There are also websites that watch when Cruise Lines offer non-booked rooms for great discounts but only for the people with flexibility for last minute travel.  Often it is the people who live in the cruise port city that can actually take advantage...

Number 4 piece of advice:  Back to luggage—most lines offer a service to pick your luggage up at your home (usually a week or 2 before the cruise) and then at the end of the cruise, they’ll pick it up and return it to your home a week later.  Really ...

Number 3 piece of advice:  Drink packages have increased in prices as more and more people sign up for them.  Unless you are a heavy drinker and/or want to spend your vacation wasted, they aren’t worthwhile.  You will feel tempted to “get your money’...

Number 2 piece of advice:  You are allowed one bottle of alcohol in your checked luggage.  It can greatly save on drink costs onboard.  

Number one piece of advice—Every Cruise Ship can do laundry during the voyage.  Sometimes it might cost a little, but it allows you to pack for only half the trip saving extra baggage fees and the hassles of carrying too many bags on board