About three weeks ago I made the comment to my partner that in future it might be better to wait to book a cruise until all the offers started to arrive in my inbox.
We booked our very first cruise for September 2023 to Norway and chose C deck as it looked a good position. We had never considered a cruise before and did no research until after we booked it.
Then before we had been, in April last year, we booked the November cruise to the Caribbean for this year. Having done research we picked E deck in case of a repeat of the bad weather of last year. This cost £7811,
I am now being inundated with offers much below this figure.
In January I booked a 5 day cruise to Ireland and chose a guaranteed cabin, we were allocated one on the sun deck. As everyone has said, there isn’t a bad cabin on Saga. So unless you have a deck that you really want to be on it seems silly to pay what can be a considerable larger sum to book early.
I do think Saga have made a mistake in training people to book late. I have questioned them about the low fares offered and the reply was that we had booked a better cabin. They are all the same at each grade so did feel aggrieved. Having said that the service and standard of their cruises is wonderful