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  • Family Travel / Family Reunions
  • Friends Travel
  • Club or Organization Travel
  • Bachelor or Bachelorette Celebrations


 If you have a Group - we are here to get you off the   ground and to your destination.

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How to Travel for Free -- Become a Tour Conductor

​Cruise for free? Yes, it’s possible and it’s not as hard as you might think.


Just ask Victoria P. of University of Rhode Island.  For years, Victoria had wanted to cruise with a group of friends from college. After she talked to her travel agent about her group cruise idea, Victoria decided to take the bold step and reserve a group of cabins on a Carnival Cruise Lines cruise to the Caribbean. Victoria sent fliers with the cruise information to her friends. Her primary goal was to get as many people as possible to have a great vacation; a second goal was to entice enough friends to book so she could earn free passage under Carnival’s group policy.

What happened? Victoria was able to cruise for free when 22 people joined her group. As the organizer of the group, Victoria became the designated “Tour Conductor.” Tour Conductor's work with a travel agency to make all the travel and onboard arrangements; their primary jobs are recruitment and communication. All you really need is a congenial group willing to travel together and an excuse to go: family reunion, birthday, anniversary, wedding, college reunion — or just plain fun.

Sign up enough people and you will pay no fare.

Most cruise lines, including Carnival, Celebrity, Disney, Holland America, Norwegian, Royal Caribbean and Princess, ordinarily define a group cruise as a minimum of 16 people occupying eight cabins (third and fourth passengers in a cabin are allowed, but they do not count toward the total). The 16th person (the Tour Conductor) cruises FREE. However, free passengers must pay taxes and port charges (and, of course, airfare to the port, if needed).

Getting a free fare is one thing; getting a free cabin is something else altogether. For that you need to book twice as many people and cabins. “Sixteen is the magic number,” says, Carolyn Picano of joJo Cruzin Travel in Warwick, RI.  “Sixteen people means the 16th person cruises free; 16 cabins means the 16th cabin is free.”

Off-peak sailings sometimes offer more generous terms, with some cruise lines offering groups a free fare to every 10th or 14th person. Generally, higher-end cruise lines like Silversea Cruises require fewer paid fares to qualify than do the more mainstream cruise lines.

Sail together, save together

OK, so the group leader can make out like a bandit, but what about the other group travelers? They can benefit, too. For one thing, group rates are sometimes lower than individual rates. For another, the free cruise fare can often be divided evenly among the group members, saving everyone money.

Some cruise lines also offer special perks available only to group cruisers. For example, many cruise lines are now awarding “group amenity points” based on the number of people in the group: the more people, the more points, the more perks. Amenities can include such things as private hosted cocktail parties, cabin upgrades and shipboard credits.


​Cruising is contagious, "you tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on, and so on, and so on..."


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