planning my honeymoon. need some cruiseline help

[almcbri]

This is an old thread

[youthpastor]

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.

[Derek69SS]

Take her to a car-show ;)

[Bowtieracing]

Royal Carrib. was amazing.

Proud to say;made in Finland !

[rocketrod]

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.

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.

[BC69]

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

[ProdigyCustoms]

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.

[Steve1968LS2]

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.

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 :)

[almcbri]

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

[almcbri]

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

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!

[rwhite692]

Another vote here for Royal Carribean.

[Herb68]

If you have not booked your cruise yet, I have some tips for you. If you have, maybe this will help with a future vacation.

I have cruised with both Princess and Royal Caribbean, and would say that both are very classy outfits. The key to finding the nicest ship is simply to pick the newest one you can find that matches your desired destinations. For our honeymoon, we went to the Western Caribbean on the Sun Princess on its second week out; amazing!

The surprise fee on a cruise is drinks. You do not use cash on board the ship, so you can rack up a huge bar tab if you like to drink. They even charge for soda. You are not suposed to bring your own alcohol, but some manage clever ways to sneak it on board. Orange juice is free (hint - hint).

If you really want an all inclusive vacation, you may want to look into Sandals Resorts. Drinks, water sports, everything is included. The down side is you only get to see one place.

I like the cruises because I unpack once, and get to see a variety of exotic places. You always have good safe food and water waiting on the ship as well. Be sure to tell your travel agent, maitre de, and head waiter you are on your honeymoon, as they will probably do something special for you.

Congrats on your engagement, and enjoy that honeymoon!

[awr68]

Jen and I used Carnival a few years ago and loved it! Yes it is a younger crowd...but not out of control or anything. I think most of that energy stays in the clubs at night. Lots of fun games and the like to do all day. And yes the food is increadable!! We booked our excursions ourselves to insure that we could do them and I think it saved some money too. Since this was our first cruise my wife found a forum online that answered many questions...worked for us!

Have a great time, and congrats!!

[ccracin]

Another vote for RC!

[almcbri]

Already married and have been on the honeymoon...about 8 months ago! Thanks again, Andrew http://www.lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php4?t=11085

[awr68]

HA Herb dug up an old one!!

So did you enjoy??

[almcbri]

It was a great time. We ended up renting a house on the beach for a week and then we went to Disney World. We had a great time.

[tyoneal]

I am getting married June of next year and I am already trying to plan out our honeymoon.

Bahama's or something along that line is what I have in mind. I am kinda open for suggestions. Can anyone give me any tips or give me an insight on where and what cruise I should consider. I am trying to find something all inclusive so I don't have any surprise fees.

I am not one to travel much, so for you cruise veterans please give me some information! These websites are killing me.

Thanks
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Take a peek at the, "Wind Jammer", Cruise line. We have always really enjoyed them. It's a different cruising style that we have found to be a blast.

Good Luck.

Ty

[LDB]

First of all don't go on a cruise. Go some place more personal than a cruise. We went to Tahiti best place ever and can't wait to go again. Just my two cents.