OT: Cruises

[BigBully]

Thinking of booking a 5 day cruise over spring break for the family (me, the wife and 2 college age kids) out of New Orleans.

When can I get the best deal? Directly with the cruise line? Travel agency? Other sites such as vacationstogo.com? Others?

Thanks for the help and fire away!

BB

 

[jethreauxdawg]

Crucon and cruisecompete

Are a couple I've heard good things about. I've recently been getting spammed by American Airlines Cruises with some good deals.
I've never booked with cruisecompete, but their site allows you to enter the cruise you are interested in and then different travel agencies will bid on it. A passenger on a recent cruise was telling me about it.

 

[5049]

Thinking of booking a 5 day cruise over spring break for the family (me, the wife and 2 college age kids) out of New Orleans.

When can I get the best deal? Directly with the cruise line? Travel agency? Other sites such as vacationstogo.com? Others?

Thanks for the help and fire away!

BB

Watch out for the rogue wave

 

[Digging dog]

Don’t know about deals. I can say if there is a choice of cruise lines outta N.O. Don’t choose Carnival. It is the Motel 8 of the Gulf.
Royal Caribbean is way better.

 

[civildawg88]

Yeah if you are going on carnival on spring break, you need to know what you are getting yourself in to. It will be as trashy as the the state of Florida

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

This guy has some good advice

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qqJm4aqdbqU

 

[Dawgbite]

Cruise ships are giant floating pitre dishes full of all kinds of stuff penicillin won't kill. There's a reason they are cheap vacations.

 

[rem101]

Don't do Carnival. But if you do, stay away from the Mongolian Wok cafe. I didn't eat there, but the smell was enough. Unless that was some of the patrons.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

When it's just you and the wife, go Seabourn. Smaller boat, big cabins. Legit. Last time we went, Newt Gingrich was on the boat.