Breaking News – Cruise lines drop Fuel Surcharge
By John Hinnen
Finally, Carnival Cruise lines which operates Carnival, Costa, Holland America, Cunard, Princess and Seabourn cruise lines has decided to drop the $9 per day fuel surcharge. The move takes effect on any cruise that departs on or after December 17th.
The company says the refund will take the form of a shipboard credit. So for anyone taking a seven-day cruise, that’ll equal a credit of $63.
Quite frankly I’m shocked it has taken this long for this surcharge to be dropped. The price of oil has dropped like a lead balloon in the past month.
Carnival earlier said that they would delete the charge if the price of oil stayed below $70 a barrel for a period of 25-trading days. Well, the last time oil was above $70 dollars was November 4th when it finished at $70.03.
Royal Caribbean Lines which also operates Celebrity Cruise lines earlier announced that they would drop the surcharge on any cruise booked after November 10, 2008 on cruises that leave in 2010. One would think that RCL would quickly follow suit and drop their surcharges immediately.
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