Are Repositioning Cruises the Great Deals They Seem to Be?
Every now and then you may stumble across a great deal on a repositioning cruise. A cruise line that is moving a cruise ship from one home port to another will call that voyage a “repositioning cruise”. Most cruise ships have a home base and make their cruises in and out of that port. But sometimes the cruise line will want to maneuver its fleet a bit differently. A ship that spent the summer in Scandinavia might find more profitable expeditions in the eastern Caribbean during the colder months. In spring, they reverse the process. Cruise lines know they can sell passage on these unusual voyages even though they are not the typical cruise. The purpose of a repositioning cruise is getting from Port A to Port B. However, the crew will give you the same level of service as on a conventional cruise. The only thing is that the cruise is not following the usual “route” with the standard ports of call. In fact, a repositioning cruise may not stop at any ports of call. That is the reason that
