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Travel Insurance (??) Saga
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I have never dealt with CruiseQuick, but when someone chose to post a message here through an anonymous remailer, pretending to be me, recommending them, they immediately became a service I would never trust. If the coward who is the anonymous remailer loves these folks so much why don’t they just recommend them themselves? Did they just want any problems that anyone had based on "my" recommendation to come back to me? — DG in Cherry Hill, NJ
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Sunny. ROFL. However there are alot of people that seem quite happy doing > business in this manner. Personally, I want a real live breathing person > taking care of me, both before and during the trip if needed. $200 savings on > a $7500 trip comes to 2.6% to give up personal service and possibly peace of > mind. As I said, it works for some. 14 cruises with #15 booked and I still > insist on a real person. > Well I’m about to go on cruise #46. I prefer a live person as well. > However, the one cruise I booked with CruiseQuick, after checking them > out quite carefully, went very smoothly. > Howie
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>Just curious, Ray… Did you request these quotes on the same day, within a >few >hours of each other? If you had… Don’t you find it strange to see such a >difference in price??? I know that prices can change at any time, but $175 >difference is quite large…
Hi Pam, The quotes were a day apart. Yes, it does seem large even on a big ticket cruise/trip (over 2%). Since I was just gathering information for someone else, who was only looking for information, not to book, I didn’t question Quickcruise about the difference. If I were serious about booking, I would have pursued the lower quote. Ray in NH Wishing light winds and smooth seas to all
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>Due to some complications I wound up submitting two >requests for quotes for the same trip. The complications were resolved >easily, >and promptly, via e-mail with their CustomerService Department. >One curious outcome was that the two quotes from Cruisequick were different >from each other by about $175, and the cabins were next door to one another.
Just curious, Ray… Did you request these quotes on the same day, within a few hours of each other? If you had… Don’t you find it strange to see such a difference in price??? I know that prices can change at any time, but $175 difference is quite large… Pam
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It would seem to me that dealing with an organization, any organization, that has no phone and will not give its location is like dealing with and if you send me x amount of dollars we will deposit x amount of dollars in your bank account etc etc. SUNNY<
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Sunny. ROFL. I agree but there are many people that seem happy with this way of doing business. I want a real living breathing person taking care of me. $200 on a $7500 trip comes to 2.6% to give up personal service and possibly peace of mind. Certainly we all have our own different ideas of comfort level and trust.
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Sunny. ROFL. However there are alot of people that seem quite happy doing business in this manner. Personally, I want a real live breathing person taking care of me, both before and during the trip if needed. $200 savings on a $7500 trip comes to 2.6% to give up personal service and possibly peace of mind. As I said, it works for some. 14 cruises with #15 booked and I still insist on a real person.
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> Sunny. ROFL. However there are alot of people that seem quite happy doing > business in this manner. Personally, I want a real live breathing person > taking care of me, both before and during the trip if needed. $200 savings on > a $7500 trip comes to 2.6% to give up personal service and possibly peace of > mind. As I said, it works for some. 14 cruises with #15 booked and I still > insist on a real person.
Well I’m about to go on cruise #46. I prefer a live person as well. However, the one cruise I booked with CruiseQuick, after checking them out quite carefully, went very smoothly. Howie
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> I agree. Big leap of faith. There have been numerous postings on > other boards about this agency booking people as seniors or residents > of states that qualified for resident speicial pricing in order to > undercut legitimate TAs. When the cruiseline clamped down and > decided that anyone showing up at the pier without proof of > qualification for the special pricing they would have to pay the > current difference in the fare before boarding, the owner or manager > of the website posted a challenge that he would give either $1,000 or > $10,000 (can’t remember which) to anyone that could prove anyone > every had to pay a difference at the pier. He did not in that > posting deny the allegations.
Thanks for posting this information. I hadn’t heard about that but I have been leery of this outfit form the first time I heard of it. I have read some messages on web sites that complain that they sell a travel protection plan that turns out not to be real travel insurance. — Charles
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Hope to live long enough to catch up with your numbers. Sorry for the double posting. Thought one was cancelled before the 2nd one. Why didn’t I discover cruising earlier in life? As I’ve said many are very comfortable with that agency.
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> Hope to live long enough to catch up with your numbers. Sorry for the double > posting. Thought one was cancelled before the 2nd one. Why didn’t I discover > cruising earlier in life? As I’ve said many are very comfortable with that > agency.
