Royal Caribbean International today announced the 2009 cruise lines Travel Partner of the Year. For the second time, the Miami-based American Center Holidays / Travel Avoya year received the honor, the President Award for Overall Achievement. Cruises-N-More (Lake Mary, Fla.) was named as an Online Partner of the Year and Cruise Planners (Coral Springs, Fla.) picked up the Home-based Partner of the Year for the third consecutive year. Additional, Buy Sea (Plantation, Fla.) second consecutive win the award for the category of Corporate Incentive.

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Depending on the cruise lines and destination, prices for many cruise ships had reached the lowest point for several weeks.

While winter sailing season is yet to come, cruise lines have repositioned their shipping is available for spring. One thing I noticed is that the starting price of this trip is higher than this fall’s repositioning cruise as the ships were returned to the traditional winter areas such as the Caribbean, Mexico, Australia and South America.