Current Carribean Princess passengers - please help

[PUGSLEYTAZ]

I am on the next sailing and have just been notified as you were that our sailing will be delayed for ship sanitization. I know your itinerary was altered and Cozumel was later. Can you tell me - was it two sea days, then Roatan and Belize on the normal schedule? Then Cozumel and then one sea day - so effectilvey just swapping a sea day and the Cozumel port? Or were all port dates altered?

 

How was embarkation? We are arriving on a flight around 9:30 AM at IAH and can't really alter how eary we get to the port.

 

Any advice would be helpful.

 

I hope you are all having a great cruise and washing your hands frequently!

 

Thanks

[Colo Cruiser]

I am on the next sailing and have just been notified as you were that our sailing will be delayed for ship sanitization. I know your itinerary was altered and Cozumel was later. Can you tell me - was it two sea days, then Roatan and Belize on the normal schedule? Then Cozumel and then one sea day - so effectilvey just swapping a sea day and the Cozumel port? Or were all port dates altered?

 

How was embarkation? We are arriving on a flight around 9:30 AM at IAH and can't really alter how eary we get to the port.

 

Any advice would be helpful.

 

I hope you are all having a great cruise and washing your hands frequently!

 

Thanks

 

 

 

 

What is the new suggested arrival time for your embarkation?

[PUGSLEYTAZ]

The email says embarkation is being delayed until 2PM (from the regular noon) so i suppose all of the seggested times get pushed back 2 hours

[Colo Cruiser]

The email says embarkation is being delayed until 2PM (from the regular noon) so i suppose all of the seggested times get pushed back 2 hours

 

If it does end up being a couple of hours late leaving, hopefully you won't miss any ports.

[tarps]

It also depends on weather the ship arrives as scheduled, or is delayed due to fog again. That will push it back even further as it did last week.:(

[Gunner22aa]

Is not likely to cause you to miss a port. Your stay may be shortened at the woerst case. Very seldom do cruise ships sail at full speed. It costs to much. Just like your car there is an optimum speed for effeciency and fuel consumption. Over that speed, and yes you get there faster but the cost of the extra fuel doesn't justify the means. If the Capt has to push it a bit to keep the schedule he will. This was very well explained to me by an Italian Chief Engineer on the Golden Princess a few years back who told me that for that ship 88% was the optimum. Don't know if you saw the one hour tv show on the inaugrial sailing of the Oasis but the Capt faced the same delema and again explained that although it was going to cost the company in fuel he would keep his schedule. The ship was delayed in port because a couple of "special passengers" were very late getting back and they wern't being left behind like you and I would have been. Don't sweat it.

[QueenofEverything]

Why are they having to sanitize again? Do they have norovirus for a second week?

[PUGSLEYTAZ]

Yes the email says they are again haivng issues with Norovirus

They sent out the same warning and information circular about hand washing etc as they did the week before.

[5:00_Somewhere]

Why are they having to sanitize again? Do they have norovirus for a second week?

 

I just posted the full notice in a separate thread. It does say there was an increased incidence of GI illness aboard. :(

[caribill]

The last cruise due to fog did not reach Bayport until about 11:20 AM.

 

Passengers were still disembarking around 2 PM.

 

Boarding started around 5 PM. Those waiting had the option of being bussed to the nearby Kemah Boardwalk entertainment complex until they could board.

 

The ship did not depart until around 11 PM.

 

No port was missed, but the order of the cruise was:

2 sea days

Roatan

Belize

Cozumel

1 sea day

(This by the way is the itinerary order listed in the Cruise Atlas)

[Go South]

No port was missed, but the order of the cruise was:

2 sea days

Roatan

Belize

Cozumel

1 sea day

(This by the way is the itinerary order listed in the Cruise Atlas)

 

This was the original itinerary posted when this cruise was due to sail from Galveston. When it changed to Houston the order was changed to its current one.

[caribill]

This was the original itinerary posted when this cruise was due to sail from Galveston. When it changed to Houston the order was changed to its current one.

 

The 2014-2015 Cruise Atlas map shows that itinerary and says Houston. The actual itinerary changed, the printed material did not except for saying Houston.