Jul 9, 2008
Bargain of the Day: Another weird (and cheap) repositioning cruise, this time for 12 nights from New Orleans to Boston for $769
A week ago, I wrote about the strangest cruise ship itinerary in my experience, a Norwegian Cruise Line sailing from New York to Miami taking 12 nights (because the ship lengthened the itinerary to wander through the Caribbean before heading back north to Miami). You can find it in our posts of a few days back.
Well it seems that Norwegian Cruise Line has all sorts of strange needs to keep its ships active, and the next such example takes place on April 19, 2009, when the 2,000-passenger, relatively-new (1999) Norwegian Spirit departs from New Orleans to visit Mexico (the Costa Maya), Guadeloupe (Santo Tomas Castillo), Belize City, Willemstad (Curacao), and Bermuda (Hamilton), before proceeding north to Boston to end this itinerary lifted from the kind of wanderings you'd expect on The Flying Dutchman of old (six days are spent simply at sea).
The cost for all 12 days: $769 per person in inside cabins, plus $380 in taxes, port fees, and fuel surcharge. Even including taxes, port fees and fuel surcharges, you are paying only $95 a day for a glamorous cruise filled with meals, snacks, entertainment, sports, port visits, and the brisk sea air.
You can buy this strange -- but quite intriguing--opportunity from White Travel Service of West Hartford, Connecticut (tel. 800/547-4790; www.whitetravel.com).
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Well it seems that Norwegian Cruise Line has all sorts of strange needs to keep its ships active, and the next such example takes place on April 19, 2009, when the 2,000-passenger, relatively-new (1999) Norwegian Spirit departs from New Orleans to visit Mexico (the Costa Maya), Guadeloupe (Santo Tomas Castillo), Belize City, Willemstad (Curacao), and Bermuda (Hamilton), before proceeding north to Boston to end this itinerary lifted from the kind of wanderings you'd expect on The Flying Dutchman of old (six days are spent simply at sea).
The cost for all 12 days: $769 per person in inside cabins, plus $380 in taxes, port fees, and fuel surcharge. Even including taxes, port fees and fuel surcharges, you are paying only $95 a day for a glamorous cruise filled with meals, snacks, entertainment, sports, port visits, and the brisk sea air.
You can buy this strange -- but quite intriguing--opportunity from White Travel Service of West Hartford, Connecticut (tel. 800/547-4790; www.whitetravel.com).
Write and read comments about this post.
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