Cunard Sale? What is the solo rate?

This is a repost, call Cunard for pricing......  did you receive this too?

Not a solo promotion BUT if I have to pay 200% this is not bad for luxury...

As a former passenger on Cunard I received this 
call Cunard to check prices....this is only a repost

After just booking a Baltic cruise for May, I wish I had seen this 'sale' by Cunard.   After crossing on the QEII 2 years ago, the prospect of an another adventure on a luxury ship would have been tempting......but what is the solo rate?

Call Cunard at (800) 728-6273 Mon-Fri, 5am-6pm & Sat-Sun, 6am-2:45pm PT

BOOK NOW — OFFER ENDS 15 MAY 2013 Fares from $699* $1,399* Fare details 7 days — Fjords & Waterfalls (Q312) 19 May 2013 — QUEEN ELIZABETH Ports of call: Southampton, Stavanger, Olden, Geiranger, Bergen, Southampton Fares from $1,199* $2,999* Fare details 14 days — Norwegian Fjords & North Cape Explorer (Q313) 26 May 2013 — QUEEN ELIZABETH Ports of call: Southampton, Stavanger, Flam, Alesund, Trondheim, Honningsvag, North Cape, Tromso, Andalsnes, Bergen, Southampton Fares from $1,199* $2,999* Fare details 14 days — St. Petersburg & Baltic Explorer (V307) 1 June 2013 — QUEEN VICTORIA Ports of call: Southampton, Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg (overnight), Tallinn, Warnemunde, Copenhagen, Kristiansand, Southampton Fares from $799* $1,499* Fare details 7 days — Fjords and Waterfalls (Q314) 9 June 2013 — QUEEN ELIZABETH Ports of call: Southampton, Bergen, Geiranger, Flam, Stavanger, Southampton Fares from $1,399* $3,199* Fare details 15 days — Geysers & Glaciers (V308) 15 June 2013 — QUEEN VICTORIA Ports of call: Southampton, Stavanger, Eidfjord, Olden, Alesund, Akureyri, Isafjordur, Reykjavik (overnight), Torshavn, Southampton Fares from $1,299* $3,099* Fare details 13 days — St. Petersburg & Baltic Discovery (Q315P) 18 June 2013 — QUEEN ELIZABETH Ports of call: Southampton, Kristiansand, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg (overnight), Tallinn, Southampton Fares from $799* $1,599* Fare details 7 days — Fjords & Waterfalls (V309) 30 June 2013 — QUEEN VICTORIA Ports of call: Southampton, Stavanger, Olden, Geiranger, Bergen, Southampton

FARE DETAILS *Offer is for new bookings only. Savings are based on a per person discount off Early Booking Fares. Early Booking Fares are initial offering fares and may not have resulted in sales in the past 90 days. Intermediate discounts may have been taken and fares may remain at a discounted level after this promotion. Government fees and taxes ranging from $50-$195 per person are additional and subject to change. Fares apply to minimum lead-in categories (Inside stateroom category IC/ID) on a space-available basis at time of reservation. Fares for other categories not shown may vary. Fares are per person, do not include air travel, are voyage only, based on double occupancy and apply to the first two guests in a stateroom. These fares do not apply to singles or third/fourth-berth guests. This offer is capacity-controlled, is subject to change, and may not be combinable with any other public, group or past guest discount, including On Board Credit. Offer is not transferable and is available only to residents of the 50 United States, Canada, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Mexico and the District of Columbia who are 21 years of age or older and receive this offer. Fares quoted in U.S. dollars. Cunard reserves the right to impose a fuel supplement of up to $9 per person per day on all passengers if the NYMEX oil price exceeds $70 per barrel, even if fares have been paid in full. Please refer to the applicable Cunard brochure or Cunard.com for terms, conditions and definitions that apply to all reservations. Ask about our applicable air add-on programme. Please reference promotion code: PEC. Offer expires 15 May 2013. Ships’ Registry: Bermuda. ©CUNARD 2013. The CUNARD logo and logotype are registered trademarks of Carnival plc, an English company trading as Cunard Line. QUEEN MARY 2, QUEEN ELIZABETH, QUEEN VICTORIA and The Most Famous Ocean Liners in the World are trademarks owned by CUNARD. All rights reserved in the United States and other countries. This email was sent to: LEELAURINO@EARTHLINK.NET This email was sent by: Cunard Line 24303 Town Center Drive, Suite 200 | Valencia, California 91355-0908 Click here to unsubscribe or reply to this email with the word “unsubscribe” in the SUBJECT LINE. To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add cunard@email.cunard.com to your email address book. CE3EU010

Speed Travel Planning, Leaving in 7 days

Road Warrior 7 Days Out

No matter how far in advance I start planning for my next trip, it is always  the last week I start to panic.

Planning a multi level trip is like doing a puzzle.   All the pieces have to fit together to make a final product.

Unless you are just going to one location, book one hotel, have one activity  you don’t ‘work the puzzle’ you just book each layer and go.


I insist every trip have something interesting to do, something new to experience and if I am lucky new people to meet.

Since my original trip was canceled I have had 2 + weeks to put together a 30 day event:
6 countries, a stay at a university, with an opera singer in London.   

It may be interesting.   Now to complete packing in 36 hrs.....

The travel warrior

As a Solo Traveler
there is always lots of work to do for a trip. 
when you do not share the project with a travel partner, you do EVERYTHING
When I decided to do a LONG solo trip I knew there would be lots of details but I did not expect a travel agent I have already worked with to tell me,  “look for the sailing you want on our web site (cruise to other people) and I will book it for you.”

As a former commission sales person I would have loved anyone to walk in and tell me to write them an offer on a property they has already selected.  Yes that did happen on occasion but they always wanted it done for FREE.

So after 2+ weeks, a visa hassle that changed my direction and over 200+ hours of searching, I GAVE UP.   I am still taking the trip but will be paying more than I had budgeted for this story.   So I shall amend the story and leave on  the adventure:  21 days at sea, solo and loving it.

With determination in the past two days I booked a 21 day sail, convinced Virgin Atlantic to reinstate my ticket suspended during the hurricane in Oct 2012 (for a reasonable fee), booked connecting flights to catch the transatlantic flight (cost almost as much as the trip to London), booked hotels, booked a stay overnight at Canterbury Cathedrals' guest house and am now searching for 'unusual places to visit'.

Too much work.... but no alternative.   I have 5 trip themes to write about while floating along so I hope you will stay with me.