Avoid Mishaps While You Book For Your Vacation By Cruise!

By Author: Kirthy Shetty
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If you need to make your trip a memorable one make use of certain tips to help you plan your vacation by cruise. Remember to pay for your cruise trip with a credit card. In order to protect against any unfair seller of travel tickets, pay your initial advance and your final payment through credit card. Make use of your American Express, Visa, Master card. You can get a chargeback of disputed fees to your account according to Fair Credit Billing Act. This is however not applicable to those who pay through debit or check cards.

Seek for a proper confirmation of your booking. Get the right cruise line numbers for confirmation along with an agency's confirmation number. With this, you can make sure that you have got the right information and your money is in safe hands. It also facilitates you to book before hand, restaurant reservations, pre -reserve shore excursions any massage or spa appointments if it is available on your cruise. Such bookings have been made easier now, with an online cruise web site. Book them online and make cancellations easily!

Make sure that your money has reached safe hands. As soon as you ...
... have made a payment, check your bank statement. Check out for any applicable charges, it should be from the cruise company rather than the travel agency. This ensures that the Company has received your money and not the travel agent. Always remember that your cheque should be paid to the cruise company and not the travel agent.

Travel insurance should be in place if you are travelling abroad. It should be taken separately from a third party insurer. Do not take any insurance from Cruise company as they will not help you if they are out of business. Insurance company will offer financial insolvency protection for cruise lines, hotels, airlines etc.

Never send cash, checks, or money orders to a travel company that you do not know. Do not disclose your credit card number to telephone solicitor. Disclose it only if you have initiated the call and you know the company well. Do not make any cash payment or give your cheque to any Travel company. Pay it directly to the cruise company after you have known them well.

In order to find out if a travel agent is legitimate or not, see if they belong to IATA, ASTA, ARC, CLIA, NACOA or ARTA. See if any complaints are registered about the agency with the business bureau.

Kirthy Shetty, author in the field of travel domains. For more information on: Delhi Hotels

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