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8 Ways Your Job Could Unlock Cheaper Cruise Fares!
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Jan 28, 2025
Your job, or the industry you work in, could mean you can cruise for less. Many cruise lines offer fare discounts or extra benefits, like on-board credit, for a wide range of jobs and industries. Your could be saving a lot of money on your cruises. I talk about the 8 main jobs and industries where you could get cheaper cruise fares, the cruise lines to focus on for each and 4 key tips on how to get discounts based on your job. Some helpful websites: Police: https://www.vacationstogo.com/police_discounts.cfm Health: https://healthservicediscounts.com/travel/europe-and-overseas/cruises Teachers: https://www.teachertraveldiscounts.com/cruises.html Government: https://www.govx.com/ Military: https://www.militarycruisedeals.com/ Seniors: https://www.expedia-aarp.com/ Airline: https://airlinecrewdiscount.net/cruises/ Touchdown: https://www.touchdown.co.uk/ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL BY: Buying my Cruise T-shirts: http://bit.ly/TFTStore Booking your next cruise with CRUISEDIRECT.COM: http://bit.ly/TFTBookCruise WATCH THESE POPULAR RECENT VIDEOS: 10 Cabins to Avoid: https://youtu.be/PgTGLma919A European River Cruise Watch-Outs: https://youtu.be/oqhz54wStyk
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you're about to discover how you can get
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cheaper cruise fares based on your job
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or the industry you work in I'm Garry
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beverage this is another of my cruise
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tips for travelers there are a whole
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bunch of jobs or industries where by
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simply doing a few things are asking you
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can actually get cheaper cruise fares
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this is not something that I've really
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realized until quite recently so I'm
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gonna take you through eight jobs and
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industries and hopefully you are in one
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of those and you can get a discount so
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let's start first of all with this one
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if you're in the military there is a lot
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of options in terms of getting
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discounted cruise fares so if you're in
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the military or you're a veteran you
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will find there are loads of
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opportunities the three biggest cruise
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lines Carnival Royal Caribbean and
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Norwegian Cruise Line all offer
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discounts for military or retired
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military pretty much all year round the
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way you actually access these varies so
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some of them you can either call it the
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cruise line up and ask them well some of
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them actually when you go through the
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booking process you'll find at some
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point for example in Royal Caribbean as
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you go through the booking process you
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then just simply tick a box if you are
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military but you'll find many of other
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cruise lines on an ongoing basis will
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offer deals so celebrity Disney MSC they
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all offer deals in fact some of the best
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that I looked at in terms of deals I
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think are Royal Caribbean and MSC
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Cruises they have lots and lots of
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opportunities for military people to get
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discounted fare so if you have been in
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the military or currently military you
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can definitely get lower cruise fares
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and often extra onboard credit the
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second area where you can get great
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cruise at discounts is if you are what I
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guess in the US are called first
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responders so particularly the police
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and firemen and there are lots and lots
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of opportunities here for discounts they
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are a little bit more difficult to find
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sometimes then in the military but
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you'll find lots and lots of
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opportunities so you'll find for example
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that Royal Caribbean Celebrity MSC
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Cruises certainly the time that I was
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recording this they were all offering
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very specific First Responder discounts
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on various selected cruises so it tends
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to be selected cruises at certain times
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I also found if you use some of the
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cruise aggregators so for example
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vacation
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to go they have a very specific section
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which is just for first responders and
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police and they will tell you what deals
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are going at that particular time the
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way you access those are at the time of
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booking you have to provide either a
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copy of your ID or some kind of proof
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that you are a first responder but you
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can be for example in the u.s. if you
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are a federal state or even a local
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police officer you can get access to
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those if you're a fireman you can be
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even a volunteer fireman to access those
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so there are lots of opportunities so if
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you are a policeman or a fireman then
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definitely you have an opportunity to
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get lower Cruz fares they tend to be
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more selected sailings the third area is
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if you're a healthcare professionals
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here a doctor nurse or your work in the
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healthcare industry now these are much
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more difficult to get than the previous
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two categories and in fact it's even
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easier to get if you actually work in
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the UK so what I found in the UK if you
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work for the National Health Service no
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matter what role you have you can access
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lots of discounts now the discounts tend
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to be more in the form of extra onboard
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credit but you will also find you can
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get discounts of set amounts on
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different cruises and there is a very
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specific site that will help you do that
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so for example the site in the UK is
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called health service discounts comm and
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they offer everything from Princess
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Celebrity Royal Caribbean how in America
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Norwegian Cruise Line cost to MSC piano
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cruisers Cunard Carnival River Cruises
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so again lots opportunities you not
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listening to get big discounts and fairs
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always but you will get extra onboard
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credit which of course helps enormously
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the fourth type of profession is if
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you're a teacher or you actually work in
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universities you can also get various
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discounts and extra onboard credit again
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a bit like with the healthcare service
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you tend to have to access those via
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different organisations rather than with
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the cruise lines direct so you're
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normally booking through being a member
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of some kind of site or organisation but
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definitely there are opportunities to
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get discounts and deals so for example
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I've found there's a couple of
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partnerships we can get discounts on
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lines including World Caribbean MSC
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Cruises Disney Princess Han American
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Norwegian the sites that you get those
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through
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sites like teachers travel discounts
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calm my education discount calm and
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again also on aggregator sites like
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vacations to go they do have a specific
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section to help teachers and academics
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get discounts on cruises the next areas
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if you're a government employee
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particularly government employee in the
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United States there is a way of also
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getting discounts there's a website
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which you can join if you can prove that
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you're a government employee and that
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site is called gov X through that side
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in addition to getting discounts on all
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sorts of things they do have a very
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specific Travel section and again for
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cruises we can get discounted cruises or
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extra onboard credits so if you work in
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any sort of government organization then
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you can probably get a discount or some
