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Skipped port: what you're actually owed (honest answer)

The honest answer: skipping a port is legal and uncompensated. VERIFIED NEGATIVE (contracts fetched 2026-07-07): Carnival Ticket Contract §8(d) permits omitting ports "for any reason whatsoever" with "no liability for any compensation"; Royal Caribbean CTC §7.b is a broad deviation right with liability waiver — NEITHER contract guarantees a port-fee refund for a skipped port. (NCL contract unfetchable — unverified, no guarantee found in any source.) What IS routinely returned — as discretionary practice — is the government port fees and taxes you paid for the skipped call, usually as onboard credit.

The ask that works

In PRACTICE, major lines commonly return the government port fees/taxes for a skipped port as onboard credit — a discretionary customer-service norm, not a right. A polite, specific request (sail date, itinerary, skipped port, fee amount from the booking invoice) usually succeeds; a legal demand has no citation to stand on.

The script: find the port fees/taxes line on your booking invoice, then at Guest Services (on board, before disembarkation is strongest): "Port fees and taxes for [PORT] were collected but the call was cancelled — please credit the per-passenger amount." Escalate once, politely, in writing after the cruise if refused.

Why we won't sell you a demand letter for this

The engine will not sell a demand letter for skipped-port fees — there is no legal basis to cite. The free check tells you exactly what to ask for and how.

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Generated 2026-07-07 by TransitPulse (The Aslan Group LLC) from the same source-cited legal reference data our paid engine uses. Informational, not legal advice — rules change; verify with the cited instruments. Contact: info@theaslangroupllc.com