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Sign of the times: Celebrity pulls cruise ship from Europe for 2010
I found this to be interesting. Celebrity has pulled the Solstice from
Europe in 2010 for the Caribbean. http://www.usatoday.com/travel/cruis...og&ak=66379025. blog -- Charles |
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Sign of the times: Celebrity pulls cruise ship from Europe for 2010
"Charles" wrote in message d... I found this to be interesting. Celebrity has pulled the Solstice from Europe in 2010 for the Caribbean. http://www.usatoday.com/travel/cruis...og&ak=66379025. blog -- Charles Back in January I posted this: ---------------- Yep... I wrote about that here quite a while ago. With Europe bookings soft because of the high fuel prices (at the time) and it looked like getting reasonable airfare was going to be a problems, more than one cruise line was looking at cutting back in Europe. "Why sell 7 night cruises for $599 in Europe when we can sell $599 in the Caribbean at a much lower cost?" ----------------------- I do believe that the availailability and price of air tickets is having a lot to do with the downturn in European bookings (as well as some "exotic" itineraries). I recently priced a 14 day Med cruise where the airfare was going to be more expensive than the cruise. No sale. -- George Leppla http://www.CruiseMaster.com Cruise Specials Weblog http://cruisemaster.typepad.com/my_weblog/ January 10, 2009 Southern Caribbean http://www.cruisemaster.com/caribprin.htm October 16, 2010 OASIS http://www.motherofallgroupcruises.com |
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Sign of the times: Celebrity pulls cruise ship from Europe for 2010
"peter" wrote in message ... We're looking at Australia/New Zealand cruises where airfare would be 150% of the cruise. But it's primarily the 25 hours flying time holding us back. And if that's a coach seat?... Whow... |
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Sign of the times: Celebrity pulls cruise ship from Europe for 2010
"Charles" wrote in message d... I found this to be interesting. Celebrity has pulled the Solstice from Europe in 2010 for the Caribbean. http://www.usatoday.com/travel/cruis...og&ak=66379025. blog -- Charles I think Celebrity may have overbuilt with having so many ships in that new class anyway. And sitting here thinking... the cruise lines may have been caught a bit off guard with Europe. They saw nicer revenues ($$$) and longer sailings (a single reservations fills a cabin for 2 weeks instead of just 1 week)... and they may have thought they'd hit gold. BUT... I'm guessing Europe may be more of a "I will pay extra to do it once" type thing, where as, you'll do the same places in the Caribbean over and over if it's much cheaper. I loved my Baltics sailing, but given airfare prices, I'd need to see a good special price for the cruise to attract me back quickly. And since most Europe sailings are 12-14 days, even if you cut the prices in half, it still doesn't look attractive enough to catch your eye. Show me $499 in the Caribbean and I might be ready to see the same places again. But that same price for 2 weeks is $999 (x 2 = $2000) and with another $2000 in air... oops... not a cheap get away. I don't think Europe is going to bring the repeat business that the Caribbean does. --Tom |
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Sign of the times: Celebrity pulls cruise ship from Europe for 2010
"Tom K" wrote And sitting here thinking... the cruise lines may have been caught a bit off guard with Europe. They saw nicer revenues ($$$) and longer sailings (a single reservations fills a cabin for 2 weeks instead of just 1 week)... and they may have thought they'd hit gold. BUT... I'm guessing Europe may be more of a "I will pay extra to do it once" type thing, We call it a "once in a lifetime" trip... a trip so special or expensive that you figure you will do it only once. The common theme is that if I am going to do it once, I might as well splurge and do as much as I can... and as much as I can afford. Cruises to Australia, Asia and the South Pacific are certainly in this category. European sailings fall into that category and cruise lines have recently been packaging European Cruise-Tours the same way they package Alaska. To a lesser extent, an Alaska cruises and Cruise-Tours are also once in a lifetime trips for many people. If you look at this week's Celebrity Exciting Deals sale, everything listed is either 12+ days in Europe and a few Alaska cruises (and the Alaska prices are nothing to write home about). -- George Leppla http://www.CruiseMaster.com Cruise Specials Weblog http://cruisemaster.typepad.com/my_weblog/ January 10, 2009 Southern Caribbean http://www.cruisemaster.com/caribprin.htm October 16, 2010 OASIS http://www.motherofallgroupcruises.com |
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Sign of the times: Celebrity pulls cruise ship from Europe for 2010
"George Leppla" wrote in
: "Tom K" wrote And sitting here thinking... the cruise lines may have been caught a bit off guard with Europe. They saw nicer revenues ($$$) and longer sailings (a single reservations fills a cabin for 2 weeks instead of just 1 week)... and they may have thought they'd hit gold. BUT... I'm guessing Europe may be more of a "I will pay extra to do it once" type thing, Interesting news...we're in the process of trying to decide and choose an itinerary for our next cruise which is going to be Europe (Greece and Italy ports for sure). Typically we sail Princess but would like to try Celebrity again, in particular the Solstice or Equinox. Anyone have any actual experience on a trip that touches a good part of Italy with Greece and perhaps France or Spain? Would love some insight on this. Thanks.. |
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Sign of the times: Celebrity pulls cruise ship from Europe for 2010
In article , Tom K
wrote: I don't think Europe is going to bring the repeat business that the Caribbean does. I am an Elite Celebrity Captain's Club member yet I have not been on Celebrity in a few years because they dropped many Caribbean sailings and the dropped Bermuda. Hopefully next year I will be back on a Celebrity cruise. I would like to go on the Solstice. -- Charles |
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Sign of the times: Celebrity pulls cruise ship from Europe for 2010
"Charles" wrote in message d... In article , Tom K wrote: I don't think Europe is going to bring the repeat business that the Caribbean does. I am an Elite Celebrity Captain's Club member yet I have not been on Celebrity in a few years because they dropped many Caribbean sailings and the dropped Bermuda. Hopefully next year I will be back on a Celebrity cruise. I would like to go on the Solstice. I haven't either, for the same reason. For this year's Viking sailing, we couldn't find a Celebrity sailing that was reasonably priced and fit our 7 day requirement from Florida... they're trying to focus on long sailings... they think they're in Oceania's league, but they're not. --Tom |
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Sign of the times: Celebrity pulls cruise ship from Europe for2010
Tom K wrote: "Charles" wrote in message d... In article , Tom K wrote: I don't think Europe is going to bring the repeat business that the Caribbean does. I am an Elite Celebrity Captain's Club member yet I have not been on Celebrity in a few years because they dropped many Caribbean sailings and the dropped Bermuda. Hopefully next year I will be back on a Celebrity cruise. I would like to go on the Solstice. I haven't either, for the same reason. For this year's Viking sailing, we couldn't find a Celebrity sailing that was reasonably priced and fit our 7 day requirement from Florida... they're trying to focus on long sailings... they think they're in Oceania's league, but they're not. The Solstice does a 7 day out of Fort Lauderdale, San Juan, St. Kitss and St Maarten. We were on the ship and loved it, but because we had some health issues didn't get to do it justice. I am trying to talk Kevin into doing the Solstice in Jan instead of the Grandeur. Tom, Charles, any interest in late Jan? sue |
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