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Cruise Sheet: Find cruise deals
- johnmurch 13y agoMentioned on http://tynan.com/cruisework http://tynan.com/cruisework - Why Cruises are a great place for development/focus.
- marze 13y agoWow, this looked like a spam post at first with three votes. And wow, the cruises listed are cheap!
- danmccorm 13y agoUmm: ERROR WITH QUERY: SELECT * FROM deal WHERE added_date >= '2013-11-08' - INTERVAL 30 MINUTE AND from_id IN(19) AND ship_id = ORDER BY cpd ASC LIMIT 0, 100 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ORDER BY cpd ASC LIMIT 0, 100' at line 1 http://cruisesheet.com/?from=Bayonne%2C+New+Jersey&ship=Explorer+of+the+Seas http://cruisesheet.com/?from=Bayonne%2C+New+Jersey&ship=Expl...
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- gburt 13y agoIs there a way to line these up so you can get back to your starting destination fairly easily? If we could line them up back to back I'd love to do this for like 6 months, I think.
- tynan 13y agoI'm the creator of this site... I tried some algorithms to build something like this. The problem is that there are peak seasons that make the price crazy expensive. To be on contiguous ships all year, the best price seemed to be around $30k... if you don't care that the ports line up (which probably makes it impossible to actually do) it was around $20k.
- Avalaxy 13y agoThis is really nice, I just found an awesome deal! Too bad the listed cruises are only for United Statians, and I couldn't book a cruise when I clicked on the link, because they only accept bookings from United Statians. Fixed it by just visiting the website of Holland America Line, from there I can book it. But it would be much nicer if I could just purchase it from your link. I assume you'd also get a commission for it. It would also be nice of there would be some pictures of the cruise or the cruise ship. Anyway, bookmarked this, will come in handy :)
- dkl 13y agoThe "Round Trips" don't say where they go and all the links on the right don't work for me.
- kubiiii 13y agoIt is basically cheaper to cruise than to live at home.
- cperciva 13y agoExcept that when you're on a cruise you're typically also paying rent for a house or apartment elsewhere.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoRent out your place on airbnb. Bonus if you can rent it out for more than it costs you, and you can fund your cruising with the profits.
- PilateDeGuerre 13y agoThis is great. I want to use this. Some improvements are needed: - When searching Florida to Florida (so as to find roundtrip cruises) the cruises just says Miami Round Trip w/o giving any ideas of where it is going to stop, what region, etc. (see: http://cruisesheet.com/?from=Florida&to=Florida http://cruisesheet.com/?from=Florida&to=Florida) - No way to search within a time frame. Say I want to leave after November 18th but before December 12th. There is no way to do this search and sort by price. - Clicking custom search goes nowhere - I have not once been able to get the low price you list
- tynan 13y agoThanks for the feedback. This was just a weekend project, so I have a lot of improvements to make, but not a ton of spare time to dedicate to them. I'll get there, though. The low price is double occupancy-- a few people have gotten stuck on that, so I have to make it clearer.
- cm2012 13y agoI had no idea cruises were so cheap. Wow - it is literally cheaper than rent alone to live on a cruise ship.
- jlongster 13y agoWell, only if you compare SF prices :)
- jcdavis 13y agoThese are particularly cheap because they are 1) Per person for a 2 person room 2) extremely last minute (< 30 days out).
- r00fus 13y agoRemember, these prices are per-person. A room assumes 2-person occupancy.
