aaconsumer55

Long time cruiser but first timer on Windstar coming up in Oct for Tahiti. Over the years I’ve booked excursions both through 3rd party as well cruise lines - pros and cons for both. When booking via the cruise line, I generally expect some premium in the price due to the cruise line being a middleman but I was quite surprised to find out Windstar was increasing the excursion price by 80% on one excursion I was looking at. I found this to be a bit unreasonable and it pushed me to book w a different excursion provider (rated equally high) directly and save the $135. Not sure if this is the rule or exception with Windstar but thought I would mention just to be aware. Good news is there appears to be multiple highly rated excursion operators, which allows for choices.