Cruise Countdown Continues

I was talking to someone at work today who is going on a cruise the same day we are except she is going to the Western Carribean on a different cruise line.

Like us, they got hit with an extra surcharge for gas. After you pay for a cruise, travel insurance, tips, excursions, and your transportation to get to the cruise an extra surcharge for gas just seems to go overboard.

We both agreed that it might be a while before we go very far from home unless gas prices come down. I wonder how many people feel the same way.

I think that 2008-2009 will be hard on the travel industry as a whole. If we didn't already pay for our cruise and flights we'd be watching the port web cam (see picture, that's the Elation - our ship - on the left) in San Diego instead of being there...

What are you going to do?