When Mel McBeth and his wife booked a cruise on Cunard's Queen Mary 2 last year, they weren't expecting any additional charges.

Queen Mary’s little gas problem

When Mel McBeth and his wife booked a cruise on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 last year, they weren’t expecting any additional charges. But that’s exactly what they got when the cruise line helped itself to another $180, which it claimed was a fuel surcharge, on the day they paid for their vacation.