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I understand that the corrections to MySS has been corrected, but as AK states that our cruise ( Dubai to Mumbai) still does not have the excursions reinstated. The only excursions that show are the 2 out of the 3 days in Doha for the World Cup.ticket package. All the other ports are displaying in our itinerary, but the excursions are gone. i still have not heard back from SS (left a msg on Monday although I said no rush to respond since we still have time) as to whether this cruise is either a partial charter or will be cancelled because it will be a full charter for the World Cup. Since it was marketed as a “World Cup” cruise, I’m wondering if it always was destined to be one. I’ll call again this week, but I’m not sure they will be able to tell us until a final decision is made.

Thanks Stumble and Mayflower so what you are saying is this cruise could still sail and they still allow independent guests, but another group essentially takes priority ? Mayflower- so this has happened to you, were you notified in advance it was a charter or did you find out after you boarded? I’m hoping if I asked them directly that they would be forthcoming and confirm whether it was a charter or not. I’ll wait to hear back from them. Luckily I have time. To make a decision thanks again i

thanks Dawn for your quick feedback. I think your assessment makes a lot of sense. This cruise is advertised as a World Cup cruise and we were supposed to stay in Doha for 3 days, but wondering if FIFA has chartered this cruise for potential hotel accommodations for the event. I believe that MSC may have some ships being used as accommodations . I contacted SS to see what the status is, But wondering if this was a charter would they still be advertising this as a cruise for non World Cup guests? Has anyone ever been on a chartered cruise as an independent traveler?

It’s Dec 8 Dubai to Mumbai on the Spirit

Although I will call SS tomorrow, not sure I’ll get an answer immediately, but for those who have booked cruises with SS, have you ever had the ‘Ashore’ option missing on your booking after it had been displayed earlier? I also checked their website to see if I were conducting a brand new search on that particular cruise ( it is still showing as an available cruise) and I was unable to display the available included and optional excursions for each port. However, I did a random check of other available cruises and every one ( including the cruise right before and right after our scheduled cruise) displayed all available excursions by port. Even a similar itinerary in 2023 displayed them . I was just curious if anyone else experienced this in the past and what ended up happening? Was it just SS working on making changes to available excursions for that itinerary, or was this a sign that it could be cancelled. We are within the 180- 210 day window for making reservations for the shore excursions and I know they displayed earlier when I checked. thanks for any response