By FREE I mean when the cruise lines try to entice a customer by offering added extras to the cruise such as car parking or on board spending money. When they say book your cruise and receive FREE this that and the other, is it really a good deal? Well, you know how the saying goes "there's no such thing as a free dinner" and that pretty much is the case I’m afraid.
At the moment Cunard and P&O have a June Jubilee offer on whereby on selected sailings they are "giving away" car parking and onboard spends, sounds good doesn’t it? Who wouldn’t want free parking and onboard spends with their booking? Not me! Because on many of these cruises there is also another promotion running along side it, which in technical terms, is called the Getaway Promotion. On this promotion you don’t get any of these lovely extra's but what you do get in return is a slashed in half price! For me this just proves that the cruise lines at the moment are in fact charging for the parking and onboard credit they are claiming to give away as if you book on this deal you are paying on average about £500-1000pp more for the same cruise!!! Madness!
Being a specialist cruise consultant I see the many different deals that the cruise lines add on a daily basis. My job is to make sure I advise you on all the deals on offer and, of course, try and get you the cheapest. So it is very much the case at the moment where you might see your cruise of choice advertised with free parking and onboard credit but we will always tell you if there is a better deal on if it is going to save you a lot of money.
So the moral of my blog post is, when you call up and ask us if a cruise has any free parking or onboard credit just remember if it has it is likely you are just paying for it anyway so don’t be put off if it hasn’t….if it looks like a good price and a good deal IT IS so don't waste time in booking!
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