Half the fun is booking early and planning. My next cruise is 1/12/09 and I am having a great time planning our excursions...we ended up with a great suite...I have our pre-cruise hotel booked and things to do in Ft. Lauderdale. Now the hard part...waiting! It's an addiction but I can think of worse things to be addicted to
I agree with all of you about booking early. The waiting is stressful, but we're going to do ALL the excursions we want to...even the expensive ones. We have 6 months to save for them. So we have 3 ports of call...and I'm buying the excursion one per month. Also makes the Sign and Sail card a little less. Also, I try to book and pay for parking early too. One less thing!
Steve you do like we do. In addition we usually buy a little ship board credit. On our last Cruise, when we checked out we owed about $10.00.
It makes it nice to have things paid for.