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Cruises Only (CruisesOnly.com)

Cruises Only is a website (cruisesonly.com) that aggregates different cruise deals, much like sites such as Travelocity aggregate different deals from airlines, hotels, and so on. Although the name implies otherwise, Cruises Only is actually not about cruises only, as you can find offerings that are not related to cruise vacations through the site; for example, you can book car rentals through the site. However, the Cruises Only focuses overwhelming on cruises, listing cruise deals, discount cruises, last-minute cruise specials, and similar such things.

Cruise Specials

At any given point in the year, cruise specials are available. Indeed, not only are cruise specials always possible to find, you can likely uncover them by looking at a single cruise line. This is because cruise specials are extremely common, and in fact the very nature of the cruise industry ensures that this is the case. Ships need to be filled all year round to make voyages financially worthwhile for the cruise lines, and in order to fill their ships, it is often necessary for companies to offer cruise specials to potential passengers to lure them on board. (For more on why cruise lines offer cruise deals, check out our article on how to find cheap cruises.)

Christmas Cruise Deals

It is a relatively well-known fact, at least to those of us familiar with the world of cruises, that there exist special Christmas cruises that are offered by nearly every cruise line during the holiday season. For those who fancy the traditional Christmas experience, one that is filled with snow and caroling and other such merriment, it may seem strange that anyone would take a cruise around Christmas, but evidently many people do, often precisely to avoid the traditional Christmas experience (or at least certain components of it – in-laws and cold weather come to mind), and hence the abundance of Christmas cruises available. But what exactly is a Christmas cruise, and more relevantly for the present article, how do you go about finding a good Christmas cruise deal?

Bargain Cruises: Which Cruise Lines Offer Them?

What exactly constitutes a bargain cruise is more difficult to determine than you might think, as our recent article about bargain cruises shows, but that doesn’t mean that people aren’t interested in bargain cruises, however they are to be defined. On the contrary, people are always looking for a bargain, in the realm of cruise vacations or elsewhere, so in this article we explore some of the cruise lines that offer cheap cruises or some type of cruise deals. Strictly speaking, these might not be bargain cruises for the reasons spelled out in the article linked to above, but we can nevertheless unearth which cruise lines offer below-average prices for their vacation packages.

Bargain Cruises: What’s a Good Cruise Deal?

Everyone is interested in finding bargain cruises. If you are set on taking a cruise vacation, why wouldn’t you want to find some sort of cheap cruise or at least a cruise deal? But then we most confront the question of what exactly a bargain cruise is: are bargain cruises merely cruises that are cheap relative to other cruises, or is the criterion perhaps a little looser, such that a cruise is defined as a “bargain cruise” if it is cheap compared to any other vacation? Or are bargain cruises something different altogether, perhaps definable only by reference to one’s personal wealth and resources?

Carnival Cruise Deals: Cheap Cruises, Discounted Cruises, and All the Cruise Deals In Between

Carnival Cruise Line is the most popular cruise line in the world (or so Carnival’s registered trademark asserts: “The World’s Most Popular Cruise Line”), and it is owned by the largest cruise ship operator in the world, Carnival Corporation, which owns ten cruise lines in addition to Carnival Cruise Line.

The Cheapest Cruise Prices

In a previous article, we explained how to find a cheap cruise by detailing some general strategies to land cruise deals or find cruises that are in one way or another discounted. We covered such topics as last-minute cruise deals and off-season cruises, both of which must always be kept in mind if you are trying to find the cheapest cruises. At bottom, our advice boiled down to this: the best way to find cheap cruises is to pay special attention to when you book your cruise. When you book your cruise is the single biggest determinate to how cheap your cruise will be.

How to Find Cheap Cruises

Everyone likes cheap cruises, but how can you go about securing great cruise deals? With the enormous amount of information about cheap cruises available, it can be hard to discover the best deals for cruises, so we’ve compiled the following general advice for finding cruise discounts to help guide you. No matter what kind of cruise you are interested in taking, these deal-hunting tips should help you find a cheap cruise.

Where Can I Find Discount Cruises?

Discounted cruises are often available during slow or shoulder seasons in year round destinations. For example, Alaska’s slow season is May-September, and Bermuda’s slow seasons are April-May and September-October.

Cheap Cruises 2011

If you book with a group (family, group of friends, organization, etc.), the cruise line may offer a discounted rate beginning with the third person or so. Once the discount has been calculated, your group can split the costs evenly.