Port Taxes & Fees

[lumofny]

Anyone know why port taxes and fees would vary so much for essentially the same sailing? For example, 7 day Bermuda sailing from Brooklyn: on the October 13 sailing they are $140 but on the September 29 sailing they are $372. The October sailing actually spends 4 days docked vs 3 days docked on the September sailing. Just doesn't make sense to me...

[Brighton Line]

Bermuda has one of the highest port taxes on the east coast after New York City, sailing between the two you are clobbered. On top of that the Bermuda tax varies during time of year and length of stay in port. It is based on 24 hours/night docked. 

 

Are you sure the $140? Is that total or per person? My past two cruises with 3 nights docked it was $150 a person and that includes NYC port taxes as those were the only two ports on the sailings. 

 

When we did not go to Bermuda and went to the Caribbean (the Cape and Nassau) from the $150 we got back around $79 in OBC for missing Bermuda if that gives you a data point. 

[JT1962]

I have had MSC give an estimate on port charges on longer cruises that were higher than what we actually incurred. They refunded the difference back to my credit card during the sailing once the actual charges were known.