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Elite Cruises and Travel and Cruise Planners/American Express

We are pleased to announce our affiliation with Cruise Planners/American Exprss, the premier cruise-oriented franchise within the travel industry. Our affiliation means we can now offer our customers exclusive pricing on a wide range of cruise packages, a choice of thousands of group departures, private cruise sales, as well as cabin upgrades and special amenities such as shore excursions, discounted fares, travel gifts and more. As a Cruise Planners Specialist, Elite Cruises and Travel will continue to provide specialized luxury land and tour packages to destinations around the world.
Cruising trends have changed and cruisers are more adventurous and youthful. There’s also been the emergence of multi-generational cruisers – families that take their cruise vacations together. Cruises offer the most satisfying, convenient and value-oriented way to travel. Cruise Planners/American Express has “Top Producer” status with virtually every cruise line which enables us to provide our customers with the best prices along with our expertise and personalized service.
Exclusive to Cruise Planners is International Conferences™, a provider of excellent accredited programs of continuing Medical, Nursing, Legal and Dental education seminars at sea. We are very excited to offer our customers a venue for exceptional continuing education while on vacation with their colleagues and family members.
As an American Express Travel Services Representative agency, Cruise Planners offers Mariner Club sailings which means our customers can receive exclusive benefits such as a gracious and complimentary host, private cocktail party, shore events, additional shipboard credits, and more—adding value to the vacation. New this year is the exclusive “Cruise for Free” program. Customers can now use their American Express Reward Points to cover all or part of their vacation.
Licensed, bonded, and insured, Cruise Planners/American Express is a member of CLIA (Cruise Line International Association), NACOA (National Association of Cruise Only Agencies), and the BBB (Better Business Bureau).
About Cruise Planners/American Express
Founded in 1994, Cruise Planners is an American Express Travel Services Representative national cruise agency headquartered in Coral Springs, FL. and has achieved the highest travel industry awards year after year, such as: Royal Caribbean International Home-based Partner of the Year, Carnival’s Agency of the Year, American Express Travel Services Representative Excellence Award and Entrepreneur magazine’s Franchise 500 ~ Ranked Number 1 in Category.
Our primary purpose for joining Cruise Planners was to enable our clients to "buy into" existing groups, form their own smaller group-within-a-group and reap the larger group benefits such as free berths, onboard credits, photos, etc. without the hassles of managing the larger group.