planning my honeymoon. need some cruiseline help
 

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Royal Carrib. was amazing. we did the eastern Carib. 7 Day. You have to pay in advance for your daily excursions, be honest with you most of them were pretty cheezy. the most fun we has was grabbing a scooter and doing our own site seeing. The food is incredible.

Take her to a car-show ;)

Proud to say;made in Finland !

I would also highly recommend Royal Carribean. We went on a 7 day Southern Carribean tour for our 10 year anniversary. The food is incredible and we only did one excursion. I believe it was called the Jungle tour. It was a blast, all day mountain biking, snorkling, swimming, etc.

Your getting married!!!!! Gosh, am I supposed to start thinking about that now? One of the young guys is now hitched!! Well, good for you man!

That is all, I am no help on travel info! :rolleyes: :D



Tim

Royal is good, probably the most classy, higher income, a bit older and more settled crowd, Carnival is a younger, more single, more party, lower income crowd. Norweigian is good also. One thing about shore excursions. I know a little about this. In my other business, we were partners in some tours in the Caribbean. We sold tours on contract to the cruise lines. The cruise lines mark these tours up 100%, in other words, the tour you pay $80 for, we recieve $40. We also sold it on the dock at the port were the buses load for $40 or possibly 20% more. If it makes you nervous to do it on the dock, you can often book in advance these tours by simply searching google for the tour and call the operator direct, and save 50%.

Just so you know, Shore Excursions are the number one most profitable source if revenue in not only net profit, but gross dollars also. Number 2 is the bar, and number 3 believe it or not is the casino, which I would have always thought would be number one until I got into the business.

Because it is the number one profit center for them, they will hard sell and use scare tactics to prevent you from buying on the dock. They will tell you they are not responsible for your security, but you are safe with any regestered travel agent. The most popular scare is that the ship will not wait for you if you are late. In reality, I am not aware of anyone that did not make it back to the ship in a few years I was in the business.

We are diamond members on RC.. wouldn't cruise on anything else.

Go to thier website and look under "HOT DEALS".. we get amazing prices that way but you need to be a bit flexable :)

Thanks for the tips so far. I will defintely check out Royal Carribean.

Thanks Tim.

We got engaged back on March 12th. We were going to wait until we were finished with school but we decided not to wait that long. She will be in Italy for 4 months studying this fall, but I have plenty to do until she gets back!