Wouldn’t say that I was very comfortable, but it worked well. I always purchase my own travel insurance directly (Travelguard or CSA) these days, so that was not an issue. Cruisequick was very responsive to all of my e-mail; and their price for the particular cruise was well below what others had. However, in my experience, they do not always have the best prices. These days I book just about all of my cruises through a the same TA (who is really wonderful). However, I usually do a lot of searching on my own before I give her a call. Howie
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>Well I’m about to go on cruise #46. I prefer a live person as well. >However, the one cruise I booked with CruiseQuick, after checking them >out quite carefully, went very smoothly.
I’m curious why you didn’t take the quote you got from CruiseQuick and use it as leverage with another TA/agency or as a comparison. Did CQ have a cabin you wanted that you could only get through them?. Or was the savings through them so significant that you booked with them?
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>I always purchase my own travel insurance directly (Travelguard or CSA) these >days, so that was not an issue.
This question is for Howie and those of you who cruise very frequently, and for Cruzinsure. Have any of you considered annual coverage? Is there a really good annual coverage plan for cruisers/travelers yet? If it’s cost-effective, it sure would be convenient for frequent cruisers/travelers.
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I’ve posted a few times here in the last year or two about Trip Assured and their status as an insurance company or not and their record in paying claims. Most questions about this company have arisen because they were the preferred insurance (??) provider for CruiseQuick which apparently does a lot of internet business.. I also noted that CruiseQuick had switched to another supplier of these "travel protection membership contracts" which also happens to be based in tiny Crossville, TN right down the street from Trip Assured. Travel Trade (an industry publication) has an article about these operations and the lawsuits flying at Trip Assured and BETWEEN the two companies.The same question is brought up in the article: Are these businesses really insurance providers subject to the regulation and jurisdiction of the various state departments of insurance? Apparently no one knows for sure. Just be aware that if you buy a contract with one of these companies and things go bad you may not have any recourse with your state agency as you would with licensed companies like CSA, Travel Guard, Access America, and the like. What a mess. You can access the article here: http://www.traveltrade.com/headline_news.jsp?articleID=5036
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Thank you for this update. BTW I had excellent claim service from CSA purchased thru your website for an April cruise that I had to cancel because of illness. Had my check in 8 days from mailing the claim forms. Maybe 9 days.
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Who, where and what is CruiseQick? They have no phone or location listed SUNNY<.
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>Thank you for this update. BTW I had excellent claim service from CSA >purchased thru your website for an April cruise that I had to cancel because >of >illness. Had my check in 8 days from mailing the claim forms. Maybe 9 days.
CSA isn’t the biggest and their policies with the whole Gold/Silver/WebDirect Standard/WebDirectExtended business (that’s at least two plans too many) is WAY too complicated but their service is the best. I had to visit the ship’s doctor on the Monarch a few months ago and ran up a $313 bill. From the time I sent the paperwork in until the time I had the check was about the same as your experience — about a week with no hassles. I think their great customer satisfaction history may be because they began strictly as an administrator of other company’s plans. (The CSA stands for Customized Services Administrators) They didn’t actually start marketing their own plans until later. You can just tell that this is a company that has it’s roots in customer service and not in sales/marketing. Of course, if they were salespeople first they might actually produce a brochure that’s legible. I can’t even fold the things correctly.
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Sunny. They are an email only "agency". No phone contact under any situation.
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Thanks for your, as usual, very useful post. Howie – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > I’ve posted a few times here in the last year or two about Trip Assured and > their status as an insurance company or not and their record in paying claims. > Most questions about this company have arisen because they were the preferred > insurance (??) provider for CruiseQuick which apparently does a lot of internet > business.. > I also noted that CruiseQuick had switched to another supplier of these "travel > protection membership contracts" which also happens to be based in tiny > Crossville, TN right down the street from Trip Assured. > Travel Trade (an industry publication) has an article about these operations > and the lawsuits flying at Trip Assured and BETWEEN the two companies.The same > question is brought up in the article: Are these businesses really insurance > providers subject to the regulation and jurisdiction of the various state > departments of insurance? Apparently no one knows for sure. Just be aware that > if you buy a contract with one of these companies and things go bad you may not > have any recourse with your state agency as you would with licensed companies > like CSA, Travel Guard, Access America, and the like. What a mess. You can > access the article here: > http://www.traveltrade.com/headline_news.jsp?articleID=5036
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Has anyon here used CruiseQuick? I would think it would be taking a big leap of faith to book with an agency that has no phone and does not show its location. SUNNY<…….
