A̶r̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶W̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶1̶8̶0̶ ̶d̶a̶y̶s̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶a̶r̶d̶ ̶O̶c̶e̶a̶n̶i̶a̶'̶s̶ ̶I̶n̶s̶i̶g̶n̶i̶a̶ or Cruise-a-palooza!
WC Map 2015
Friday, January 9, 2015
Closure mostly and moving on
It looks like from the credit card accounts that Oceania refunded all our invoice amounts for the cancelled world cruise starting on January 2. That is good news. On January 8 they got invoices to our TA's office for the 2 replacement cruises we tried to book on December 29. The only special concession we received is that Oceania did not cancel the booking after 24 hours without final payment. They held the cabins our TA had chosen until they could do the math on our 25% FCC. It wound up being $5620.73 per person. I won't try to explain how they arrived at that number. We accepted it since it was the only thing Oceania was offering for our trouble. That and the thought of losing our trip insurance premium by not booking another trip. Clay wants to write a post about his spreadsheets and math involved in the costs of having a cruise line cancel your long and well planned cruise. If he does, you'll learn all about our experience. We are still awaiting a few refunds from cancellations we had to make for independently booked excursions, etc. I still have one suitcase left to unpack and put away. It turns out that we are putting this behind us the same way we prepared for it, in baby steps. Now the planning begins for the replacement trip.