I’ll be on vacation this week. I’m going on a 5 day cruise with my family to Bermuda. My brother was able to spot a pretty good deal back in July leaving out of New York. Since we won’t need to fly, this keeps the cost of the cruise down to just the cost of the cruise itself. The cruise fare is about $520 a person not including taxes and supplemental charges and a little over $600 with those charges on Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Sea, a member of the Voyager series of ships - one of the larger class of cruise ships in service today only topped by the Queen Mary 2 and the Freedom class of ships.

At just over $100/day this represents a fantastic deal for a cruise. One of the reason we were able to get such a great deal is my parents are both are over 55 and qualify for a senior citizen discount. One of the beauty’s of the discount is only one person in the cabin needs to be over 55 for the lower rate to apply to everyone in the cabin. We split the booking of my parents into two rooms, voila we were able to achieve the discount for 5 people. Even without the discount the fare would still have been a good deal at little over $700 a person.

I hope to have my regular schedule of posts, once a day during the weekday and at least one post on the weekend. However, given that I will be on open water most of the time, I can’t guarantee that schedule. I do not expect I’ll be particularly responsive on email or in comments. For that I preemptively apologize.