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> Has anyon here used CruiseQuick? > I would think it would be taking a big > leap of faith to book with an agency that has no phone and does not show > its location. > SUNNY<…….
I have Sunny; and all went well. Howie
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Sunny. I agree. Big leap of faith. There have been numerous postings on other boards about this agency booking people as seniors or residents of states that qualified for resident speicial pricing in order to undercut legitimate TAs. When the cruiseline clamped down and decided that anyone showing up at the pier without proof of qualification for the special pricing they would have to pay the current difference in the fare before boarding, the owner or manager of the website posted a challenge that he would give either $1,000 or $10,000 (can’t remember which) to anyone that could prove anyone every had to pay a difference at the pier. He did not in that posting deny the allegations. Sometime later he also posted that he was no longer booking Holland American cruises for an unexplained reason. The only thing I could surmise from that statement that HAL had suspended their agency agreement temporarily. I have not heard of an agency doing the suspending before so I assume the former. In reading the boards I have seen posts that they are now booking HAL again. I also want to say that according to many postings, alot of people are quite happy with this email-only arrangement and aren’t bothered by the inability to "talk" to an agent or having any kind of personal service if and when something goes wrong on the trip. The only contact I’ve personally had with that agency is to get a price quote to compare the price listed on HAL’s website. They were $5.00 higher than the cruiseline’s price.
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>Who, where and what is CruiseQick? They have no phone or location listed >SUNNY<.
LOL LOL LOL LOL
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HD Thanks for the information. It appears that the clients of CruiseQuick, IMO, are very trusting. SUNNY<
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Actually, there are many fine insurance companies out there. The real problem is reading the policies and knowing which one is best for you. I assist clients with insurance claims every week. It seems that many folks are edgy about filling out their claim forms etc. and don’t know the difference between primary and secondary coverage, or even how to start their claim for situations before they get home. The quality of the claim that you present to the insurance company has a lot to do the speed of payment of that claim. If you leave out all the important facts, then it will certainly take longer than a complete claim. Don’t just buy insurance, try to understand what you are buying and why. Peter – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Thank you for this update. BTW I had excellent claim service from CSA >purchased thru your website for an April cruise that I had to cancel because >of >illness. Had my check in 8 days from mailing the claim forms. Maybe 9 days. > CSA isn’t the biggest and their policies with the whole Gold/Silver/WebDirect > Standard/WebDirectExtended business (that’s at least two plans too many) is WAY > too complicated but their service is the best. I had to visit the ship’s doctor > on the Monarch a few months ago and ran up a $313 bill. From the time I sent > the paperwork in until the time I had the check was about the same as your > experience — about a week with no hassles. > I think their great customer satisfaction history may be because they began > strictly as an administrator of other company’s plans. (The CSA stands for > Customized Services Administrators) They didn’t actually start marketing their > own plans until later. You can just tell that this is a company that has it’s > roots in customer service and not in sales/marketing. Of course, if they were > salespeople first they might actually produce a brochure that’s legible. I > can’t even fold the things correctly.
– Peter Berlin Peter Berlin’s Travel Center / GGC2005 Host Agency http://GGC2005.com - http://peterberlin.com "We’ve Got The Spirit"
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>> Has anyon here used CruiseQuick? > I would think it would be taking a big > leap of faith to book with an agency that has no phone and does not show > its location. > SUNNY<…….
