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Tips for Booking Trips on All Budgets—from $1,000 to
$1,000,000“Kavin compares cruise ships and yacht charters to
showcase the biggest advantage of the latter: personalized
comfort.”
—Soundings“Charter cruising comes in many
flavors, from fully crewed luxury megayachts to pilot-your-own
bareboats, and Kim Kavin has sampled just about all of
them.”
—OffshoreSay good-bye to lengthy security lines,
overpriced piña coladas, and jam-packed shore excursions. Never
again will your cruise vacation include jostling with crowds,
squishing into a kiddie-filled swimming pool, or rushing back from
a land tour in time for a pre-assigned dinner seating on a massive,
impersonal ship.Dream Cruises introduces you to the joys of
private yacht charter vacations, a fast-growing and often
surprisingly affordable alternative to cruise ships. With charters,
you get the whole boat for your family and friends, with a crew
catering only to you, and you go wherever you choose—from Alaska
to the South Pacific.Based on first-hand experience as well as
advice and information from sixty charter-industry experts
worldwide, Dream Cruises explains which kinds of yachts are
available, where to book them, how to find a trustworthy broker,
what you can expect to pay, and much more.Why book another cabin
when you can have the whole boat for yourself?
Amazingly comprehensive guide to private yacht charteringReviewed by Reader Views, 2008-06-10
Reviewed by Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson for Reader Views
(6/08)
If you've ever cruised on one of the megaships, I bet you've
occasionally caught a glimpse of a sleeker, much smaller ship that
crossed your path somewhere, but you've never seen them in the same
port as your megaship. I've often wondered who could possibly be
using those luxurious-looking, very appealing smaller catamarans
and yachts, since they seemed to be oh-so-expensive.
After reading "Dream Cruises" by Kim Kavin I wonder no more. Ms.
Kavin wrote an all-encompassing guide to choosing, chartering and
enjoying vacations on private yachts. Surprisingly enough, those
vacations can be quite affordable, and she provided examples for
budgets from $1,000 to $1,000,000. If you regularly cruise with
several friends, a private yacht charter could be even more cost
effective for you than a cruise ship vacation. And with all the
research that went into Ms. Kavin's book, unpleasant surprises,
unnecessary hassles and wrong decisions could and should well be
avoided.
After I've gotten over the feelings of intense jealousy, stirred in
me by reading about the absolutely fabulous cruise vacation Ms.
Kavin has taken in the past (just kidding, just kidding... but they
are enough to make you sigh wistfully for sure!), I delved deeper
in the technicalities of chartering a yacht. Ms. Kavin provided all
of the necessary information to make the decision process simple
and streamlined. Starting with the basic explanations of yacht
chartering and comparison of yachts vs. cruise ships, Ms. Kavin
familiarized the reader with boat basics, types of boats and what
one could expect on different boat types. An in-depth discussion of
destinations, both the usual, classic ones and a nice sampling of
the emerging, new ones, followed those basic chapters. Ms. Kavin
did not neglect to include a detailed overview of the cost, both
up-front and the additional as well as optional ones. The next
half-a-dozen chapters dealt with all of the other cruising aspects,
from whom to choose to be your boating party to how special
requests and needs could and would be accommodated, how to decide
on the right type of the charter for your, how to find a
respectable broker and what exactly will you encounter once on
board, down to the descriptions of the different types of
staterooms or bedrooms as well as how a head looks on a yacht and
where to find it.
If you are planning a cruise vacation and would like to depart a
bit from the routine of the megaships, or if you are just curious
about how other people live, "Dream Cruises" is an excellent book
to familiarize you with the world of private yacht chartering. And
there is no law against dreaming, is there?
Cruises have never been viewed as a luxury for the average earner -
but they can beReviewed by Midwest Book Review, 2008-06-06
Cruises have never been viewed as a luxury for the average earner - but they can be, thanks to "Dream Cruises: The Insider's Guide to Private Yacht Charter Vacations". Speaking of private cruises, free from the hustle and bustle of community cruises and all of their hassles, it speaks clearly on how to make these, as the book is titled, dream cruises a reality and a possibility on funds as low as a single grand and other options if you manage to have more money lying around. "Dream Cruises: The Insider's Guide to Private Yacht Charter Vacations" is highly recommended for community library collections dedicated to travel.
