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My wife and I have been saving for the last couple of years to take a Caribbean cruise. I've never had any desire to cruise on one of those huge floating hotels so I found a romantic cruise on a 196’ sailing yacht out of Grenada with Windjammer Barefoot Cruises Ltd, a Miami, Florida-based company. We paid for our cruise in full in June for a cruise leaving right after Thanksgiving. We searched and found some low cost air fare tickets from Tampa, FL to St George’s, Grenada. The bad thing is the tickets were non-refundable. We bought trip insurance just in case. We also bought trip insurance for the cruise. Two weeks ago we received an email from Windjammer Barefoot Cruises stating that our cruise had been canceled in Grenada but that they could rearrange our cruise to leave from Costa Rica. We didn't want to buy more tickets to fly to Costa Rica so we asked for a refund. Come to find out Windjammer Barefoot Cruises has been in financial difficulties for the last several years and none of their ships has even sailed in the last couple of months, leaving passengers and crews high and dry in the ports where their ships were. Groups were taking up donations to fly the crews left with no pay home. When we asked for a refund they told us in so many words if we didn't rearrange to cruise out of Costa Rica it would be next April at the earliest before we will see a refund. Well, they are still taking people’s money telling everyone that their next cruise is set for November 17 from Costa Rica. I don't think we will ever see a refund from Windjammer Barefoot Cruises. As for the cruise trip insurance that we purchased through Windjammer Barefoot Cruises, it does not cover us if the cruise line goes out of business. Windjammer Barefoot Cruises Ltd is still taking bookings and processing credit cards through PayPal, not letting buyers know that their ships have all been arrested and cannot leave the ports they are in until they pay their debts. Add your comments about this traveler tip | View Comments (0) Rank the Helpfulness of this Tip Not Helpful 1   2   3   4   5  Very Helpful General Tip Windjammer Barefoot Cruises: In The Caribbean on a cruise "RIPPED OFF!!" Submitted By: Tip Submitted On: November 12, 2007 Tip Helpfulness: (Tip Not Ranked) [ edit this tip ] Submit Your Own General Tip Caribbean Cruise General Tips All Caribbean Cruise Tips Windjammer Barefoot Cruises General Rating: Date of Visit: November 2007 General Tip: "RIPPED OFF!!" My wife and I have been saving for the last couple of years to take a Caribbean cruise. I've never had any desire to cruise on one of those huge floating hotels so I found a romantic cruise on a 196’ sailing yacht out of Grenada with Windjammer Barefoot Cruises Ltd, a Miami, Florida-based company. We paid for our cruise in full in June for a cruise leaving right after Thanksgiving. We searched and found some low cost air fare tickets from Tampa, FL to St George’s, Grenada. The bad thing is the tickets were non-refundable. We bought trip insurance just in case. We also bought trip insurance for the cruise. Two weeks ago we received an email from Windjammer Barefoot Cruises stating that our cruise had been canceled in Grenada but that they could rearrange our cruise to leave from Costa Rica. We didn't want to buy more tickets to fly to Costa Rica so we asked for a refund. Come to find out Windjammer Barefoot Cruises has been in financial difficulties for the last several years and none of their ships has even sailed in the last couple of months, leaving passengers and crews high and dry in the ports where their ships were. Groups were taking up donations to fly the crews left with no pay home. When we asked for a refund they told us in so many words if we didn't rearrange to cruise out of Costa Rica it would be next April at the earliest before we will see a refund. Well, they are still taking people’s money telling everyone that their next cruise is set for November 17 from Costa Rica. I don't think we will ever see a refund from Windjammer Barefoot Cruises. As for the cruise trip insurance that we purchased through Windjammer Barefoot Cruises, it does not cover us if the cruise line goes out of business. Windjammer Barefoot Cruises Ltd is still taking bookings and processing credit cards through PayPal, not letting buyers know that their ships have all been arrested and cannot leave the ports they are in until they pay their debts. Add your comments about this traveler tip | View Comments (0) Rank the Helpfulness of this Tip Not Helpful 1   2   3   4   5  Very Helpful Sandals Resorts All Inclusive Vacations in Jamaica, St. Lucia, Antigua & The Bahamas. « previous                » next 2 Tips Found (Page 1 of 1)

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