Numerous cruise specials are being offered by major cruise line companies. One such cruise specials is being offered by Crystal Cruises where kids 17 years old and younger cruise for free on two Crystal Symphony European voyages this summer.
The cruise specials offered is valid for children sailing in a third berth with two full-fare adults on Crystal’s seven-day British Isles and Baltic itineraries. Usually fare start at $4,210 per person for the British Isles cruise and $4,375 per person for the Baltic cruise but with the cruise specials offered your cruise can result as a bargain cruise.
Port and handling charges are additional and airfare is included in the adult bookings but must be purchased separately for children cruising free. Chilren ages 12 to 17 traveling in a third berth usually pay the minimum fare for that cruise regardless of the stateroom category while those age 11 and below pay 50 percent of the fare.
The cruise company has also a Crystal’s Family Memories program that offers a $500 credit toward a Crystal Private Adventure if the family has booked six full fares. Families booking 10 full fares get a complimentary berth.
Cruise and Maritime Voyages (www.cruiseandmaritime.com), a new cruiseline launched in August, will be offering no-flycruises from the United Kingdom next year on Marco Polo, which will be based in Tilbury near London.
Marco Polo enters CMV with a 30-night cruise from Tilbury to the Caribbean, which costs from £1,499 per person. A 42-night cruise to the Amazon and Orinoco departing February 1, 2010 costs from £1,999 per person.
During the summer, Marco Polo will be cruising around the British Isles, and to the Norwegian Fjords, Spitsbergen, the Baltic, Mediterranean and Canary Islands. A six-night Fjordland cruise starts from £399 per person.
The company’s 2010 programme also offers a 46 ‘no-fly’ cruising holidays with prices from £149 per person for a two-night mini-cruise from Tilbury to Amsterdam on Ocean Countess, which will be chartered by CMV from April next year.
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Viking River Cruises is offering two-for-one rates on five holiday voyages in Europe. This includes three new itineraries. For example, the eight-day Christmas on the Rhine cruise travels round trip from Cologne, Germany and starts at $1,456 per person double for a Category D cabin. Originally, the price for the trip was $2,799.
Port charges, shore excursions and all meals are included in the package. The trip aboard the Viking Helvetia stops at Christmas markets in Strasbourg and Baden-Baden. Alsace wine country, the Mainz Christmas fair and more. Departure dates are November 30, December 7 or December 14.
This cruise specials also applies to these new offerings: Danube and Prague Discovery (a four-night cruise in Germany’s Bavarian region and three nights in Prague from $1,532) and Holiday in the Rhineland ( a nine-day cruise from Amsterdam to Cologne; from $1,214). You need to book and pay in full by September 30 for this offer.
Crystal Cruises is offering up to $2,000 in shipboard credit with its new As You Wish promotion. It’s one of the best all-inclusive voyage offer you can get this time of the year. You can spend the $2,000 shipboard credit as you wish. You may use it to indulge yourself in spa treatments, fine wines, a Vintage room experience, gifts and many more choices.
In addition, Crystal Cruises is offering up to $1,500 per person or $3,000 per couple savings on cruise fares in celebration of being voted “Best Large-Ship Cruise Line by the readers of Conde Nast Traveler for a record breaking 15 years.
The deal is valid on most fall sailings to destinations like the Mediterranean and Northern Europe, New England and Canada, Panama Canal, Caribbean, Trans-Atlantic, Australia and South America.
