Another cruise1st RCI offer TXT 228.

16oct Panama, 17N LA->Miami £1099. not supper hot deal but OK if looking for a Panama

This is probably, Monarch of the seas

http://www.vacationstogo.com/fastdeal.cfm?deal=10902

Traveller1

There is a topic on Brilliance HERE, but very little information on it as yet. You can post any queries specific to the ship in that topic and hopefully you will get some answers.

We also have a topic NEW TO CRUISING which may have some useful information.

luci

Traveller1 wrote:

Hi WJ + Any1 who may be interested Cruise1st still have 3 inside + 1 O/s @ 429/489 cruise only and 499/559pounds with flights from liverpool with other departures from regionals at slightly different prices.

TXT £599,£660 today that was great timing for you guys.

Tempting as that was it would have used 9 vacation days so not too good a use of them.

Teletext is full of fantastic offers QV( 14 Nights Med for £700 just plus including flights) Century Offers galore Brilliance Summit (14 nights for £745 including flights this is for the 20th September. It is awash with offers. I have no time to look and take it all in as I have a lot to do just after my holiday. Get out there and grab those deals. And my advice would be that they could fall again.

Brilliance offers December through to March starting at £599.

Also remember that some agents do not use teletext any longer they have no need of it. Scotland's Cruise Centre being one. Good web site where you can price up offers but if you have an offer from any agent always go and give them to chance to better it. It also depends whether you are comparing like for like. ie One agent may be advertising cruise only some will use low cost airline making a Taylor Made package or they may be quoting the flights from the Cruise Company.

This advice for me is absolutely what I do I remember what Martin Lewis Moneysaving expert. I get emails every week and not had time to look at the Supermarket offers for vouchers of £100.
Also for flights you can put in their web site make an offer and see what comes up.

£1 airfare with Ryanair again to book until Sunday and it is £1 each way no tax and no charge if you check in on line and take only hand baggage. Weight allowance is pretty generous. Total cost £2
check bag and check in at the airport which you have to do total cost £24 . Maybe the £4 each way for the check in I have not included.
Needless to say I am going over to Ireland and this offer is for September/October and of course there are many places you can fly to depending where you live.

Jet2 good airline for own flight booking etc. Me I am going over on a Thursday and coming back Monday. Just need to speak to my Son to check out what will suit them.

Lots to think about and the flights are a bit off topic so sorry Luci.

Sue

Brilliance of the Seas
13th Nov 2008
Venice & Mediterranean
12nts
Barcelona, Cannes, Florence/Pisa, Rome, Naples, Venice (overnight), Split, Malta, Barcelona
Inside from £575pp. Balcony from only £829pp
Suite from £1085pp
The above prices includes your return flights (based on London). Regional flights also available.

Queen Victoria
11th Dec 2008
Caribbean Holiday
22nts
Southampton, Ponta Delgada, Antigua, St Kitts, St Lucia, Grenada, Barbados, Madeira, Vigo, Southampton
Twin Prices: Inside (D8) from £2229pp. Balcony(A7) from £3269pp
Triple Prices: Inside (D2) from £4995 per cabin. Outside (C3) from £5249 per cabin
It doesn't matter if the 3rd person is an adult or child.
Please note that there are no 4 berths available on Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria
5th Nov 2008
Ancient Wonders of the Med
12nts
Fly Manchester to Rome, Naples, Sicily, Valletta, Alexandria, Port Said, Kusadasi, Istanbul, Kepez, Volos, Athens, then fly back to Manchester
Inside from £919pp. Outside from £999pp

From Cruise Kings

luci

I'd like to keep an eye out for QM2 transatlantic offers and bag one as soon as the price is right. I have booked a good deal with Gills before now and get their emails but is there anyone else I should be tracking given the trip I am looking for?

Try Scotland's Cruise Centre. Great web site and an even better response when you talk to them. Will always work hard to get the best deal including beating prices quoted by others. CruiseClubUK. Instant Holidays which used to be Victoria Travel and also Only have some offers but usually good
163 I think. Sovereign Cruise got a good web site and often advertise in the weekend papers. Have prices Also watch Cruise Kings as well as Barrhead travel.
Voyana often have good offers but sometime they are difficult to deal with if you have a problem. Jetline travel. There are going to be some great deals and Ali my TA from SCC tells me she is on the QM2 in tandem with QE2 in October. I think this may be the last T/A and is from NY to Southampton. She is on as one of her assessment cruises. She was recently on Azamara Quest and loved it.

I was offered a Silver Seas cruise with no supplement when Karen remembered that I will be away. Gill have a single offer with Brilliance today for £1245 Pretty good.

The best is yet to come I feel and just keep those eyes peeled.

Sue

There are some links in the Useful Links topic at the top of the forum. I don't like getting too many emails, but I get a daily one from Cruise Kings with some very good offers.

luci

Get every email alert you can from all the companies.

Set rules to filter them into a folder for each company that way you can read the ones you want when you want without interfering with your normal mail and keep a history allready filed.

Use a seperate email address for these as well if you want to make it a bit easier.

Most ISP allow more than one email and most email programs allow incoming filters.

