CruiseNewbie4321

Thanks for all of your responses - I just cancelled!

Our cruise is in January. Thanks for your thoughts.

Thanks for your reply. I would of course call them once I arrived via our own reservation to let them know that I would not be showing up for the flight and not to expect us at the airport on the day of departure. I'm not sure if this is allowed without penalty.

Hi, I'm new to cruising and I have been getting different answers from Viking regarding my question. We were given free air but we do not like the air reservation proposed (i.e., the reservation has us scheduled to land just 2.5 hours before the cruise departs). The reservation has not yet been ticketed. I called Viking Air and I was told that it will cost us more to change the Viking Air flight reservation than if we make our own reservation. So, we would like to make our own air reservation to get in a day earlier than the day of the cruise's departure. I would like to keep the Viking Air reservation if at all possible as a back-up just in case something goes wrong with our own reservation (because the Viking Air reservation was "free"). Assuming our own reservation works out ok, would it be ok to not show up for Viking's reservation or do I need to cancel it before ticketing? One Viking Air consultant said it would be ok to just not show up and there would be no penalty. Another consultant said we needed to cancel before ticketing; otherwise we would need to pay a cancellation/no show fee. Please advise.