How to get cruise cheaper than Iglu

betterbargains4u

I have found a cruise that I'm interested in offered by Iglu.
Is it possible to get the same cruise but cheaper elsewhere ? If so...how ?

ms_ora

Hi betterbargains4u

Good question !! We both are in the same boat :-) LOL. We are also going on a cruise this month end.
Before booking our cruise, I had shopped around by getting a quotes from various Cruise specialist.

Since you have short listed a cruise that you are interested in, most of the
cruise agents will be offering the same cruise itinerary as yours which you have seen on Iglu.
So have a look around with the following cruise specialists' websites:

http://www.Cruise118.com
http://www.cruisekings.co.uk/
http://www.cruisedirect.co.uk
https://cruises.ebookers.com
http://www.majorcruise.co.uk
http://www.cruiseoptions.co.uk/
http://uk.cruises.com
http://www.planetcruise.co.uk
http://www.brandedcruise.com/travel
http://www.thecruisevillage.com/
http://www.321cruise.co.uk
http://www.cruise1st.co.uk/
http://www.cruisedirect.co.uk
http://www.vivavoyage.co.uk/
http://www.jetlinecruise.com/
http://www.cruisecompare.co.uk/
http://www.cruises.co.uk/
http://www.cruise.co.uk/
http://www.janerbus.com/
http://www.cruisecritic.co.uk/
http://www.cruisecircle.co.uk/

Note down the quotes they are offering on their websites for your cruise. This will give you good indication as who
is offering best prices. I had found that there are very few agents who have online cruise booking facility (from quotes to taking payment)
unlike hotel or flight bookings. But then this also works in our favour as with online booking we have no opportunity for haggling.

So the next step for you is to pick up your phone and start calling the same agents from the above websites. Now is the time to
haggle. If you find that agent's price higher, tell them if they can match the price or beat the price what you have got.

Unfortunately while booking my cruise, I didn't call of the aboe agents due to lack of time, but I did speak to 4-5 agents.
The best price I got was from Ebookers.com. Taking their quote, I phoned again to Cruise118.com (who I have got the quote earlier,
which was higher than Ebookers) and told them to match it. To my surprise they beat it by knocking it down by £60 to Ebookers' quote
and it was about more than £100 less than their first quote. Since that was the best price, I accepted it and booked with Cruise118.com
I must admit that Cruise118.com's service was excellent. Highly recommended.

Hope this helps and you can make some decent savings.

Happy cruising !!

Cheers

travellerboy

If your cruise choice is the caribbean and not a Carnival Brand, then try www.vacationstogo.com
Otherwise try a German Travel Agency as the Euro is at such a good rate to the GBP - www.kreuzfahrtberater.de ( Goggle will auto-translate).
Best UK deals are normal www.vivavoyage.co.uk (which is a US agent operating out of UK)

getmore4less

travellerboy wrote: »

Otherwise try a German Travel Agency as the Euro is at such a good rate to the GBP - www.kreuzfahrtberater.de ( Goggle will auto-translate)

www.seascanner.co.uk

Same in english but then refer to the german version for some OBC.