HAL Pricing

[woodscruise]

I have just been looking at the Zaandam cruise in December 2011 to the South Pacific, and compared the costs of an outside H grade cabin. From a US website the costing for the stateroom was USD 3399.24 (incl taxes) and the same stateroom from HAL website was AUD 4301.12 (incl taxes). This would mean the exchange rate is 0.7903. I don't remember the exchange rate been that this year! :(

[NSWP]

I have just been looking at the Zaandam cruise in December 2011 to the South Pacific, and compared the costs of an outside H grade cabin. From a US website the costing for the stateroom was USD 3399.24 (incl taxes) and the same stateroom from HAL website was AUD 4301.12 (incl taxes). This would mean the exchange rate is 0.7903. I don't remember the exchange rate been that this year! :(

The cruise lines seem to have funny ideas about exchange rates. I booked our HAL cruise next year direct with HAL's Australian Agent, which also supplies HAL cruises to ALL the other Aussie T/A's, online and others. I paid in Australian dollars because of the funny things with exchange rates. True 79 cents is not right, 89 cents today.

[Australian family]

There is a whole thread dedicated to the cruise lines over charging us Aussies. Here is the link.

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1096739&highlight=australians+travel+agents