Carnival Liberty port change

[Rockjock64]

Really not happy about not getting to go to St Kitts and i really hope we dont end up at Dominica.

I would prefer Antigua for sure.

Guess we will have to wait and see where we end up.

[hermitstyle]

Where do you see the port changing? I'm leaving on the Liberty on July 12, and I did see that the last cruise and the current one is skipping St. Kitt's in favor of other ports, but I haven't seen/received anything about the port change being permanent

[Rockjock64]

St kitts has been skipped for several weeks and is projected to b missed thru late june due to the thruster issues..

Guess we will wait and see.

[Shih-tzu]

Hope they get it sorted out....not too sure I want to be on a ship without all the parts working. DH is already very leery about cruising - that would put him over the edge to think it wasn't 100% working order....:(

Edited April 20, 2015 by Shih-tzu
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[justme_85]

OP - I am not sure it is going to happen anymore? I know there are so many rumours going around but someone on my roll call posted on the Carnival Site about the change and they responded saying the change was only for this week and the ship would resume all regular itinerary. Yet, someone else called carnival directly and they said Antigua and the poster brought that up to carnival and they responded by saying they were provided old information and the statement was released yesterday. We may not know for sure until it happens. I am still holding out hope for St Kitts. If not, send me to Antigua! :) let's hope we get an email this week from them!

[ready4funryou]

I called to today, she said it is changing to Antigua for sure and they will be sending out a email soon. My cruise is May 24th, and haven't received anything..

[Mithril379@aol.com]

I leave on May 10th and haven't heard anything from Carnival yet regarding changes. Antigua would be nice, if not St. Kitts.

[Singer4Him]

Why would thruster issues cause a problem for porting in St. Kitts but not other ports? Is it just the Liberty or is it other ships, too?

 

We were in St. Kitts last August. Beautiful place but I think I would be just as happy if they said Antigua. ;)

[grobbins]

I emailed Carnival this afternoon. We sail May 24th. I've heard both Dominica and Antigua.

[wubbie3me]

Piecing together all the various bits of information, it sounds like St. Kitts will be replaced with Dominica or Antigua through June due to a thruster not working at 100%. The thrusters are only used for slow, close navigation (such as up to a dock) and do not affect any other part of the ship. I'm hearing that the thruster isn't broken, etc, it's just not working at full action, and the thruster on the other end of the ship is (no captain wants to scrape their pretty ship on a dock :) )

St. Kitts is the only port affected because they are prone to very high winds, and there is no tugboat assistance on St. Kitts (the tugs help the ship get aligned with the docks, and also help pull the ship away from the docks).

 

Either Dominica or Antigua are fine with me! I'm on the 5/10 sailing.