Anyone in the Mediterranean Now?

[Aruba76]

We are currently in Sardinia, on an Oceania cruise. We have been loyal Celebrity cruisers, but decided to try a smaller ship this time. We have been in Italy for a week, with rain every day except one. Not fun, but we understand some cities have suffered horribly from the storms. Because of this awful weather, we have missed several ports, most of them being the reason we chose this itinerary. We are wondering if this is due to our ship being smaller in size than Celebrity ships, as this ship goes into smaller ports. We never experienced this on a Celebrity cruise, so are wondering if it is happening to everyone in the Mediterranean, or just the smaller ships using smaller ports. 

 

We are on vacation, so we’re ok, just a little disappointed. Can anyone tell us if it’s big vs small ships/ports, or happening to all cruises throughout the Mediterranean?  We hope these cities recover quickly. They are losing so much from cancelled cruise ships!  Thank you. 

[Essiesmom]

We would be better able to speculate if you could tell us which ports you have missed.  EM

[Aruba76]

12 minutes ago, Essiesmom said:

We would be better able to speculate if you could tell us which ports you have missed.  EM

So far we have missed Portofino, Italy  and Bandol, France. We were in Florence and Rome last week and we had horrible storms all week. 

[sueajp]

2 hours ago, Aruba76 said:

We are currently in Sardinia, on an Oceania cruise. We have been loyal Celebrity cruisers, but decided to try a smaller ship this time. We have been in Italy for a week, with rain every day except one. Not fun, but we understand some cities have suffered horribly from the storms. Because of this awful weather, we have missed several ports, most of them being the reason we chose this itinerary. We are wondering if this is due to our ship being smaller in size than Celebrity ships, as this ship goes into smaller ports. We never experienced this on a Celebrity cruise, so are wondering if it is happening to everyone in the Mediterranean, or just the smaller ships using smaller ports. 

 

We are on vacation, so we’re ok, just a little disappointed. Can anyone tell us if it’s big vs small ships/ports, or happening to all cruises throughout the Mediterranean?  We hope these cities recover quickly. They are losing so much from cancelled cruise ships!  Thank you. 

 

1 hour ago, Aruba76 said:

So far we have missed Portofino, Italy  and Bandol, France. We were in Florence and Rome last week and we had horrible storms all week. 

we just got back from The Celebrity Constellation... Oct. 19th -30th which turned into the 31st, We began in Rome with sunny weather and remained that way until we started to head back to Italy. We were caught in those terrible storms. We skipped the port of Portofino but took an excursion there by bus from La Spazia where we finally docked. Our ship broke its mooring and floated out, then bumped into the Costa Magica behind us. We stayed two and a half days in LaSpazia and missed Livorno. We arrived very late back to Civitevecchia... Most folks were missing their flights. If you booked your air with Celebrity, which we did, they took us to a hotel, fed us and rebooked our flights. I don't think its a big vs small thing.. The Costa ship was just as stuck as we were. A real squall. So much damage occurred in the little town we had seen the day or two before, Portofino, Santa Margharitta, and Rapallo. BTW Aruba 76 we are in Holliston too!