A Record Low $30-A-Day for a Repositioning Cruise to Lisbon

I had thought, until recently, that $34 a day was the lowest price ever recorded for a cruise on a glamorous ship carrying 2,500 passengers. I was wrong. Avoya Travel of Miami (tel. 888/478-8479; www.avoyatravel.com) has just listed a rate of $29.99 per person per day for a repositioning cruise from San Juan to Lisbon, 10 nights in length, leaving the Puerto Rican port on April 13 and arriving in Lisbon on April 23.
Have you got $900 lying around? For that total sum, in my calculation, you can enjoy this particular wonder on Royal Caribbean's  Brilliance of the Seas . Here's how:
You can fly one-way from Fort Lauderdale to San Juan for about $50. (Go to Momondo.com to see how.) You then board the Brilliance of the Seas for your $299, 10-night cruise to Lisbon (stopping at St. Maarten, and at Tenerife in the Canary Islands), en route to Lisbon (six nights are spent simply at sea, crossing the Atlantic.) Then, again by consulting that aggressive aggregator, Momondo.com, and clicking on one-way flights, you can find a return flight from Lisbon to New York for about $500. Add the three elements of the trip, and they still come to less than $900 (airfare included) for your 10-night re-positioning cruise. Has there ever been a cheaper vacation? I don't think so.