{"id":26556,"date":"2015-12-21T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=26556"},"modified":"2015-12-21T01:00:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T09:00:49","slug":"monday-126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=26556","title":{"rendered":"The Impact Of The Cost Of Fuel\u2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The price of oil fell to $36.51 on Friday, far from when analysts were speculating it might go as high as $200. The national average for gasoline in the U.S. is now below $2 per gallon for the first time since the horse and buggy, it seems.<\/p>\n

Cruise experts like our pal Phil Reimer say cruise prices are on the rise. Cruise lines are reporting enormous profits in their financials\u2026how enormous is Carnival\u2019s $2.1 billion net profit for 2015?<\/p>\n

Are we missing something here?<\/p>\n

A major cost for cruise lines is going down and the cost of cruising is going up?<\/p>\n

Some airlines still include fuel surcharges in the price of tickets. While none we know of have that audacity, some cruise lines still have the option of doing the same thing. Some government postal services still add it to the price of shipping.<\/p>\n

When will it end?<\/p>\n

Probably when the people speak with actions\u2026by not using the services of companies that adopt such ridiculous policies \u2014 or at least by using them less.<\/p>\n

In the news…<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n

\u2022 Carnival’s fees for room service to go fleet-wide after three-ship test<\/p>\n

Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em>The Harmony-ous fall from 10 stories<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nRuby Princess
\n<\/a>7 nights
\nJune 19, 2016
\nSeattle<\/a> (return): Ketchikan<\/a>, Tracy Arm<\/a>, Juneau<\/a>, Skagway<\/a>, Victoria<\/a>
\nInside: $899
\nCost per day: $128<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The price of oil fell to $36.51 on Friday, far from when analysts were speculating it might go as high as $200. The national average for gasoline in the U.S. is now below $2 per gallon for the first time since the horse and buggy, it seems. Cruise experts like our pal Phil Reimer say… Continue reading The Impact Of The Cost Of Fuel\u2026?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[45,72,819,51,35,449,121,26,27,957,829],"class_list":["post-26556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-alaska","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruises","tag-fuel-costs","tag-fuel-surcharge","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-ruby-princess","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}