Nancy O.

Given when they do a cruise fare adjustment they are essentially rebooking the cabin(s) at the new rate, in my experience they always applied whatever the port taxes and fees were at the time of the adjustment, whether higher or lower than the previous. Not a deal breaker, but was scratching my head a bit when I saw that they kept the higher rate from the initial booking.

Port Taxes and Fees: I made a reservation on 1 March. At the time, the port taxes and fees for the cruise were $195.23 per person. A month later I took advantage of a "flash sale" they were running and had the cruise fare adjusted down. The port taxes and fees, however, stayed the same even though they were listed as $178.96 per person in the mock reservation I did on their website for the same ship, date and category cabin. When I called RCCL to find out why the port taxes and fees weren't reduced to the current rate with the fare adjustment, they simply said the port taxes and fees are based on when I originally booked and won't change. Has anyone ever heard of this? I was always under the impression that if the taxes and fees went down, they were obligated to refund the difference.