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Saga 83 day South American tour departing Jan 22 from Southampton can no longer be booked online. Has it been pulled due to lack of demand?
Maybe, wise decision? Birdseye!!!
Almost all south american countries are red, places like Colombia and Equador have a lower covid fatality rate than the UK since they now have 60%+ vaccine roll-out. Somehow I think this is political or they are afraid of the mu strain.
Possibly depends on what website you’re using, online bookings not a problem. Also looks like this is a no fly cruise.
I wonder how quick an 83 night, Fjords, Iceland, Greenland, Canada, New York, would sell. Just saying :-)
Sorry, throw in the Bahamas on the way back home too :-).
Beach - i think they should give some serious thought to changing the South America cruise and here's why
1st Jan - 30th June 81% of cabins / capacity sold - confirmed by Euan. This is based on each sailing irrespective of the number of days. So 83 day South America has the same weighting a 5 day cruise to the low country.
If we instead use cabin days available the capacity falls to 78% sold reflecting the longer South America Tour being the laggard.
At 21st Sept 35,401 days were unsold (cruises 1st Jan to 30th June) and nearly half of those (17,181) were on the SA tour.
Remove SA altogether and all other cruises based on days availibility are at 85% capacity in line with the target operating model, way before they sail.
What they do with South America will be really interesting against this context
There's a reason cruise lines do RTW and long trips in January. The South America trip is similar to one they did in 2014 - which was rushed when Saga Ruby RTW had to be cancelled due to engine failure. It was very successful, however with most of South America being on the red list, it will be putting off some customers - the relevance of being on the red list and isolating is irrelevant as the ship will have left South America at least fourteen days prior to arriving back in the UK.
Older people like to travel south during the colder months, and this requires longer trips. Only needing to get 800 people onboard for three months is much easier than trying to get 8,000 onboard for one week/10 day trips. Additionally, repeat customers won't want to travel to the Canary islands (as far as you can go in 10 days and get some sun) more than once in a year, so you're cancelling out some of your future business opportunities to repeat sell.
As many odler people also don't want to fly, even more now, getting to far flung places on a cruise is the only way they can do it, and to do it, to escape the UK winter is the best option.
I suspect they'll change the cruise destinations - perhaps include West Africa and or West Africa - but expect the 83 night cruise to stay as a single cruise, or possibly be divided into two cruises; however that means they've only got 300 passengers (or however many are currently booked) to fill the ship twice.
Dofus welcome back .. you have been a way a while. Any news on river cruising ?
Nothing that hasn't already been written about I don't think. Going extremely well; cruising back on track; tours and holidays still needs more work; insurance 3-year take-up continues to improve and I read you view that insurance was a let-down. Perhaps consider that they had been losing customers, and that drop has now not only been stemmed, but on the trajectory up. Perhaps not to the level you wanted it to, but remember these results are only until the end of July; RDH only bought in September. That's less than a year!
I said that Saga will rebrand six months ago - being released in November
I said that investors should sell and then rebuy back 3 weeks later - anyone who did that would have increased their holding substantially on the same money (I was ridiculed for saying this - but I was right)
I said that Titan will be sold - it's now ready after new management was installed and the travel industry is back on track
I said that I think we will reach 700p by end of the year - I think on this one, I'm too quick off the mark, and it will take longer, but I continue to hold rather than increase and will sell at 700.
The market isn't yet a fan of the business and needs to see more firm results. The end of the financial year is 31st Jan; trading update should reaffirm that things are improving and so if at the end of December the shares continue around the 400 mark, I'll dip in again.
Welcome back, doofus. Thanks for the informative update.