Price Difference for a US citizen travelling with a Canadian

[cruisingxpert]

Has this ever happened to anyone?

  I booked myself(Canadian) and my friend (American) on a Nieuw Amsterdam cruise in Europe in CAD.

Everything good so far- price is the same.  My American friend logs into Flight Ease and books her flight from a US city and gets confirmation in CAD.'Get a new invoice and 

her base cruise fare is over $400 higher than mine.  I call and I am told that she has to pay a higher fare because she is not in Canada like me. My US travel agent had never heard of this 

nor had a Canadian TA I know.

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12 minutes ago, cruisingxpert said:

I call and I am told that she has to pay a higher fare because she is not in Canada like me. My US travel agent had never heard of this 

nor had a Canadian TA I know.

 

We met and socialized with some HAL phone reps who were on the same cruise we were on a few years ago.  They  mentioned something like this, once they found out we were Canadian.  Something about HAL sometimes having special pricing for Canadians only. 

[cruisingxpert]

Thank you.  I wonder if anything would have happened if she hadn't booked the air.

[catl331]

Sometimes HAL has regional sales. On one cruise my DBiL/DSiL from Connecticut paid a different price than we did from FL in the same cabin category ... but I can't remember who paid more! (10 years ago)

Edited February 3, 2020 by catl331