Finding the Best Cruise Price!
Finding the best cruise price really means finding the right cruise for you – ship, sail date, itinerary, departure port, and accommodations – at the best price available. If you’re just looking for the lowest price, you need to sail during the slower travel months of the region you’re visiting, in an inside stateroom on a short cruise, sailing from a driving distance port. But, for the rest of us, we know what we want, and we just want the best value for that product. So, let’s take a look at the various elements that impact price to see what we can control: more…
Have you ever been on a cruise that was rerouted due to a hurricane or tropical storm? We’ve sailed with our traveling friends during hurricane season for years, without any problem until this cruise in 2006. If you’ve cruised for long, you’ll remember how devastating the 2005 hurricane season was in the Caribbean. Our group decided it might be safer to book our next annual cruise in 2006 to the Mexican Riviera in the Pacific. That’s how we ended up aboard the Carnival Pride, sailing 7-nights roundtrip from Long Beach with an original itinerary to Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan and Puerta Vallarta, but rerouted, due to the really brief Hurricane Paul, to Ensenada, San Diego, and Catalina Island.