Azamara Azamara Club Cruises to charge a $50-per-booking

[yahootelemundo]

Azamara Club Cruises to charge a $50-per-booking "administrative fee" to travelers who cancel their cruises, cruisetours or pre-/post-hotel packages 91 days or more prior to departure. That means that if you book your cruise a year in advance and then illness, a change in financial situation or even alternate travel plans force you to cancel your cruise months in advance, you will still be out $50. If you always thought you had until the final payment deadline to cancel without penalty, that rule no longer applies to Azamara

[Jade13]

Azamara Club Cruises to charge a $50-per-booking "administrative fee" to travelers who cancel their cruises, cruisetours or pre-/post-hotel packages 91 days or more prior to departure. That means that if you book your cruise a year in advance and then illness, a change in financial situation or even alternate travel plans force you to cancel your cruise months in advance, you will still be out $50. If you always thought you had until the final payment deadline to cancel without penalty, that rule no longer applies to Azamara

 

I could not find this on their web site.

[Albert Ross]

Azamara Club Cruises to charge a $50-per-booking "administrative fee" to travelers who cancel their cruises, cruisetours or pre-/post-hotel packages 91 days or more prior to departure. That means that if you book your cruise a year in advance and then illness, a change in financial situation or even alternate travel plans force you to cancel your cruise months in advance, you will still be out $50. If you always thought you had until the final payment deadline to cancel without penalty, that rule no longer applies to Azamara

 

This is nothing new in the UK. We have always lost our £150pp deposit if we cancel, and since June last year it has cost £75pp to change ship and/or cruise date. $50 is a steal.

[Jade13]

This is nothing new in the UK. We have always lost our £150pp deposit if we cancel, and since June last year it has cost £75pp to change ship and/or cruise date. $50 is a steal.

 

We would have had, as I recall, a $600.00pp cancellation fee in Antarctica with Abercrombie & Kent. They were using a Swan Hellenic Ship, Minerva.

 

What I can't understand is not allowing you to transfer to a another cruise and not loose any deposit. Perhaps Azamara will consider that. The biggest issue for us booking over a year in advance is that we do not know the airfare. Even Azamara doesn't have the airfare yet when a year or more out, so it is sort of agreeing to a blank check as far as pricing. Once we book the air the trip is non-refundable as far as we are concerned.