- larrys 13y agoCruises can be a real bargain for sure. Plus the boat takes you around to different ports. There are "at sea" days and days when you arrive somewhere, get off the ship, walk around, return that evening. Personally it can be tiring and a typical cruise might have 4 days where you arrive in different places and 3 days when you are just sailing. Some people would like to be in a different place every day. Some people prefer more at sea days. But no big deal it's still nice (you don't have to get off the ship but you sort of feel you should or you would miss something). The only added expense would be for liquor typically on some cruise lines and almost always what is known as "shore excursions". Like if you wanted to snorkle, rent a jetski or something like that. As long as the weather is good and the cruise line isn't bottom end it's a good experience I've found. The inside cabins are the cheapest it gets more expensive if you want a veranda (balcony) or ourside (with a porthole) but the inside cabins are ok. After all you don't spend much time in the cabin you are on the ship at the pool or the rock climbing wall etc and you get to take advantage of the same things that anyone can. Other added expenses might be internet access or if you want to eat in a fancy restaurant one night (you don't have to the "regular" food is quite good. And it's always available (you can get food at any hour and it's typically free at least on any cruise I have been on). Since you had no idea you might want to take a cruise, blog about it, and maybe you can figure out a way to help the cruise lines with marketing toward the age group that has never cruised. (I'm serious about that it could be a business opportunity..)
- deleted_account 13y ago1) Post fluff blog post about how cruises are great places to work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416. Get upvoted. 2) Follow up with link to the website you built to find cruise deals. 3) Profit. How much are you making off this, Kirubakaran?
- dangrossman 13y agoThis site was linked from that post, which is probably where kirubakaran found it. I'm not sure why you think he's making money for sharing Tynan's link. Are you suggesting that, while submitting links to HN is free, he paid off two different people to submit the blog post and the link to Cruise Sheet separately? Why?
- deleted_account 13y agoBecause it's such a maddeningly blatant shill post which, out of context, would be considered the worst type of spam: a single link to a "Find hidden hot cruise deals" site. And in the context of the post it's not much better. You know where I like to work? From the deck of a cruise ship! No shit, I'd love to be on a cruise ship too. "You know where I like to code? From the beaches of Aruba!" Followed up by a link to an Aruba travel deals site. No. Extended rant: my frustration equally applies to Tynan's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 - nothing personal per se, save for the obviousness of the article I ham-handedly parodied above. These class of ex post facto blog posts authored solely for self promotion seem like the bread and butter of HN. He build a website to sell cruise ship deals and now he _really_ wants everyone to know how great it is to [insert relevant occupation] from the deck of a cruise ship. I really need to start thinking of HN as "Hustler News" instead of "Hacker News" I think it'd alleviate the cognitive dissonance I got going on.
- TimCinel 13y agoWhat's with the trailing "8" on every page, is it a typo or does it mean something more? ;)
- mattmaroon 13y agoUh, awesome. Can I filter by price? i.e. everything less than $500? Or date range? Anyway, awesome.
- tynan 13y agoNot yet-- will be adding these. Bookmark and check back in a couple weeks!
- kirubakaran 13y agoSince some comments are accusing me of nefarious motives, I thought I'll explain: (thanks though, it gave me a good laugh) 1. I saw the link on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 where plainOldText was kind enough to post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6698086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6698086 2. I thought, well, more people need to see this awesome app, so let me post the link as a story. The only profit I got was in karma points. I checked xe.com and it says 1.000 HN = 0.000 USD. (ps: Thanks dangrossman, plainOldText and bradly)
- tynan 13y agoThanks for the link-- I'm the creator of the site and I appreciate it.
- xoail 13y agoSomebody should organize a Cruiseathon. Hackathon on a Cruise. I will be game!
- larrys 13y agoKeep in mind that internet access can be slow and sometimes out of reach of the Satellite. Other than that it's a great idea and there have been tech cruises.
- lpolovets 13y agoCool site! I am just curious, where do you get the data from? Is it scraping? I've had a few ideas for cruise-related sites, but have been consistently stifled by the lack of affordable data about cruise itineraries.
- DocG 13y agoI read original article also, but... ...I've never wanted to be on a cruise so much before. When I finish my living abroad, I think I will try it. It would cost me around the same to get a cheap hostel.
- kposehn 13y agoThis is the kind of thing most affiliate marketers dream of making, and rarely ever succeed at. Very well done and I think this could easily become a business itself. Keep this one rocking!