21st September To cruise or two cruises that is the question


Back in the days of basking in the beautiful balmy Barbados weather, the lure of snaffling up another P&O cruise prove too difficult to ignore. 

Especially given the amount of on board spending on offer. Since then however, with our last jolly on the all inclusive Marella having scored so highly, and the question of whether it was too early in the year to go on a 14 day jolly to the Norwegian fyjords in April, whether it was the right choice has begun to rasie it head. Especially when TOM made a blatent attempt to use up all my remaining holidays this year by 'suggesting' that we might also go to the Caribbean too.

Now I know what you might be thinking, how does this vicar working only one hour per week, manage to have enough savings to splash the cash in this way. The simple answer is he doesn't. So we had to make a decision; stick with what we had booked or cancel it and see what else was available. In the end the warm weather won.

After a short trip up the M1 to Bolsover Cruise Club and a chat with Melissa, (we prefer the face to face approach rather than try to negootiate an on line booking) we ended up back on a Marella all inclusive combining a 7 day Tropical Isles followed by 7 day Colours of the Caribbean cruise for early in the NY. Plus with a flash sale discount of £300 we managed to snaffle ourselves a cabin with a sea view. Not quite the balcony we had on Brittania but better than a simple inside cabin.

The itinerary is very different to our last Caribbean venture with only one stop the same, is port heavy with only one day at sea, (not that we have to get off at every location), and we are on a different ship. So all in all a win win. And who knows it might leave enough time for another little jolly in the summer. After all you can't take it with you.

 

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