All cruise lines allow you to make payments towards your vacation, as long as you plan your travel early enough in advance. You'll have to put down an initial deposit, which varies from cruise line to cruise line, but after that you can set up any type of payment plan that works for you. For example, after putting down his initial deposit, my brother paid $25 a week for his cruise and he was paid in full a month and a half before final payment was due. This is with Royal Caribbean.
All the answers are great, but if you join our cruise member club, you pay $ 100 a month but you get $120 Cruise dollars in the first year and $140 per month innthe second year. At the end of your second year you almost have saved the money to pay in full. More importantly you have paid in total $720 less then everybody else. The benefits go up every year. Need more info message me.
Can you make payments on a Carnival Cruise without using a travel agency?
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Can you make payments toward a cruise?
You can reserve a cruise by (1) booking on line; (2) by calling the cruise line, or (3) through a travel agent. Travel agents do not charge for their services as they are paid in commission by the cruise lines. You will pay at booking, regardless of which method you choose, the minimum deposit which will be between $250 and $350 per person for a 7 day cruise, depending upon the cruise line. The minimum will be less for a shorted cruise and more for a longer cruise, for example $450 per person for a 14 day cruise. The balance will be due approximately 65 to 70 days before the cruise departure date. But you can make periodic payment on line, with your travel agent, or with the cruise line. When you book your cruise they will tell you exactly when the final payment is due and you can cancel and get a full refund if you do so prior to the final payment date, about 65 days before the cruise. If you book within about 60 days of the cruise you will have to pay the full amount.
Do cruises offer payment plans?
Each person has to put down a deposit at the time of booking; the amount differs by cruise line. The balance of the fare is due at a future point, typically 70-90 days before the cruise (it also differs by cruise line). Whether you wait until just before the final payment deadline to pay the entire amount, or pay in smaller amounts at intervals, the cruise line doesn't care. Travel agents may have their own policies and be less willing to deal with multiple smaller payments, from a bookkeeping perspective. The big exception is if you book a cruise after that final payment date; at that point, you have to make payment in full right away.
Is there a payment plan for cruises?
It depends on the cruise line, but generally your sailing date depicts when your payments are due. Deposits are due at the time of booking to secure your cabin. The final payment is due 70-90 days before sailing. Sometimes there are specials that offer 1/2 the deposit due instead of full deposit. As a cruise specialist, if the booking is on hold and the deposit isn't due for a while, I will tell my client to give me half the deposit now if they'd like, and then the remaining deposit at the time it's due, and then final 70-90 days before sailing. This breaks it up for them so they can make smaller payments.
As most other answers before this have stressed, one can only give a range on how much a Cruise Ship Captain makes in a year.It varies greatly on seniority (a 3% raise every year is the norm in the industry - compound that over a 25 year career!), type of contract (bonuses, perks, shares participation, paid leave), cruise line (some pay better than others). Somewhere between 100,000 and 250,000 USD yearly.
Wow, I totally disagree with just about every answer so far.The fact that you are asking this question means that you have just enough sailing experience to get yourself into trouble, and trouble usually comes in the form of a boat that is too big for you to handle.Since money is no object, I would suggest you spend a year on a boat that is small, sea worthy, and not too lively. Something like a Baba 30 or 35. This is a boat you can have fun with and learn the ropes, without being stressed-out all the time. Take some coastal sailing lessons and do some coastal sailing to learn the basics. Practice sailing offshore in nasty weather to get the feel for how the boat handles in rough weather. Read the Pardy's "Storm Tactics" to learn how to heave to, and practice in actual bad weather.When you feel ready, try some offshore passages. Work you way into it at your own pace. Make sure your partner learns how to sail too. Don't turn into one of those jerks who yells at his crew when he makes a mistake. Don't make your wife pull up the anchor while you yell at her from the cockpit. Teach her how to steer better than you, so you can do the heavy lifting on the foredeck. Above all, don't scare your wife! I repeat: don't scare your wife! This is the biggest mistake guys make and then they wonder why they are sailing alone. Women are smarter then men and have no interest in risking their lives at sea. If there are children involved, even less so. This is the main reason to NOT BUY MORE BOAT THAN YOU CAN HANDLE. Your wife will feel safer on a 30-foot boat that you can handle in a seaman like way, than a 50-footer that scares the crap out of you. She will know you are scared, and it will scare her too.In short, don't let your ego buy your boat. Be smart! And be very very careful about who you take advice from on the Internet. Much better to join a local sailing club, figure out who really knows what they are doing (most don't), and follow their lead/advice. The biggest mistake beginners make is buying too much boat. You can always buy a bigger one.Just my two cents...P.S. This really isn't a good place to ask about cruising. You would get better answers on a dedicated sailing/cruising forum like Cruisers & Sailing Forums.