If you setup filters to file incoming mail you can almost eliminate your general inbox to nothing

Keswick wrote:

I'd like to keep an eye out for QM2 transatlantic offers and bag one as soon as the price is right. I have booked a good deal with Gills before now and get their emails but is there anyone else I should be tracking given the trip I am looking for?

Have you tried http://www.jetlinecruise.com they nearly always have Cunard specials. Right now they are advertising the QM2 transatlantic westbound on 15 November, and have packaged it to give 2 nights in New York before flying home. The price is £759 for the 9 nights, and they say a free upgrade to balcony is available....hardly surprising in November! A really good price all round, and having sailed on QM2 twice before it exudes real quality.

Seems a good time to do Christmas shopping, although the dollar exchange rate has slipped somewhat! If you do not want any nights in New York, or want only one night or more than two, they will strip out/add costs as appropriate to meet your requirements.

Yes Hamrag is right Jetline do have great offers a little pushy for business for they are sound and do a lot of business and always have deals on the Cunard.

Great ship and I just love every inch of her She is elegance personified!! Oh to be in that Queen's room with the wonderful elegant high tea. Big band night and for those of us who like to or have liked to this Queen's room is the biggest ballroom at sea. I think she is the only proper ballroom at sea. Correct me if I am wrong. Hang on sure the QV will have and there will have been on the QE2. Caronia an old Cunard ship now gone to Saga has a show floor which was good for dancing but no theatre and so all shows were in this room with restricted viewing.

Go on QM you will never regret it, Wanting to pull me back and did a BTB last July and in March this year NY and the Caribbean. She has so much to do and a library to die for with wonderful comfortable rooms to relax in and she is a true Ocean Liner and not a cruise ship. LOVE HER

Sue

Spotted this one just released today by check-in cruise club at http://www.cruise365.co.uk This does not appear to be on the web-site as yet, but was definitely released in an e-mail to me within the past half hour. Their telephone number is 0845 345 7447
Inside is £399
Outside is £499
Balcony is £599

27th September 7 nights.
MSC Cruises - MSC Lirica
Fly Gatwick* to Italy (or Nice) & transfer to MSC Lirica. Cruise visits: Genoa, Italy - Marseilles, France - Valencia, Spain - Tangier, Morocco - Malaga, Spain - Rome (Civitavecchia), Italy - Genoa. Transfer to airport & fly back to Gatwick. *Other departure points available for a supplement.
Late Bargain selling quickly!

this week RCCL and Celebrity Tuesday deals
Bookable only on 16/09
13 Night Italy And Croatia Cruise from Rome
LEGEND OF THE SEAS
5th October $699 inside
13 Night European Transatlantic Cruise from Southampton
INDEPENDENCE OF THE SEAS
10th Novemeber
$499 inside
$699 outside
$999 balcony

10 Night Western Mediterranean Cruise on board Century from Barcelona
CELEBRITY CENTURY
31st October

$699 inside
$899 outside
$1099 Concierge

Savensail have a good offer for Fred Olsen's Braemar

8th Jan 09 15 night fly cruise from Lon/Man to Miami. £899 inside with £100 a cabin OBC.

Bob

Email from CruiseClubUK 0800 163 164

Cancellation INDEPENCANCE OF THE SEAS 26th October 1 room only
11 Nights no flying out of Southampton
Canaries
SOLO OCCUPANCY
Promenade view room £869

£869 fantastic price for solo occupancy if anyone is interested. Weather should be good. Check their web site but this room will sell out quickly.
Hope someone can grab it.
Sue

BALTIC CRUISING CARNIVAL STYLE
Date: 09,21 May, 2,14,26 June, 8,20 July, 1,13,25 August 2009
For: 12 Nights
Cruise line: Carnival
Ship: Carnival Liberty
Itinerary name: Northern Europe

Dover - Copenhagen - Warnemunde - Helsinki - St.Petersburg (overnight) - Tallinn - Amsterdam - Dover
Free parking at Dover
Gratuities included * Gratuities cover

Interior from £739 pp.
Oceanview from £935 pp.
Balcony from £1,195 pp.

Date: 8th November 2008
For: 9 Nights
Cruise line: Carnival
Ship: Carnival Triumph
Itinerary name: Eastern Caribbean
Fly UK/Miami - (overnight hotel stay) - Miami - San Juan - St. Thomas - St. Maarten - Miami/Fly UK (overnight flight) Arrive following morning
Book an Inside cabin and receive a complimentary upgrade to an Oceanview
Add an extra 2 nights in Miami from £59pp

Interior from £799 pp.
Oceanview from £799 pp.
Balcony from £929 pp.

Ideal Cruising 0800 458 8213

luci

If you dig around (US pricing) and can find a cheap return to NewYork/Boston there are some very good deals for the Canada New England cruises Sept/Oct.

Needs some work though.

I though this had been up before but I think this is a new low price.

cruisedeals.co.uk TXT 227

Thomsons Celebration Autumn Cities 2 Oct UK 7n Harwich to Liverpool return coach
£299 outside, delux is £349

Pricing on thomsons gets this at £340 outside.

With reference to posts a few days ago, this is the weekly Royal Caribbean sale day. The 5 October 13 night on Legend of the Seas is still the same price on their website, but vacationstogo are showing it as a special at $699 + local taxes, fuel supplement etc. which usually amount to about $150-$200. Last week the price was $799 +