OxBaker

Thanks all for the suggestions. I ended up booking a trip on Carnival on Cyber Monday since they added an additional $50 on-board credit. Not sure it was the best deal but seemed pretty good compared to other cruise lines and sites I checked out.

Thanks for the tips! We ended up taking a chance and booking a cruise with Celebrity after looking over options.

First time poster and potential first time cruiser. My wife and I are ~50 and have never really cruised due to her past sea sickness. But she decided now to give it another try and is willing to do 7-10 days in Feb 2023 to the Caribbean. We came across the ads for the "75% off" black friday sale for Celebrity and were considering it until we checked these forums and saw many people saying that the overall pricing during this sale is actually higher than before the sale. We weren't checking before so really don't have a good feel for what is a good price. So I guess my question to you more experienced cruisers is should we just book something this weekend that seems to be a good price vs other similar cruises around that Feb timeframe, or is the better strategy to just wait and keep checking the pricing on sites after the weekend? What are the chances of getting a better deal for a Feb Caribbean cruise than during these sales? We'll need to book it in the next month in order to reserve the time off work so last minute deals don't work. Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide! We're also trying to decide how to handle excursions with our lack of experience but this site seems to have a lot of good info on that too.