I will echo some of the answers below and add a little bit from my experience and what's expected onboard your ship.Some of the luxury cruise lines will actually say "All Gratuities Included" in your base cruise fare, which means you don't have to worry about tipping while you're onboard. However, most mainstream cruise lines don't do this, and go about it in a different way.What I think you're referring to in your question is "automatic gratuities" which are added to your room bill and charged to you at the end of the cruise. These tips, which range from $10-20/day, depending on the cruise line and the class of your stateroom, are spread by a formula between your dining room staff and your housekeeping staff. All of the mainstream cruise lines distribute this out 100%; you can feel safe that your money is going directly to the crew members. To answer the specific question in your comment, yes, the tips are paid out to the specific room steward assigned to your cabin, and to the head waiter, waiter and assistant waiter manning your table in the dining room, if you have the same assigned table each night.One exception to this: If you are on a flexible or "anytime" dining option, where you make reservations at different times each night and are seated at a different table, your gratuities are then spread out amongst the dining room team as a whole. But this just makes sense when you think about it.Also, if you go to a "specialty" dining restaurant onboard where you pay a table charge for that night (like a steakhouse or sushi bar or something else), the gratuities for those waiters are built in to your table charge.Bar staff gratuities are usually done on a drink-by-drink basis (included in the bill) or, if you purchase a drink "package", gratuities for the bar team are built in to the package price.Of course, if you get extra special service from a specific crew member, please feel free to tip them personally as well! They will always appreciate it. They also appreciate any mentions of them by name in your post-cruise survey or notes/comments to their supervisors.Have a great cruise!
i have done half a dozen cruises in the last year, and the biggest risk is ignorant or selfish passengers…scenario one. Heading into the lunch buffet, there is a young girl with a dispenser of hand sanitizer, calling out “washie, washie” to get everone to sanitize their hands particularly before going near food. An older gentleman decides not to, and for some reason decides to berate her. He says “I have just come from the restroom and have already washed my hands with soap and water, besides that sanitizer is bad for my skin”. I turn to him and said “Thank you for identifying yourself as patient zero if we have a novovirus outbreak. you touched handrails between here and there - how do you know you have picked up germs. He put his hands out for a sanitizer squirt…scenario two. there is a toast station at breakfast in the casual dining room. they have a staff member pretoasting and putting things into a warming dish, to keep ahead of demand. up comes an unescorted kid, flips back and forth through several pieces of toast until he finds the one he wants, and puts it on his plate. the staff member waits until he walks away, takes the entire tray and empties it into a bin beside her.Scenario three. in that dining room, they have a stack of plates as you enter, and a stack of knives and forks rolled in napkins. I see someone come in, pick up a knife fork bundle, and in doing so, knocks a couple to the floor - they think they are doing the right thing, and pick them up and put them back on the stack. i watch closely, go over, pick up the ones they had put back and the ones under them, and move them to the “cleanup cart”.Do these people not learn biology 101 in school?a friend was an executive chef on a cruise line - i bet he has some serious horror stories..