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jjb415 - Jack - it's great that you're joining us. Please come join the roll call. Kitsapgal and Cruisepup are also going solo and there may be even more folks that are under the radar. We have a number of activities planned for the sea days and I'm sure more to come. It's a great group - I've cruised with 8 or more of the folks before.

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A week ago I booked the 7 day Western Caribbean cruise from Miami and paid $959US for a 1B veranda cabin on Deck 9. I got a senior rate and on that day they were also giving a rebate of $100 for everyone booking a cruise.

 

I thought it sounded reasonable to me, but as I'm a rookie, I'd really appreciate hearing from you experts on whether you thought it actually was! I also paid $59US for insurance.

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A week ago I booked the 7 day Western Caribbean cruise from Miami and paid $959US for a 1B veranda cabin on Deck 9. I got a senior rate and on that day they were also giving a rebate of $100 for everyone booking a cruise.

 

I thought it sounded reasonable to me, but as I'm a rookie, I'd really appreciate hearing from you experts on whether you thought it actually was! I also paid $59US for insurance.

 

Hi Sophie,:) you got a very good deal.....Eclipse is a brand new ship:D

I sailed her on Nov 17th and I hope you have a great cruise:)

Did you go to the Roll Call section? There are some really nice people

on your cruise:)

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Hi Sophie,:) you got a very good deal.....Eclipse is a brand new ship:D

I sailed her on Nov 17th and I hope you have a great cruise:)

Did you go to the Roll Call section? There are some really nice people

on your cruise:)

Lois>>>Do you realize you are approaching 23,000 posts on CC? You should be a Host!!!:D

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Lois>>>Do you realize you are approaching 23,000 posts on CC? You should be a Host!!!:D

 

Hi, there are people on here with over 30,000 postings. I don't want

to be a host.

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Hi. I first cruised a few years ago with my friend (Royal Caribbean outside cabin) to the bahamas and enjoyed it. Shortly after I was invited to join my friend for a family reunion (out of NY to Canada). I did a Carnival 1A cabin which had a single occupancy supplement of 1.5x. This was pretty reasonable I thought and I really enjoyed it.

 

I was considering maybe doing another solo cruise but I just learned that carnival no longer has that offer on 1A cabins. What options are there without having to pay 2x for a room? I can't afford that really.

 

I mainly am interested in summer... for example I was considering an Alaska cruise in July or August. I live in New York but have a free flight to anywhere in the USA max value 400 so it opens up my cruising options a bit...

 

Basically, can you cruise solo for cheap? If a cruise line has a small single-occupancy fee but the normal rates are several hundred dollars per day, then there's no way I can afford it.

 

Thanks for any input. From the research I've done so far it seems like solo cruisers are horribly discriminated against and have almost no options unless they like giving their money to greedy cruise companies D:

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Hi. I first cruised a few years ago with my friend (Royal Caribbean outside cabin) to the bahamas and enjoyed it. Shortly after I was invited to join my friend for a family reunion (out of NY to Canada). I did a Carnival 1A cabin which had a single occupancy supplement of 1.5x. This was pretty reasonable I thought and I really enjoyed it.

 

I was considering maybe doing another solo cruise but I just learned that carnival no longer has that offer on 1A cabins. What options are there without having to pay 2x for a room? I can't afford that really.

 

I mainly am interested in summer... for example I was considering an Alaska cruise in July or August. I live in New York but have a free flight to anywhere in the USA max value 400 so it opens up my cruising options a bit...

 

Basically, can you cruise solo for cheap? If a cruise line has a small single-occupancy fee but the normal rates are several hundred dollars per day, then there's no way I can afford it.

 

Thanks for any input. From the research I've done so far it seems like solo cruisers are horribly discriminated against and have almost no options unless they like giving their money to greedy cruise companies D:

 

If you read through this thread you will see that people have been reporting some very good solo deals. They are out there but you have to do some searching. I found some sailings where the single rate was way below 200% on RCCL and Celebrity (Century and Millennium). I'd say Alaska in July and August won't be cheap because it's peak season there (and for anywhere else for that matter). You might do better in Alaska looking around in May or September. I once got a deal on a September sailing to Alaska on NCL where no single supplement was involved. As for Carnival, I still managed a good deal last May on the Miracle. It was close to sailing and they had a single gty rate. I landed up with an o/v with French doors (no balcony) at a great rate.

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If you read through this thread you will see that people have been reporting some very good solo deals. They are out there but you have to do some searching. I found some sailings where the single rate was way below 200% on RCCL and Celebrity (Century and Millennium). I'd say Alaska in July and August won't be cheap because it's peak season there (and for anywhere else for that matter). You might do better in Alaska looking around in May or September. I once got a deal on a September sailing to Alaska on NCL where no single supplement was involved. As for Carnival, I still managed a good deal last May on the Miracle. It was close to sailing and they had a single gty rate. I landed up with an o/v with French doors (no balcony) at a great rate.

