Originally Posted by
Onebyone
That's not what I mean. I think the quilters should get the same price as non quilting passengers and the cruise ship pay the teachers expenses, not up the price for the quilting cruise. The fact that 30 - 60 quilters sign up for the cruise should be more then enough to warrant the teacher fee not be included in each ticket. The last cruise my friend was on there was space left in the class and it was open to other passengers. The ones that did not pay as much for their ticket got the same three days of class as she did and she paid much more.
My suspicion about this is that the organizer reserves a certain number of rooms at a certain price and ups the price because he wants to give the quilter teachers their rooms for free plus probably pay them (I'd imagine). I doubt the problem is the cruise line itself....it's the organizers of the groups. At least that is what I think. They are the ones making the extra profit there.