Hey guys, it's Emma here welcome to my channel. If we've never met before my
name is Emma, I'm a cruise blogger and I'm a founder of a Facebook community
for cruisers. I've just booked a cruise for 42 pounds seventy per night it's a
real cruise it's around the Mediterranean on one of the big cruise
lines and if you'd like to find out how you can do the same keep watching this
video. The cruise that I've booked is a cruise around the Mediterranean it's on
board the MSC Meraviglia which is a ship I already know that I love I've been on
her before. I implemented a lot of these tips into the buying process of this
cruise so if you pay attention you should be able to book your own cruises
for under fifty pounds per night. So there are two main ways you can get
deals like this, you can either sit back and wait for the deals to come to you, or
you can go and you can hunt for these deals. I'm gonna go through both ways in
this video so that you can find your perfect cruise and it can be as easy and
simple as possible, just follow these tips and you'll be completely fine. The
first thing you're gonna want to do is you're gonna want to get on a mailing
list for every travel agent that you can find. I'm in the UK so I mainly use
cruise nation, cruise first, cruise dot co dot uk, a couple of others I'll put
them in the description the travel agents that I use if you're in the UK
sign up for those, if you're in the u.s. you'll probably have slightly different
ones, but the idea is the same. Head over to all of the ones that you might ever
want to use and put in your email address when they have a deal they will
send it out by email you want to be the first person to get those. The second
point is when you get those emails you're gonna have to act ridiculously
fast, there is no time to wait for your husband to come in from work to check
with him, there's no time check if you can get the time off work, you're just
gonna have to book it and deal with it later.
You're not gonna be able to book these cruises a few hours later, when
those emails come around they sell out within an hour two hours maybe even
faster you've got to be on it and ready to pounce
whenever you get these emails into your inbox. So now you can just sit back and
you can wait for those deals to roll in but if you do want a hunt for a cruise
maybe you know you've got November off or you know you want to try a certain
cruise line I'm going to teach you how to hunt for those deals. If you can book
as far in advance as possible maybe when they launch the itineraries sometimes
I've seen the inaugural cruises for under fifty pounds a night which is just
incredible I'm not a person who likes the book that far in advance but I do
know friends who've booked two maybe even two and a half years in advance which is
incredible. If you do book a cruise really far in advance, don't worry you
can have to pay it off, you're not I mean you are at some point but you
would just pay a deposit and then 60 or 90 days before maybe a few months before
you have to pay the full balance so you've got a year and a half a year two
years whatever you want. That brings me nicely on to my next point around 60 or
90 days before a cruise the price will usually drop because at this point
Cruise Line to know how many people they've got going on the cruises they
know how many cabins they've already sold how many have been paid for and
they can just try and fill those last-minute deals usually the later you
leave it if you can get on a cruise tomorrow you're gonna get the best deal.
I know it's kind of hard to get time off work and things but if you don't have to
worry about that honestly maybe book out a week of work and then leave it to the
last minute and go somewhere I like to be bit too organized to do that but it's
a good way to do it. Often the cheapest cruises of all a transatlantic or
trans-pacific cruises they're not really ones that interest me just because it
would require quite a lot of time off work and I feel like I want to be out
there seeing things and doing different things but there are so many
people who love transatlantic cruises and if I had more time with work I would
definitely be cruising over the Atlantic cruising around cruising back doing
things a very relaxed way it would be fantastic to have no jet lag when you
get back home, transatlantic and trans-pacific cruises can be amazing and
they're often so so so cheap. Following on with the itinerary theme if you do a
cruise that starts and ends in different ports these can be really really cheap
they are a bit more difficult logistically if you've got to fly out
somewhere and cruise back or maybe you're doing a where to park the car
they can be a bit more difficult but that is why they not cheap I see so many
cheap cruises I live in the UK and I see so many cheap cruises that fly to
Hamburg and cruise back to Southampton which I really want to do and you only
need a few days of work because they're really really usually short cruises. You
don't necessarily get the same experience as you would on the 7 or 14
night cruise it's not always the best one to try a new cruise line because the
impression you get from 3 days might not be the same as a longer cruise but
nevertheless they are still really cheap and really fun. As far as cabins go I
would always say try and get an inside because of course they are the cheapest
and try and go for a guaranteed inside cabin. Guaranteed just means that you're
guaranteed to have a cabin in that category you can't get upgraded which is
of course always a bonus is quite a good chance of being upgraded actually
sometimes but it just means that your room location isn't assigned until last
minute you don't get to pick oh I want this particular cabin on this side in
the middle or whatever you get the leftover cabins but I don't really think
there are any bad cabins on most cruise ships I know some people really like to
be in the middle because they get seasick or they really like to be near
the buffet or near the atrium. For me I don't really care I did this on board
the independence of the Seas last year and we had a cabin right at the end of
the ship which honestly was probably good that we did some more steps before
we go to the buffet because we ate a lot of food on that cruise. To make it cheap
per person you're gonna want to cram as many people as you can into a cabin
maybe three or four some cruise lines even do five so I've cruised with my
parents and my brother where we've done four adults in an inside cabin or an
ocean view and it's completely fine for a few days I don't really think that you
need to go out all out on balconies and things like that, it depends very much
where you're going but inside cabins are usually fine for me I wouldn't want to
share with that many people for a week I think that would be about my
limit three or four days is completely fine. It can't make the cruise a lot
cheaper because the third and fourth passengers will often cost a lot less
than passengers one and two it depends on the cruise lines but if you split the
cost per person you can save a lot of money by getting all your friends in one
cabin it can't just be like a fun little sleepover I know a lot of people enjoy
it the last thing you're gonna want to do is you're gonna want to cruise off
season when nobody else wants to cruise you'll get the worst weather but the
cheapest prices so for me it's always cheapest to go in November there's some
really cheap deals in November or January and February. The cruise I was
talking about earlier I booked is for January it is a week on
both the MSE Meraviglia out of Barcelona and it was so cheap I could
not resist it I've already done this cruise I will link in the description to
all of my things that I made last time I cruise on her last time over Christmas
and it is less than half the price this time from what it was over
Christmas just by moving maybe two or three weeks into January it doesn't
matter to me if I cruise out season I don't have any
children I don't have to stick with those summer holidays which can be
really expensive. The cheapest cruise is that I've found usually with Costa
Cruises or MSC I've got loads of MSC content on our website and I have just
taken my first ever Costa cruise I've always seen these bargain Costa Cruises
come into my inbox but I've never taken one so I booked a week cruise onboard the
Costa Luminosa, it cost me 400 pounds and I had the best time if you are
considering a Costa cruise I definitely recommend you check out the Costa
videos that I've made I'll put the link to them in the description it was an
amazing cruise but it was unlike any cruise I've ever been on before. I often
look at these cruises and I think these are genuinely cheaper than me staying at
home and paying my mortgage and I'm sure I can eat the amount that this cruise
costs per day so yeah I hope you do find some amazing cruises thank you for watching this
video if you liked it please consider subscribing I do loads of tours of ships
of cabins I do daily vlogs I'm going to be doing a lot more first-time Cruiser
tips just like this so please subscribe and leave me a comment letting me know the
best cruise deals you've ever found you've really impressed me with your cruise
deals I think I'm quite good at a bargain but some of you guys are just
amazing so yeah I think that is it for me this time until next time goodbye
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