Galveston gone up in price?

[cynt]

Galveston is my home port. I price Galveston, NOLA and now Mobile when searching for a cruise that I consider local or I can drive to fairly easy. Prices are all over the board.

 

Last minute under 45 days you can USUALLY find a great deal at all three ports but especially NOLA and Mobile.

 

Thanksgiving 2016 I found a heck of a deal on a 4 nighter out of Mobil.

 

We're cruising Memorial day weekend. This time We selected Galveston. It's a little more for the 4 nighter but once we add in additional driving time, gas, food and hotel we decided to stick with Galveston. It's almost a wash.

 

My breaking point is If I can save $300 then I'll drive further to Mobil or NOLA. Otherwise I cruise out of Galveston.

 

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Edited February 2, 2017 by cynt

[dmdiver]

Galveston cruises seem to always be a bit higher than Florida, but it's cheaper for me to drive 5 hours to Galveston than to fly to Florida. We've only cruised once in January and no fog that time. Probably won't make a habit of January/February cruises anyway, as I find the water to be too cold for me. Yes, I'm a weenie when it comes to water temps.

[CJHAN]

Yeah. Dallas Houston San Santonio Austin. We live in Oklahoma and Oklahoma city is an 8 hour drive to Galveston. We thought about Florida once and when you add air its cheaper to go Galveston 6th cruise coming up and have had no complaints.

 

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[DebJ14]

We often take the 5 night cruises out of Galveston because we could get a balcony for 2 for about $1000. We were just looking at prices and they are up about $100 per person over what we have paid for the 5 night cruises in 2015 and 2016. I started looking at 7 night options, and except for the Vista sailings the 7 night prices are about what we paid for a balcony on our cruises in 2015, 2016, and the cruise we took last week.

 

I guess there is much more demand for the shorter cruises so they price accordingly.

[erb4230]

it could also be fuel costs if it takes the ship further to travel to get to the destinations than from florida.

 

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