TravelMandy wrote:

Now I know why the 30th March sailing is sold out. I have been trying all day to find someone with a cabin on this sailing If anyone spots any cancellations or cabins coming up can they let me know please

Best think is to get a link to the sailing and keep checking.

http://www.ncl.com/nclweb/booking/cruisedetails.html?packageId=1255118

Cabins today on UK & NCL.com (BPC should have these as well)
$PRICES +TX $140
DD GTY $1389 £939
BA GTY $1649 £999
AF 4 $1899 £1299
AD 1 $2599 £2105

grab one while you can I would probaly go for a BA and hope they give you a AF unless you fancy the nice aft romance suite.

ps. I have been tryingto post htis for over an hour(hope they are still available) the site was down, would have rung you but the No is in the PM I could not access

I paid my cruise on Jade using my M&S more money card on the 10th March the rate I got was £1.94 to the $

So that would be about £740 for your inside cabin, I think that is still a good price for 14 night med cruise. It depends on what suits you best

hi Windjammer

I do look forward to your excellent prices, you have put a figure for the jade and then next to it another figure , if you see wat i mean and as im not up on the lingo of stuff as yet can you let me know what those mean, the figures i quoted above from ncl.com last night seem higher than what you found, are they diddling me lol

carol

any advice with this would be helpful

Regarding the "lingo" or abbreviations, can I ask members to write abbreviations with the full text in say brackets for the benefit of newer members, ie VTG (Vacations To Go)?

I wouldn't like to alienate new members who may think this is a closed club with their own language!

luci

Thanks luci

Im sure i will learn very quickly, i was looking to book the PO 4 day cruise when i spotted the Jade pricing for 14 days, am looking for a break just out of hospital and for the extra bit, i would get 14 days for a lot less bought through an american site which i am hoping is safe to do.
NCL did take a lot of battering down last night to the prices i printed but it looks like its lower again, just need a little help with converting to sterling and should i wait a little longer in case of more drops in prices

thanks in advance

carol

ps i think this site is great and hopefully will be able to contribute as i get a bit wiser on these deals lol

Ok to be clear on pricing be sure which cruise is being quoted it may be different cruises.

I will nearly always put prices to match any agent or source that i mention so in the case of the reply to TravelMandy it was NCL US in $ and NCL UK in £ US prices will nearly always have tax and fuel added, on the 30march case that is $170. If I quote an agent as well I usualy put their prices in as well

Only some agents discount NCL us but this may be for a limited internet only service

As for conversion that is more dificult because we don't know what rate you will get. As a rough guide use $2-$1 and if the price is within 5%(cheaper US to UK) then look for the proper rate if you use a credit card find out their charges usualy upto 3%.

I use nationwide Credit card which has no fees/loading so will get the market rate on the day I get charged for a booking so I use http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter?u (2.0273) to give me a more accurate £ price for the $ bookings but when the difference is more than 5% or even 10% why wory about the detail on the last few £ I will be booking it anyway by then. ( on a £1k spend 2-1 against 2.0273-1 is $27.3)

NCL Pricing on any cruise up to end of June will be in or going into sell out mode so will drop unless they get short of cabins.

Book when you are happy with the deal.

Booking through the US is safe enough(no ABTA or ATOL) but NCL charge the CC not the Travel agent if a bit worried book direct with NCL for more piece of mind but a slightly higher price on low grades or a lot on the high grades.

I you think you have a cruise identified try http://www.cruisecompete.com to get a few agents to give you a quote.

Thanks windjammer for all your advice i have done what you suggested with cruisecompete to see what they come back with, hopefully will find something real soon

To Catsmum

What cruise dates precisely are you looking at? Personally have never found cruisecompete to be the best.

hamrag wrote:

To Catsmum

What cruise dates precisely are you looking at? Personally have never found cruisecompete to be the best.

But you usualy get a few agent pricing up so you get an idea of what you can working too

If it is not a lot less than the cruiseline then somewhere like http://www.bestpricecruises.com (16% -17% discount on comissioned part of fare for NCL) will be next option.

One other thing I like with BPS is you can get short links to give you price list for a cruises you are interested in and setup a tab group in the browser to quickly check prices each day.

eg [code]http://res.bestpricecruises.com/travel/cruise/availability.rvlx?CruiseItineraryID=83810&cruise_adults=2[/code]

if you register you get lower prices

Too get the short link find your cruise on the web site and get to the pricing page then chop off everything past cruise_adults=2 refresh and bookmark.

Sorry for delay in replying
Thanks for the info WJ

Has anyone seen this? I found a link on cruise critic http://www.ncl.com/nclweb/pressroom/pressRelease.html?storyCode=PR_031208_Freestyle2.0

hi hamrag

Originally i was looking for a decent 4 day PO cruise price in May 08, and spotted the Jade pricing on her and thought it was an excellent price for 14 days, have tried emailing the american sites that are mentioned on here but they arent coming out that good, as the prices that are showing on here.
I guess its a matter of watching and learning of all you professionals lol, as i am a newbie to this, just got back from the Fo xmas cruise and got itchy feet for a break

carol

This ones still good value
https://club.bestpricecruises.com/ssl/travel/cruise/passenger_select.rvlx?CruiseItineraryID=83836 @ $2,109.33(Inc all tax's) for 2 people for a 13 night cruise on a GTY inside cabin
you can still pick up cheap one way flights to Barcelona

To Catsmum, attached is a posting I made on Mar 11 for the cruise mentioned by travelmandy.

Update on 17 May 13 night cruise from Barcelona to Southampton, which was $1099 + other charges etc. a couple of days ago. It is now $949 + the other charges with vacationstogo or directly with ncl.com. When I did a dummy "booking" on the NCL site the total price is just under$1250pp and you only need to pay a service charge of $10pppd over and above, which will be added to the shipboard account.

Although leaving from Barcelona, it goes out to Nice, Florence, Rome, Naples and Cagliari before turning west again and heading to Southampton via other interesting ports. This is a good deal as it is easy and cheap to get to Barcelona.

The cruise mentioned above is now $1118 including all taxes and fuel supplement for an inside guarantee on cruisedeals.com which converting at approximately £575 is an excellent deal for 13 nights. You will need a one way flight Barcelona, which can be had very cheaply.

13 nighter on the Jade reduced again $1,940.73 USD for 2 people GTY inside

I have been looking at 2 cruises on the Jade, even though the 13 nights from Barcelona is cheaper I am thinking if I wait a bit longer will probably go for the 14 nts in and out of Southampton, by the time we buy flights to Barcelona (even cheap ones) then make our way home from Southampton at the end of the cruise, I think it will be better to drive to the port and leave the car so it is there at the end. Not sure how much parking will cost, but as we are only a couple of hours away it seems a better option.

My understanding is it would cost at least £100 to leave your car at Southampton port, although sometimes NCL will throw this in for "free" but in reality built into the total price!