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Crystal, Silversea add booking incentives offering a selection of savings

Crystal, Silversea add booking incentives offering a selection of savings
Crystal Cruises rolled out a limited-time summer promotion that gives significant savings and added perks for bookings made by Aug. 31, while Silversea Cruises expanded its 'Silver Select' program to include a dozen more voyages in 2017.

'Crystal Clear Choices' gives the option of three incentives that apply to nearly three dozen global voyages this year and next. Passengers can choose from cruise fare savings of up to $1,000 per stateroom, up to $1,500 per stateroom in air credits for air travel booked through Crystal’s air department or up to $2,000 per stateroom in shipboard credits.

Eligible voyages begin as early as October this year and run through December 2017. Some examples include fall 2016 Caribbean and Panama Canal cruises, spring 2017 Panama Canal, Mexico and Hawaii cruises, summer 2017 Baltic, Northern Europe and Alaska sailings and winter 2017 Mediterranean, Arabian Gulf and Africa voyages. Certain South America and Canada/New England cruises are eligible, too.

Crystal's inclusive 'Book Now Fares' start at $2,140 per person.

Silversea's 'Silver Select' also gives three choices of savings: a $1,500 per suite on-board credit, a two-category suite upgrade or 50% off a second suite. For select expedition voyages, the line is offering the choice of a two-category suite upgrade or 50% off a second suite.

'Silver Select' is available on new bookings through July for select voyages to the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Asia Pacific, South America, Antarctica, Galápagos, Africa and the Indian Ocean.

For example, the promotion applies to Silver Cloud's Jan. 4 South Africa voyage, a 14-day sailing round-trip Cape Town. Also eligible are the Feb. 7 South Africa voyage, 10 days, round-trip Cape Town, and the March 17 Indian Ocean and Arabia cruise, 15 days, from Mahé to Abu Dhabi.

Among the eligible expeditions on Silver Discoverer are the Feb. 27 voyage from Kolkata to Phuket, 14 days, and the March 26 sailing form Bali to Broome, 11 days.

The $1,500 per suite on-board credit applies regardless of the number of travelers in the suite, and is not available on expedition cruises. The offer of 50% off a second suite allows both single and double occupancy of the second suite, which must be of equal or lesser value and booked on the same voyage as the first suite.