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1/5/2009
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| Happy cruise planning! Cruises are great family vacations, IMHO--everyone
gets to do his/her own thing, but the family can enjoy quality time together,
as well. |
| In my parents case, my dad does *everything* for vacation planning except
the packing --
from the research to the budgetting, to making the money, to choosing the
itinerary, (ship in the case of cruises), planning excursions, etc. My
mother does the pre and post trip laundy, ironing and packing, mostly
because she is *neat freak* :-) and watns everything just right. I guess
the packing in this case includes shopping for new clothes if necessary.
If things were left to my mother, I dont theink theyd ever travel, as my
mother doesnt enjoy the fuss and bother of arranging trips, nor the
travel to get there. Once on board (or once in the country, in the case
of land trips), she gets into the of things....but its really my
Dad who **loves** to travel! |
| Check out the newsgroup rec.travel.cruises. Its pretty much as helpful
for planning cruises as this group is for planning Disney vacations. There
are several travel agents that frequent the newsgroup, any of which will
be very happy to price out a cruise for you. Im guessing that a cruise
specialist may be able to get you a better price than a Disney specialist
- not 100% sure, but theyve been able to get some awesome deals for
people. |
| You should also pay attention to excursions by timing--for example, you can
only see certain bears in certain months out of certain ports! If you are
planning to cruise in May or September to save money on the cruise rate itself,
some excursions will be unavailable or less desirable in the early/late season. |
| Oh, every one with an engine has a range but it isnt a factor in planning
cruises for a real sailing vessel. Or a really long range motor vessel, for that
matter. Our modest trawler has about 1500 miles range which means we could only
go to New England and back without refueling.... not a factor in planning
cruises of less than a full season. |
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