Carnival Cruise: How to get "the best" price on a specific cruise?
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You should re-read my post; I never compared the two at all, ever. I simply stated that if you wanted a 4 star cruise line then Crystal was your answer.
Carnival IS the motel 8 of cruise lines,...
Carnival Cruise: How to get "the best" price on a specific cruise?
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Having recently spent a bunch of time researching Carnival cruises for a trip in December, what I've discovered is according to Priceline, Carnival basically requires Priceline (and I'm assuming...
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Where is the cruise departing from? October 28th is definitely not last minute.
Have you searched around http://www.cruisecritic.com/ yet?
Carnival Cruise: How to get "the best" price on a specific cruise?
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I'm in the same boat (haha pun intended), looking for a super cheap rate on a cruise in early September. This would be our first cruise. Try cruisecompete.com. You submit the cruises you want to go...
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In general, you find very little variation in fare from website to website when it comes to cruises. The best you'll usually find is on-board credit for your cruise as a perk instead of a fare...
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it was mentioned before: cruisecompete, although they've never beat the price I had already found.
Unless it's recently changed, you can book direct with CCL and have 30 days to transfer to a...
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Your best bet would be booking 2 connecting cabins as I think the rooms for 6 (rare) are extremely expensive. Also leaving from the NE for a 7 day cruise in the winter time isn't the best time and...
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Disclosure right at the top....I'm a cruise travel agency owner, but thought I'd throw in my 2 cents to the discussion, for whatever you think it's worth.
I guess my main point that I hope gets...
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Carnival offers the most bang for your buck. On a site where people post scanned receipts and others travel around to different B&M stores in hopes of finding the one cashier that will accept their...
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My wife and I have been on 3 cruises in the past four years. Here's my take...
First, I've used cruisecompete.com twice and have nothing but good things to say about the site. We found the best...
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OK point taken. Maybe motel 8 wasn't the best choice to compare them to, Every 7-10 day cruise I've been on with them has been pretty good as well, with the exception of hurricane season 2005.
I...
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I also recently booked one for our honeymoon. Unfortunately, we are getting married the week before thanksgiving and it seems like everyone doesn't like to spend time with their family and would...
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Rules for first cruises is NEVER take a carnival that is less than a week, boats are old and stinky! 7-10 day boats are usually new or newer.
Other than that avoid deck 2 in the front of the...
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I have never been on a cruise before and I am hoping to book my first one for late 2012 or early 2013. I have been reading all of your posts and I must say that i am finding them very helpful. My...
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Ah gotcha, for some reason when I heard "travel agent" I was thinking about actually walking into a travel agency in mall and having a sit down discussion. Silly me.
On a side note - A bit of a...
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I might have all my eggs in this basket then. Anyway I can find a listing of agencys around and bulk contact them?
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We started to book a cruise through Carnival's website, but my wife halted as it was late at night and she still had some questions she wanted to check out. She had created an account for us while...
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I booked a cruise through carnival a month or so ago for cruise in October. Your best bet is to just go through Carnival they offer a "super savers" rate where if the rate of your cruise price goes...
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Other points in this thread:
Booking a cabin with no assigned cabin number, where the line will provide you with one later is called a category guarantee. It is almost always the lowest cost...
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I already mentioned one of these, but these are the top 2 best suggestions for price (in my opinion):
1. cruisecompete.com - compare rates from multiple travel agents
2. Carnival Personal...
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I'm trying to get a good deal on Carnival Cruise that departs on October 28th. I've done the standard travel sites and it looks like Priceline does offer the best deal .. I think?.
Sometimes I can...
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Just booked one at the first of September last week. Your best bet is to go through Carniva's site. They usually have an option for what is called a reserved room. Which means you pick the type of...
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Vacationstogo.com is a good place to check for discounts. I used to cruise solo when they had rooms that were 150% but those days are gone so now you have to pay double occupancy less port fees.
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Wow, sounds like I'm screwed for finding that rock bottom dirt price! lol. The lowest rate I could find was like 880 after speaking to the rep. That was actually a "poker rate". That's what I'm going...
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I didn't before, but I just did. Looks to be about the same price.
I'm leaving from Galveston, Texas.
btw - I still don't know if the desitnation is the 'Western Carribean' or 'Eastern...
