Cruise Specials
Cruise Direct sends along their top six most popular cruises and their last minute cruises
every month or so. Here are their current listings.
We’ve been on a two-week Caribbean cruise and a 14-day Mediterranean cruise and would do them again in a heartbeat. We’re now thinking about cruises in Northern Europe and Asia. Also we’re really interested in some of the smaller ships that navigate rivers and are checking out those travel specials also.
CruiseDirect is featuring:
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7 Night Bahamas Cruise on the Norwegian Jewel from $429.
Beautiful ships. This cruise is round-trip from New York and includes Port Canaveral, Great Stirrup Cay, Nassau and a couple of days at sea.
In the event you’ve never sailed, be assured that you can choose to do absolutely nothing but enjoy the silence; we have never heard our on-board neighbors! Or join in on parties, dancing, dining, visit the gym, spas, or library. Or gamble. Also, take advantage of land tours for days in port. We’ve met people who travel by ship so much that they don’t even get off when the ship is docked. They like the sense of effortlessly going from port to port, obviously. - 7 Night Alaska Cruise on Holland America’s Alaskan Explorer. Round-trip from Seattle through Puget Sound and Tracy Arm. In port at Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, Alaska and Victoria, British Columbia. Oceanview rooms start at $949 per person.
7 Night Europe Cruise on MSC, a well-regarded, popular Italian shipping company which covers the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, the Atlantic, Caribbean, South America, the Indian Ocean and South and West Africa.
- 6 Night Caribbean Cruise on Carnival’s Valor. Round trip from Miami with stops at Key West, Georgetown in the Grand Cayman’s, Ocho Rios in Jamaica. If you have the time and the funds, we highly recommend a 14-day cruise such as this on Princess Cruises. While we prefer smaller vessels, the large ships can travel through rough seas without you even noticing. We followed Hurricane Richard around the Caribbean during this cruise and weren’t aware of any inconvenience. (Of course, a great captain and crew helps.)
- 7 Night Mediterranean Cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas. Round-trip from Rome (Civitavecchia) to Genoa, Ajaccio in Corsica, Spain (Barceona, Palma De Mallorca and Valencia)
Also, they generally have last minute cruises which can save you quite a bit. Again, unless you are fond of sleeping in closets, stay away from booking inside rooms. The rate is somewhat lower, but we’ve never heard anyone say the savings were worth it.
If you really want to spoil yourself, book an Asian Cruise. Friends went last year, loved it, and came home with dozens of stories and hundreds of photos of exotic people, places and things.
Cruising up the Yangtze River is on our Must Do list.
