Jack McGowan

If you filter by ship it is showing for Europe: Allure, Explorer, Independence & Odyssey. No cruises showing for any though.

Possibly going to be turning more attention to Spain/Portugal and the Canaries for better weather?

Any idea on home ports for the Europe ones?

Still no word on Anthem?

Is Utopia appearing on any port schedules yet?

Presumably… either heads to join all the other Quantum Classes (minus Odyssey) OR stays in Europe year round I think?

Do we think Symphony to NJ is permanent? I.e - in Summer 25 will it carry on being Symphony or return to being Oasis once she’s back from Europe.

Possible. But what would the plan be for Summer 25 then if Odyssey is going to Southampton 🤔

Canaries from Southampton would be brilliant, but probably unlikely.

Has she appeared on any port bookings?

Could anthem be heading to this region?

Don’t know why they would do Anthem. Surely if they were going to do that it would have made more sense to use Odyssey 🤷‍♂️

Yeah I think they half tried to introduce something with the Skywalk thing on Arvia but I’m surprised they haven’t tried slides yet. I could see Arvia taking over the med fly cruises in a few years

I’d like to see another Royal class come over from Princess, but can’t see it being likely. If anything I guess they may transfer a grand class in the future.

Wonder if they will ever use her! Presumably like Oceana and all the others they’ve brought, just holding onto them until a better offer comes along.

I assume the larger ships are expected to do the same kind of cruises again Summer 25? I.e Iona Fjords, Azura Malta etc Would be interesting if Arv & Azu swapped for the Malta fly cruises.

Which ships are we still not sure? I thought they had already announced a load of longer ones but haven’t been paying too much attention to the Caribbean ones!

Independence on longer Caribbean?

I would love 2 ships but I don’t think it would happen, especially 2 Quantum Class. Numbers weren’t even that favourable when they tried having Independence & Anthem.

That is true, and like I say not opposed to her coming to Southampton. Should send both Anthem can do the Fjords and Odyssey Med & Canaries 🤣. There is a lot of newer ships doing Southampton now with Iona, Arvia, MSC Euribia/Virtuosa & Celebrity Apex so maybe they are just updating the offering

Interesting! I certainly wouldn’t say no to Odyssey out of Southampton but I would have that Anthem is the better fit for NJ/Southampton 🤔

If they are going to do winter cruise from the UK (or Europe), then I think Anthem would be the one they would choose to do it. It fits in with the colder climates the best, which is why I’m not really sure about the movement of Odyssey to NJ as it’s the only Quantum class that isn’t. Or perhaps Anthem will go somewhere completely different after her Summer 24 season out of Southampton and in Summer 25 it will be a different class altogether 🤔

Could she be staying in Southampton in the winter , long shot, but MSC do it now? If Odyssey was to take over the NJ/Southampton itineraries in 2025 would any other ship take over the Greek Isles itineraries she does at the moment?

Great, thank you. Any idea what she will be doing? Short Carib?

Apologies, but missed a whole chunk of news on deployments this year. Any news on Indy yet?