I discovered something that really made our decision to sail Regent's Barcelona-Rome 14 May cruise even more appealing...ironicly, it's the price.

Just for kicks, I did a query against some of the mass market lines. Finding an "apple to apple" comparison was a bit difficult as so many of the other line's suites which approach 300+ square feet with a balcony were already sold out and I couldn't get the cost from their websites, but I found the closest comparison that I could: Royal Caribbean

RCCL offers a Barcelona-Barcelona 7 night cruise which leaves just 2 weeks after our Voyager Barcelona-Rome cruise. I used RCCL's Junior Suite which measures at 277 square feet with a 67 square foot balcony. This suite is still about 24 square feet smaller than our H-Class suite on the Voyager.

When I use RCCL's airfare, their price is $8,517.50.

Our price for our RSSC Voyager cruise is $8721.6.

Now, of course, the RCCL price does not include the nearly $248 in gratuties based upon RCCL's guidelines. Nor does it include the price of specialty restaurants, drinks with dinner or, from my understanding in 2007, drinks from the bar as with Regent.

Now, in all honesty. Our RSSC prices does include the 20% savings for being past sailers and I'm sure that RCCL's Crown and Anchor Club has similar savings. But, wow.

Knowing that we're:

1. Going to be sailing the Med.
2. Going to be sailing the Med w/out our kids.
3. Going to be sailing the Med w/out our kids on Regent.
4. Going to be sailing the Med w/out ur kids on Regent for mass-market cruising prices.

That brings a nice, warm feeling all over me.

v/r

Jan