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Souce: Travel Weekly
December 04, 2008
Carnival Corp. has eliminated the fuel surcharge for all cruises departing on or after Dec. 17 for its six North American brands.
The policy change applies to Carnival, Costa, Cunard, Holland America, Princess and Seabourn.
A surcharge refund will be made in the form of a shipboard credit for all bookings within the final payment period for departures on or after Dec. 17. All other bookings for cruises departing on or after Dec. 17 will be adjusted to remove the surcharge, and customers will receive a revised final payment amount.
In October, Carnival scrapped the fuel surcharge for 2010 sailings, and offered to refund the surcharge in the form of a shipboard credit for November-December departures in 2008 and all departures in 2009, if the price of light sweet crude oil was at or below $70 per barrel for 25 consecutive trading days ending five trading days prior to the customer’s departure date.
“As the price of oil has dropped to $46 per barrel, it has now reached a level where we are able to suspend the fuel supplement,” said Bill Harber, Carnival Corp.’s director of marketing.
Carnival cautioned that it reserves the right to reinstate a surcharge of up to $9 per person, per day ($15 per person, per day for Seabourn) should the price of light sweet crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange Index increase above $70 per barrel.
The fuel surcharge for five of the six Carnival Corp. brands is currently $9 per person, per day for the first and second guest (not to exceed $126 per person per voyage) and $4 per person, per day for third, fourth and fifth guests (not to exceed $56 per person per voyage).
Seabourn’s fuel surcharge is $15 per person, per day for the first and second guest (not to exceed $210 per person per voyage) and $4 per person per day for third and fourth guests (not to exceed $56 per person per voyage).
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