Do Solo Travelers Pay Double The Damage On Cruises?

If y'all prefer to go solo, should y'all go charged double?           



         Although cruise lines practise non avidly search for solo travelers, they volition 'allow' solo travelers to bring together the ARK at upwards to 200% to a greater extent than than other passengers are paying.      Cunard has late in addition to inwards the past times few years offered attractive rates for solo travelers in addition to afterwards taking i of their Atlantic crossings, I tin say they are everything y'all imagine an elegant British send to be.
The pricing policy for solo travelers has croak a ‘movement’ inwards the ever growing solo traveler market.
If y'all necessitate to go solo or because of circumstances y'all are traveling solo, why should solo travelers go farther restricted past times price?    There are wonderful trips advertised every twenty-four sixty minutes menses in addition to if they are listed every bit ‘packages  or vacations’ the cost is e'er higher when y'all select your go dates in addition to hotels.  If y'all double the cost of fifty-fifty the discounted cruises they frequently are $300 a twenty-four sixty minutes menses in addition to the dream of an around the basis cruise equals the cost of a high cease automobile!
Air travel, although increasingly  uncomfortable in addition to expensive, even in addition to thence charges passengers past times the seat.  Even the airlines offering promotions for your ‘companion to wing free’ or the dreaded 2 for 1 pricing.      Travel providers should go challenged on their misleading 2 for 1 advertising…..  endeavor to purchase this advertisement for a cruise every bit a solo in addition to y'all are told y'all volition go denied go if y'all croak far solo. 

What other go services accuse solo travelers more:
As far every bit I know rental cars practise non accuse solo travelers whatsoever ‘supplements’.    Hotels inwards the USA accuse past times the room but frequently practise NOT offering unmarried room rates.    Some hotels inwards Europe offering unmarried rooms that are commonly really modest in addition to non e'er the best the hotel has to offer.   At other times I possess got received a criterion double room, at that spot does non appear to go whatsoever standard.   When I go off flavor I tin frequently majority 4 star hotels inwards Italy for the cost of a unmarried room at other times during the year.  

The cruise manufacture continues to accuse solo travelers for enjoying the especial pleasance of traveling solo. 
Alan Fox, the president of Vacations to Go, has i of the few spider web sites that lists cruises alongside depression or no solo supplement. www.vacationstogo.com/    Recently he posted an respond to this inquiry on his spider web page.    With his before permission to percentage solo cruise information, I am posting his reply here.
on delineate question:
Q: When a cruise send has less than a sum capacity of passengers, why practise they non permit someone to go solo in addition to non pay double occupancy? I would intend that since they possess got to maintain a sum crew, fifty-fifty i individual inwards a room makes to a greater extent than feel than having the cabin empty for the cruise.
A: Except for 6-star ships, cruise ships to a greater extent than frequently than non canvass sum year-round because cruise lines drib the charge per unit of measurement to whatever it takes to sell out. They prefer to fill upwards those empty cabins alongside 2 people to maximize their onboard sales in addition to gratuities. However, lines sometimes slash the unmarried supplement for a express time, in addition to nosotros listing every i of these opportunities on our site.
Alan Fox,   Chairman & CEO, Vacations To Go,  5851 San Felipe Street, Suite 500, Houston, TX 77057

Why don’t cruise lines accuse solo clients double the mandatory gratuities fees in addition to allow solo’s to travel?    The staff would non endure financially.   And at that spot are no guarantees 2 passengers inwards a room volition pass to a greater extent than coin on drinks, tours, the casino, option restaurants or shopping, other lucre areas of the ship.  

I troll the cruise spider web sites months before I start to excogitation a trip.   Vacationstogo.com volition listing solo supplement trips but this listing does NOT include every sailing.    I possess got tried 4 cruise ‘agents’ alongside varying results.   I possess got never found whatsoever cruise or go agent who is excited near working alongside solo travelers.   Or peradventure it is simply how I travel.  I was told off past times i specialty agent when I mentioned I would go traveling throughout Italy for a calendar month before the trip in addition to would non go able to convey ‘dress’ clothes alongside me. Her reply was something to “Well y'all can’t croak around the send inwards sloppy pants”.       Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel partitioning of an established cruise booking site opened a ‘solo go division’ but found the sales afterwards I did!

So similar a shot I search whatsoever sailing to a place on my ‘bucket list’ alongside a posted cost of $100 a twenty-four sixty minutes menses or less.   This may insure a solo cost of nether $200.00 a day……beyond that cost you  may go able to wing delineate of piece of occupation organisation class!      If y'all run into a non bad cost on a solo cruise allow me know at www.maturesolotravel.com