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  1. Will you not be defrauding the insurance company with your idea?
  2. This is the closest i could find.... How Do I Negotiate a Deal on a Cruise? | Getaway USA (azcentral.com)
  3. But obviously they are not selling them, if there are empty cabins on departure. If the cabin is $4000 and you offer them $3000, then $3000 is better than zero. Now you could spend more on the ship or spend nothing, but $3000 is still better than zero.
  4. But 99% of homeowners do it, or try it. Don't know how it works down under, but here in the UK most people wanting to buy a home never pay the asking price, unless they are desperate to buy that particular house. If the house is on the market and you want to buy it, you make a offer to the seller, its up to him / her to decline the offer or accept it. If they are selling at 500k i would look to see how long that property has been on the market, if its been on the market for a long time i would make a offer 450k. The seller could decline and run the risk of never finding a buyer or come back and and say that they would accept 480k. No difference to haggling with taxi drivers and venders, you may just want to call it something else, though.
  5. They have supervisors, couldn't they make a call upstairs?
  6. Hypothetically speaking.... You live next to a cruise port and notice that a cruise ship is leaving tomorrow and you like the itinerary. When you do a mock booking online, you notice that there a loads of unsold balcony cabins. The price of the cabin is $2000 per person, based on double occupancy. Would you ring the cruise line up and tell them that you are prepared to pay them $3000 for the cabin but not a dollar more? What would the cruise lines response be? Most people are happy to haggle with vendors, taxi drivers and the like. Would you try to haggle with the cruise line, or is that sort of behaviour beneath you? Just to point out, i don't live next to a cruise port so this would be of no use to me.
  7. There are 195 countries in the world, 133 countries boarder the sea. Many wont have ports to handle cruise ships, and many cruise ships would never visit certain places like North Korea. Highly unlikely that you will ever be able to go on world cruise and visit more than 100 countries.
  8. Savona is generally the main embarking and disembarking port for Italians. Barcelona is the main port for many Europeans and those outside Europe. Its very easy to get from the airport to the cruise port in Barcelona. I wish all cruise lines did the same as Costa, hell who wants to que with thousands of others during embarkation, when with Costa it is usually a few hundred at most, at each port. I also think it is good business practice for Costa. Many people who board cruise ships go on a spending spree for the first few days, then they cut their spending down. New customers every day is money, money, money.
  9. I have been on Costa Toscana twice, Barcelona to Dubai and also the return. I cannot answer about suites as i was in a balcony. The ship is beautiful but it is a mega ship. There is a dedicated kids club, also one for teenagers. The teenage club is also going at 11.00 at night, they like to do things later on Costa. Yes to bars and entertainment.
  10. If your vlogging you are working. If you are a vlogger and go on a cruise without filming then you are on vacation, there is a big difference. Remember every click you get on YouTube equals payment. I read some ware that the inland revenue (tax office) in the UK are starting to look into payments to vloggers who are not paying tax on this money.
  11. A cruise ship is private property, the owners have every right to stop people filming on their property.
  12. I would support any cruise line that asks people that are continually filming to stop.
  13. As you will be aware, a couple of vloggers from the UK, stormed off a cruise ship with MSC after they were told to stop filming. The incident is discussed at length on the MSC board, please go over there, for that topic. I would be interested to hear your comments on vloggers generally. Personally I believe in general, vloggers have been good for the cruise industry, but it seems to me that there are so many of them now, its at saturation point. For me i don't mind people filming and taking pictures on the ship, as long as they don't film me. I do not want people filming on the next table to me in the restaurant or buffet, even if they are not filming me. I think filming in those areas should be banned. I think the time has come for the cruise lines to come up some rules and regulations regarding filming on their property. Will be interested to hear your take on this, but please don't discuss the vloggers from the UK, go over to the MSC boards for that discussion.
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