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1/5/2009
Monday morning
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| Hey, Jim... We have loads of fun planning cruises, so Im recommending my own
personal cruise planner at http://CandyBrock.com. It includes explanations,
tips about everything from Azipods to Zuiderdam and includes reviews and links
to loads of other cruising sites. Were about your age, and our best cruises
have been on HAL and RCI. Our next is HALs new Zuiderdam in October and prolly
TransCanal or Hawaii in May or June. Have fun! |
| I am not a agent or a book dealer - I only have one set of these guides (2 books
total), you wont see me repeating and selling multiple copies or anything
because this is all I have, I have used them personally here and found them to
be VERY helpful in planning our cruise to fine tune what we wanted, THEN I
contacted agents and said this is what I want, these dates, these options, and
the calls went fast smooth fun and easy but BEST of all, I knew from the pre
reading info, I was booking the RIGHT cruise for me without having to HOPE the
agents recommendations were what I wanted based on their questions to me. |
| 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. |
| 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! |
| The air carriers have paid next to nothing to travel agents for years...so I
let my TA do all my travel planning (cruises/tours/etc) except for one
thing. I take care of any air-only booking. Heck, shed get paid only a
couple of dollars on most any air package I make (theyre generally less
than $200). So shed be doing it as more of a courtesy than anything else. |
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