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Ps are there any moored ships temporily out of use?
thanks
Cruise ships tend to be booked/chartered more than a year in advance. Most of the ships opperating from British ports do not start thier cruises from the UK, maybe a little later than you require? They spend winter in the Med. or Caribbean.To obvious cruise lines are P&O and Cunard (Southampton) and Fred.Olsen Dover (Dover) for starters. There are Travel Agents that specialise in this type of thing.
I must ask, why a cruise ship? Bear in mind that it is likely to be VERY expensive? How many delegates will you have?
[ 07-31-2001: Message edited by: Malcolm ]
There are a number of places to start:
a) you can contact a travel agent w/ experience in event planning and charter/ incentive groups
b) you can contact an incentive house who do these sorts of functions
c) you can contact the cruise line directly as they all have charter and incentive divisions. Unless you have an in-house event planner that can handle all the details for you I would recommend that you get a third party involved to assist - it will cost more as they will charge a commission - but it will save you a lot of headaches.
Some other considerations:a) capacity - w/ ships ranging from 100 pax to upwards of 3300 - how many people are you looking for.
b) inclusions - some ships are completely all inclusive while others will charge for gratutities, drinks etc. make sure you understand the cost implications of trying to save a bit up front versus having it all included right from the start.
c) if you charter a ship you have a greater opportunity to customize ALL aspects of the voyage from signage to itinerary to menus etc.
These are just a few quick ideas and I am sure that many others here will have some insight.
Let me know if you need anything else.
All good advice above, but just a little snippet I heard recently, P&O's Arcadia was on one of those junkets end of June, and I heard that P&O got £1,000,000.00 per day, which is mega bucks, and its no wonder a company like P&O are doing more and more of these events, you just need to look at their brochures and find the gaps and see how often it is happening now.
CheersM.
Actually I have experience with chartering a cruise vessel. What the cruise line will want is a letter of credit for the cruise of what ever amount the ship is worth for the week regarding average revenue. Depends on the size of the group you will have and how many days your event is. With full ship charter you can custom design your itinerary to go where ever you want to go.
You may want to consider a partial ship charter which is less expensive, but you wouldn't be able to alter the itinerary.
Let me know if I can help you.
Barryboat
As John is from London, I was thinking of some of P&O's UK fleet.
Take the OCEAN GLORY I in Dover, she most likely cost us$50.000 per day all inclusive!
Unfortunately they will not allow people on her until she id declared safe!
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