Reservations

How far in advance do you usually book your reservations...a year in
advance, many months or kind of last minute?

Joan

On Apr 17, 6:25 pm, wrote:
How far in advance do you usually book your reservations...a year in
advance, many months or kind of last minute?


Most of my cruises are booked like 5 or 6 weeks before ... generally
at that time I often see some price breaks and good deals come
about ... but we have to be ready and able to pounce on them ...

Now with that said ... We are flying out to Rome tomorrow for a 12 day
cruise on the Carnival Freedom ... This cruise was booked when they
had some pre announcement sale ... nearly a year ago ... we actually
booked and went on another cruise waiting for this one ...
Generally we have a list of places we want to see and cruises we want
to take ... and when one of them surfaces with an offer we can't
refuse ... we'll schedule it ...

wrote:
How far in advance do you usually book your reservations...a year in
advance, many months or kind of last minute?

It really varies alot, one of our last cruises we booked in Oct. for the
following August. For our cruise on the Crown Princess we booked as soon
as we heard about the ship and bookings opened which I believe was over
a year ahead of our sailing.

In most cases I would say we prefer to book a year, give or take a
little, ahead of time. It gives us more to look forward to, but more
important it gives us a better selection of cabins.

sue

wrote:
How far in advance do you usually book your reservations...a year in
advance, many months or kind of last minute?

Joan

We book about 20 months early. We booked our NOS cruise in Feb 2006 in
Dec 2004 and our cruise on the Radiance for 2008 was booked in May 2006.
The price for the Radiance cruise has already gone up 18%. We also
found the same thing on the NOS. Long story short, if you can drop
everything and go within a few weeks and you're not too picky about
where, you can get a good last minute deal. But if you have a ship and
itinerary in mind, book early.

On 17 Apr 2007 17:15:06 -0700, number6 wrote:

Now with that said ... We are flying out to Rome tomorrow for a 12 day
cruise on the Carnival Freedom ...

Please report back on the ship. I am taking my family on a cruise next
February, and I am interested to hear opinions of the ship.

Thanks,
Neal

We do not like to book too early,at our age anything could happen in 6
months,or a year. We are what i call living on borrowed time.


cruise lover

On 4/18/2007 10:13 PM Surfer E2468 wrote:
We do not like to book too early,at our age anything could happen in 6
months,or a year. We are what i call living on borrowed time.


cruise lover



Just do what is done in many an Irish Wake on the Emerald Isle. If you
bought tickets in advance, you can still use them. Just have someone on
board prop you in your most favorite location. ;-) There's nothing in
the ticket or contract that says you have to be alive to cruise. On HAL
I don't think anyone would notice. :-D

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BRIAN:
That was real cute,got a good laugh out of your remarks


cruise lover