Cruising!

[cookiegirl]

Happy belated Halloween f-list!

I come to you with pimpage!

I am really hoping to attend the awesome-looking Comic Con at Sea. It takes place on a beautiful cruise ship in summer 2015, and as well as getting to visit lots of lovely places and gorge yourself on cruise-food, you also get panels and workshops with actors and other guests! Attending are James Marsters and Nic Brendon from Buffy, Kai Owen and Gareth David-Lloyd from Torchwood, and loads of others! Plus also me.



If you fancy going, check out THIS WEBSITE or visit their livejournal page comiccruise. And in a few months' time you could be sharing a hot tub with James Marsters! Plus also me.

Comments

[spankedbyspike.livejournal.com]

It's hilarious that you mention a spa... Because on that ship there is a huge one for about 30 people and it's for adult only 😉

And while daydream... I can so hope for Ianto Jones bringing us real Torchwood coffee 😍

[cookiegirl]

Those both sound like excellent scenarios :D

[thelittlespanko.livejournal.com]

This sounds pretty rad, I hope it's a success!

[cookiegirl]

I hope so too :D

[spankedbyspike.livejournal.com]

It may be, hun... We need you all to make some noise and make this a trend :-)

[lilferret]

DUDE

[artemis_wandering]

Oh god this sounds amazing, so jealous! Have a blast.

[cookiegirl]

Thank you! :D

[spankedbyspike.livejournal.com]

Hey Christmas is coming... If you've been nice (or naughty) maybe you can get some surprising help from Santa and his Elves to make it affordable and you could be there too!!!!

[fide-et-spe.livejournal.com]

Hey that sound a mix of exciting and relaxing! I hope you enjoy..

I will be fascinated to hear what it's like, I'm intrigued by it as normally they get paid a lot for these cons and for every type of contact, like photos etc. Which is totally fair enough as it's a job for them after all, but I just wonder how they will negotiate it all on a cruise ship.

Mind you I often think about the same thing when you hear these cruises advertised with celebrity chefs and the like.

[cookiegirl]

Thank you :) I will report back on how it works!

[spankedbyspike.livejournal.com]

You should join the Newsletter, there are a lot of incredible information there that they do not post on the web (cause it's too long to read)

www.comicconatsea.com (at the bottom) they send about a newsletter every 2-3 weeks so nothing too bad and its very informational.

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun, but a bit too expensive for us when I checked the price... if it takes off though, that would be a much cooler con experience I'm sure :) I hope you have a blast! =D

[cookiegirl]

Thank you :D Yeah, we are still figuring out how to afford it - I think the con itself is actually a bargain, but cruises sadly don't come cheap! Hopefully it will be worth it :)

[spankedbyspike.livejournal.com]

Well, the cruise part takes into account that you have a room and food and drinks non-stop with all the entertainment for 7 days. And even they are not that expensive. In the tickets about 30% is port fees spread between each of the ports...

So for example if you were to take the Fantasy special interior room at $1785 (which you could still get at $1635 with the special code) in reality you pay about $ 430.00 for all convention stuff (panels, concerts, photos, autographs, cocktail party) you pay almost $ 400.00 in port fees and $ 100 in tips for the staff of the cruise company, that means about $850 for the stay, the food and all the activities (surf/mountain climbing/pools/spa/golf/nightclub) and the shows (Mama Mia, Aria, etc...) and a change to visit incredible cities. Plus you can pay in 4 times so it's actually cheaper than trying to go to a Supernatural convention let's say in Vancouver or Vegas and you'd still have special time reserved to visit these countries while in the Standard cons you are stuck all day in a convention hall, famished and waiting for hours for your photo op.

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

I've been on a couple of cruises, the prices are about double the price of a regular one was all I was noting... I don't really do the photo lines either, but I can see where that would be a boon for those interested in that :)

[spankedbyspike.livejournal.com]

Oh wow so for a 7 day cruise for about 1300.00 dollars in Europe in Interior room, I have never seen a half price... Can you tell us which company does it, so we can check for another one?

In the US like going to catalina or alaska prices are really good but they are not authorized to do such pricing in Europe, so if another company has a great 7 days please please please let us know as soon as possible by pm.

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

Last time I went on on a 7 day cruise was in 2008 with a girlfriend, and it was about $864 a person, and going on a 5 day cruise last year was around $1200 for me the hubby and Lucian

[spankedbyspike.livejournal.com]

Great pricing... so where were you going? Was that with a buy one get free one deal? Which companies? It could be useful to try to squeeze some more concessions :)

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

I've always used Carnival cruises, and as far as I know, that was regular pricing.

[spankedbyspike.livejournal.com]

It makes sense, as Carnival has really great prices but doesn't cruise in Europe at all (could be those pesky port taxes, lol)

Royal pricing for people not part of the group can be found here:
http://www.royalcaribbean.com/findacruise/cruiseDetails/itineraryAndPricing.do?state=&packageCode=AL07M268&hasFireandPolice=&hasMilitary=&hasSenior=&date=201506&cruiseType=CO&sailDate=1150614

and go from 2529 (1500 at comiccon) in interior to 2819 (2450 at comiccon) in balcony so considering that the prices at comic con at sea includes all the panels even if someone do not want to come to the convention they still get a better price booking through the con... They used to be cheaper by a good $500.00 but as spots became rarer their prices are rising...

The problem with the US Carnival routes is that none of their ships have a big enough conference space or venue to have a convention in them or at least be dedicated to the convention long enough to have panels :(