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Have any of you guys ever booked one? My girlfriend and I are considering a trip between summer and fall classes. We had planned on Spring Break, but decided we would just try to save up a little earmarked money instead of spending what we have already. We have seen tons of cruises online for the $300-$400 range. I went on a senior class cruise with my school, and we paid $700. I know that gratuity has to be added on, so that gets tacked onto the price listed on these internet sites. Can anyone give me some kinda breakdown on the different fees that we could expect?

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I've only done one cruise (around Hawaii with NCL) and some of the specialty restaurants required a small supplement.

I don't know if it is stating the obvious but soda and alcohol aren't included...

For us though a flat gratuity was tacked on our room bill so we didn't have to walk round handing out tips all day. I preferred it like that.

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I went on a senior cruise with my high school. All of our food was free. Dinner included water and fruit juices for free, as was basically the case for all of the smaller restaurants as well. I understand both of those. Thanks for your reply, I appreciate all the information I can get!

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Have done 3 cruises with Royal Caribbean and it was wonderful. I used to think these were for old people but it was quite a surprise.

I did not go on a cruise until I turned 29, boy I wished I experienced it a lot earlier.

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I went on my first cruise last summer with my mom, sister and younger brother and had a great time. We went on the Princess Cruise to Alaska, a large ship only 4 years old. Everyone was very friendly and the staff was very nice.

I would recommend paying extra to eat out at the exclusive restaurants they have on board it worth the extra $20 a person. Make sure you exercise daily or you are going to put on the pounds.

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Personally I could not stand to be stuck on a "floating hotel," but I'm not the type that likes to feel and look "touristy." Specifically I never liked the schedule that the cruise lines force you to conform to. When me and the fiance went to St. Lucia and the surrounding islands two years ago I rented a 40 foot sail boat and we went between the islands at our leisure. Granted you need knowledge of sailing (I used to race boats) and have to feel comfortable around the locals and on the seas, which most wouldn't.

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id really like to go on a cruise, just to get more information for myself and paintballer

what kind of activities are there to do on the cruise?

whats an average price per person for like a week trip somewhere?

and do they stop somewhere where you get off the boat and do tourist like stuff? or is it just like a float around do a circle then come back type thing lol

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I can help you with a few of those from my senior cruise back from HS. It was a couple years ago, but I remember most of it.

On the boat, there were several shows and places to eat. There were a couple pools. On the boat, you're generally just hanging out. Drinking (if you do so, I don't), gambling, eating of course, and just relaxing. We made two stops. One was a private island. Here you could do numerous things (snorkel, jet ski, tours) or just hang out on the beach. We also stopped at Nassau, Bahamas. Here you were free to roam the island and hope you didnt get left. I think we had two days where we were totally at sea (the first day and the last full day).

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so like the jet ski thing and snorkeling is that included in the price? of the cruise or that extra?

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Activities such as snorkeling or going to a place like waterfalls, winery, garden, swimming with dolphins or stingray you will have to book in the ship. They have different packages that they offer. I recommend doing some research and ask around on what other people here that have gone on those packages or post a question thread on a cruising messageboards.

One thing to keep in mind, if you go to one of the ports that have a good downtown area to check out, don't book a package that would be too far from the port where you would end up spending 2 hours sitting on a bus. I learned that lesson on my first cruise when we went to Tulum. Spent a little over 2 hours on a bus round trip from the port to the ruins and did not have enough time to walk around the downtown area to shop or drink.
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Personally I could not stand to be stuck on a "floating hotel," but I'm not the type that likes to feel and look "touristy." Specifically I never liked the schedule that the cruise lines force you to conform to. When me and the fiance went to St. Lucia and the surrounding islands two years ago I rented a 40 foot sail boat and we went between the islands at our leisure. Granted you need knowledge of sailing (I used to race boats) and have to feel comfortable around the locals and on the seas, which most wouldn't.

I'm with you. Cruising had never appealed to me but the wife wanted to take me to Hawaii and it seemed a good way to see the various islands easily.

It was the only holiday where we've not made our own itinerary, as an independent traveller half the fun for me is figuring out how many days at each place, the best things to see/avoid etc....cruising took half the fun out of it for me. It has its place and I wouldn't rule out doing one in the future if it were a sensible option for the place we were visiting. My father is a keen sailor and my favourite holiday was sailing the BVIs in a 54ft Beneteau...incredible.
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There are a lot of activities, on the cruise we did there were more on the boat during the evening but a few during the day. If you sail outside international waters then there's usually a casino. We were sent a pack with all the various excursions for each stop and picked the ones we wanted, this was then added to our ship bill at the end of the week.

The average price is hard to determine as you can go for bargain bucket inside facing staterooms and they are pretty cheap, but very small and my idea of hell! We went for somewhere that had a small living and balcony, after all what's the point in being on a ship if you can't see out the thing!

