Fuel Surcharge?

I don't take many cruises, and the few I do are generally not main stream.
At the end of August, I received notice that a cruise that I have booked for
most of the month of December has instituted a fuel surcharge of $672 per
person. Is this becoming common practice?

Bubba wrote:

I don't take many cruises, and the few I do are generally not main stream.
At the end of August, I received notice that a cruise that I have booked for
most of the month of December has instituted a fuel surcharge of $672 per
person. Is this becoming common practice?


Tell me there's a missing decimal point :-(

"Dan Wenz" wrote in message
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Bubba wrote:

I don't take many cruises, and the few I do are generally not main
stream. At the end of August, I received notice that a cruise that I have
booked for most of the month of December has instituted a fuel surcharge
of $672 per person. Is this becoming common practice?
Tell me there's a missing decimal point :-(

Nope.

On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:58:59 GMT, "Bubba"
wrote:

I don't take many cruises, and the few I do are generally not main stream.
At the end of August, I received notice that a cruise that I have booked for
most of the month of December has instituted a fuel surcharge of $672 per
person. Is this becoming common practice?

Hi Bubba,

There are a few cruise lines that are charging a fuel surcharge. The
most I have seen is $4 a day. Which cruise line are you booked that
is charging that much? FWIW, I am paying the $4 a day on my October
cruise.

Best regards,
Ray
LIGHTHOUSE TRAVEL
800-719-9917 or 805-566-3905
http://www.lighthousetravel.com

Bubba wrote:
I don't take many cruises, and the few I do are generally not main stream.
At the end of August, I received notice that a cruise that I have booked for
most of the month of December has instituted a fuel surcharge of $672 per
person. Is this becoming common practice?


I really hope someone has misquoted this figure to you. If you have
booked a cruise for that length of time (almost a month you say) then
I'd tell them to either (a) remove the surcharge or (b) stick it up
their ass. Don't haggle and don't give them the chance to offer a
different price. Tell them remove it or you'll book elsewhere. Now I
know most people are going to say "they wont care" but they will if
enough people refuse to be shaken down like this.

RAY:
Which cruise lines are charging fuel surcharges,we are leaving in
october,and we have not heard anyting from either the cruise line,or our
travel agent.
surfer e2468

"Bubba" wrote in message
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I don't take many cruises, and the few I do are generally not main stream.
At the end of August, I received notice that a cruise that I have booked
for most of the month of December has instituted a fuel surcharge of $672
per person. Is this becoming common practice?


I sorta wish I hadn't posted that question. It's like shaking a tree and
winding up ass-deep in coconuts.



The ship is the Captain Khlebnikov. It's a Russian icebreaker. The
Russians are strapped for cash, so they converted a floating battering ram
over to carrying passengers. It was built to open the shipping lanes into
Vladivostok. It sails from New Zealand . . . . rams it's way into the Ross
Sea in Antarctica . . . then returns to Tasmania.



I'm told the trip is long and uncomfortable, but it makes up for it by
being expensive. The fuel surcharge amounts to less than 5% of the cost
of the trip.



In a former life, I had a traveling companion who exercised veto powers over
any frolic which she regarded as dangerous, boring or uncomfortable. With
that restraint removed, I am free to sample all sorts of seriously stupid
experiments. In a couple of weeks . . . Indochina. In a couple of months .
.. . Antarctica.

Bubba wrote:
"Bubba" wrote in message
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I don't take many cruises, and the few I do are generally not main stream.
At the end of August, I received notice that a cruise that I have booked
for most of the month of December has instituted a fuel surcharge of $672
per person. Is this becoming common practice?



I sorta wish I hadn't posted that question. It's like shaking a tree and
winding up ass-deep in coconuts.



The ship is the Captain Khlebnikov. It's a Russian icebreaker. The
Russians are strapped for cash, so they converted a floating battering ram
over to carrying passengers. It was built to open the shipping lanes into
Vladivostok. It sails from New Zealand . . . . rams it's way into the Ross
Sea in Antarctica . . . then returns to Tasmania.



I'm told the trip is long and uncomfortable, but it makes up for it by
being expensive. The fuel surcharge amounts to less than 5% of the cost
of the trip.



In a former life, I had a traveling companion who exercised veto powers over
any frolic which she regarded as dangerous, boring or uncomfortable. With
that restraint removed, I am free to sample all sorts of seriously stupid
experiments. In a couple of weeks . . . Indochina. In a couple of months .
. . Antarctica.


Too bad one of those coconuts didn't hit you on the head. Geeze - a
friggin icebreaker. I think I speak for everyone when I say I thought
you meant a cruise ship.

"Bubba" wrote in message
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"Bubba" wrote in message
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I don't take many cruises, and the few I do are generally not main stream.
At the end of August, I received notice that a cruise that I have booked
for most of the month of December has instituted a fuel surcharge of $672
per person. Is this becoming common practice?


I sorta wish I hadn't posted that question. It's like shaking a tree and
winding up ass-deep in coconuts.



The ship is the Captain Khlebnikov. It's a Russian icebreaker. The
Russians are strapped for cash, so they converted a floating battering ram
over to carrying passengers. It was built to open the shipping lanes into
Vladivostok. It sails from New Zealand . . . . rams it's way into the
Ross Sea in Antarctica . . . then returns to Tasmania.



I'm told the trip is long and uncomfortable, but it makes up for it by
being expensive. The fuel surcharge amounts to less than 5% of the cost
of the trip.



In a former life, I had a traveling companion who exercised veto powers
over any frolic which she regarded as dangerous, boring or uncomfortable.
With that restraint removed, I am free to sample all sorts of seriously
stupid experiments. In a couple of weeks . . . Indochina. In a couple of
months . . . Antarctica.


Posting the question was not the problem, not giving any information about
your trip was the problem. If you had described the ship and that you were
paying over $13,000 per person, then the $672 would not have sounded so
outrageous.

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Greg
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"Surfer E2468" wrote in message
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RAY:
Which cruise lines are charging fuel surcharges,we are leaving in
october,and we have not heard anyting from either the cruise line,or our
travel agent.
surfer e2468
Same with us. We are leaving on the October 12 sailing of the Jewel of the
Seas. Haven't heard a thing about any added cost.
Momma