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UK to NYC cruise / Flight £499

  • 10-12-2012 11:29pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭


    Nice pressie for the missus / hubby / parents if you can afford it :D

    What's Included?
    Spacious, ensuite accommodation
    All meals and snacks onboard
    24 hour room service
    High quality entertainment
    Tea, coffee, fruit juice is available 24 hours
    Port and Handling fees & taxes.
    Fitness Centre
    Daily Afternoon Tea
    Sports deck and kids programmes




    http://www.iglucruise.com/queen-victoria/10th-january-2013_c58260-balcony-cabin


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,959 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    Nice pressie for the missus / hubby / parents if you can afford it :D

    What's Included?
    Spacious, ensuite accommodation
    All meals and snacks onboard
    24 hour room service
    High quality entertainment
    Tea, coffee, fruit juice is available 24 hours
    Port and Handling fees & taxes.
    Fitness Centre
    Daily Afternoon Tea
    Sports deck and kids programmes




    http://www.iglucruise.com/queen-victoria/10th-january-2013_c58260-balcony-cabin

    Nice price but the only person i'd send on an Atalntic Ocean Cruise in the middle of January is me mother in law


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭readytosnap


    scudzilla wrote: »
    Nice price but the only person i'd send on an Atalntic Ocean Cruise in the middle of January is me mother in law

    LOL the perfect christmas gift so


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,959 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    LOL the perfect christmas gift so

    Yeah, but around 498quid more than what i wanna spend on her


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    Who in their right mind would want to go on a cruise across the Atlantic Ocean?????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭readytosnap


    Hogzy wrote: »
    Who in their right mind would want to go on a cruise across the Atlantic Ocean?????

    Cruisey people:o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,084 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    scudzilla wrote: »
    ... Atalntic Ocean Cruise in the middle of January....
    Hogzy wrote: »
    Who in their right mind would want to go on a cruise across the Atlantic Ocean?????
    Well they are called Iglu cruises.... :)

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭brightkane


    Itinerary

    Day1 - Southampton
    2-8 at sea
    9 new york

    sounds exciting!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    £500 for all that is a very good deal, in fact a bargain.
    Sure you'd pay at £400 for a flight alone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,844 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    What's the baggage allowance on the way back? I could subsidise someone's ticket if they can take back 100kg of crap for me :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭recyclops


    ive always wanted to go on a cruise cross the atlantic :o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭a clanger


    I believe these are positioning cruises. The ship is heading off to the Caribbean and might as well fill up with a few wrinklies to help pay for the diesel


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    snubbleste wrote: »
    £500 for all that is a very good deal, in fact a bargain.
    Sure you'd pay at £400 for a flight alone.

    You'd get a return flight for 600 euro. Don't think the cruise includes return flights from new york


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Hogzy wrote: »
    You'd get a return flight for 600 euro. Don't think the cruise includes return flights from new york
    Eh, read the offer again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭readytosnap


    The food alone for 8 days would cost more than 499 ( well to fill my belly anyway :o )
    return flight is included, I know its not everyones cup of tea but it is a bargain.
    if i had the money i would go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,153 ✭✭✭✭dodzy


    scudzilla wrote: »
    Nice price but the only person i'd send on an Atalntic Ocean Cruise in the middle of January is me mother in law
    scudzilla wrote: »
    Yeah, but around 498quid more than what i wanna spend on her

    Just reminded me of that one about the Mother-in-Law.

    You are walking along a beach and you accidentally kick a bottle buried in the sand, releasing a jeanie who grants you 2 wishes. But what ever you wish for, the M.I.L gets double. Predicament :mad:

    Ah, OK Mr jeanie. I want you to give me a million €......and beat me half to death :P


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,858 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    Cruisey people:o

    Tom Cruise and his family?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Would love to do it if one had the funds ,just to say I had crossed the North Alantic in winter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,846 ✭✭✭discombobulate


    It'd be a lot handier for the ship to just sail a few miles from shore anchor up, wait for a week and go back to shore. Same amount of scenery and possibly more comfort due to the boat not moving across a big empty ocean.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 624 ✭✭✭jimogr


    It'd be a lot handier for the ship to just sail a few miles from shore anchor up, wait for a week and go back to shore. Same amount of scenery and possibly more comfort due to the boat not moving across a big empty ocean.

    lol. Except for the fact this is the first leg of a 100 day circumnavigation cruise - so those on for the 100 days may get a bit annoyed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭xpletiv


    Plus, you wouldnt exactly be in NY then either...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,501 ✭✭✭Fuzzy_Dunlop


    I'd say it'd be good craic if you had the time to kill. And assuming the flight back can be chosen to stay in NY for a while.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Jesus that is a bargain, especially with a balcony room and a Cunard ship.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭paddydriver


    No reading posts from wasters on boards.ie for 9 days... has to be worth the money:D:D








    Go on... someone is going to tell me they have WiFi too

    WooHoo... post 1000!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    No reading posts from wasters on boards.ie for 9 days... has to be worth the money:D:D








    Go on... someone is going to tell me they have WiFi too

    WooHoo... post 1000!

    Yes and from what I have heard MOL and Ryan Air would have it on a plane if they could charge the same


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭jmorrisey


    Go on... someone is going to tell me they have WiFi too

    http://cruiseforums.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1695309 :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭juneg


    http://www.vacationstogo.com/

    love this website. check out the 90 day ticker.
    There does seem to be good bargains to be had on cruises in fairness. And everything you need is included in the price.

    However, on my budget we'd be talking car ferry from port to port :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭McSween


    i went from tallinn to helsinki on a ferry in august. it was calm but i didnt feel 100% having had a moderate amount of alcohol the night before. as for this deal, i wouldnt even be able to get pissed :D. imagine not being able to get off the ship if you're violently ill :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭maiden


    Im not long back from a med cruise and I would go on this in a heartbeat, the holiday is being aboard the ship! They are amazing, with inside pools etc. Weather wont be an issue!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    McSween wrote: »
    i went from tallinn to helsinki on a ferry in august. it was calm but i didnt feel 100% having had a moderate amount of alcohol the night before. as for this deal, i wouldnt even be able to get pissed :D. imagine not being able to get off the ship if you're violently ill :o

    I've been ill on nearly every ferry crossing I've been on, but I've never even noticed the movement on a cruise ship, completely different to a ferry. Cruise ships are designed to be as stable as possible. We were on a much small cruise ship that the one in this deal travelling to Madeira in January this year and it was very smooth.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    maiden wrote: »
    Weather wont be an issue!

    I beg to differ. I was on a Caribbean cruise that was completely miserable during stretches of bad weather. You won't even want to get out of your bed. Atlantic cruises are notorious for choppy seas. It won't matter how nice the food is if you're too ill to eat it.

    And I was on one of the biggest ships. The celebrity silhouette i think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    Looks like an intriguing way to spend a week. Kind of like flying to the moon, but in luxury :p

    What do they mean by this, though?

    "Tips are added to your bill, but can be deducted."

    edit;

    this is the same trip, same season



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,231 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Brian wrote: »

    What do they mean by this, though?

    "Tips are added to your bill, but can be deducted."

    Presume it means that there is a Service Charge like the posh restaurants used to charge a couple of years ago but you don't have to pay it if you're not happy with the service.

    Personally I tip the people who deserve it and nuttin goes to the restaurant/ship.
    Fair play to them for giving the option.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭jmorrisey


    Brian wrote: »

    That perversely really makes we want to go!


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