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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? |
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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 :-( |
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"Dan Wenz" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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 |
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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? 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. |
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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 |
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"Bubba" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Bubba wrote:
"Bubba" wrote in message ... 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. |
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"Bubba" wrote in message ... "Bubba" wrote in message ... 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. -- Greg lid (Remove the '.invalid' twice to send Email) |
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"Surfer E2468" wrote in message ... 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 |
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