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This might be a useful starting point: https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/cruise-lines/article/best-and-worst-cruise-lines

With a little judicious amendment of the precise route it might be possible to shave off those 3 miles, but if not Saga may well be prepared to ignore the very small extra distance just to get a booking. Most things in life are negotiable. 😉

Entirely feasible - as would be an Easter embargo. Anyone who's broken that embargo would be putting quite a lot at risk in terms of legal consequences. Would anyone be that crazy?

Careful - however low the price, you can still lose a lot more money on the shares than you save with the benefit. Not that long ago they were a 'buy' at £40 and there were people on these very forums happy to buy at that price - that's a loss of around £3000 for anyone selling now. Obviously the downside at £11 a share is much more limited, but it's still a potential loss of £1100 if things go badly wrong. Nobody expected the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Woolworth or Wilko, but sometimes things happen where they're least expected. Invest only what you can afford to lose, as with all share purchases - particularly as it looks very much as if the benefit has gone. I'm inclined to think it might return, but perhaps with a minimum shareholding of 500 or so shares to reflect the much lower share price.

This is the theory. In practice, you're very much in the hands of whoever takes the call on the ship. The message may well be taken, but don't rely on its being delivered to the cabin if you aren't there to take the call there and then. That's what should happen, but I can instance one extremely urgent message relating to a serious health issue which just languished on the reception desk. Nothing whatever was done with it.

Decentish price earlier today - I'm out. Carnival shares gone.

Well spotted crompton21! That whole page is missing from the 2023 accounts, and there's no longer any mention of the benefit. They must have concluded that the 'cost' of the benefit outweighed any additional profit from bookings that wouldn't otherwise have been made. Very unlikely to be an oversight - unless they're planning to keep the benefit entirely outside the accounts, which would probably breach accounting rules. The vast majority of the shares will be owned by institutions, so any sell-off by private individuals is unlikely to have any noticeable impact, and in any event a drop in the share price doesn't affect the company in any way. Unless of course it wants at some point to issue more shares to raise capital.