When is the best time to go on a cruise?

The best thing is to check with a travel agency. They can tell you when and where the cheapest cruises are. You can save money by not getting off the ship at various ports they go to.

Before the holiday November / early December , early July, early August . The cheapest cruise is MSC then norweigan/carnival then costa. MSC has better food the other three.

Ditto Artemisc - short cruises tend to be booze cruises.

You can find cheaper cruises in the shoulder and off seasons, depending on where you want to cruise - Caribbean, Mediterranean, Alaskan, etc.

When you can afford it.

The best time to go is when cruises are the most expensive.

In the off season.

Cheap, short cruises tend to be party cruises. If you like getting drunk, and hanging out with drunk people, they're great. If you don't, then they aren't a good choice. You tend to have a lot of people who don't have a lot of money, and don't have jobs with good vacation benefits, so they try to jam as much fun as they can into a short amount of time, and it isn't my idea of relaxing.

You are much better off planning one way in advance, like a year, going on a 7 night. Pay it off month by month so by the time you are within the final payment time frame (about 90 days out), it's all paid off. I've never done a cruise less than 7 nights, even when I didn't make much money.

Get an inside cabin, or, if you go on Celebrity, get a better cabin, which will probably include a drink package. If you are within 6 hours of a cruise port, cruise from there so you don't have to pay for ari. We can get to Lauderdale for about $160 each, round trip. Or there is a port we can drive to in the north if we want to go to Bermuda (again).

Cruising isn't the kind of thing you want to cheap out on.

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Ocean or river cruise?

I've never been to an ocean cruise, but I spent 4 days aboard a ship on the river Danube from Germany down to Austria. In summer, of course, because this is central Europe, and there are few, if any, passenger cruises in winter, as the rivers may freeze.

I never went on a second cruise, and it's not that I became seasick or so, I just found it boring. Or maybe I just was on the wrong ship, the entertainment programme seemed to be aimed at the elderly.

everyone goes at mid summer so either very earlier Or in august