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...looking to cancel or delay a trip you've already booked, what are your options? Right now, if you're holding tickets for any destination other than Mexico, you'll pay the usual penalties for changing or canceling your flight. For those who would be Mexico-bound, however, most airlines are waiving change fees - but not always refunding money. Continental, which has cut capacity to Mexico by 50%, is allowing passengers to postpone trips to Mexico without penalty for all flights departing the U.S. through May 15. Delta will let you trade in your tickets to Mexico for another destination...
Cruise lines have rerouted their May cruises, substituting stops at Catalina Island, Santa Barbara and San Francisco, or days at sea, for the usual ports in Mexico. If California is not your idea of an exotic cruise destination, Carnival will waive its cancellation policy and allow customers to reschedule for a later cruise. Princess is offering to credit you back 50% of the fare you paid for a Mexico cruise, which you may use toward any other cruise through April 2011. If you want to cancel altogether, the standard policies apply - unless you bought the Princess Vacation Protection insurance, which...
...hotel groups say there have been no cases of swine flu in their properties, and they're being extra diligent about continuous cleaning and disinfecting. If that doesn't reassure you, some hotels in the U.S., such as the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego, will allow anxious guests to cancel. "A vacation shouldn't be spoiled with fears of illness," says general manager Matt Greene, who has amended the hotel's usual policy to allow cancellations with no penalties during the heightened swine flu threat...
...keep in mind that most U.S. hotels, hit hard by 16 months of recession, will not oblige you enthusiastically if you try to cancel. "Right now, they don't have the leverage, or give, they've had in the past," says Lalia Rach, the dean of New York University's Tisch Center for Hospitality and an expert on the global hospitality industry. "I'm sympathetic to travelers, but it is a business. In New York, people are still going to work...
Most insurance plans will not cover cancellations simply because you're afraid to travel - even if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a travel advisory, as it has for Mexico. To be able to cancel for any reason, you'll have to invest in a "cancel for any reason" insurance policy, offered by companies like Travel Guard. But that kind of peace of mind doesn't come cheap - up to an extra 35% to 50% of the policy's price, estimates Linda Kundell of the USTIA - and depends on your age, your itinerary...