"George Leppla" wrote:
>"Jack Hamilton" wrote in message
>news:22j1t31cqb2l3orebs75orfnhfnpvlv0dr@4ax.com...
>> "George Leppla" wrote:
>>
>>>What I found incredible about the story is the Joystar exec who said
>>> >>""The
>>>passengers should take some responsibility in knowing that something
>>>didn't
>>>make sense from the beginning," she said.<<
>>
>> Like cruise prices make sense.
>>
>> On the PoH, I talked to someone who had gotten an inside cabin at
>> $199/pp. The lowest I ever saw advertised was around $899/pp.
>
>Considering it was NCL, some people are telling me that even at $199, it was
>overpriced.
>
>Old travel agent saying... "The person with the lowest fare is the last
>participant in the conversation."
>
>FWIW - non-commissionable fares, taxes and the new fuel surcharge run about
>$250 per person for a 7 night cruise. Some of those are included in the
>fare, so I would take that $199 figure with a grain of salt. Not saying it
>didn't happen... because with NCL... anything is possible.
THis was for the 5 night voyage from Honolulu to Los Angeles, so the
costs would have been slightly lower.
The ship ended up being about half empty. No one made any sort of
announcement about why there were so few passengers when the cruise
had appeared almost sold out on the NCL website just a few weeks
previously, but crew members said informally that many passengers had
canceled the Honolulu to LA segment after the rough weather around
Hawaii (the seas on the crossing turned out to be milder than those
around the islands).
Crew members also said that many of the last minute passengers were
NCL employees or Hawaii residents who were offered last minute
savings. NCL extended the purchase deadline by several days (I was
told, and perhaps someone can confirm this, that sales normally close
a week before sailing; this cruise supposedly closed sales several
days later than that).
But the point is, this guy I talked to paid a very low rate, and I
think it was legitimate. If this fare, 75% below the original price,
was real, why should we think that any other really low fare is
suspicious (which is what Joystar claims we should do)?
Perhaps the answer is "don't disbelieve it because it's low,
disbelieve it because it's from Joystar".
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