Can you take a cruise ship to a local, then get off and stay a few days there, then reboard a different ship to return home? Would you have to pay for both entire trips?
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Michael K.
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in most cases yes. on the first sailing, the cruise line would likely not be able to resell the leftover portion of what you didn't use and on the 2nd sailing, the cruiseline wouldn't be able to hold a cabin just for you to board in another port, if you didn't pay for the cabin from the original port of embarkation. So yes.. you would have to pay for both sailings in full.
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There is a law called the Jones Act. Any ship that is not registered in the US must make a stop in a foreign port. That would keep you from sailing from one port to another unless there was a foreign port in between. For example you can't cruise from LA to Hawaii and then stay there. The return trip stops in Mexico making it OK but it must be on the same cruise. The only ships I know of that are registered in the US are the NCL cruises around Hawaii. The other problem is that no ship will sell a cabin for a partial cruise if they can sell it to someone else for the entire cruise. The only exceptions are legs of round the world cruises.
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