Sailings now cancelled through April 30

[Ourusualbeach]

As we embark on a new year, we're reminded of our very special partnership with each of you. You stood by us during the turbulence in 2020, while your passion and dedication to your clients never faded. Our commitment to providing the healthiest and safest vacation experience to our guests, crew and communities we visit remains our priority. We continue to prepare and develop our plan to meet the Framework for Conditional Sailing Order issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). With this in mind, Royal Caribbean has made the tough decision to further extend our operational pause through April 30, 2021.

[bouhunter]

Thanks for posting.  No surprise there.  😞

 

[LuCruise]

Thanks for posting. I noticed that they used to cancel one month at a time.  These past two cancellations, they've cancelled 2 months at a time.  Sad, but smart move.

[bucfan2]

4 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

As we embark on a new year, we're reminded of our very special partnership with each of you. You stood by us during the turbulence in 2020, while your passion and dedication to your clients never faded. Our commitment to providing the healthiest and safest vacation experience to our guests, crew and communities we visit remains our priority. We continue to prepare and develop our plan to meet the Framework for Conditional Sailing Order issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). With this in mind, Royal Caribbean has made the tough decision to further extend our operational pause through April 30, 2021.

 

Appreciate the heads-up....not a real surprise.  'Stay scared' montra continues in many forms, including the cruise lines having no idea what will appease the CDC.

[cruisegirl1976]

and I have a feeling there will be cancellations after April 30th 😐

[sandebeach]

I just posted on another thread asking about this. 

[spunks]

Ourusualbeach....

 

Where did you find this? I can not confirm through RCCL.

Thanks

Doug

[Milwaukee Eight]

Thanks for the update 

[vacationlover_mn]

Just now, spunks said:

Ourusualbeach....

 

Where did you find this? I can not confirm through RCCL.

Thanks

Doug

Not sure if I can post links here... But while I can't find it on the RCI website, the Royal Caribbean blog site, as well as many others, have the news.

[Ourusualbeach]

3 minutes ago, spunks said:

Ourusualbeach....

 

Where did you find this? I can not confirm through RCCL.

Thanks

Doug

It was an e mail sent to travel agents.  

[Wine-O]

I'm surprised they didn't wait until after final payment for those booked mid-April thru 30 April.  🍷

[Hammergirl]

Just got the notice from my TA and already requested my refund. I will still have a $1000 FCC that I will have to deal with. It was from an August 2020 cruise that I applied to my March 13th 2021 cruise. Now I will have it again to apply to lord knows what because it is likely it will expire before I am able to use it, or the prices of the cruises will be way to expensive when they finally start sailing again. 

Edited January 12, 2021 by Hammergirl

[hotwheels920]

Smart move, but UGH..  😭

[grapau27]

30 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

As we embark on a new year, we're reminded of our very special partnership with each of you. You stood by us during the turbulence in 2020, while your passion and dedication to your clients never faded. Our commitment to providing the healthiest and safest vacation experience to our guests, crew and communities we visit remains our priority. We continue to prepare and develop our plan to meet the Framework for Conditional Sailing Order issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). With this in mind, Royal Caribbean has made the tough decision to further extend our operational pause through April 30, 2021.

Thanks for posting.

[little britain]

There goes Odyssey's maiden in April......

[irishgal432]

Thanks KEn.  As always you are on top of the news.

 

Are they allowing lift and shifts into May 2022 for those April sailings since it is +/- 4 weeks?

[BSR]

Thanks for the update. 

[lr657]

Looks like we now have another cruise cancelled. Final payment was due next week for our April 18th cruise, and even though we expected it to be cancelled we figured they wouldn't cancel until after final payment. 

[SECdawg]

Glad we did a lift and shift on our April cruise. Nothing else scheduled until November. We had hoped to jump on a few short ones this summer if they started up. I guess we will have to hope they can sail this summer.

Edited January 12, 2021 by SECdawg
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[Ronaldo807]

28 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

It was an e mail sent to travel agents.  

Any update on extending lift and shift?

[Ourusualbeach]

3 minutes ago, Ronaldo807 said:

Any update on extending lift and shift?

 Nope.  I don’t expect one until the next announcement in 2 months

[atgood]

Hopefully RCI will extend the date to apply FCCs into Fall 2022 with the recent announcement. 

[not-enough-cruising]

39 minutes ago, spunks said:

Ourusualbeach....

 

Where did you find this? I can not confirm through RCCL.

Thanks

Doug

It is posted front and center on the Royal Caribbean web site travel advisory page

[smokeybandit]

Just got the email about my cancellation.

 

Disappointing, but expected.

 

I know it says FCC emails will be sent in the coming weeks, but if I call, can I rebook something immediately with FCC?

Edited January 12, 2021 by smokeybandit

[sandebeach]

Just got my first email. At least they have extended FCC use through September 2022.