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Perhaps your IP location isn’t considered close enough to a port HAL sails from? I’m in SoCal and can only see San Diego and Vancouver. Woops- scratch that. Scrolling down also shows FLL.

The cynic in me wonders how long it will be before someone comes on here whining that they couldn’t go and HAL kept their money while not disclosing that they chose not to go, or HAL sold them a cruise and then turned them away, when it was one of these last minute deals.

He’s wanting to put money on several cruises in the same time period.

You do get it back. ”Once a guest puts themselves on the standby list for a Cruise, they cannot be removed from the list, and if such guest clears the standby then the guest's full charge will remain (regardless of whether or not the guest shows up to cruise on the Cruise). If guest does not clear standby, they will automatically be refunded the full amount of the cruise fare that they were charged at the time”

Once again, thank you for taking us along. Safe travels to you.

Are you by chance past the time period when you can buy it?

This sounds like a revival of the Dessert Extravaganza (was that the name?) with a little twist from the late 2000s.

If that had been us I would have been concerned DH would like the NS balcony so much that he wouldn’t book below again. That has already happened with a veranda that we got a smokin’ deal on. 🥴

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In other threads people have mentioned that the cost of their CPP also increased when they added CO.

Sounds like you got it. Substitute “wants to do Norway in place of Iceland” for NYC and Philadelphia.

Remind me of when I introduced this masterpiece to one of the young programmers at work some years back… https ://youtu.be/m1LUzIQoWZg?si=

Exactly

It’s likely she’s subtracted the cost of the protection plan in figuring out the total loss. That’s what I would do.

HAL has offered these lower rates for a while now. When you accept the fare/offer, you are accepting those terms- to get what you booked: date, rate, location. If you want the option to make changes later, book under different terms and pricing.

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Thanks- I have one of those cards that spares me the FER.

Thanks. That makes sense. I’ve never encountered that as I am in US and have only seen US HAL website. I’m kind of wondering if it will be that easy for us when we finally book our first Fred.Olsen cruise.

It’s probably a dumb question, but I’m just curious how one books in another country’s currency. My bank has always handled that for me automatically. Do you buy the target currency, then wire it to the vendor?

I’m so enjoying your blog and reminiscing about my travels in these areas. And your paintings- something I’ve been trying to dabble in. Thank you for sharing your travels.

I think that was someone else- the name cruisinetta -or something similar- comes to mind

We had snow and temperatures in the teens, with lots of fog. Yes, it was cold.

I wish it was. I can’t get into my account- error says there are multiple mariners with my mariner number. 🥴😜😏 But thanks for all your replies (@kazu)

I seem to remember about 3 increases since the shut down. Or am I dreaming it? I think it was around $10/pp prior for cabins below suites.