{"id":14923,"date":"2012-10-30T01:33:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T08:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=14923"},"modified":"2012-10-30T01:33:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T08:33:29","slug":"tuesday-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=14923","title":{"rendered":"This Time, Cruising Hit by Hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get ready for the hurricane.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not Sandy, the "hurricane" of stories that we're going to hear from cruisers who have been stranded while trying to reach their ship, tossed around on ships, left at sea, compensated by airlines\/cruise lines, not compensated by airlines\/cruise lines, missed ports, missed ships, had their cruise shortened, had their cruise lengthened…<\/span><\/p>\n

This may go down as the week that the cruise ship industry was most affected by hurricanes. One hurricane.<\/span><\/p>\n

With at least 20% of the entire U.S. population affected by Hurricane Sandy, here's a rough re-cap of how some cruise ships were impacted (as reported by Cruise.Co<\/a>, Cruise <\/a><\/span>\"\"<\/a>Critic<\/a> and a myriad of news sources on the Internet):<\/span><\/p>\n

• Five ships yesterday were caught in or near 30-foot seas churned by Sandy — Norwegian Jewel<\/a>, Carnival Miracle<\/a>, Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas<\/a>, Aida Luna and the Queen Mary 2<\/a> (trying vainly to escape Sandy's path as it headed east for England).<\/span><\/p>\n

• Holland America's Eurodam<\/a> had to change its departure from Fort Lauderdale to Jacksonville, bussing all its passengers over 320 miles in windy conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

• Disney's Fantasy<\/a> finally made it to Port Canaveral with a shipload of scared and sick passengers tossed around while the Fantasy sustained damage to restaurants, bars, shops and stateroom furniture.<\/span><\/p>\n

• One ship, Carnival Pride<\/a>, was forbidden to depart from Baltimore by the U.S. Coast Guard and the cruise was canceled.<\/span><\/p>\n

• Passengers on another Carnival ship, the Glory<\/a>, were issued refunds because the Norfolk (Virginia) cruise terminal is behind a flood gate that closed on the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

• Eight other Carnival ships on the East Coast were forced to delay departures or arrivals and skip or change ports for other stops, or add an extra sea day.<\/span><\/p>\n

• Three other Norwegian ships were affected…the Gem<\/a> is sitting out in calmer Atlantic waters until the hurricane passes, which could turn a 9-day cruise into 12, while the Dawn<\/a> and the Sky<\/a> also shuffled departures and ports.<\/span><\/p>\n

• The Emerald Princess<\/a> escaped rough seas by stopping in Port Saguenay (Quebec) instead of Bar Harbor (Maine), and three other Princess ships changed itineraries.<\/span><\/p>\n

• Four Royal Caribbean ships — Enchantment<\/a>, Jewel<\/a>, Majesty<\/a> and Monarch of the Seas<\/a> — also changed schedules or added sea days to escape Sandy's wrath.<\/span><\/p>\n

Blessed with modern technology, cruise ships are almost always able to escape hurricanes. This one, because of its mushrooming size and force, may turn out to be the exception. And with compensation packages reaching far into the future, not to mention far into the bank accounts of cruise lines, the effects could be felt for a long, long time.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the days ahead, expect to hear many first-person and harrowing accounts of life on a cruise ship during a hurricane.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tCelebrity Silhouette<\/a>
\n\t15 nights
\n\tApril 14, 2013
\n\tFort Lauderdale<\/a>, Coco Cay, San Juan<\/a>, St. Maarten<\/a>, Madeira<\/a>, Rome<\/a>
\n\tInside: $789
\n\tCost per day: $52<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get ready for the hurricane. Not Sandy, the "hurricane" of stories that we're going to hear from cruisers who have been stranded while trying to reach their ship, tossed around on ships, left at sea, compensated by airlines\/cruise lines, not compensated by airlines\/cruise lines, missed ports, missed ships, had their cruise shortened, had their cruise… Continue reading This Time, Cruising Hit by Hurricane<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[154,660,700,1088,138,459,912,72,86,35,150,28,172,52,828,576,856,23,186,507,774,1066,126,225,424,307,375,64,242,33,148,187],"class_list":["post-14923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-glory","tag-carnival-miracle","tag-carnival-pride","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-silhouette","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-cunard","tag-disney","tag-disney-fantasy","tag-emerald-princess","tag-enchantment-of-the-seas","tag-eurodam","tag-explorer-of-the-seas","tag-holland-america","tag-hurricanes","tag-jewel-of-the-seas","tag-majesty-of-the-seas","tag-monarch-of-the-seas","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-dawn","tag-norwegian-gem","tag-norwegian-jewel","tag-norwegian-sky","tag-princess-cruise","tag-queen-mary-2","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-transatlantic-cruises","tag-weather","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}