tkanitra@optonline.net (Tom=A0K) wrote:
"Ray Goldenberg" wrote in message
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On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:21:17 -0400, JeffGersten@webtv.net (Jeff Gersten)
wrote:
>>>We were a party of ten. The other vans
>>>were the same size, which IIRC could hold
>>>up to 16. So, basically there were at most
>>>just over forty passengers (and probably
>>>less) taking private tours. The ship held
>>>over 3000 passengers.
>>>Why would they risk bad publicity when it
>>>would be much easier to accommodate
>>>what amounts to at most just over 1% of the
>>>passengers?
>>Hi Jeff,
>>I think you just made the point that the cruise
>>lines has been successful. If they did not put
>>out the word, how many of these 3,000
>>passengers would NOT have bought a tour f
>>rom the cruise line.
>But they don't make things difficult for you until
>it's time to disembark in St. Petersburg in the
>morning. If you haven't booked a local
>excursion before you boarded the ship, it's
>way too late to do it anyway. They didn't do
>anything to prevent you from booking with a
>local.... they're just making it difficult for you on
>the actual day of the excursion.
>So it didn't stop you from booking with a local
>instead of with them.
>Unless I'm missing what you're saying.
>--Tom
I think Ray is saying that the misleading information that the cruise
lines give about getting off the ship in St. Petersburg is meant to
discourage passengers from going the private route and is on the whole
successful. This is a different issue that making hard for those
passengers who do take the private tours.
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