>I have Sunny; and all went well. >Howie
Sunny, My only interaction with this site was as a result of someone asking my opinion of it. Having no previous knowledge of them, I looked at the site and requested a quote for a trip I had been researching for myself, to compare them to what I already had. Due to some complications I wound up submitting two requests for quotes for the same trip. The complications were resolved easily, and promptly, via e-mail with their CustomerService Department. One curious outcome was that the two quotes from Cruisequick were different from each other by about $175, and the cabins were next door to one another. The total price, of the lower quote, was about $200 less than what I figured I would pay through my normal travel agent. This was for a trip total cost of about $7,500.00. This could be a good way to go and save a few bucks, IF you are very sure that you know exactly what you want and are comfortable about handling any missteps on your own, not unlike dealing directly with the travel provider (Cruiseline/airline/etc.). It is not ideal for everyone. Is any system? Ray in NH Wishing light winds and smooth seas to all
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I’ve posted a few times here in the last year or two about Trip Assured and their status as an insurance company or not and their record in paying claims. Most questions about this company have arisen because they were the preferred insurance (??) provider for CruiseQuick which apparently does a lot of internet business.. I also noted that CruiseQuick had switched to another supplier of these "travel protection membership contracts" which also happens to be based in tiny Crossville, TN right down the street from Trip Assured. Travel Trade (an industry publication) has an article about these operations and the lawsuits flying at Trip Assured and BETWEEN the two companies.The same question is brought up in the article: Are these businesses really insurance providers subject to the regulation and jurisdiction of the various state departments of insurance? Apparently no one knows for sure. Just be aware that if you buy a contract with one of these companies and things go bad you may not have any recourse with your state agency as you would with licensed companies like CSA, Travel Guard, Access America, and the like. What a mess. You can access the article here: http://www.traveltrade.com/headline_news.jsp?articleID=5036
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Thank you for this update. BTW I had excellent claim service from CSA purchased thru your website for an April cruise that I had to cancel because of illness. Had my check in 8 days from mailing the claim forms. Maybe 9 days.
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Who, where and what is CruiseQick? They have no phone or location listed SUNNY<.
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>Thank you for this update. BTW I had excellent claim service from CSA >purchased thru your website for an April cruise that I had to cancel because >of >illness. Had my check in 8 days from mailing the claim forms. Maybe 9 days.
CSA isn’t the biggest and their policies with the whole Gold/Silver/WebDirect Standard/WebDirectExtended business (that’s at least two plans too many) is WAY too complicated but their service is the best. I had to visit the ship’s doctor on the Monarch a few months ago and ran up a $313 bill. From the time I sent the paperwork in until the time I had the check was about the same as your experience — about a week with no hassles. I think their great customer satisfaction history may be because they began strictly as an administrator of other company’s plans. (The CSA stands for Customized Services Administrators) They didn’t actually start marketing their own plans until later. You can just tell that this is a company that has it’s roots in customer service and not in sales/marketing. Of course, if they were salespeople first they might actually produce a brochure that’s legible. I can’t even fold the things correctly.
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Sunny. They are an email only "agency". No phone contact under any situation.
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Thanks for your, as usual, very useful post. Howie – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > I’ve posted a few times here in the last year or two about Trip Assured and > their status as an insurance company or not and their record in paying claims. > Most questions about this company have arisen because they were the preferred > insurance (??) provider for CruiseQuick which apparently does a lot of internet > business.. > I also noted that CruiseQuick had switched to another supplier of these "travel > protection membership contracts" which also happens to be based in tiny > Crossville, TN right down the street from Trip Assured. > Travel Trade (an industry publication) has an article about these operations > and the lawsuits flying at Trip Assured and BETWEEN the two companies.The same > question is brought up in the article: Are these businesses really insurance > providers subject to the regulation and jurisdiction of the various state > departments of insurance? Apparently no one knows for sure. Just be aware that > if you buy a contract with one of these companies and things go bad you may not > have any recourse with your state agency as you would with licensed companies > like CSA, Travel Guard, Access America, and the like. What a mess. You can > access the article here: > http://www.traveltrade.com/headline_news.jsp?articleID=5036
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Has anyon here used CruiseQuick? I would think it would be taking a big leap of faith to book with an agency that has no phone and does not show its location. SUNNY<…….
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> Has anyon here used CruiseQuick? > I would think it would be taking a big > leap of faith to book with an agency that has no phone and does not show > its location. > SUNNY<…….
I have Sunny; and all went well. Howie
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Sunny. I agree. Big leap of faith. There have been numerous postings on other boards about this agency booking people as seniors or residents of states that qualified for resident speicial pricing in order to undercut legitimate TAs. When the cruiseline clamped down and decided that anyone showing up at the pier without proof of qualification for the special pricing they would have to pay the current difference in the fare before boarding, the owner or manager of the website posted a challenge that he would give either $1,000 or $10,000 (can’t remember which) to anyone that could prove anyone every had to pay a difference at the pier. He did not in that posting deny the allegations. Sometime later he also posted that he was no longer booking Holland American cruises for an unexplained reason. The only thing I could surmise from that statement that HAL had suspended their agency agreement temporarily. I have not heard of an agency doing the suspending before so I assume the former. In reading the boards I have seen posts that they are now booking HAL again. I also want to say that according to many postings, alot of people are quite happy with this email-only arrangement and aren’t bothered by the inability to "talk" to an agent or having any kind of personal service if and when something goes wrong on the trip. The only contact I’ve personally had with that agency is to get a price quote to compare the price listed on HAL’s website. They were $5.00 higher than the cruiseline’s price.
