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Passenger missed cruise
Our travel agent when we used to fly always tried to find us the best
airfare,and to alert us to the reason to go a day ahead of time. Always told us the pit falls of booking cruise air. cruise lover(~~~~~) .. |
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On Sun, 29 May 2011 10:40:09 -0400, Charles wrote:
In article , Patricia Martin Steward wrote: Word. Plus, the article doesn't make it clear whether they were flying on the same day -- only says two flights were delayed. NEVER fly on the same day. Never never never. A good travel agent would have suggested that that they fly in a day early. That way we could get in a good ass ****ing! |
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Charles wrote:
In article , Patricia Martin Steward wrote: Word. Plus, the article doesn't make it clear whether they were flying on the same day -- only says two flights were delayed. NEVER fly on the same day. Never never never. A good travel agent would have suggested that that they fly in a day early. One doesn't need a travel agent at all if one takes the initiative to research what they're doing. You make it sound like first time cruisers are universally stupid, and I disagree. Sure some want and need someone else to hold their wee hand every inch of the way, but I sure wasn't like that! |
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On 5/29/2011 10:50 PM, Goomba wrote:
Charles wrote: In article , Patricia Martin Steward wrote: Word. Plus, the article doesn't make it clear whether they were flying on the same day -- only says two flights were delayed. NEVER fly on the same day. Never never never. A good travel agent would have suggested that that they fly in a day early. One doesn't need a travel agent at all if one takes the initiative to research what they're doing. You make it sound like first time cruisers are universally stupid, and I disagree. Sure some want and need someone else to hold their wee hand every inch of the way, but I sure wasn't like that! Sometimes I use a travel agent to get me perks like onboard credit. I transfer the booking after I've picked out my cabin and put down my deposit. Right now I'm using a TA for the Russia cruise. It's an online company that has a department that specializes in river cruising. I got a much better price from them than I did dealing directly with the cruise line. Of course I called the cruise line first. Most ocean cruise lines offer the same price as the TA offers. I will sometimes book my own cruise and transfer it to a TA for OBC or prepaid gratuities. The TA gave me the price and flight information from the cruise line's package. The flight to Moscow did not have enough time between planes for my security. The flight back is identical to the one we booked and I saved us several hundred dollars through Expedia. We purchased the transfers from the cruise line and still came out way ahead. -- Janet Wilder Way-the-heck-south Texas Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does. |
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In article , Goomba
wrote: One doesn't need a travel agent at all if one takes the initiative to research what they're doing. You make it sound like first time cruisers are universally stupid, and I disagree. Sure some want and need someone else to hold their wee hand every inch of the way, but I sure wasn't like that! First time cruisers are universally inexperienced. And I think the article illustrates what the average person is like. They don't go on as many cruises as readers of this newsgroup who have been booking cruises or other travel for years. Most people don't take the initiative to research like we do. That is how we ended up finding this newsgroup and other forums..... by doing research. Many people don't do that, are not going to do that, don't know how to do that, were not taught how to do that, are not wired to do that. My reason though for posting the link was not to convince people to use a travel agent. It was the passport question that came up that the people in the article got burned on. That they were traveling with the passport cards and not passports. Those passports cards have come up in the past in this newsgroup and a couple of people advocated using them. I have also had discussions on Cruise Critic arguing against people who advocated the passport cards. The article showed why everyone should travel on a cruise with a passport, not a passport card and not a birth certificate with drivers license as their documents. If you ever have to fly to or from one of the ports you need a passport. The unexpected can happen and does happen. -- Charles |
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In article om, Janet
Wilder wrote: Sometimes I use a travel agent to get me perks like onboard credit. I transfer the booking after I've picked out my cabin and put down my deposit. Right now I'm using a TA for the Russia cruise. It's an online company that has a department that specializes in river cruising. I got a much better price from them than I did dealing directly with the cruise line. Of course I called the cruise line first. Most ocean cruise lines offer the same price as the TA offers. I will sometimes book my own cruise and transfer it to a TA for OBC or prepaid gratuities. I have never called the cruise line first or even ever for a booking. The cruise line is not going to give me the commission or any discount for booking direct. The travel agents have given me stuff and on some cruise lines they still can discount off their commission. Also some travel agents are in consortiums which have group space so they can sell you the cruise for less than the cruise line does direct or at a lower prices than other agents can get. If you build a relationship with a good travel agent that sells a lot of cruises they can get you perks and onboard credits that you won't get dealing directly with the cruise line or some other average agents. In addition to onboard credits, free nights at the specialty restaurant, also they have also been able to get me upgrades. And other things I am not going to mention. I have four cruises booked between now and the end of the year and I did do the research and pick them before I called the travel agent, but using the travel agent even though I already know what I want to book I know I am coming out ahead of booking direct with the cruise line. -- Charles |
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In article , Charles
wrote: I have four cruises booked between now and the end of the year and I did do the research and pick them before I called the travel agent, That is the three cruise that are not group cruises. One is a group cruise. -- Charles |
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On Sun, 29 May 2011 23:50:31 -0400, Goomba
wrote: Charles wrote: In article , Patricia Martin Steward wrote: Word. Plus, the article doesn't make it clear whether they were flying on the same day -- only says two flights were delayed. NEVER fly on the same day. Never never never. A good travel agent would have suggested that that they fly in a day early. One doesn't need a travel agent at all if one takes the initiative to research what they're doing. You make it sound like first time cruisers are universally stupid, and I disagree. Sure some want and need someone else to hold their wee hand every inch of the way, but I sure wasn't like that! You don't need someone else to change your oil either., but many people prefer it. Thumper |
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