{"id":50093,"date":"2015-04-10T17:02:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/?p=50093"},"modified":"2015-04-10T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T21:02:09","slug":"does-it-cost-more-to-book-my-cruise-with-a-travel-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/2015\/04\/10\/does-it-cost-more-to-book-my-cruise-with-a-travel-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Does it cost more to book my cruise with a travel agent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people planning their cruise vacation have asked this question: Does it cost more to book my cruise with a travel agent? You may have read that working with an agent will cost more, but that isn’t the case.<\/p>\n

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Does it cost more to book my cruise with a travel agent?<\/p><\/div>\n

In fact, experienced travel advisors\u00a0can always offer the same price as the cruise lines, but on many sailings they can actually save<\/strong> <\/em>you money. Reserving your ticket using a cruise line\u2019s website simply doesn\u2019t always give you the best value.<\/p>\n

Experienced cruise agencies are often able to contract prices with the cruise lines long before the sail date. When booking directly through a cruise line, the price usually increases as the sailing date nears – however, when you use an agency like ours, that specializes in securing lower prices for your cruise, years in advance, you can save up to thousands of dollars! Cruise Experts.com has a price advantage on many cruises, plus we can offer extra amenities that are exclusive to CruiseExperts.com clients.<\/p>\n

Exclusive free\u00a0onboard credit<\/span>\u00a0is a value added amenity that is provided by our agency along with a price-advantage cruise. Sometimes we can provide you with complimentary chocolate-covered strawberries! Yum!<\/p>\n

We are proud to be\u00a0the original Online Cruise Experts,<\/span>\u00a0and from the start, we’ve been committed to the idea that it’s truly all about you; your needs, your desires, your expectations. We are your unbiased cruise vacation advocate. We never forget that it’s your money we’re spending. We’ll get you the best deal possible and guarantee you’ll never spend more buying your vacation through us than you would going directly to the cruise line. CruiseExperts.com President Wes Rowland says, “Our enthusiasm and passion for cruising knows no limits. We study, train, and travel to give you the best cruise vacation.”<\/p>\n

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Does it cost more to book my cruise with a travel agent?<\/p><\/div>\n

We not only have the details on every traditional cruise anywhere, but also lesser explored cruise opportunities such as\u00a0Alaska Cruise Tours<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0European River Cruises<\/a>. We promise to take time to fully explain everything each step of the way.<\/p>\n

So, you can spend hours hunting for the best price, or you could have one of our cruise experts do the work for you AND<\/span> it doesn\u2019t cost you more for our help!<\/p>\n

Contact one of our experienced, knowledgeable travel advisors at CruiseExperts.com. We’re here to answer any questions you have and to save you as much money on your next vacation as possible! We can be reached by calling 1-888-804-CRUISE (2784) or by logging onto our website: www.CruiseExperts.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many people planning their cruise vacation have asked this question: Does it cost more to book my cruise with a travel agent? You may have read that working with an agent will cost more, but that isn’t the case. In fact, experienced travel advisors\u00a0can always offer the same price as the cruise lines, but on … Does it cost more to book my cruise with a travel agent?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,36,30,9],"tags":[695,460,4],"class_list":["post-50093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","category-informative","category-tips-2","tag-alaska","tag-river-cruises","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}