharpest deals
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for you there is another thing to
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consider is if you look at the really
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big ports you look at ports at Miami
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Fort Lauderdale or Barcelona or Rome in
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the Mediterranean is there's lots and
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lots and lots of ships and there's and
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lots of capacity so again there's not
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even much more competition and a spare
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capacity going so that's where you're
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going to often find deep deals
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particularly closer to cruising time the
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other thing to look at though and this
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also may depend on where you live is
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look at some of the more unusual ports
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so you might look at Tampa for example
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or ports which are not very big in
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vocation ports the cruise lines will
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have less capacity there they might have
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older ships there but they generally are
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lower priced so I've met lots of people
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who are different cruises they will tend
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to go and crew
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because that's easier for them to get to
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more out-of-the-way ports because they
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find that the general level of fares is
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much onna the ships do tend to be a
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little bit older perhaps klitzy some of
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the new ships but it's definitely a
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great thing to look at so look at the
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really very big port and look at this
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little out-of-the-way ports and see what
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deals are going on for those two another
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great way of course of cruising for less
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and more often is kind of an obvious one
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which is go for shorter cruises so your
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absolute art let'slet's so if you want
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to focus much more on cruising a lot
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start to look at short cruises three
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days four days type cruise as soon as in
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five day cruises because those tend to
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be a smaller total amount of budget so
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of course you could take your cruising
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budget for the year split up against a
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number of smaller cruises and then you
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can a cruise more often I have loads
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more advice and tips packed into
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