November 26th, 2012, 02:57 PM
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Last Minute Bargains Are Back
Last Minute Bargains Are Back
by Paul Motter
"How low can you go?" is the cruise price question for December, the slowest selling month every year.
11.26.12
December is a cheap
time to cruise
Looking out into 2013 I do not see a lot of bargain cruise prices, yet, but the early weeks of December are always notorious for slow cruise sales. Now I am seeing some deep discounts if you are ready to book within two weeks, but even if not, it is always interesting to see how low prices can go.
A lot of experienced cruisers know how fluid cruise pricing can be, that the price of any given cruise will change all the time based on what the market dictates. In fact, whenever I write articles like this I have to re-check the prices just before I go to print.
The science of "pricing power" is vastly important to cruise lines. For example, it is much harder but
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