Originally Posted by
JohnIreland
A fine would apply under that situation (unless there is a distant foreign port stop between LA and San Francisco).
Often1 wasn't disputing that fact. He was just simply, and correctly, saying that the cruiseline can't sell you that itinerary, but they won't physically restrain you from disembarking a cruise in another US port, you will just have to reimburse the cruise line for the fine they get from the US government. Why someone would actually book a cruise like that with this intention in the first place, I don't know.