Want a $60 a-Day Cruise? Fall Is the Peak Time for Re-Positioning Across the Atlantic

Sixty dollars a day, per person. That's the average price of a great many re-positioning cruises of two to three and four weeks' duration in the months of October and early November, leaving either London (Southampton) or ports in the Mediterranean and sailing to Florida. You can find the details in, among other websites, Vacations To Go ( www.vacationstogo.com ), but I've set forth a condensed summary of some of the top bargains immediately below:
October 15, a 27-day sailing aboard Holland America's Noordam, from Rome to Ft. Lauderdale, $1,499 per person ($56 a day)October 15, a 29-day sailing aboard Holland America's Nieuw Amsterdam, Venice to Ft. Lauderdale, $1,899 per person ($65 a day)October 19, an 18-day sailing aboard the Ruby Princess, of Princess Cruises, Venice to Ft. Lauderdale, $1,345 per person ($75 a day)October 24, a 34-day sailing aboard Holland America's Prinsendam, Rome to Ft. Lauderdale, $2,499 per person ($74 a day)October 25, a 27-day sailing aboard Holland America's Rotterdam, Athens to Ft. Lauderdale, $1,599 per person ($59 a day)November 3, a 17-day sailing aboard Holland America's Ryndam, Barcelona to Tampa, Florida, $899 per person ($53 a day)November 4, a 16-day sailing aboard the Grand Princess, of Princess Cruises, London (Southampton) to Ft. Lauderdale, $1,120 per personNovember 6, a 14-day sailing aboard the Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas, Rome to Ft. Lauderdale, $799 per personDo the division, and you'll quickly see that some of these cruises cost one or two dollars less than $60 a day per person. And there are many more, apart from those I've cited. You can get these rates by phoning any of the discount cruise brokers, or by going direct to the cruiseline (Holland America, Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, in the case of the above examples).

Note, of course, that you will need first to fly to Mediterranean ports from the U.S. to board such re-positionings, and that one-way cost will come to about a thousand dollars. But note, too, that several of the cruise brokers -- like Online Vacation Center ( www.onlinevacationcenter.com ) and Travel Themes And Dreams ( www.travelthemesanddreams.com ) -- are combining the one-way airfare with the cruise cost into one package, using specially-negotiated low rates from the airlines. By scanning the websites of several cruise brokers (they also include Cruises Only, iCruise.com, Cruise Brothers.), you should come up with a total price that is more than affordable for cruise vacations that sometimes run a full month in duration.