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Cruise line timeshare?

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Hi All, we are big cruisers (about 3 cruises a year). Is there any type cruise timeshare that can give us extra perks or discounts outside of what we can find ourselves or Costco?
 

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Nope.
 

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Suggestion only you could cruise 6 times per year for the cost of two

penthouse suites on the Queen Mary cruise line.

Simply just book cruises during hurricanes season and book Trans Atlantic cruises east and west bound in an inside cabin from Florida or New York to Europe.
 

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Generally the timeshare systems just take your points, convert them to cash (at a poor value) and reserve you a cruise. They don't have any more access to special cruise inventory that a travel agent or online cruise booking agent has. In fact, you are probably best to establish a close relationship with a travel agent that has access to special group rates either through their agency or TLN. These group rates will often beat rates you can find online or direct through the cruise line.

About the only special thing that a timeshare company may provide is an owners cruise that they book group rates for. Usually quite a bit more expensive than just paying for the cruise yourself.
 

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Years ago there was a company called CruiseShares, but as far as I can tell it never started full operations.
 

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It is an interesting idea. I wonder if any of the cruise lines have ever considered some kind of membership program kinda like the UVC model at AMResorts. Think of the captive audiences you could get at a sales presentation on a sea day!!
 

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We have run into several couples that have developed a schtick of signing onto cruises by doing lectures or teaching classes. We've found people doing watercolor classes, teaching languages, lecturing on piracy, teaching improvisational comedy, organizing passengers into chorale groups. It generally only works on long- like transatlantic/pacific cruises with lots of sea days. They get a cabin (on the crew decks) meals, and a stipend. What's better than a free cruise? Getting paid to take one!

Jim
 

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We have run into several couples that have developed a schtick of signing onto cruises by doing lectures or teaching classes. We've found people doing watercolor classes, teaching languages, lecturing on piracy, teaching improvisational comedy, organizing passengers into chorale groups. It generally only works on long- like transatlantic/pacific cruises with lots of sea days. They get a cabin (on the crew decks) meals, and a stipend. What's better than a free cruise? Getting paid to take one!

Jim
We have gotten hooked on the Bravo show Below Deck. These are not cruise ships but the crew cabins are small. I would imagine they are similar on a cruise ship
 

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We have run into several couples that have developed a schtick of signing onto cruises by doing lectures or teaching classes. We've found people doing watercolor classes, teaching languages, lecturing on piracy, teaching improvisational comedy, organizing passengers into chorale groups. It generally only works on long- like transatlantic/pacific cruises with lots of sea days. They get a cabin (on the crew decks) meals, and a stipend. What's better than a free cruise? Getting paid to take one!

Jim

I’ve also met some who have done this, and the ones I met were provided regular passenger cabins. I imagine there are many options, and I recall viewing a web site dedicated to assisting people connect with cruise lines for this very purpose (I don’t recall the site name).


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All kinds of people do this. Comedians regularly get regular passenger cabins. Same with magicians or hypnotists. They often move around to different ships. The only difference with them is that they may fly in mid cruise and board in a port or get off earlier in a port as another set of comedians get on the ship. We also went to a lecture about the Titanic. I am sure that woman also did several other lectures while on the ship. Perhaps they need someone to come aboard to talk about timeshares :)
 
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