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It is a discount if the non-guaranteed price was more than $788 at least 1 day prior to the $788 guaranteed was introduced (regardless whether $788 for a balcony is considered expensive or expected).

No, my point was totally different: when a cruise first released by a cruise line, typically there is no guaranteed cabin. Then closer to a cruise date a cruise line might establish a guaranteed cabin for a particular category (say, inside). In this case, obviously, the guaranteed price is a discount (one may not call a price with selected cabin as a fee, because it was established first). Of course, if a person looks in a quote for the first time for a particular cruise ONLY after the guaranteed price is revealed (as in my example), that person might think (feel or consider) a price with selected cabin as a fee (but it will be just that - a feeling).

It's not the same. If a price with cabin selection is a base then a guaranteed lesser price (it used to be a standard way of pricing) is an actual discount. A lot of times, by the way, the price is actually the same (between guaranteed and with selection cabins) by many cruise lines. However, if a base is a guaranteed cabin with a lesser price then you are correct and "allowed" to complain (ha-ha!!!) if the price with a cabin selection is much higher.

The intension (and expectation for that matter) of cruising to have something totally different (including food experience) than in a regular life for many reasons (one of them a financial aspect - spending much more than in home daily routine). Otherwise, why to bother to travel?

Think of it just as of a mass. One will observe up to around 500 at any given time (at the embarkation just don't look around, and it's dark in the theater, anyway).

Since when did “hot” topics become uncivil? I don’t remember them that way prior to around 9 years ago. It appears, the worst in people was developed (or swam up to the surface) since then.

I replied to myself accidentally (# 149).

It’s a philosophical toast statement from “My big fat Greek wedding” movie.

Well,.. In the end, “we are all fruit.”

The current topic is a perfect example of meaning (I just copied for a quick reply): Homo homini lupus, or in its unabridged form Homo homini lupus est, is a Latin proverb meaning "A man is a wolf to another man," or more tersely "Man is wolf to man." It is used to refer to situations where a person has behaved comparably to a wolf. In this case, the wolf represents predatory, cruel, and generally inhuman qualities; in essence, the person is held to be uncivilized.

Agree

A human to a human is a wolf.

I wonder if another 0 is randomly added at the end of a price ($774,000 total cabin for 2), what a reply would be?

He or she must chew each piece first prior to inserting a mass to your mouth.

For a moment I read as "What happened to real butler?"

Exactly! And yet, so many people wonder why it’s happening now? We also already booked a few cruise including 3 segments of the 2026 Silversea World cruise. Yesterday I even poked to some Fall 2026 cruises (not much is available yet to select from).

it's not only all cruise lines but all other business. A rhetorical question: who might guess (imagine) that in March 2020? I, actually, predicted it (among dozens of other nowadays "new world" items) during our the Ponant Le Soleal March 8-25 cruise.

and it would scream for a potential product contamination, too.

Logically, i should be true. However, when gratuities were recently removed from a package, the package price was not reduced by a price of gratuities (actually, it was not reduced at all). Also, a cruise price (varsus a price right before gratuities removal) was not reduced either.

If they refuse to supply a payment documentation, why would you have to reimburse them to begin with. To me, they need to reimburse you for all your time spent to expedite this matter.

Time-wise, this whole event doesn’t make sense, because if an insured person did not pay for an emergency service yet, an insurance company cannot compensate for what is not paid (because potentially it might never be paid). So, it appears, you stuck in limbo.

Thank you! I was born in 1960 see my previous post); so, I might see you…

We did not go back to Russia since we left USSR in February 1991 (from Jews prosecutions) thanks to Reagan helping to lift the Iron Shield. Yes, it’s nice for foreigners to visit to see architecture and museums. I was born in the heart of the Leningrad (behind the Saint Isaac’s square).

My farther was born in a little village in Ukraine; I was born in Saint Petersburg. Am I from Ukraine, the Ukraine (never heard of such until this reading), or some other place? Or I am simply from Buffalo? Happy Birthday to me, and Go Bills (in 3 days)!!!

It’s already leftover by 9pm, anyhow. So, there is no guilt for “Save the Earth” at that point of no return…