I have still not heard from our TA yet and an email to my London based SS consultant has produced zero response. We had a weird email from the Shore Concierge dept in Monaco on Monday telling us that a tour we had booked in Madeira had been cancelled for ‘operational reasons’, but nothing else.
There has been a certain amount of info gleaned from other TA’s on the site that cannot be mentioned, in summary there will be no compensation offered and guests will be able to ‘request’ a transfer to another voyage.
As our reasons for this cruise, sea days, bridge instruction, the Azores and the Cape Verde islands have all been erased from the itinerary, we will almost certainly cancel it. It is currently well outside any penalty period.
I seriously doubt that we will ever book another cruise with SS that is more than 3 months away from the sailing date.