Where to find the cheapest cruise
How To Book a Cheap Cruise for $50 Per Day (2019)
my name is Doug Parker host of Cruz
radio and today I'm going to show you
how to cruise for under fifty dollars
per day now before we go to the cruise
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up so let me start by saying that if $50
a day is sort of an arbitrary number yes
you can find a cruise that'll cost you
$50 a day even really less actually and
this video will definitely help you find
those but once you've found that bargain
cruise you'll want to do a little
research in what you're getting for that
amount just to make sure it's what
you're looking for it's pointless to get
a great deal and hate everything about
it keep in mind while we're talking
about the $50 per person per day rate
for the cruise we're not including
gratuities in that price we're simply
just talking about the base rate of the
cruise alright so let's talk about how
to find these cruises that are going to
be significantly cheaper than what you'd
expect the number one way to get a cheap
cruise is to take a repositioning cruise
also known as a transatlantic or
trans-pacific sailing so a lot of cruise
ships spend the winter months in the
Caribbean and then these summer months
in Alaska or Europe so they have to
reposition the cruise ships to get to
their new ports of call for that season
these cruises generally average around
14 nights in it's more about getting
this ship from one place to another than
actually going through the ports of call
and that means two things more sea days
in fewer port taxes if you love sea days
this is a way to go because you'll
typically have six in a row on my cruise
between Spain and New York City last
year it was a six day stretch on
Carnival Horizon keep in mind you'll
also need to get the airfare though to
get to the ship or do get to get from
the ship so that could factor in some
cost unless you're using miles or points
for the airfare number two is the cruise
during hurricane season obviously not
everyone is willing to take the chance
of sailing during hurricane season and
that's why you can often find great
bargains the North Atlantic hurricane
season runs in between June 1st and
November 30th and there's a sweet spot
there you can get a really good deal
especially during the most active time
this normally is between late August
throughout the whole month of September
now if you're cruising during hurricane
season do keep in mind that if a storm
pops up it could reroute your cruise say
you were supposed to go to Cozumel your
itinerary
could be
to the Eastern Caribbean to avoid bad
weather and the cruise ships tend to
stay at least 200 miles away from these
storms also considered travel insurance
and you're cruising during hurricane
season in case your flights get messed
up delayed or canceled or what have you
you don't want to get screwed up there
number three is to book a guaranteed
cabin a guaranteed cabin is the cheapest
type of stateroom to booked because the
cruise line has complete control over
your room assignments so you're
basically at their mercy you're booking
passage on the ship and saying hey put
me where you want to put me of course
that means you don't always get the most
desirable room like you could be above a
nightclub or below a crew area but
sometimes you'd also end up in a really
good room as well I had a friend who was
sailing they rolled the dice and bought
a guaranteed balcony and the day of the
cruise they were upgraded to an aft
balcony so I mean an aft Alcon he's
normally double the price of a regular
balcony so the good deal there number
four is the wait for the kids to be back
in school so even though cruise pricing
is very fluid it still has patterns abs
and flows a good rule of thumb is that
you'll pay less when schools are in
session so most of the major cruise
lines make their revenues from families
so when they can't capture that family
market because of school they tend to
lower prices just to get you on the ship
also the first week or two after
Thanksgiving is a time where you'll find
great deals because it's coming off that
Thanksgiving holiday people are
returning to work or not spending money
because of Christmas so the cruise lines
are willing to adjust their price just
to get you on the ship at the end of the
day the cruise line just needs to fill
those cabins once they get you on the
ship they're gonna take your money one
way or another right number five is find
yourself a good travel agent this is one
thing I learned after years of booking
my own cruises the agents are really
dialed in to the promotions and to the
rates at the cruise lines offer in
different rate codes as well for
instance my agent told me I should
consider booking a back-to-back three
and four night cruise to make it a seven
night instead of going on a newer ship
on a 7-night cruise I would pay almost
doubled again this boils down to
preference it's also easier to deal with
price drops when you have an agent
because they typically will keep track
of it for you and they're there to take
care of the details of it you know if
there happens to be a price trap because
they're looking out for your best in
triste number six is consider a
lesser-known cruise line so the big
three cruise lines are carnival royal
caribbean and norwegian followed by
princess celebrity Holland America and
so on since these lines are established
sometimes the prices can be a little
high depending on where the cruise ship
is sailing from if you find a cruise
line this may be lesser-known for
instance MSC Cruises in Kaustubh they
often have fantastic prices in fact MSC
has a sailing in 2019 for as low as
twenty eight dollars per night now keep
in mind that these are European cruise
lines and the service and experience may
not be what you're used to on a
mass-market line so you'll want to do
your research first but I mean the price
is there number seven booked and ordered
ship a lot of the Oder ships are usually
the lowest price we see this a lot with
ships like Carnival sensation Norwegian
sky and Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the
Seas these older ships are pretty much
dedicated to the Bahamas runs and they
do three and four night sailing
sometimes five night ceilings but they
don't have a lot of the bells and
whistles that we see on newer ships
because I mean there are 20 plus years
old typically or close to it so that
means they're cheaper to book and number
eight look for airports with lots of
cruise ships we all know the law of
supply and demand in this case it means
that the cruise ports which have a lot
of inventory have cheaper rates as an
example Port Canaveral in Miami have a
handful of weekly departures that go to
the Bahamas so the cruise lines have to
offer competitive pricing to get you on
their ship here in Jacksonville Florida
we only have one ship that does four and
five night cruises so there's no
competition the cruise line can pretty
much set the price wherever they want it
and most of the time they do alright so
in closing here are the eight ways to
find yourself a cheap Cruise is to
booking a repositioning cruise booked
during hurricane season look at
guaranteed cabin wait for the kids to be
back in school find a good travel agent
go with a lesser known Cruise Line book
and older ship and last but not least to
look for a cruise port that has a lot of
cruise ships in my experience cruise
pricing is a lot like airline pricing so
if you see a rate that really impresses
you you should just go ahead and book it
and throw it apposite down just make
sure that deposit is 100% refundable
this way if you do get cold feet you
won't get penalized if you'd like this
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