No more fuel surcharge on Genting Dream & StarCruises sailing from S'pore from Jun. 26

Passengers setting sail on Genting Dream, Star Navigator, or Star Voyager cruises from Singapore will no longer need to pay a fuel surcharge for trips from Jun. 26 onwards.

The full waiver of the fee was announced on Jun. 23 by StarDream Cruises, which operates the StarCruises and Dream Cruises lines.

Previously in March, the company introduced a fuel surcharge of S$15 per person per night for bookings made from Mar. 20, citing rising fuel costs due to the Middle East conflict.

It applied to Genting Dream sailings from Singapore and nearby homeports, and Star Voyager sailings departing from Singapore and Port Klang, Malaysia.

In the Jun. 23 press release, the president of StarDream Cruises, Michael Goh, shared that the operator reviews fuel surcharges regularly.

"As fuel prices have continued to stabilise, we are pleased to reduce and, where possible, fully waive the fuel surcharge across our deployments," he said.

This reduction was decided after taking into account the gradual improvement in fuel market conditions.

StarDream Cruises will continue to monitor global fuel price movements and review their surcharge arrangements as appropriate.

Besides Singapore, those on cruises departing from Malaysia from Jun. 26 onwards will also have the fuel surcharge fully waived.

However, those sailing from Taiwan and Hong Kong will still need to pay half of the fee.

In March, Star Navigator sailings from Keelung, Taiwan, and Star Voyager sailings from Hong Kong were also hit with a fuel surcharge of NT600 (S$24.60) and HK$200 (S$33).