All brand's re-position cruise are CHEAP. The cost of the cruise is less than 20% what I spend on food for the same time period at home and that is not including eating out.
The catches are
- The one way flight back is criminally expensive.
- There will be 5-6 at sea days which some people find hard to deal with being on the ship. It is not lounge and drink around the pool weather.
- The swells are higher in the open water of Atlantic as oppose to in the Caribbean or along coastlines.
I can stay on a ship and really relax during the at sea days so these shortcomings do not bother me.
If you have the time, can plan ahead and can handle the long at sea stretches then do two positioning cruises a year.
I buy cheaper round trip tickets. Cruise to Europe springtime, chill around Europe and then fly back. In the fall when the ships are going back to the Caribbean I fly over on the return portion of the ticket and sail back.
Before taxes and gratuities I am averaging around $2000pp each year of two cruises plus one RT ticket during the last two years