The "Free" Cruise Cost MORE Than the Paid Cruise
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In fact, there are situations where I would rather have gone on a paid cruise than a free cruise.
The cruise fare was free. The vacation still cost $2,000.
We stopped asking, "How much did we save?" And started asking, "How much will this trip actually cost?"
A free cruise isn't automatically a great deal. And a paid cruise isn't automatically a bad one.
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