5 CRUISE BOOKING MISTAKES That Will Cost You Dearly !
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- There are 5 costly and common cruise booking mistakes that cruise passengers make when booking their cruise vacation, which can mean they pay more than they should be, end up with an itinerary that is not ideal for them, passenger mix and weather conditions that do not meet their needs. I review and discuss what to watch out for and to help ensure your cruise booking leads to a perfect cruise vacation.
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Gary Bembridge's Tips For Travellers aims to help you make more of your precious travel time and money on land and when cruising the oceans or rivers of the world. To help you, in every video I draw on my first-hand tips and advice from travelling every month for over 20 years and 77 cruises at time of making this video.
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00:00 Start
00:13 Best Timing For Booking
03:34 Itinerary Watch-Outs
05:22 Time of Year Watch-Outs
07:07 Fine Print Watch-Outs
09:06 Insurance Watch-Outs
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Our Celebrity cruise to Bermuda in July was canceled on May 20th. We received out full refund in 14 days, which was amazing. Then last week I thought about out Travel Insurance. I contacted the agency, provided them with proof it was canceled and will be receiving the full refund for the insurance. So don't forget about that refund when you cruise is canceled. Hi from Bob & Jill in Connecticut
I miss cruising.
Thank you for adding the chapter breaks, very helpful. Excellent advice video.
Thanks for the tips Gary. I agree with all of them. I’m itching to book for February 2021! Thanks for the shout out during your live chats!
Thanks for joining the live chats! Much appreciated 👍🏻
Loved the cameos.
You have been everywhere.
I love the tip about looking at the itinerary and the ports.
Good to hear :-)
Fabulous Gary and you are spot on with the timing advice. As soon as the deployments are announced our office grabs group space on various sailings. That way the initial launch pricing is protected. Anyone who books into the group and pays the deposit can sit and smugly watch the public price climb while theirs doesn’t. Various perks and goodies come along with groups too. If booking the cruise close to sailing though often there are limited perks, just good pricing. When I was a new agent my manager described WAVE season to me as a two-month Black Friday sale.
Great to hear your experience. Thanks for watching 👍🏻👍🏻
Recently found your channel as we are hoping to get away 2023 for our 30th. Never been on a cruise before and these videos have really helped for when the bookings come available for that year! Thank you
Welcome aboard! Great to hear they helping :-)
Some great footage you took in this one, along with the excellent advice!
The best advice on cruise bookings!
Thanks :-) Much appreciated. Thanks for watching.
I had to deal with before but I so not see the big deal with changing the name and being charged because the person originally going with you is not able to cruise when something comes up. All I am doing is simply changing the name of the passenger not changing my actual booking or anything just a simple name change and keeping everything else the same.
Our 21 day Antarctica cruise in 2007, 24 day Mediterranean cruse in 2010 were maiden voyages..........and were very inexpensive.........you are correct...........but, the itineraries don't exist anymore...............
As always, a great video with lots of good advice. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Talking of sea days. I was looking at both my usual cruise lines, P&O and Princess for a Baltic cruise. Both 14 nights but with quite a few sea days. As I am a solo traveller I would be paying over £2000 for P&O and £3000 for Princess cruise only from Southampton. A 9 night from Copenhagen with NCL including drinks & 3 speciality dining is costing me £1750 in a studio cabin. Even with a flight and a few nights in Copenhagen I am still better off. Prefer extra nights in Copenhagen than on board! Learning to cast my net as it were!
Side question do you have a go pro or what do you film in water with
Cool !! keep doing
I just subscribed today. Im not a very big cruiser. Just been on 1 my whole life 19 yrs ago. I had one sceduled to alaska for this September but of course it was cancelled. What a bummer! Alaska is my dream vacation!!! Thanks for going over everything very thoroughly...very appreciated
I repeatedly heard about the book ASAP and WAVE recommendation. But is that really true for solo passengers wanting a lower single supplement? My understanding was that there are few upfront solo deals. Your best shot was to wait until after the 75/90/120(NCL) day final deposit was due; one way they move overstock was to reduce the single supplement. I was very interested in your live stream Antartica discussion. I don't know if it is a mainstream enough topic, but I would appreciate you discussing the nuance of booking solo travel. Should it be done far in advance or last minute or what are your tips.
Exellent, informative and interesting. Well done that man! The Queen Mother salutes you. Question. What's your 3 favourite cruise ships for food? Excluding those ships for the filthy rich, eg multimillionaires
Great video as always. But come on Gary, it’s a number of ports, never “amount of ports”!
Good point!
Really want to do a western Caribbean cruise but can't decide what month is best, middle of October or March. What would you suggest
Middle of March is before hurricane season. October is still on the tail end of it.
what??changing passenger name may mean cancellation...damn...cruise lines are fishy...
Travel insurance will be very expensive now post covid.
Agree, this looks very likely....
j t I’ve been on 36 cruises and I have never purchased insurance.
You are crazy.
All I really want to know is when they will start sailing again!!!!!
Absolutely :-) It's looking some time off unfortunately the way things going so far for mainstream cruising to get back
RULE #1 Giving any cruise company your money during COVID.
在外地訂遊輪，其價錢完全被代理掌控，毫無特價。除了中國大陸，因被不同商家承包，反而可拿到超優惠。
Jeezus, English please.
Tolerance, please.
Tony C., I don’t speak or read the language the original comment was written in either, but, there is no need to be rude! Gary’s vlog is obviously international in reach. If you don’t understand the language why don’t you just bypass the comment?
Here's the translation: "When booking cruises abroad, the price is completely controlled by the agent, and there are no special prices. In addition to mainland China, because they are contracted by different merchants, they can get super discounts."
Cool !! keep doing