Wave season

[sweetsleep]

So when does this actually start?

Thinking about a cruise the first week in March but prices have gone UP recently from what I saw last month on both Royal Princess out of Port Everglades and Caribbean Princess out of Houston.

Availability on both ships is quite good so I would think they will start making discounts after January 1?

I will have to fly from Nashville so airfare/flight availability may/may not be an issue.

From postings that I have seen about Houston that port looks really iffy-surprised they are not discounting it more.

I am curious to at least try the Royal despite the unfavorable reviews. I will not book a balcony cabin if I decide to go and have always booked a balcony or mini-suite in the past.

Any thoughts on waiting? I suspect that we are past finally payment dates so it may pay to wait on booking this?

[beg3yrs]

Generally starts in January. You'll know for sure when both your e-mail in-box and snail mailbox start filling up with offers.

[pablo222]

So when does this actually start?

 

What else can princess do? They have a sale every other week

-- balcony bonanza, red white and blue, etc.

 

They even gave away (essentially) free cruise.

 

What's left -- paying people to go?

[Colo Cruiser]

So when does this actually start?

Thinking about a cruise the first week in March but prices have gone UP recently from what I saw last month on both Royal Princess out of Port Everglades and Caribbean Princess out of Houston.

Availability on both ships is quite good so I would think they will start making discounts after January 1?

I will have to fly from Nashville so airfare/flight availability may/may not be an issue.

From postings that I have seen about Houston that port looks really iffy-surprised they are not discounting it more.

I am curious to at least try the Royal despite the unfavorable reviews. I will not book a balcony cabin if I decide to go and have always booked a balcony or mini-suite in the past.

Any thoughts on waiting? I suspect that we are past finally payment dates so it may pay to wait on booking this?

 

You are talking spring break especially in March.

Hence the higher prices, and they fill up fast.

Edited December 29, 2013 by Colo Cruiser

[sminfiddle]

So when does this actually start?

Thinking about a cruise the first week in March but prices have gone UP recently

...

Any thoughts on waiting? I suspect that we are past finally payment dates so it may pay to wait on booking this?

My thought is that the lower prices will be found on the cruise just BEFORE that week. Much lower. Saw that last year.

First week o'March, not so much - as it has been noted it's Spring Break.

 

 

 

 

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[Pia1913]

What else can princess do? They have a sale every other week

-- balcony bonanza, red white and blue, etc.

 

They even gave away (essentially) free cruise.

What's left -- paying people to go?

 

Sounds good to me. Which is why we added two January cruises and I get to live in a suite on one of them. :D

[pablo222]

Sounds good to me. Which is why we added two January cruises and I get to live in a suite on one of them. :D

 

This is cruise critic -- there is someone here who would be

distressed about being in a suite, because the auto-tip

is more.

[hollon]

This is cruise critic -- there is someone here who would be

distressed about being in a suite, because the auto-tip

is more.

 

How much is the tip for a suite?

[Pia1913]

This is cruise critic -- there is someone here who would be

distressed about being in a suite, because the auto-tip

is more.

 

For half a buck a day? :eek:

[Wehwalt]

What else can princess do? They have a sale every other week

-- balcony bonanza, red white and blue, etc.

 

They even gave away (essentially) free cruise.

 

What's left -- paying people to go?

 

My former real estate broker said if you travel early in December, they will almost do just that.

 

I am reminded of the Cleveland Plain Dealer's comment on the efforts made to get people to visit Canton, Ohio during McKinley's front porch campaign in 1896, they said with the railroad subsidies, going to Canton had been made cheaper than staying at home.

[dorisis]

How much is the tip for a suite?

 

$12 per person per day.

[pablo222]

For half a buck a day? :eek:

 

There are plenty of people here who worry/post about paying sales tax when they buy a soda sticker. $0.50/day is not too trivial for some folks...

[msmoger]

What is meant by "Wave Season"??

[Pia1913]

What is meant by "Wave Season"??

 

 

This is typically the time of year when people book their cruise vacation whether you want to dig your way out of the snow, fill your now free vacation calendar or plan a family summer vacation. So for the benefit of those cruise-minded individuals and the cruise lines alike, the lines tend to offer extra amenities or sales just to help push you over the edge from possible-cruiser to booked-cruiser.

 

January to March is considered wave season.

[RetiredNTraveling]

Well, I guess that I misunderstood what was being ask. When I think of wave season, it is answered by the following chart:

 

http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display.cgi?a=npac_height

 

I have used it on two of our last three cruises to get a feel about the sailing conditions. It has proven to be mostly accurate.

[beg3yrs]

Well, I guess that I misunderstood what was being ask. When I think of wave season, it is answered by the following chart:

 

http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display.cgi?a=npac_height

 

I have used it on two of our last three cruises to get a feel about the sailing conditions. It has proven to be mostly accurate.

 

Wave Season - Surf's up! Even that doesn't mean what it used to now that you "surf" the Internet.

[Colo Cruiser]

Yes wrong wave. :eek: