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Yes, the Brilliance of Seas deal mentioned by Prindy is excellent. There are other deals shown by Cruise Kings for Canaries on the same ship, although not as good as the £480 one!

Bank holiday weekend the first cruise of the RCI Independance.

I check prices every day and today there are some Inside GTY at £307pp +tx+ fuel

Guest 1 Cruise Fare 307.00 GBP
Guest 2 Cruise Fare 307.00 GBP
Prepay Gratuities: 42.12 GBP
Fuel Supplement: 20.00 GBP
Taxes/Fees 82.00 GBP
Package Total 758.12 GBP

Fred olsen BW853 is still cheaper for the same 4 days.

http://www.thecruisestore.co.uk have a balcony cabin on GTY or cabin numbers
Passenger #1£327.14
Passenger #2£327.14
Per Passenger Options£21.06
Per Passenger Taxes/Fees£41.00
Fuel Surcharge£10.00
Total Fare£654.28
Options£42.12
Total Taxes/Fees£82.00
Total Fuel Surcharge£20.00
Total:£798.40
The inside price is £722

same prices on the 17th

Costa Serena Easter cruise 11 nights £499pp INS £599PP OS
http://www.virginholidayscruises.com/costa-serena-11-nights-canary-islands-cruise-top10-968/
Leaves 13 March and inc flight from either London Gatwick or Heathrow

Price drop on Fred Olsen Blackwatch 4n 2may(bank holiday)

now £270pp inside GTY , £305-£405 O/S GTY, Junior suite 4

Solo in the GTY came up as £465 so better than the current single offer of £526(-5%)

Also note that the 5% discound on onboard spends does not apply to GTY so the £305(-5%) rate for Inside may be worth considering if you expect a bar/excursion bill of over £386pp.

Another Fred deal this time good for both couples and solos.

http://www.fredolsencruises.com/plan-cruise/cruise-details/bl007?prices

17n TA £740ish(seems to be some discount through agents on this one as well TXT 227 has £635

Hi windjammer

New on here but follow it all with interest, see you got a fred olson 4 day bank holiday one for 270 can you tell me where it is so i can go look plssss

thanks and look forward to more great deals on here

Fredolsen 4night is BW853

http://www.fredolsencruises.com/plan-cruise/cruise-details/BW853?prices

Gills have the RC Independence of the Seas 2 May cruise at £299 http://www.gillscruise.com/showcruise?cruiseid=8540

NCL Gem 7 nights 1st June $1,654.01 INS for 2 people off BP
Cheaper than the budget cruises
2 return flights from LTN £171.92 with easyjet

I put up the deals but what do I actualy book?

Our travel companions were given the go ahead to take a cruise so that narrowed down the choices for April to ex-uk any later would put it too close to the June trip we have on price watch and they don't want to fly.

We have had the following cruise on close watch since Dec.

Celebriity Constellation 24 April 9n round UK.

This trip was available in Jan with insides <£550 and a couple of weeks back they had some great senior rates but those had gone, current pricing was much higher, Celebrity wanted base prices of
£680 i/s GTY
£735 o/s senior
£1276 CC

scan TXT(227) and spiderholidays were advertising some better prices and they had cabins on hold at the older prices from a couple of weeks back.

Concierge Class £782. a bit more than we would normaly spend but this is special trip for a couple of reasons and the CC cabin price is very good. So not the normal inside and an OV, we are both in CC with balconies.

As of yesterday I think they(Spider) still had some left, if they don't sell I expect they go back into Celebrity inventory and there could be some realy good late deals, there are still cabins available especialy suites. against my better judgment I think I will continue to price watch this one.

This is the first time I have used this agent they caught my eye on TXT a few weeks back and an quick search here and on the internet found no bad reports. The Credit card should go through celebrity so should be save.

Blatent plug,
If you do take up an offer give us a mention, the guy that booked 2 CC cabins on Friday
Thanks.

Sorry for the indulgent post but we have been trying to get a cruise booked together for over a year.

Normal deals only service will resume soon.

Does anyone know the price of a taxi from barcelona airport to barcelona port,and if I have to stop a night recomend a hotel-Thanks

Some crusie only deals from CruiseKing

Azamara Quest - 26th Apr - Best of Italy - 14nts
Rome, Bari, Split, Venice, Ravenna, Taomina, Sorrento, Porto Cervo, Florence, Rome
Outside from only £631pp

Azamara Quest - 10th May - Western Mediterranean - 14nts
Rome, Bonifacio, Portofino, Florence, Cannes(overnight for 2nts - chance to mingle with the stars during the film festival!), Marseilles, Sete, Barcelona, Mahon, Tunis, Rome
Outside from only £643pp
Balcony from £995pp

Azamara Quest - 24th May - Western Mediterranean - 14nts
Rome, Sorrento, Malta, Tunis, Barcelona, Sete, Marseilles, Monte Carlo, Portofino, Florence, Rome
Outside from only £611pp
Balcony from £963pp

The CruiseKings on 0141 762 5555

Update on 17 May 13 night cruise on NCL Jade 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.

Gill travel great single offer
Celebrity Summit 22nd August £1375 this is including flights out to and return Rome. Summit is the younger sister to Millennium built in 2002 when I sailed the Caribbean on her. It has a great itinary and is for 10 nights. I presume there must also be good deals for twin occupancy.

Offer is with Gill travel and they do have some great single offers from time to time. I know that there are many great offers out there but this is a 5* ship and at the height of the summer season. and for single occupancy would be hard to beat. It does the Greek Islands like Santorini which is just beautiful as well as Kusadasi thus taking in the eastern Med and particulary good for those of you who have done the Western Med to death.
Millennium is not in the Med this year but in Alaska and then going to Australia and NZ for the winter. I am on that November cruise out of Auchland.

I am sorely tempted by this myself. Got that post cruise eagerness to be off again. I would like to do QM2 in the Med in June but the single price for inside is £2345 that is from Cunard and is 14 nights so a lot lot more. But I adore that ship and I think there may be late offers but she only has 2 and then returns to the T/A. Victoria is in the med but at £2500 single again expensive.

Magsy this might be a good one for you.

Sue

Summit 27th August 12 nights Venice to Barcelona for £875 Balcony great price. Look at the offers and there are many which say call so there could be some really good deals out there.
The Celebrity Web site is down. ( X and RCCI have specials every Tuesday) at the moment so cant check their site.

Cruise my friend is booked on for April now is sky high with little availibility. Remember always to keep checking back to see what is happening as I got 2 price drops for them. It is always thinking if it goes down can it go lower and if it does then go for the price drop. If it is selling fast then the prices will rise. In the UK as we know TA's will take blocks of rooms and can sell them on for what they think the market will pay. So it may be first in or it could be book too early and lose out. If you have a booking where the price does drop some of these agents may be more reluctant to apply that drop for you. I have never lost out YET but who knows. Again I am prepared to pay a bit more to get what I want but not everyone can afford to do this and they may only have one holiday a year. There are great deals out there for the school holiday period but look is my advice at what you can get. Don't just go for a package company like Island Star Thomson you will almost certainly find a better class of ship for a comparable price or even lower. Just keep watching the Teletext Emails or the Newspapers for specials.

Sue

Just Google Royal Caribbean Promowave and you will see the Tuesday specials.

For anyone who can take them up on this offer- Royal Caribbean Voyager of the Seas- 13 nights from
Galveston to Barcelona starts at $449 - sail date April 27, 2008. wow