What is the point of this?

[coolcruiser777]

https://www.ncl.com/cruises/1-night-cruise-from-copenhagen-GETAWAY1CPHWAR?cruiseTour=1&autoPopulate=f&cruiseHotel=1&numberOfGuests=4294953449&pageSize=10&ships=4294959434&cruise=1&sortBy=Featured&from=resultPage&state=undefined&sailmonths=4294953392&currentPage=1&cruiseHotelAir=1&itineraryCode=GETAWAY1CPHWAR

 

I stumbled upon this... a one night cruise on the Norwegian Getaway from Copenhagen to Warnemunde. Why would somebody ever book this cruise? It isn't even roundtrip. The prices of flights back would be more expensive than the cruise itself. The port taxes are even more than the cruise fare, too! By the time you get on the ship, you get off. I might see a one night cruise being good as a roundtrip on a Friday or Saturday for the weekend, but this is a Tuesday to Wednesday cruise in the middle of May. I am sure there is not a high demand for midweek getaways from Copenhagen to some German town an hour north of Berlin... Why not just add it on to the previous or next cruise?

[khaide612]

It's part of the 9 day May 16th cruise.

[anthonyg1996]

It's part of the 9 day May 16th cruise.

right

 

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[hawkeyetlse]

The point is to start the rolling embarkation for the Getaway's Baltic cruises. They are doing 9-day cruises all summer long, but people can book them either as round trip Copenhagen, or round trip Warnemünde (which, as you say, is "some German town an hour north of Berlin", in other words, a convenient embarkation/disembarkation port for many German guests).

 

The first of these cruises is Copenhagen to Copenhagen, May 16–25. The second one is Warnemünde to Warnemünde, May 17–26. But it's the same ship. So there's this one day in between when the cabins for all the guests boarding in Warnemünde will stay empty, unless they sell them. Of course no one is going to fly overseas just to take this 1-night cruise. But some people might want to book it along with the previous and/or following sailings, b2b or b2b2b. The previous sailing is the 16-day TA from Miami, so some people might want to combine that with the Baltic itinerary. They have the choice of ending up in Copenhagen (if they book the TA + the 9-day RT Copenhagen b2b) or ending up in Warnemünde (if they book the TA + the 1-nighter + the 9-day RT Warnemünde b2b2b). Or some people might want to end up in Germany after the TA, so they can just tack the 1-day on at the end.

 

Or if no one is interested, the rooms can just stay empty for one night. No big deal, and it's the price NCL has to pay to offer multiple embarkation ports.

 

At the end of the season, they have to do the same thing in reverse, and schedule a one-way cruise from Warnemünde to Copenhagen. Only this one looks more like a real cruise, because it's 7 days (October 8–15).

Edited April 25, 2017 by hawkeyetlse

[Sauer-kraut]

...some German town an hour north of Berlin...

Its a 3 hour train ride from Warnemunde or at least an hour and a half in a car if there isn't any traffic.....

But Warnemunde is a cute little seaside town, worth visiting on its own and spending the day at the beach!

[jenidallas]

Also, European travel agents may do the 1 night as a "fam" (or familiarization) cruise. And people who have never tried cruising will sometimes book it to try cruising or to pad nights/bump up status levels before a longer sailing.

 

I've seen all of these happen with 1-2 night repositioning cruises.

[Sea Hag]

We once did a one night cruise from San Francisco to Vancouver. Not the smartest financial decision we ever made, even though they were practically giving away the cabin. Airfare into or out of Vancouver is expensive, and that flight home sure knocked the daylights out of the cheap price for the cruise. Won't do that again!

[uneamie]

I guess the only good point would be for those who live close by....having to travel far to do this make no sense at all.

[Quilting_Cruiser]

On the surface, it looks odd, but as was explained there will be people who tack it on to another cruise. I did this in September--took a one-night cruise from Seattle to Vancouver and then embarked on a five-night Pacific Coastal. It was great to cruise to get to my cruise and I got to spend a day in Vancouver. :D

 

NCL does the same with Epic doing a three-day cruise between Barcelona and Rome since they have embarkation for seven-day cruises from both ports of embarkation.

[TriMomma]

If you are on a land vacation and want to get from Point A to Point B a One Day cruise could be fun! I tried to take one while in Norway last summer. We were hoping to go from Bergen to Alesund. Unfortunately... they were all booked up. Someone must be taking them!

[GUT2407]

A lot of people seem to do one day cruises.

 

I don't see the problem.

[hawkeyetlse]

However I think it's fair to say that cruise lines don't offer 1-nighters because there's so much demand for them, or because they they are big money-makers for them (now that cruises to nowhere are illegal in the US).

 

They only schedule cruises like this if they are forced to by other "operational reasons". Because of multiple embarkation ports as in this case, or to avoid breaking US law when repositioning (the typical example has already been mentioned by Quilting_Cruiser, between Vancouver and Seattle). I don't know if they really expect people to buy up all the cabins; the ship has to make the trip in any case.

[Quilting_Cruiser]

And speaking of those U.S. laws, I had to take two different cruise lines (HAL for the one-nighter and NCL for the five-night cruise) so I was being transported between two different U.S. ports--in my case, Seattle and Los Angeles. It was nice to get to see a HAL ship, and that one-night cruise has me considering HAL once I use up my Cruise Next certificates. :)

[NCLfamily]

We did a one night cruise from Rotterdam to Southampton on The Breakaway.

 

Get to see a new ship.

Get to cruise. [emoji3]

Incorporated it into a city break in Amsterdam.

 

We did a whirlwind 24hrs. Lunch, pool, dinner, show, casino, night club, supper.

 

Loved it.

 

 

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[NMLady]

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I stumbled upon this... a one night cruise on the Norwegian Getaway from Copenhagen to Warnemunde. Why would somebody ever book this cruise? It isn't even roundtrip. The prices of flights back would be more expensive than the cruise itself. The port taxes are even more than the cruise fare, too! By the time you get on the ship, you get off. I might see a one night cruise being good as a roundtrip on a Friday or Saturday for the weekend, but this is a Tuesday to Wednesday cruise in the middle of May. I am sure there is not a high demand for midweek getaways from Copenhagen to some German town an hour north of Berlin... Why not just add it on to the previous or next cruise?

 

Actually, it IS added on to the cruise departing from Warnemunde.

[hawkeyetlse]

Actually, it IS added on to the cruise departing from Warnemunde.

What do you mean by that?

[NCLfamily]

It's also mainly for Travel agents to see the ship and get reviews out to the public.

 

 

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