IllumiNations Cruise Price Increase

ALL!

IllumiNations Cruises went up to $300.00 plus tax last week (Sept
2008)!
Prices are always subject to change, so please make note that
regardless of what the prices was when you booked your cruise.

I am not sure if the price changed with Wishes Cruises (but I would
assume so).

On Sep 29, 9:13 am, Crazy Hakim <mscibett...@> wrote:
> ALL!
>
> IllumiNations Cruises went up to $300.00 plus tax last week (Sept
> 2008)!

And we did this in 2005 for $120!!!

On Sep 29, 10:06 am, Rudeney <rude...@mickeypics.com> wrote:
> Steve Russo wrote:
> > On Sep 29, 9:13 am, Crazy Hakim <mscibett...@> wrote:
> >> ALL!
>
> >> IllumiNations Cruises went up to $300.00 plus tax last week (Sept
> >> 2008)!
>
> > And we did this in 2005 for $120!!!
>
> The last time we did an illuminations cruise was 2003. I was thinking it
> was $150 then.  I'm sure I have the receipt stuffed away in a Passporter
> at home.  We did a fully-decorated birthday cruise complete with a huge
> decorated cake and snacks back in 1999.  I think that was also also
> around $150, maybe less.  Again, I feel certain I have that receipt
> somewhere, too.
>
> --
>
> - RODNEY
>
> Next WDW Vacation?
> Who knows...

In 2001, at booking I was quoted a price of $120 plus tax and tip.
After the cruise, I was presented a bill for $120 - presumably with
tax included. In 2005, when I booked I was quoted a price of $120.73
(not exactly a rounded number) including tax. *Before* the cruise, I
was presented a bill for $125.

I kind of felt they were making it up as they go.

On Sep 29, 2:05 pm, Rudeney <rude...@mickeypics.com> wrote:
> OK, just for *you* I went home at lunch to look at my receipts, and I

Gosh, I feel so... special!

> was wr...wr...wr....well, anyhow...

C'mon. You can say it.

>I couldn't find the 1999 birthday
> cruise receipt, but I found the 2002 and 2003 receipts.
>
> The price for both of those was $120 (it was listed as $112.68 + 6.5%
> tax = $120).  In 2002, we had a 10% discount (probably AP or DC) so it
> was $108 total (it was all hand-written on a manual credit card charge
> slip).  In 2003, there was no discount and it was on a regular cash
> register receipt).  

Both of ours (the first was a MK cruise by the way - the 2005 was
Illuminations) were handwritten receipts. I paid cash for the first
and credit card for the second. The oddest thing though, at least to
me, was when I was told at booking that cost was $120.73. That implies
a precide number, probably including tax. When I was given the bill
for $125, I thought about asking but just didn't consider it important
enough. I probably should have.

>
> I also found some other receipts, like gas on the drive down in 2003 for
> $1.669/gallon (that would have been premium) and a meal at
>

Ahhh, the good old days. I hate to admit this but... I can recall
filling up my first car (a 1958 Rambler American that cost me all of
$30) at the price of $0.279 per gallon. $3 worth of gas would last me
a week. A fill-up now is double what I paid for that car. Shoot... a
pair of sneakers is double what i paid for that car.

On Sep 29, 4:28 pm, Rudeney <rude...@mickeypics.com> wrote:
> Sandi Femino wrote:
> > In article <gbr61c$ef...@registered.motzarella.org>,
> >  Rudeney <rude...@mickeypics.com> wrote:
>
> >> OK, just for *you* I went home at lunch to look at my receipts, and I

> -

any particular reason you keep all that ???