Soundview77

Yes. I wasn't looking at the bottom line, .......got distracted by the breakdown being different than I expected.

I spoke with the travel agent. The wording and breakdown of the second invoice to make final payment was different than the original invoice, similar but more confusing as to what was mentioned in post #9. It's all good. No sales tax. Thank you to everyone who replied.

It's not the Bahamas Tourist Tax. It's labeled as sales tax and it's in the several hundred dollar range.

Sailing to Cococay and Cozumel. I will ask the TA but I thought I'd poll the audience first since there are many members here that use a TA, I'd like to know if it's common practice or not.

For the first time in 20 years of cruising I used a travel agent to book a cruise as it is a group cruise for special needs guests and I'm traveling with someone who will benefit from that. My initial invoice showed the price of the cruise + fees/port tax less my deposit, no mention of sales tax. My final invoice now shows sales tax on the cost of the cruise. I never had that when I booked direct with the cruise line. I am in New York, travel agent is in Florida, cruise line is Royal. Is the sales tax a legit charge?

In the past (a good several years ago) I was able to look at specific shore excursions offered by RCI by port of call, but can't seem to find that anymore on the website. Am I missing something? I don't want to waste my time making a reservation and then finding out that the shore excursion(s) I was hoping to find isn't offered. Is there still a way to do this without making a reservation first?