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saving money on a cruise here are some tips for you to save a ton of dough and
let's run through them real quick the first one I want to tell you about it's
not advertised very heavily but it's called the shareholder benefit and the
bottom line is this if you own 100 shares of either Carnival Royal
Caribbean or Norwegian these are publicly traded companies if you own at
least 100 shares of any of those 3 and you take a cruise on any of those 3
cruise lines or their subsidiary companies you get a cabin credit for
every cruise you take unlimited no matter how many per year
you take so in the case of Carnival they own princess cruises they own all in
America they own Kuhn Arn they own 10 different cruise lines
including Carnival themselves you want to book a cruise on Holland America in
this in the January princess in September and a carnival and in December
you'll get three cabin credits one for each cruise it's only a matter of how
long is the cruise if the cruise is a seven-day cruise
you'll get $100 credit for each one this is above any other offers that they're
offering you on the on the sale of that cruise it's additional if it's a
repositioning cruise 15 days or longer the credit can be as high as 250 dollars
it pays to be a shareholder of the cruise line they give you these credits
and no questions asked that's one way and every cruise you take
that's one way to save money it's a cabin credit you spend it any way you
want and go to tip money and go to specialty restaurants you can buy drinks
with it you can you can do whatever you want on shore excursions retail stores
any way you want you just charge whatever you're charging to your room
this cabin credit takes off the first hundred bucks on a seven-day cruise
that's the first way to save money second way to save money bringing pop
onboard I love drinking caffeine free diet coke if you watch my live streams
you see me drinking this stuff on the air and I can buy 12 cans of Cola at a
Walmart or a Costco for a whole lot less money than buying 12 cans on board a
cruise ship and if I'm on a one-week cruise especially the Caribbean where
it's warm I'll take onboard three dozen cans of
Cola in those 12-pack so so those 12 packs and you can do that with any drink
you want it doesn't matter if it's iced tea if it's an energy drink like like
Red Bull or others you like iced teas you like Pepsi's honeydew it doesn't
matter you can bring as many as you want to carry but I like to bring about three
dozen on board I know I'm gonna save at least two dollars and fifty cents a can
by bringing thirty six cans on board that's 90 dollars so I've got a
guaranteed 90 dollars saving because I'm gonna drink the cola
anyway it's warm it's hot I like to have a sport monk bring a sport bunk with me
fill it up with ice put in two cans of Cola and the you know by 10:00 in the
morning and then by about noon I'll put in two more and in the afternoon another
two more I use up 36 cans no problem in seven days second way to save money on
the beverages you're allowed to bring wine on board into your cabin on almost
all cruise ships pack two bottles of wine one in each of your suitcases big
suitcases wrap them with towels and you'll find that if you spend $10 at a
grocery store or at cost go on wine you're basically not gonna
spend $50 for the same bottle on board the cruise ship that's at least an 82
dollar saving right there I'm saving 90 on the goal my wife is
saving 80 on her wine that's 160 bucks right there $100 shareholder credit 260
dollars in savings one way or the other right there we haven't even started yet
folks internet charges keep in mind that if you're on a seven-day Caribbean
cruise you'll likely have three or four stops and on those stops there are
Starbucks there are Senor frog's there are Hooters there are all kinds of bars
and restaurants that you can attend and frequent and they all offer free
internet just order a beer order a coffee
order a dessert for - you got internet for just hanging out for two hours all
you want and you'll you'll be laughing so why spend twenty-five to fifty
dollars a day on a cruise ship for Internet when you're and you know you're
gonna be offshore for three or four of the days for up to four to six hours per
day and you can you can do your own thing with the internet there and it's
free so keep that in mind another way to save money is on alcohol don't buy a
drink package if you want to save money you buy a drink package on a cruise ship
you're in a race against the cruise ship and the cruise ship wins no matter what
because you're gonna be charged per person in a cabin for - you'll be
charged for two people as much as 80 to a hundred dollars a day for a drink
package and now you're in a race to drink as much alcohol as you can to
justify the cost of the drink package the problem is if you're off the ship
for six hours a day for four of those days those are 24 daylight hours you're
not there to use the ships deal that they've already pre-sold you in effect
don't buy the drink package drink alcohol on shore at much cheaper prices
what the locals pay maybe two bucks at beer three bucks a beer especially in
Mexico and only buy drinks on board the cruise ship and paella cart that's the
best way to go you've got your two bottles of wine you buy a couple of
drinks on sea days and kind of limit yourself but you'll enjoy yourself on
the shore at much more affordable prices I think with the drink package pricing
factored in you could save 50 to 60 bucks times
seven days each that's that's $700 you're not gonna spend with the cruise
line cruise line doesn't like it when I tell you this but that's a fact another
way to save money is seer in the san mar 10 you grab a cab and you head downtown
which is maybe a ten dollar cab right 15 at the most and there's the beach down
there and on the beach or all these cabanas for rent and there are all these
entrepreneurs renting these cabanas for like four hours at a time and the deal
is you get to loungers and a couple of umbrellas over top of the loungers and
you can get a bucket of beer which might be six or eight beer the whole package
might run you twenty five thirty dollars and that's like a four or five hour
outing on the beach you got it made you're allowed to bring off the ship
some snacks from the buffet take a glad the freezer bag to the buffet and the
morning grab a couple of bananas couple apples a couple of muffins shove them in
these these freezer bags put them in your wife's purse and you can walk off
the ship with that food and you can eat it at the beach and just you can't bring
that food back to the cruise ship you eat it at the beach you've got your
beer and if you're hungry you can always order a burger on the beach if you have
to but you know there's food waiting for you on the cruise ship
enjoy your four hours there have a great time back to the ship you go the whole
day cost you fifty bucks with the cab ride each way even if unless you walked
it which you can do and you didn't spend a hundred dollars each on some kind of a
ship outing short outing for that date you saved another $100 and you had a
great time last item to save money as a practical tip coming to the to the ship
if you're flying into an airport say in Fort Lauderdale or Miami you can take a
shuttle bus that the cruise line provides to you right to the ship on the
other option of course is if you're coming in the night before you're taking
a free shuttle with the hotel that you're staying at to your hotel and the
hotel will give you a free shuttle right to the cruise ship the next morning you
don't have to rent a car you know have to rent taxis you're probably
within walking distance from your hotel or maybe a five dollar cab ride to a big
Walmart store or a Costco to do your pre cruise shopping which is those pop cans
I'm telling about and the wine that's a hundred seventy dollars in savings spend
twenty bucks in cab fare cab fare to get that but you don't have to rent a car if
you don't want to so you can save a ton of money using these shuttle services
when the cruise is over you're taking a shuttle bus right from the ship right to
the airport you're saving $35 on the taxi fare and get it all up it's a lot
of money I figure you could save with two people maybe a thousand dollars off
the cost of taking the cruise just by taking these tips and using some we're
all there you go there's some more tips for you if you want to get more
money-saving ideas join me on my live streams Monday to Friday at 5 p.m.
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cruise ship vacations how you can save money how you can avoid paying out money
you don't need to be paying out and it just knowledge is the key the more you
know the smarter you are the more affordable a cruise can be and money is
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