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3 hours ago, cmyersmgr said:

Good morning everyone.  I am interested in cruising solo after the passing of my husband. We both loved cruising, I recently retired, and now I need to find some deals.  I do not have a partner to travel with, however, I want to continue to cruise.  Can you offer me some advise on how to find these solo deals, etc.

As they said we can’t say names but google solo cruise deals and a ad pops up for a few I use. I also go to each cruise site and just change the occupancy to 1 person. I have found many deals with the help of people On this thread. If you live close to a port like Florida it’s easy if you can drive otherwise I search southwest flights all the time just to watch pricing and free changes. 

I was on epic Mediterranean in may 2014, did the 3 day then 7 day. The solo lounge meets once a day which varies on ports, always announced in the daily itinerary They have a list of dining and times which they have separate cruise staff reserve a table and you can sign up. During the meetings they would ask and help us get a group and reservations. They had dinner with us too. We could also put requests if someone wanted to go to A specialty restaurant or the main dining room and have others sign up. I met so many people on that cruise that I always had someone to do something with. Many of us had talked a lot on the boards booking the private tours that we got to know each other a little from here so we had some stuff to talk about in person.

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NCL rate $1100.

Final cruise price with taxes $1271. But airfare for Barcelona and Galveston are just too high.

It was cheaper years ago when I flew to Rome for the transatlantic.

Did you check airfare to Philly or coast then separate to Galveston. Maybe southwest when u hit the states. May be a pain to switch but may save money

I just did a transatlantic on celebrity and my flight from Amsterdam to Philly was $460 direct flight.