braysmommy
DIS Veteran
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- Dec 10, 2010
Any one remember what prices were in '15?
Thanks!Someone posted the pricing on page 10 of the "2020 Watch" thread.
Any one remember what prices were in '15?
They won't let you book the three cruises in a row?I wonder if anyone is planning to do a b2b to Hawaii? I called DCL this morning regarding a current reservation that I have and decided to ask about Hawaii and b2b's. I was told we could do b2b from Vancouver to Hawaii and back, but not from San Diego to Vancouver and then b2b to Hawaii.
They won't let you book the three cruises in a row?
They won't let you book the three cruises in a row?
No because there is no distant foreign port. It violates one of those maritime acts.
Not really.
Even though the Passenger Vessel Services Act (PVSA) doesn't allow San Diego/Vancouver/Hawaii B2B, it does allow San Diego/Vancouver/Hawaii/Vancouver. I've read that DCL won't allow that particular 3 cruise B2B, but it's legal. I think DCL got burned pretty badly with they started the Alaska cruises (from Seattle) with the legalities of the PVSA, they just won't allow it in any form.
The reason the 3 cruises together would be allowed is that the PVSA looks at the whole trip as one trip (even though it's 3 different cruises). It only would see that the passenger got on the ship in San Diego, and got off the ship in Vancouver. A cruise that has a foreign port as it's embarkation or debarkation port doesn't fall under the PVSA law.
I wonder if anyone is planning to do a b2b to Hawaii? I called DCL this morning regarding a current reservation that I have and decided to ask about Hawaii and b2b's. I was told we could do b2b from Vancouver to Hawaii and back, but not from San Diego to Vancouver and then b2b to Hawaii.
I assume then that DCL didn't do the round trip to Hawaii again The 15 night round trip to Hawaii with a stop in Mexico was a great trip and airline tickets to LAX were very cheap both ways. I believe that a flight to or from Hawaii would add significant cost to the trip, unless flights to Hawaii have gone down. Wonder why they don't do the round trip, the sail time isn't much different than a PC cruise.
Well, they can program the computer to kick out (void) any B2B reservations that would violate the PVSA. Other cruise lines do that.Perhaps DCL's concern about allowing those 3 trips in a row is that if a passenger later cancels the Hawaii-Vancouver cruise, the trip becomes San Diego-(Vancouver)-Hawaii, which does violate the PVSA because it transports passengers from San Diego to Hawaii without a distant foreign port.