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Discovery Cruise Line is fed up with the economy, and believes cruisers are too. The Fort Lauderdale based cruise line, which offers transfers with cruise line amenities between South Florida and Grand Bahama Island every day of the week except Wednesdays, is offering greatly reduced fares for January and February, as well as eliminating [...]

Following in the footsteps of Carnival Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today announced that the company’s fuel supplement will no longer apply to new Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Azamara Cruises bookings made on or after November 10, 2008, anywhere in the world, for sailings that depart on or after January 1, 2010. [...]

Carnival Cruise Line’s family of cruise lines, including Costa Cruises, Cunard Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises and The Yachts of Seabourn have announced that effective October 31, 2008, the existing fuel supplement will be eliminated for all new bookings on 2010 departures. At that same time, a price increase on 2010 sailings will become [...]

As a resident of Maine, I read with interest about cruise lines cutting fuel costs by visiting more U.S. ports, and less Canadian ports in an effort to cut rising fuel costs. This, of course, should add a needed shot in the arm to the northeast ports economy. Portland and Bar Harbor are [...]

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today announced it has voluntarily agreed to eliminate its fuel supplement on any bookings made prior to the announcement of the fuel supplement on November 16, 2007. The move was made by Royal Caribbean in response to complaints filed at the Florida Attorney General’s office. The department had received [...]

Joining the other cruise lines already implementing the fuel surcharge, Royal Caribbean added a $5 per passenger charge in fuel supplement to their bookings. It will affect cruises that depart on or after February 1, 2008. In a similar move, Silversea, Windstar, Crystal and NCL also added fuel surcharges, ranging from $5 to [...]