Yikes....Surcharge on Using Credit Card for Onboard Charges

[I object 2]

I was completing our Guest Check In info for a future cruise and had this message pop-up when I entered credit card information:

 

"If you are using a credit card to pay for your onboard charges, a surcharge fee of 1.1% will be applied. Debit cards do not incur a surcharge."

Is this something new?

[RDC1]

I would guess that you are booking a cruise departing from Australia. Standard practice there.

[Cruise Junky]

Australia? yes, sadly standard for a lot of businesses

[CruisinFinsUp]

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2642007&highlight=surcharge

 

Discussed recently here.

[windsor26]

This has been the case for most of the CCL owned cruise lines based in Australia but we are so used to being charged for using a credit card ion lots of places here it was not too much of a shock

I wish we had the same laws as USA and they were not allowed to charge for using credit cards It is quite a bit on the price of a cruise when you pay that way as 2.5% adds up I do try to pay via bpay using the credit card so I can get travel insurance but not all companies allow this and one actually charges 1% if you pay that way

[I object 2]

Ah....makes sense now. We will be sailing from Sydney. Thanks for your responses.

 

Jan