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LastMinuteTravel adds cruise lines

Business Home Internet LastMinuteTravel.com is launching speed-enhancing, user-friendly performance upgrades to its Web site, along with the addition of six cruise lines.

sage3 (# 5 of 13) 28am Sep 16, 2007 EST It seems that most cruise lines are adding $10 to $12 a day as a "hotel service" charge or a "service charge". And yes, the speciality restaruants do expect a gratutity. Personally I think that cruise lines are trying to become more like land based resorts where everything is additional. I miss the old days of cruising where once you were aboard all was included except liquor.

Business Mlm Opportunity The additional cruise liners nclude Royal Caribbean International, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Celebrity Cruises, Holland America, Costa & WindStar to its growing portfolio of travel suppliers.

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Based Business Home Income The high-performance software multiplies the speed of the LastMinuteTravel.com Web site by ten-fold, reducing search times from eight to 10 seconds to less than one second.

Discover London on this fantastic guided bus tour with a river cruise, pub lunch and a tour of the Tower of London.

Based Business Home Internet Other upgrades make the site more user-friendly. For example, visitors now have the option of viewing hotel locations via an illustrated map or a satellite image of the area.

We went on CruiseCrictic.com prior to our cruise and read both good and bad reviews of this cruise line.

Business Homebased Opportunity Using the "Hotel Map View," visitors can scroll up and down or shift left and right to widen their search of properties in a given geographical area.

opinions from other Frommers readers who have done similar cruises or traveled on these cruise lines.

Based Business Home Mlm In what amounts to a technological first, visitors can now check room availability and book accommodations directly from the map or satellite image. No other travel Web site offers this advanced map feature.

Business New Opportunity "With the introduction of these powerful software enhancements, we are one of the fastest web sites in the travel industry," said Nathan Van Prooyen, LastMinuteTravel.com's director of e-commerce. "When you are marketing to last-minute travelers, they don't want to use precious time waiting for a travel search. By making it much easier and faster for visitors to shop for and book their travel, we are giving them more time to pack for their vacation."

Business Home Online Along with the system upgrades, LastMinuteTravel.com recently added six new cruise lines to its portfolio of travel suppliers. Besides its existing relationship with Carnival Cruise Lines, the company now has agreements with Royal Caribbean International, Costa, Celebrity Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Lines & NCL America, Holland America and WindStar Cruises.

Best Business Home Opportunity The upgrades to LastMinuteTravel.com have been more than a year in the making. Designed by Travel Global Systems (TGS), the technology subsidiary of Travel Holdings, the web site currently has a patent pending for the revolutionary inventory management system.

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