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Cruises are not in my bag. However, there are some really good deals going on. Check out www.travelzoo.com and click on cruises. The next 3-4 years will be fantastic for fancy travel packages etc.

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I cruised to Alaska and Hawaii within the last few years on NCL. Everything is extra. And they rake you if you use the cruise excursions. My solution was to check the daily activity handout and try to emulate the expensive excursions. I'd see where they were going and rent a car and do it myself. Almost every time I'd have better stories than the excursion passengers, plus I could return to the ship a couple of hours later, sneaking in more sights. The excursions always play it safe, arriving long before the ship is scheduled to sail to the next port.

NCL is known for freestyle cruising, which means eat wherever and whenever you want. The stuffy types found reason to pretend the free restaurants weren't good enough so they shelled out extra. But I guarantee it's like taped golf shafts, put on a blindfold and they couldn't have told what or where they were eating. Cruises can be a bargain or an excuse to brag to everyone how stupid you were by needlessly blowing an extra thousand. I made sure to tip the cabin crew well, plus the guys in the restaurants where I ate every day.

Oh yeah, the Alaska cruise was actually them paying me. I made more money than it cost me, including a $225 splurge helicopter ride to a glacier in Juneau. The small casino in 2005 on the Norwegian Star still had bonus slot machines, the so-called Vision machines that were such a bonanza in Las Vegas and elsewhere late in the '90s and early this decade. Guaranteed profit with selective intelligent play. I know that sounds absurd but you wouldn't be scoffing if you understood the playing characteristics. There was even a book, "Robbing The One-Armed Bandits." People were quitting good jobs to play those machines full time in their heyday. I was the only one on that cruise who understood the Vision machines. Every time I'd enter the casino my biggest problem was not to laugh. I was nonchalantly walking up to huge advantage plays that guys literally would have been fighting over in Las Vegas. Once I remember going to watch a movie, certain that a big edge Vision play on a Wild Cherry Pie machine would still be there two hours later. It was. I made $1141 profit on those machines, while only visiting the casino a few times per day, and never hitting anything big. It was a $40 to $80 gig for a half hour or so.

They also had a golf driving net, one on each side of the ship.


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Oh yeah, the Alaska cruise was actually them paying me. I made more money than it cost me, including a $225 splurge helicopter ride to a glacier in Juneau. The small casino in 2005 on the Norwegian Star still had bonus slot machines, the so-called Vision machines that were such a bonanza in Las Vegas and elsewhere late in the '90s and early this decade. Guaranteed profit with selective intelligent play. I know that sounds absurd but you wouldn't be scoffing if you understood the playing characteristics. There was even a book, "Robbing The One-Armed Bandits." People were quitting good jobs to play those machines full time in their heyday. I was the only one on that cruise who understood the Vision machines. Every time I'd enter the casino my biggest problem was not to laugh. I was nonchalantly walking up to huge advantage plays that guys literally would have been fighting over in Las Vegas. Once I remember going to watch a movie, certain that a big edge Vision play on a Wild Cherry Pie machine would still be there two hours later. It was. I made $1141 profit on those machines, while only visiting the casino a few times per day, and never hitting anything big. It was a $40 to $80 gig for a half hour or so.

You mean you didn't stay an extra week month year onboard?

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My wife and I are booked on a Bahamas cruise in January- we have cruised before but I have never played golf during any of those trips, but this time I plan too.

Our first stop is port canaveral, seems only one course close by (Savannahs at Merritt Island) it is a muni but looks nice - a fair amount of water.

Nassau is next and it seems the only reasonable course is Cable beach. It seems the one at the Atlantis is reserved for guests and/or EXTREMELY pricey.

Final stop is in Freeport but we are only there for 7 hours, with getting on and off the ship might not be enough time.

For the first 2 stops I plan to book myself and not through the ship excursion (too pricey). If I did freeport i woudl go through the ship -this way they may not leave me behind

Anybody have any experience on those course or other suggestions /thoughts.

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My wife and I went on our honeymoon on a Carnival cruise and we're leaving for our second cruise in a couple weeks.

I don't know about any of the other cruise lines, but we've always enjoyed ourselves on Carnival and once you're on board, there's no additional costs until you purchase alcohol or want to do excursions at each port of call.

We've discovered that the earlier you book the cheaper your deal is. We booked about 8 months ago and got a balcony room on a 7 day Caribbean cruise for $639 a piece. Pretty good if you ask me.

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We have cruised every year since 1998. We went on a 9 day with Royal Caribbean this past May. Had an awesome time.

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I have been on a few Carnival cruises. If you book around Dec. 14th, you can score one for pretty cheap. Maybe around $600 or so. The week before Christmas is definitely a cheap time as well.

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