NCL Increases Fuel Surcharge to $9 per day. Ouch!

Posted by Anne Campbell
Posted in Norwegian Cruise Line

Norwegian Cruise Line announced Thursday that it is increasing its fuel surcharge from $7 to $9 per person, per day, which will make it the highest in the cruise industry. Last week Carnival Corp raised the fuel supplement from $5 to $7 per person, per day for all its cruise lines, including Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America, Costa Cruises, Cunard Line and Seabourn.

NCL’s $9 fuel supplement is charged to the first and second person in a cabin and $4 per person per day for any additional passengers. It applies to new individual reservations booked on or after May 1, 2008.

The cruise industry first announced fuel surcharges in December and this is the first increase since then. Does the increase affect your decision to take a cruise?

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17 April

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11 Comments NCL Increases Fuel Surcharge to $9 per day. Ouch!

smokinbruce

April 18th, 2008 at 4:50 am
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Yes it is becomming more and more likely we will be ending our cruising the increases in surcharges, like fuel hits if you book early like we do you pay now. Smoking changes, and more nickle and dime that is going on. up-charges for dinning etc. For the frist time we are looking at other Resorts trips on the same Ilands we liketo go to. Wecan take day trips to other Ilands as well. I have greatly enjoyed cruiseing but, it may be a time for a change. We have been going on about three, seven day cruises per year
Anne Campbell

April 18th, 2008 at 6:31 am
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The pressure to spend more money on a ship does affect the cruise experience I think. Pre-2001, cruise lines depended on cruise prices for income; today, it’s onboard revenue that is most important.
K.C.

April 18th, 2008 at 9:53 am
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I guess with oil prices increase all over it is not surprising.
Went out this morning & gas is $1.20 litre YIKES
no joy riding for me!!!

You do not need to spend extra on the cruise if you do not want to. It is a personal choice.
Anne Campbell

April 18th, 2008 at 10:06 am
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Gas is almost $4 per gallon in New York City.

I think the easiest way to avoid over-spending aboard ship is decide what things to cut out before departure. This cruiser doesn’t need one more T-shirt or art and I gave up massages because they’re poor quality and over-priced. I skip the casino because I money disappears in a nanosecond.

In the Caribbean, unless I want to do something special, like go snorkeling, I can eliminate shore excursions.
Alaska is probably the most difficult place to cut costs because there’s very little to do if you don’t buy shore excursions in every port.
STORM'N NORMAN

April 18th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
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For someone like myself who has just completed my 55th cruise since 1995, it means that I will spend less on board the ship (photographs, drinks, specialty restaurants etc.) as well as for land based shore excursions (particularly those booked through the cruise lines)!

I have no doubt that ALL cruise lines will slowly increase their respective ‘fuel surcharges’ as the price of gas / petrol increases throughout the world.

And by the way, we are currently paying between $1.50 – 1.60 a litre (that’s around $5.50 a gallon) for gas in Melbourne, Australia!!
Anne Campbell

April 19th, 2008 at 8:17 am
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I think most of us can cut back on onboard purchases. I skip the spa (massages aren’t good but overpriced, I rarely take shore excursions and avoid the casino).
Gold menber

June 15th, 2008 at 7:43 am
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Every year NCL has continued to cut back or charge for services that were once part of my ticket price. Chargeing to use the indoor pool on the Dawn, cut the quality of the food in the main dining room, but the iceing on the cake was to do away with serving trays in the cafeteria. Now a fuel charge, what next? I think this is the beginning of the end of the cruise industry. I won’t cruise with NCL again.
admin

June 15th, 2008 at 7:53 am
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Actually NCL announced another fuel surcharge last week. It will now be $11 per person, per day, the highest of the mass market cruise lines.
Bob Erickson

June 22nd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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Cruising is still one of the cheapest and best ways to spend my time on a vacation….I will just do what most others will do…spend less on the ship….I don’t drink so that’s a BIG savings…Happy Cruising….I won’t stop cruising..

Bob
Rose pasat

October 27th, 2008 at 6:34 am
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Now that the price of Oil is down is NCL going to take back the increase of $9.00 a day? I will not use them
I find it much to high at this time. In the past I was there customer 3 times but will refrain right now. To greedy for me, 18 dollars a day for both.
Rick C

November 15th, 2008 at 3:43 am
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NCL does it again! They adaciously increase the fuel surcharge to a whopping $11.00 per day!

Unlike Princess Cruises, there is no limit on the number of days that they charge. That means, for a 19-day cruise, NCL now charges $209.00!

As long as NCL continues this outrageous fuel surcharge, my friends and I will avoid this cruie line like plague.