5 Top Tips To Get the Best Fare on Cunard

How Do I Get The Best Fare On Cunard?

The price you pay for your cruise or crossing will inevitably be somewhere on the continuum where the Highest is Cunard trying to get the most money out of you, and at the Lowest is your desire  to pay Cunard the least you possibly can.

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All About Cunard Podcast #4: How To Get The Best Fare on Cunard?

The 4th episode of the All About Cunard is now available.

In this Question and Answer Episode, I give my view on the popular question: "How Do I Get The Best Fare on Cunard?". 

The podcast explains how to get the very best deal you can on your Cunard Cruise by looking in depth at 5 top tips around: Alerts; Flexibility; Agents; Total Cost and Auto-Upgrades.

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Peter Shanks (Managing Director Cunard) Explains Cunard's New Vantage Fares (Video)

As I blogged recently, Cunard have introduced a new fare approach called "Cunard Vantage Fares" which offer guarantees and better fare options. Some people are unsure what it all means. In this video, Peter Shanks the MD of Cunard explains them more.


I, personally, love the idea as we look at booking 2013 and 2014 trips!


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Cunard Launch "Vantage Fares": If prices go down after you book you get extras!

Cunard have launched what they call "Vantage Fares: Book With Confidence" as another incentive and way to encourage people to book cruises for 2013 and into 2014, and not hold on too long and wait to see if prices come down.


This is a great idea. After we booked in the past way ahead we have kept eyes on what fares are doing, and sometimes have contacted Cunard if we see prices fall below what we paid to discuss things like upgrade. On our QE2 Transatlantic years ago prices tumbled and we got a cabin in the Penthouse instead of a lower Queens Grill cabin. But only as we chased. Now Cunard seem to be being proactive.


In this new program Cunard say: "Price Promise means that you can secure your booking early with confidence,  safe in the knowledge that if we were to reduce the Vantage Fares for your cruise, we guarantee to automatically pass on the value of the saving to you i.e. complimentary benefit such as on board spending money or an upgrade to the value of any reduction."


They go on to say on their site the new offer has these benefits:


 Protected by our Price Promise
 Choice of stateroom type, location and number including three and four berth stateroom
 Only 10% deposit for bookings made by 31 August 2012
 10% cancellation charges up to 90 days prior to departure, for bookings made by 31 August 2012
 Only 15% deposit for bookings made from 1 September 2012 (unless booking within 90 days of departure)
 15% cancellation charges up to 90 days prior to departure, for bookings made from 1 September 2012
 Flexibility to make amendments to or even change your voyage entirely up to 90 days prior to departure subject to our booking alternation terms
 Choose one of the four benefits below (on cruises of 7 nights or more) 

On board credit	Car parking in Southampton
Available on cruises of 7 nights or moreOn board credit varies by cruise duration and applies to the first two passengers sharing a cabin. This can be spent on shore excursions, drinks, spa and in the shops. On board credit is non-refundable and non-transferable.	Available on all roundtrip cruises from Southampton of 7 nights or more Leave your car in a secure car park (one space per booking). Please let us know at the time of booking if you wish to use this service and then contact Cruise & Passenger Services Ltd (the operator) direct on 0845 071 3939 or via www.c&ps.com/parking to arrange your car parking no less than 35 days in advance of your departure.
Return coach travel to Southampton	Airport parking
Available on all roundtrip cruises from Southampton of 7 nights or more Coach transfers are available to all passengers on the booking. Please let us know at the time of booking if you wish to use this service and then contact Intercruises on 0845 052 0537 no later than 30 days prior to departure. A list of cities that have pick up points is located in the 2013/2014 brochure published April 2012.	Available on selected two way fly-cruises Airport parking is offsite at the relevant airport (one space per booking) with transfer between the car park and airport terminal. Please let us know at the time of booking if you wish to use this service and then contact APH Airport Parking and Hotels Ltd, who should be called directly on 0844 871 7561, quoting cruise booking reference number,no less than 35 days prior to departure, to book your car parking.

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