Scott Barronton (00:00)
If you're anything like us, you love a great deal. Especially when it comes to travel.
Welcome to Travel Deals Thursday, where each week we dig through hundreds of emails, alerts, and travel sites to bring you a few of the best deals we've found on cruises, flights, hotels, and all-inclusives. So let's go find some of the travel deals.
So today we're joining you from Ireland and we were looking through all of the travel deals that are out there and this week, I hate to say it, but the deals were a little bit on the light side. I think summer season is winding down and many companies are gearing up for fall promotions. But we did find a few gems that are worth sharing.
Let's start with Virgin Voyages.
They have a brand new ship, the Brilliant Lady, is launching in the Caribbean and they're offering some deals right now on that particular voyage.
So right now Virgin is offering 70 % off their second sailor and up to $825 in instant savings on the seven plus night Caribbean voyages. That's a serious deal for luxury style, adults only cruises that actually has lots of extras included. Yeah. So if you've been curious about Virgin, but maybe you're waiting for the right time, this could be your chance. It's a brand new ship.
There are great perks and some serious savings to go along with it. Scott, we've got to get ourselves on one of these cruises before too much longer and so that we can share all the details. You know, we were talking to someone the other night. We're around a bunch of other travel people. And while we have not been cruisers, like I wouldn't say that our style has been cruisers. It sure feels like recently a lot of our travel
is revolving around cruises. Yeah, it's just been a great way to see a variety of different places. I would like to do another one in the Mediterranean or somewhere in Europe on Virgin. Yeah, we'll have to look into that. But check out those deals right now on the new Brilliant Lady and snag those savings while you still can. All right. So next up, Celebrity Cruises has some of their classic
last minute deals
And honestly, these are some really interesting itineraries that a lot of our listeners ask us about all the time. Yeah, I mean some of these locations are the ones that we hear from you constantly either you're going there, you're looking to go there, you have it on your bucket list to go there. And so let's kind of go through what a few of those are. There's some that stand out.
The first is an eight night Spain and Portugal. And so we hear that all the time. People are wanting to go to Spain and Portugal. It leaves out of Barcelona on November 13th. What they have available, because these are last minute deals, is an ocean view room. It's an all included rate. So you get the drinks package. You get the Wi-Fi, those type of things.
And that's just $12.70 per person. Yeah, that's really appealing. I really like this next one. 12-night best of Japan now. Leaves Tokyo on October 5th. Concierge class all included for $33.84 or Veranda all included for $31.11. This one is on my bucket list. Yeah, and especially on Celebrity, this Concierge class, this
right below their top class that you can get so these are really good rates for and and by the way all of these on celebrity for the last minute their per person rates so you can't stack a seventy five percent off second sailor something like that on top of their these are the last minute deals and this is what they are but the next one is one
that we've said we would do as well just because we haven't been to Bonaire. We loved Curacao and everyone talks about Aruba and we keep saying that we need to maybe give Aruba another shot. And so eight nights to Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao. It leaves out of Fort Lauderdale on November 1st. It is concierge class. They're all included rate
for $2,068 or they have a veranda for $1,938. And again, that's per person. So then the last one that we picked out is a seven night Western Caribbean. It leaves Tampa on November 30th. The ocean view all included is just $602 per person. Yeah, I threw that one in there because if you don't want to spend a lot of money and you're just looking for a getaway
this is a good one. It is a ocean view room. So it's not going to have a veranda, but at $602 per person, like you couldn't go to Florida and get a hotel, much less have your hotel, your room and your food included in that 602 rate. So it's hard to find a full week cruise at that price.
especially with drinks and Wi-Fi and gratuities already included. Yep. So I just wanted to throw that one in there and give you that option. Once again that one leaves on November 30th so that would be right after Thanksgiving. And Scott that Spain and Portugal option that's a steal for Europe in November if you've got the flexibility to get away. Yeah I mean for all of these just think about it.
What would it cost you to rent hotel rooms for that period of time? And then how much would it cost you for your food? And I would say, entertainment because you're going to get entertainment on the ship, right? So these are really good deals. And I think that's why we've started kind of looking at some of these cruises more.
This week it just so happened that the deals happened to be mostly in the cruise space. We're going to continue looking for those good flight deals and eventually I think Sandals and some of those other all-inclusives have to start putting something out.
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So whether you're looking to try Virgin's newest ship with huge savings or snag a last minute celebrity sale into Europe, the Caribbean, or even Japan,
These deals prove that there's still great value out there even as summer winds down. We're going to link all the details in the show notes. And if you want even more deals every week, make sure that you're joining our travel deals insiders newsletter at sunshine travelers dot com slash deals. Thanks for listening and we'll see you next time with more ways to travel better for less.
