Feb 27, 2008
Looking for a one-week cruise for $399 and less? Book a departure in 2009
Nobody but nobody is offering seven-night cruises of the Caribbean for $399 and less for departures during the current winter. But White Travel Service of West Hartford, Connecticut -- a prominent cruise discounter for more than 30 years -- has found a way to break the $400 floor: sell departures a year from now in 2009. If you'll sign up that far in advance, they'll put you aboard a fine ship for a Caribbean cruise of a full week's duration on the most desirable dates of the winter -- even overlapping Valentine's Day and School Break -- in February, 2009 (with other departures at the same price in January and March, 2009).
Their biggest bargain is aboard the MSC Orchestra (a giant new vessel whose launch party I attended last year in the port of Rome) leaving Fort Lauderdale on February 14, 2009: $399 per person in an inside stateroom. You'll spend a day at sea, visit the Dominican Republic, St. Maarten, Antigua, then spend another day at sea, visit Nassau (Bahamas), and finally return to Fort Lauderdale.
Even better: inside cabins for $379 per person aboard the Costa Fortuna of Costa Cruises leaving Fort Lauderdale on January 11, January 25, and March 8, 2009, on a somewhat similar itinerary for 7 days, but substituting San Juan and Grand Turk for St. Maarten and Antigua.
You find these sailings at www.whitetravel.com/offers.html, or by calling tel. 800/547-4790. They bring you cruises you can actually call cheaper than living at home ($399 divided by 7 = $57 a day).
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Their biggest bargain is aboard the MSC Orchestra (a giant new vessel whose launch party I attended last year in the port of Rome) leaving Fort Lauderdale on February 14, 2009: $399 per person in an inside stateroom. You'll spend a day at sea, visit the Dominican Republic, St. Maarten, Antigua, then spend another day at sea, visit Nassau (Bahamas), and finally return to Fort Lauderdale.
Even better: inside cabins for $379 per person aboard the Costa Fortuna of Costa Cruises leaving Fort Lauderdale on January 11, January 25, and March 8, 2009, on a somewhat similar itinerary for 7 days, but substituting San Juan and Grand Turk for St. Maarten and Antigua.
You find these sailings at www.whitetravel.com/offers.html, or by calling tel. 800/547-4790. They bring you cruises you can actually call cheaper than living at home ($399 divided by 7 = $57 a day).
Write and read comments about this post.
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