When I told some of my cruising friends that I was going on a four-day Carnival cruise, they thought I was crazy. “Booze cruise,” one said. “Trailer-park cruising,” sniffed another. Think the “Fun Ships” are beneath you? Think again.
Carol and Arnie Rudoff had planned the perfect 40th-anniversary cruise, but when they showed up for embarkation, their cruise tanked. After a bumpy flight from Phoenix to Houston, Carol had been air sick. Imagine her surprise when she was told she couldn’t board the ship. Why not? Because the cruise line thought she might have a norovirus.
You get the call, and you can’t believe it. You’ve been bumped off your cruise! What are your options? And how can you protect yourself from getting the old heave-ho from the cruise line? Heed the advice of one lesson learned.
Bobbie Deemer had the perfect Christmas cruise planned, so imagine her dismay when she learned the itinerary had been changed — and no one had bothered to tell her. It turns out a cruise line can do pretty much anything it wants with the itinerary. It’s enough to make you seasick.
What recourse does a traveler have when the cruise line does a switcharoo. Read on…
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