When your birthday date occurs when on a booked cruise, MSC Cruises, offer one equivalent free fare, when accompanying a full fare paying passenger.
The deal applies to many destinations, all cabin types and dates throughout 2015
Only additional cost will be port taxes for the free passage ($200 - 300)
Example: Cruise 21 days, ex Venice - Canary Islands - South America, Ocean View (not occluded) Fantastica Package.
2 Passengers: $3069 + port taxes ($300) Total $3369
It had changed conditions over previous years (you now have to buy something before your birthday to qualify), so worth posting to draw attention to that.
Just because its a birthday deal, doesn't mean it can't be posted as a deal. But also belongs with other birthday deals.
You're comparing a 21 day ocean cruise to a free kebab!??
How can we tell if it's really 'free' without knowing the cost of the full fare for the other passenger?
Minimum full fare to qualify in title.
Buy-one-get-one-free could still be expensive with cruises.
Well you can do what I did and open a search frame on the MSC site and compare the fare of the cruise I was interested in….$2899 (for 2 passages) for a 21 day cruise, "ocean view special package" . If you don't think that's a deal, you don't know anything about cruising.
It's a posting guidleline - price in title. That's so we can work out if it's worth investigating. Save $2899 might get some attention ;-)
Hey Bruce would you like me to book it for you??…the cost and the savings would vary over the cruise duration, the cabin type etc, etc…..there would be a thousand combinations.
@Marble250:
Just back from 6 week holiday in Japan, which cost a little more than that price for just 1 person.
Being restricted to a boat for weeks with the same people is not my type of travel. I've gone crazy on 2 or 3 day boat trips. But then I think others would not want to spend that long with me either ;-)
Helps to include some examples like this in the description.
This will better explain the deal to those less experienced with cruising, like me.
Apologies, I did it on the run. I'll take more care next time
It's always a good idea to check out birthday promotions when travelling. Got free passenger ferry from Mainz to Düsseldorf along the Rhine on my birthday:-)
Being a true bargain hunter, I assume that you would have planned your trip around getting that freebie hehe! Because I would have!
That would be the makings of a handy website - free events, places, food for travellers to plan their trips around.
My travels are usually very unstructured. I was in Heidelberg, looking up my photocopied section of Lonely Planet Germany (posted ahead to post offices to reduce weight!), looking where to go next, when I noticed the birthday treat. I was sobering up from free drinks the night before at an Australian Jaffle eatery that strangely had gone broke - leaving the beer & food to be consumed over long conversations with the Australian owners before the new owners took over in the morning.
I always love the random & unexpected in travel. I regularly hitchhike in countries where I don't know more than a few words of their language (and I'm approaching an age when many think of retirement). I have the money to buy luxury, but love roughing it with the locals. Those are my most cherished memories. To me, long boat trips are pretty much the opposite. But maybe one day.
Why, when you are so averse to cruising, are you so involved in a "cruise deal posting"?….Dude!, you have waaayyyyy too much time on your hands!
@Marble250:
Yes - a little time in between trips, which means it's time to plan next or one after next. So I always consider travel deals.
I'm certainly not averse to holidays on boats, or a bit of relaxing in luxury, especially heavily discounted ;-)
Your post helped me think about my travel strategies & experiences, and why longer boat trips may not suit me, at the moment. (I'm coming round to the idea.) Everyone's different.
Thanks for the post. Keep them coming. A + from me.
Yes I will, tar…just got awarded "commentator"….that's good right? hahaha
Look I know where your coming from, I'm a traveler too. I hated the idea of cruising, until I accidentally, won a cruise some years ago….and it was great!
Like you, my idea of travel is to get there quick and meet the people and experience the culture and traditions of the place and I could never get over the "down time" in getting from place to place in a great lumbering ocean liner, but……
when you are traveling with kids and you want to be able to guarantee the quality of food and accommodation and safety, you can't beat cruising!
I now enjoy both types of travel and try to add (join) land tours to a cruise and have done so twice successfully and looking at a third, with this one (no kids this time yaaeee!).
In any case one man's meat as they say!!
Good deal if you live in Europe or North America but for Australians basically any local cruise will still end up cheaper because you don't have to pay for international flights.
Unless you have the brass to set up a land tour before or after the cruise on another special deal of some sort….just think you could be traveling for 2 months for less than 6K a head!
belongs here…
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/wiki/list_of_birthday_deals