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Owing to the demand for cruising lines, there has been an increase in the number of single travellers who wish to spend some time of theirs', cruising. The peak of number of singles is the valentine season, when singles that do not have a date go on a vacation and be with others who have the same predicament as them. This is the time when special singles prices and discounts are offered to customers along with special singles activities and events related to the Valentine’s Day. 

When you go as a single, you are a stranger to everyone around you in your cruise. So, those who know the purpose of a single cruise remain casual and get acquainted with the others around them. A single cruise offers many activities for singles travelling and gives opportunities for everyone to interact with one another, giving you the chance to not only meet a special someone but make many new friends. 

If you wish to enjoy the sun, the beautiful resorts, taste the rum; the Caribbean single cruise would be the best for you. But if you wish to enjoy romantic moonlit nights and taste red wine, a European cruise will be the better choice. There always will be a cruise that covers all your needs, whatever they may be. Remember people are down laying a substantial amount of money to be on these cruises - so the usual fears can be somewhat relaxed. However, do be on your guard, some people can be deceptive or manipulative on their travels and know that innocent souls can be found on single cruises. 

Some useful tips to help you to decide on you cruise:


1. Single travellers will be charged at single rates. This is because the most rooms are designed for two people, so cruise lines add extra charges for one person per room. The price is not going to be a 150 or 200% extra charge, but it will be a bit costlier.

2. The cruises give up the additional fees if you board with someone else. In case you do not wish to share your privacy or your room with someone else, pay extra money and reserve a room for yourself.

3. Look at broadsheet or look in the internet if single cruises are still available. There are also cruise ships that are pre-booked by singles organizations that allow only their members to join. However, many of these companies allow non-members also to join. But, for this, non-members will need to pay a higher price than the ones paid by the members.

Even though you join these groups, you will be a single only. The good thing is that you will meet other singles and socialise with them. You can be comfortable as they are also single cruisers just like you, who are looking for love or companionship.
 
 

Published 19th Mar 2010

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by Ladyadee 2nd October 2011 Singles travel. I travelled on cruise liner back some years as a single person. I had had it tough for a long time, split from 24yr marriage and was still raising 2 teens after this. When I booked I booked into a 4 berth cabin. I was not interested in who I was booked in with but that they were females. It turned out that 3 women who were older than I were in the cabin with me. I had never met them before. They boarded in UK. One woman had a partner who was in another cabin to save money so they could enjoy another trip later that year. Another woman had a husband at home with a drinking problem, and the other woman was travelling alone. I will say that I didn't look upon myself as being labelled 'a single' but going alone on a trip where I could be pampered, meet people and see the sites. Alot of the people on this trip were elderly and it was quietly named a geriatric trip. People who suffer from the cold leave UK during the winter and cruise away for 3 months where its warm, then return home. They get looked after, hospital if needed on board, they have meals galore, and what a lovely environment to spend 3 months. I am now in my 60's and still single and wish to shout myself another trip, but I can't afford thousands of dollars. I live alone and have lots of bills to pay, so I have to save. I found out that that unless you travel with 3 reliable adults who won't cancel at the last minute, to make up a 4 share a cabin, then one is up for paying a single price for their travel which I cannot afford. I have travelled on 6 English cruise ships over the past years, but that means absolutely nothing 'as a past cruiser' these days. When I read Groogle it seems now that once you 'hit 60' or probably earlier you are virtually classified as beyond it, and shouldn't be out cruising as 'a single' Its not my choice to be single, its the fact that I was not in love with the first one, and I haven't found anyone that I am in love with, OR I guess that a senior woman shouldn't be out there looking for love....well, that's what they think!!!!! My travel was for me, relaxation, and getting over years of grief, depression, breakdowns after losing my first child aged 2.3 years old due to car accident when some nice person dumped a car near our home!! I hope that these cruise companies, realise the error of their ways, and see that there are alot of people who are by themselves now, and can afford even a small cruise to get away from it all....AS THEY SAY...Maybe they will introduce a few trips with the recession happening and their families unable to afford cruising.
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