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>Who, where and what is CruiseQick? They have no phone or location listed >SUNNY<.
LOL LOL LOL LOL
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HD Thanks for the information. It appears that the clients of CruiseQuick, IMO, are very trusting. SUNNY<
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Actually, there are many fine insurance companies out there. The real problem is reading the policies and knowing which one is best for you. I assist clients with insurance claims every week. It seems that many folks are edgy about filling out their claim forms etc. and don’t know the difference between primary and secondary coverage, or even how to start their claim for situations before they get home. The quality of the claim that you present to the insurance company has a lot to do the speed of payment of that claim. If you leave out all the important facts, then it will certainly take longer than a complete claim. Don’t just buy insurance, try to understand what you are buying and why. Peter – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Thank you for this update. BTW I had excellent claim service from CSA >purchased thru your website for an April cruise that I had to cancel because >of >illness. Had my check in 8 days from mailing the claim forms. Maybe 9 days. > CSA isn’t the biggest and their policies with the whole Gold/Silver/WebDirect > Standard/WebDirectExtended business (that’s at least two plans too many) is WAY > too complicated but their service is the best. I had to visit the ship’s doctor > on the Monarch a few months ago and ran up a $313 bill. From the time I sent > the paperwork in until the time I had the check was about the same as your > experience — about a week with no hassles. > I think their great customer satisfaction history may be because they began > strictly as an administrator of other company’s plans. (The CSA stands for > Customized Services Administrators) They didn’t actually start marketing their > own plans until later. You can just tell that this is a company that has it’s > roots in customer service and not in sales/marketing. Of course, if they were > salespeople first they might actually produce a brochure that’s legible. I > can’t even fold the things correctly.
– Peter Berlin Peter Berlin’s Travel Center / GGC2005 Host Agency http://GGC2005.com - http://peterberlin.com "We’ve Got The Spirit"
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>> Has anyon here used CruiseQuick? > I would think it would be taking a big > leap of faith to book with an agency that has no phone and does not show > its location. > SUNNY<…….
>I have Sunny; and all went well. >Howie
Sunny, My only interaction with this site was as a result of someone asking my opinion of it. Having no previous knowledge of them, I looked at the site and requested a quote for a trip I had been researching for myself, to compare them to what I already had. Due to some complications I wound up submitting two requests for quotes for the same trip. The complications were resolved easily, and promptly, via e-mail with their CustomerService Department. One curious outcome was that the two quotes from Cruisequick were different from each other by about $175, and the cabins were next door to one another. The total price, of the lower quote, was about $200 less than what I figured I would pay through my normal travel agent. This was for a trip total cost of about $7,500.00. This could be a good way to go and save a few bucks, IF you are very sure that you know exactly what you want and are comfortable about handling any missteps on your own, not unlike dealing directly with the travel provider (Cruiseline/airline/etc.). It is not ideal for everyone. Is any system? Ray in NH Wishing light winds and smooth seas to all
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>Due to some complications I wound up submitting two >requests for quotes for the same trip. The complications were resolved >easily, >and promptly, via e-mail with their CustomerService Department. >One curious outcome was that the two quotes from Cruisequick were different >from each other by about $175, and the cabins were next door to one another.
Just curious, Ray… Did you request these quotes on the same day, within a few hours of each other? If you had… Don’t you find it strange to see such a difference in price??? I know that prices can change at any time, but $175 difference is quite large… Pam
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It would seem to me that dealing with an organization, any organization, that has no phone and will not give its location is like dealing with and if you send me x amount of dollars we will deposit x amount of dollars in your bank account etc etc. SUNNY<
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Sunny. ROFL. I agree but there are many people that seem happy with this way of doing business. I want a real living breathing person taking care of me. $200 on a $7500 trip comes to 2.6% to give up personal service and possibly peace of mind. Certainly we all have our own different ideas of comfort level and trust.
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Sunny. ROFL. However there are alot of people that seem quite happy doing business in this manner. Personally, I want a real live breathing person taking care of me, both before and during the trip if needed. $200 savings on a $7500 trip comes to 2.6% to give up personal service and possibly peace of mind. As I said, it works for some. 14 cruises with #15 booked and I still insist on a real person.
