EZair Pricing Is Better Than What I Get With An Airline Employee Discount!

[frugaltravel]

On 5/30/2024 at 2:55 PM, NavyVeteran said:

The guarantee to get you on the ship at the next port may not apply on an Alaska cruise. I assume your Seattle Alaska cruise is a round trip with a stop in Victoria on the last day. Because of the PVSA, you can't embark at an Alaska port and disembark in Seattle. The only way they could legally put you on the ship at the next port would be for you to disembark at Victoria, and that would be dependent on Canada allowing it.

Are you sure about that? It would be embarking at a US port in Seattle so embarking at a US port in Ketchikan is not much different. What is not allowed is to embark in Ketchikan on a Vancouver to Seward one way cruise. Then there's no stop in Canada. But catching up to a cruise that starts in Seattle and has the Victoria stop seems to comply with the federal law.

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10 hours ago, IrieBajan54 said:

Wow! I was under the impression that the current EZ booking would have to be cancelled and then rebooked. But you were able to "re-fare" and keep everything else as is. 👍

 

Re-faring the cruise and re-faring the air are two completely different things.  When you re-fare a cruise, it can, but not always, wipe out the EZAir portion.  When you re-fare EZAir because of a price decrease, it has no bearing on the cruise portion.  As of recent, you can re-fare the one-way segment of the EZAir, but from my observations, this leads to higher fares; it's better to re-fare the round trip.

[cr8tiv1]

1 hour ago, frugaltravel said:

Are you sure about that? It would be embarking at a US port in Seattle so embarking at a US port in Ketchikan is not much different. What is not allowed is to embark in Ketchikan on a Vancouver to Seward one way cruise. Then there's no stop in Canada. But catching up to a cruise that starts in Seattle and has the Victoria stop seems to comply with the federal law.

@NavyVeteran is correct.  Round trip Seattle to Seattle.  PVSA

 

Closed loop with NEAR  foreign port (Victoria).  You can’t embark in one US city and disembark at another US city without first stopping at a DISTANT foreign port.  
 

If doing a one way to/from Vancouver, then PVSA does not apply.  Get on/off at any US city.

 

The key is that your Alaskan voyage can’t embark/disembark at two different US ports.  That is why repositioning short cruises go through Vancouver before starting/ending the Alaskan season LA to Vancouver, SF to Vancouver, Seattle to Vancouver.  That is why b2b repositioning cruises don’t work.  Been there, tried that.  
 

An exception might be that Princess will absorb the PVSA penalty instead of passing it on to the passenger, if using EZ Air.  

Most domestic flights (except for Southwest and holders of airline credit cards) will charge for baggage.  Most international flights will allow at least one bag free.  The exception being US city to Canada.  Treated as domestic flight. (US to Japan:1 bag free on Japan Airlines/US to Montreal:charged per bag on Delta, Business Class US to LHR:2 bags plus 70 lbs per).
 

 

 

Edited June 1 by cr8tiv1