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Better deals for single cruisers

The Telegraph reported today that British company Mundy Cruising is campaigning to reduce supplements for single travellers.

They pointed out that single travellers often get a raw deal, when it comes to accommodation and pricing, with some supplements as high as 100%, and many passengers surveyed felt that cruise lines treated them like second-class citizens.

I find this amazing in this day and age, especially as single people make up 39% of the adult population - that's almost 19 million people - hardly a small minority. On top of that, there are some people who prefer to cruise on their own, even if they do not actually live alone. So isn't it about time that choices and prices started reflecting that? It would certainly strike me as common sense, not to mention business sense.

What do you think? Do you have any interesting experiences to share of being a single traveller? I'd love to hear from you - drop me a line in the comment box below.

Single - Advantages to Travelling Solo

Have you ever wanted to book a holiday, gone online, only to find that most holidays cater for families with children or lovey-dovey couples?  You don't want the noise and activities that hotels and travel companies offer families and you also don't want to be the only single standing out like a sore thumb in a resort full of newly married, newly engaged or newly come together couples!

Well, things, thank goodness are changing.  More companies are catering for single travellers and without all the stigma that used to surround single people doing things on their own!

Jayne Clark, writing for USA TODAY notes that mainstream travel tour operators are increasingly, targeting singles-only itineraries.  The move, she writes, is designed to tap into a growing lucrative market – the baby boomers who are entering their retirement years.

According to Clark, a survey of 30,000 revealed that 25 million singles age 42 and older will spend $28 billion on travel this year. “This group,” she writes,  “is more likely to take weekend trips and spend proportionately more per person than other travelers.”