Thank you for the response. Unfortunately I work on a school schedule so I'm only available summer and school vacations (basically all the prices are high). I guess I should just watch the thread every few days until I eventually (hopefully) find a day during the following window:

 

December 23, 2010 to January 2, 2011

February 19, 2011 to February 27, 2011

April 16, 2011 to April 26, 2011

June 25, 2011 to the end of August, 2011

 

How do good deals for solos work? When cruises aren't booking well the management randomly tells the pricing website to use smaller supplements for solos? Do they announce this or do you have to just comb through fares until you happen to notice this on a cruise? In all my searching I was never able to find anything like this (with the exception of back when carnival had the 1.5 for 1a cabins). Regardless I can just keep an eye on this thread I guess.

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Thank you for the response. Unfortunately I work on a school schedule so I'm only available summer and school vacations (basically all the prices are high). I guess I should just watch the thread every few days until I eventually (hopefully) find a day during the following window:

 

December 23, 2010 to January 2, 2011

February 19, 2011 to February 27, 2011

April 16, 2011 to April 26, 2011

June 25, 2011 to the end of August, 2011

 

How do good deals for solos work? When cruises aren't booking well the management randomly tells the pricing website to use smaller supplements for solos? Do they announce this or do you have to just comb through fares until you happen to notice this on a cruise? In all my searching I was never able to find anything like this (with the exception of back when carnival had the 1.5 for 1a cabins). Regardless I can just keep an eye on this thread I guess.

 

No, I've never seen an announcement by the cruise lines about lower single supplements.

 

On RCCL and Celebrity, the weekly Tuesday specials will tell you the single supplement %:

 

http://www.creative.rccl.com/sales/exciting_deals/XcitingDeals_cel_tues.pdf

 

http://www.creative.rccl.com/Sales/royal/Multi_Dest/Special_Offers/rci_sales_event.pdf

 

But I've found the % at even lower rates by just comparing the prices on their webiste.

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Anyone looking to cruise this weekend. Royal's Majesty 12/10/10 3 day cruise for $99 dbl occ and just $106(107%!!) with single supp..$177 total.

Wow! What a deal. I love Majesty, although she got me addicted to cruising, but air ticket from the Northeast would be almost $300!!!

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micronesia

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When I saw on one of the cruise critic pages a list of deals... I noticed one of them said the MSC Poesia is waiving the single supplement on some winder carribean cruises... long story short they referred me to a travel agent who booked me for the 7 night on February 20-27 for $658 USD plus taxes/port fees, so it totals $878. Of course booking airfare from NY to Florida is not cheap this late normally. I had a 400 dollar credit through my Amazon Visa credit card so I called them and they were trying to find something to book with me. The only way it didn't go way over 400 (which would require me to pay the difference) was when I flew into Miami instead of Ft. Lauderdale. Also, the cruise departs at 7pm and I am scheduled to get into Miami (after 1 layover of ~2 hours) at 4:15pm. This is cutting it much closer than I would like...

 

There is a supershuttle that supposedly will take me for 30 dollars and will make me wait no longer than 30 minutes... and a taxi would be pretty expensive at that distance. Is this viable? I'm not sure how late I can get to the cruise terminal and still make it on the ship. I can obviously do my initial check-in online before hand.

 

I signed up for travel insurance at the recommendation of my travel agent for 47 dollars which I believe covers pretty much everything I need to worry about... anyway if you can get to Florida there might still be some good solo cruises... any tips/questions are welcome.. I'll check back.

 

This will be my first time cruising solo without knowing anyone else on the ship... last time I did a 5 day to Canada with a friend and his family in other staterooms (did the old Carnival 1.5 1A deal to sleep alone), and before that was my first cruise... a 3 day to cocokay and nassau on RC from Miami.

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I am on one of their "deals" leaving 1/9-1/16 for $616. I have never been on MSC, but am anxious to experience it myself. I was just told today by MSC that an upgrade can usually be bought at checkin for "pennies on the dollar", so hopefully that will be the case with me. I am, right now, in a "bat cave" on the 10th deck, but a really good location, so may just stay there depending on the cost and possibility of upgrading. I hope you can work things out with the shuttle from Miami.

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Aloha everyone and Happy New Year. I just found this thread and think it's a great resource.

 

FYI: I just booked a 7 day Baltics Capitals Cruise with RCI for a total price of $928.76(Solo)

 

Can you please share the date of departure and the name of the Ship.

 

It would be useful for others who may want to book it at that price.

 

Thanks for your input.

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Can you please share the date of departure and the name of the Ship.

 

It would be useful for others who may want to book it at that price.

 

Thanks for your input.

 

Date of departure is May 8th on the Vision of the Seas.

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