Red Is A Flavor

Most of the cruise lines have always offered discounts to active duty military, but discounts for non-retired veterans was basically limited to Carnival.  Apparently that has changed recently.

Most likely in an effort to increase passengers, a few more have opened their discounts to us military one-termers.  I’ve utilized the discounts offered by Carnival for a couple of cruises and they have saved me a substantial amount of money, especially on weeklong family cruises.

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In most cases, the military discounts only apply to certain sailings, So check with your travel agent.  Anyway, here are the current rules (as of this writing) for military benefits on the bigboy cruise lines.

	Active Duty	Reserves	Retired	Veterans
Carnival	YES	YES	YES	YES
Celebrity	YES	YES	YES	YES
Costa	YES	YES	YES	NO
Disney	YES	NO	YES	NO
Holland America	YES	NO	NO	NO
Norwegian	YES	YES	YES	YES
Regent	YES	NO	YES	NO
Royal Caribbean	YES	YES	YES	YES
Windstar	YES	YES	YES	YES

I highly recommend using VacationToGo.com to book your travel.  Their site is always my first stop for deals, and they will credit you if your cruise price decreases after booking.

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