Doing so might have led to higher flight prices anyway, so the return on lower cruise rates could have been a partial wash and just not worth the stress of waiting to finalize details. In addition, one of them is a guest and we all needed to finalize logistics for getting to LA from different points of origin, so I couldn't really fool around for months waiting for prices to fluctuate. If that seems expensive, remember we are traveling with two public school-age teens and have to travel during high season. This is $141 per person final cost, per night for a porthole, upper/lower room, for four nights, Monday-Friday. Total cost for two rooms, category 1A, four people, four nights, including fare, port fees, taxes, prepaid gratuities, and Carnival insurance: $2262. Original rooms and prices booked in January, 2022.Ĭabin 2217, total cost for two, $1131. Here's how the actual pricing worked out for us. There are a lot of details involved in the fare we ended up paying.