We recently booked a 6 day cruise package to Freeport, Bahamas through Celebration Cruise Line on the Bahamas Celebration cruise ship. What a nightmare! It was my father's birthday and I hadn't seen him in a while so I thought it would a good ideal to spend some time together and what better place than the Bahamas. We found out after we had paid the full price that it was one of Timeshare vacations. The representative never told us once, it was one of those "by the way" statements.

Fine!

We asked if we could pay extra so we not have to go to the Timeshare part of the package, we had absolutely no interest in buying a Timeshare, and of course the answer was yes. So we did, so far so good. We asked if we had to pay for anything else. This is where the nickle and dime-ing started. The representative informed us that we had to pay an extra hotel fee of $15 per person in the first hotel(the one in Fort Lauderdale), $24 total in the second hotel(the one in Freeport, Bahamas) and again $15 per person back in Fort Lauderdale. We spent two nights in Florida, two nights on the ship and two nights in Freeport. Read more