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benefits on a cruise the next area is
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one of the most established for getting
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travel discounts and that's airline
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employees there's a thing called inter
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line rates and this is set up to help
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airline employees travel on different
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airlines they used to be for fares which
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were pretty close to flying or they were
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standby Affairs this is now expanded
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into cruise lines so if you work in the
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airline industry you can probably access
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an interline fare for cruises they tend
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to be at more shorter notice it'll tend
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to be in this of 90 to 60 days before a
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cruise you know after people who pay
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their final balance when cruise lines
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didn't have capacity they then trying to
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sell the advantage of the inter line
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rates is they don't want to make this
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very public so they have very specific
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agencies so you'll find and you'll know
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this if you're an airline employee that
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you work through inter line agencies
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which have these rates and you have to
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prove that you're an you know an
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employee but you can get some great
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discounted rates on cruises and it will
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vary most cruise lines do get involved
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in inter line rates to help clear
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inventory so it's definitely something
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to do so you need to go through one of
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and the agencies that are inter line and
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offer interline fares both for hotels
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flights and now for cruises also with
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airline employees you'll find that
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depending on the site you'll sometimes
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find affiliated like air traffic
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controllers may be able to get access to
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it or people who just work in airports
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and the rules that do differ slightly
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but if you work anything to do in the
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airline industry you're probably gonna
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be able to get a disc
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there are some specialist sites like
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airline crew discount dotnet and again
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vacations to go have an interline search
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opportunity and another site called ab
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c-- comm what if you don't work in the
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airline industry well don't despair
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because if you do anything related to
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travel you're probably also going to be
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able to get a discount so you could work
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for the railways you could work in air
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traffic control you can work in a hotel
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you could work in a tour industry a
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tourism board anything that promotes and
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sells travel you're probably going to be
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able to get a discount on a cruise now
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one of the examples I'd like to give it
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is a company that I'm know relatively
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well in the UK which is called touchdown
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so touchdown will sell again to anyone
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in the travel industry you can prove
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that in the travel industry they will
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sell cruises which are great prices and
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again it tends to be in that period of
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the 90 to 60 days when the Grizzlies are
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looking to clear cabins they haven't
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sold so again if you do anything related
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to the travel industry take a look at
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sites like touchdown to see if you can
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qualify in fact even travel writers
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travel bloggers could qualify for those
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sort of rates the next area is in fact
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if you're retired so if you're a senior
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particularly you're over 55 years old
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there are are lots and lots of
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opportunities to get discounted fares so
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you could still be working in over 55
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but your cars are sort of as a senior
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some cruise lines go really far and a
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long way to try and deal and attract
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more more seniors so if example Carnival
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have a very specific section on their
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side which offers sailings and fares
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just for seniors and you'll find
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discounted cruises for people over the
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age of 55 you'll also find MSC Cruises
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they do a lot of stuff to attract
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seniors and they have a whole seniors
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package where on selected settings you
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get discounts but you'll also get
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benefits like champagne and
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chocolate-covered strawberries in your
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cabin and you'll get invited to a
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special cocktail party but you'll find
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pretty much all cruise lines offer
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something the way they often do that is
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through the booking process again for
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example on Royal Caribbean as you go
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through the booking process and you put
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in your age you may find that you
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qualify for a discount
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Norwegian Cruise Lines another great
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example where they
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to have very specific 55-plus sailings
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where they offer extra discounts and
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perks also very important if you are
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over 55 look at some of the
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organizations that exist where you can
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be members for over 55 years old or some
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isn't over six years old because many of
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those then have relationships with
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different providers so for example in
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the US there's AARP which is aimed at
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seniors and they have a whole travel
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site which is a partnership with Expedia
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we can book not only hotels flights but
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also importantly cruises at a discount
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there's a huge range of jobs and
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professions and industries where you can
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get discounts so how do you actually tap
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into those discounts well there's a
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couple of ways first of all the most
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sensible thing to do is ask the cruise
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line and one of the easiest ways of
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doing that of course is looking at their
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website or just using a search engine
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and type and discount for firemen
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discount for seniors whatever you're
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looking for or whatever your job is and
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see if anything comes up secondly of
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course if you work with an agent simply
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ask the agent are there discounts for my
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particular profession the third thing
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and I've touched on a couple of times is
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join a site which is targeting your
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particular industry or your particular
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job and you'll find there are many of
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those so if there's any sort of trade
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organization or collective look at those
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and see if they offer discounts on
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cruises and the fourth way you can
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access them is use some aggregator sites
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like vacations to go or similar sites in
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your country because you'll often find
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they will have themed areas so just as
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that many of them will have solo
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traveling they might have seen is
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traveling they might have health care
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professional teachers whatever so take a
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look at those there are loads of ways
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you can get cheaper fares by doing a
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little bit of research and finding out
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if you're gonna get a benefit ask ask
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the cruise lines ask your agent and
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certainly use the internet and search I
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hope you found that helpful I have loads
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