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Old Nov 18, 2001 | 3:43 am
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VicOsaki
 
Join Date: Jul 1999
Posts: 462
married 2 miles

If you know what you want, some of the internet cruise specialists in Florida can save you money.

Essentially, a volume cruise agency gets the biggest overrides, that is, the highest commissions. They tend to start at 10% and go as high as 20%. Cruise lines also extend big discounts to agencies that buy blocks of cabins. The agency will share these savings with their customer. In many cases, high volume agencies sell cruises cheaper than an average agency can buy them.

It's kind of like buying from Dell. The first computer, people may want their hands held, the second, save some money.

Just another thought. Remember that agencies keep over a third of the "premiums" paid on travel insurance. These so called insurance policies basically protect you against buffalo stampedes


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