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> Sunny. ROFL. However there are alot of people that seem quite happy doing > business in this manner. Personally, I want a real live breathing person > taking care of me, both before and during the trip if needed. $200 savings on > a $7500 trip comes to 2.6% to give up personal service and possibly peace of > mind. As I said, it works for some. 14 cruises with #15 booked and I still > insist on a real person.
Well I’m about to go on cruise #46. I prefer a live person as well. However, the one cruise I booked with CruiseQuick, after checking them out quite carefully, went very smoothly. Howie
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> I agree. Big leap of faith. There have been numerous postings on > other boards about this agency booking people as seniors or residents > of states that qualified for resident speicial pricing in order to > undercut legitimate TAs. When the cruiseline clamped down and > decided that anyone showing up at the pier without proof of > qualification for the special pricing they would have to pay the > current difference in the fare before boarding, the owner or manager > of the website posted a challenge that he would give either $1,000 or > $10,000 (can’t remember which) to anyone that could prove anyone > every had to pay a difference at the pier. He did not in that > posting deny the allegations.
Thanks for posting this information. I hadn’t heard about that but I have been leery of this outfit form the first time I heard of it. I have read some messages on web sites that complain that they sell a travel protection plan that turns out not to be real travel insurance. — Charles
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Hope to live long enough to catch up with your numbers. Sorry for the double posting. Thought one was cancelled before the 2nd one. Why didn’t I discover cruising earlier in life? As I’ve said many are very comfortable with that agency.
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> Hope to live long enough to catch up with your numbers. Sorry for the double > posting. Thought one was cancelled before the 2nd one. Why didn’t I discover > cruising earlier in life? As I’ve said many are very comfortable with that > agency.
Wouldn’t say that I was very comfortable, but it worked well. I always purchase my own travel insurance directly (Travelguard or CSA) these days, so that was not an issue. Cruisequick was very responsive to all of my e-mail; and their price for the particular cruise was well below what others had. However, in my experience, they do not always have the best prices. These days I book just about all of my cruises through a the same TA (who is really wonderful). However, I usually do a lot of searching on my own before I give her a call. Howie
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>Well I’m about to go on cruise #46. I prefer a live person as well. >However, the one cruise I booked with CruiseQuick, after checking them >out quite carefully, went very smoothly.
I’m curious why you didn’t take the quote you got from CruiseQuick and use it as leverage with another TA/agency or as a comparison. Did CQ have a cabin you wanted that you could only get through them?. Or was the savings through them so significant that you booked with them?
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>I always purchase my own travel insurance directly (Travelguard or CSA) these >days, so that was not an issue.
This question is for Howie and those of you who cruise very frequently, and for Cruzinsure. Have any of you considered annual coverage? Is there a really good annual coverage plan for cruisers/travelers yet? If it’s cost-effective, it sure would be convenient for frequent cruisers/travelers.
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>Just curious, Ray… Did you request these quotes on the same day, within a >few >hours of each other? If you had… Don’t you find it strange to see such a >difference in price??? I know that prices can change at any time, but $175 >difference is quite large…
Hi Pam, The quotes were a day apart. Yes, it does seem large even on a big ticket cruise/trip (over 2%). Since I was just gathering information for someone else, who was only looking for information, not to book, I didn’t question Quickcruise about the difference. If I were serious about booking, I would have pursued the lower quote. Ray in NH Wishing light winds and smooth seas to all
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I have never dealt with CruiseQuick, but when someone chose to post a message here through an anonymous remailer, pretending to be me, recommending them, they immediately became a service I would never trust. If the coward who is the anonymous remailer loves these folks so much why don’t they just recommend them themselves? Did they just want any problems that anyone had based on "my" recommendation to come back to me? — DG in Cherry Hill, NJ
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Sunny. ROFL. However there are alot of people that seem quite happy doing > business in this manner. Personally, I want a real live breathing person > taking care of me, both before and during the trip if needed. $200 savings on > a $7500 trip comes to 2.6% to give up personal service and possibly peace of > mind. As I said, it works for some. 14 cruises with #15 booked and I still > insist on a real person. > Well I’m about to go on cruise #46. I prefer a live person as well. > However, the one cruise I booked with CruiseQuick, after checking them > out quite carefully, went very smoothly. > Howie