Celebrity Air and Travel Insurance

[grammyandpoppy]

Hi Folks - we just booked a Baltic cruise for June 2011. Since we live in the Fort Lauderdale area, we have never used airfare on our previous cruises. Would you please share your experience with Celebrity Air as well as give suggestions as to when we should book our air travel. We can fly out of Orlando, West Palm or Fort Lauderdale. Airfare seems very high to me but we haven't flown to Europe since 2000. Has anyone used a consolidator and what has been your experience? Aer Lingus seems the cheapest right now - any input on them?

 

Also - travel insurance. Since we are booking an inside cabin on the Constellation (will be hard since we always book a balcony) we are hoping to keep the cost of the trip under $3000 each (for cruise fare and air). How do you go about choosing insurance? Any money savings tips? We would be booking non-refundable air. I understand that if we had to cancel, we would be reimbused for port and taxes by the cruiseline and I guess taxes on air. So what do I actually use to calculate the cost of the trip?

 

I would so appreciate your input.

 

Dolores

[denims]

We are using Celebrity's ChoiceAir for our upcoming TA.

I did a lot of research on pricing for the airfare and ChoiceAir was the best by far!

We always buy insurance just for peace of mind. (We are in our 60's)

But you are going to have to make that decision yourself. You alone know your tolerance! :D

[dzcruisers]

CHOICE Air seems to be the best, not cruise air or custom air. It's easy to get confused with all of X's names for airfare. We found our best deals on Choice Air!

[grammyandpoppy]

I'll look into choice air - anyone have any suggestions as to have far in advance to book air from Florida to Amsterdam

[deb18]

I booked air fare with choice air 10 months in advance from Orlando to London and it was less than 600 for the two of us one way (not pp). Hope that helps

[busdriver475]

Check on flights on Icelandic less than $400 PP from JFK to Amsterdam.

check Squareouth dot com for insurance quotes from many companies.

You can also see there ratings. Hope this helps.