Carnival Glory Suspended Until November?

[leonel9]

Another cruise-related website/YouTube account shared that the Glory has a restart date in November. But customers currently have cruises booked before that and Carnival has not cancelled the cruises. 

 

Carnival announced that the Glory's September 5th sailing has been cancelled. But their cancellation page allows visitors to enter the cruise and return a result saying the cruise isn't cancelled.

 

What's going on here?

Edited September 5, 2021 by leonel9

[mexicobob]

15 minutes ago, leonel9 said:

Another cruise-related website/YouTube account shared that the Glory has a restart date in November. But customers currently have cruises booked before that and Carnival has not cancelled the cruises. 

 

Carnival announced that the Glory's September 5th sailing has been cancelled. But their cancellation page allows visitors to enter the cruise and return a result saying the cruise isn't cancelled.

 

What's going on here?

What is going on here??? Just because you read trash on the Internet does not make it real. 

[BlerkOne]

Glory is docked in New Orleans right now.

[K_e_short]

I may have watched the same video.

 

I think the confusion is that this person said its possible the port may not be ready to take passengers until November.

 

A better question would be for those living in New Orleans to determine how they are recovering from the hurricane to determine if your cruise (whenever it is) will happen.

 

 

 

[BlerkOne]

49 minutes ago, leonel9 said:

 

 

Carnival announced that the Glory's September 5th sailing has been cancelled. But their cancellation page allows visitors to enter the cruise and return a result saying the cruise isn't cancelled.

 

What's going on here?

The cancellation page is blerked 

[tidecat]

There's a decent possibility that Carnival may have one or more ships chartered by FEMA for hurricane recovery efforts. Any ships that would have been scheduled for service out of New Orleans would be obvious candidates.

[BlerkOne]

1 minute ago, tidecat said:

There's a decent possibility that Carnival may have one or more ships chartered by FEMA for hurricane recovery efforts. Any ships that would have been scheduled for service out of New Orleans would be obvious candidates.

There is that rumor, but Entergy has apparently chartered a boat.

 

https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/25791-bahamas-paradise-cruise-line-gets-entergy-charter-for-hurricane-ida-housing.html

 

 

 

[mondello]

10 minutes ago, tidecat said:

There's a decent possibility that Carnival may have one or more ships chartered by FEMA for hurricane recovery efforts. Any ships that would have been scheduled for service out of New Orleans would be obvious candidates.

Sensation (Mobile) and Paradise (Tampa) are available through the end of 2021. Assuming they're not in drydock before their restart next year.

[BlerkOne]

6 minutes ago, mondello said:

Sensation (Mobile) and Paradise (Tampa) are available through the end of 2021. Assuming they're not in drydock before their restart next year.

Any ship chartered would likely need a dry dock after, and Fantasy class ships were utilized after Hurricane Katrina.

 

If the infrastructure can't support cruising at the moment, Gulfport has been used before.

[tidecat]

14 minutes ago, BlerkOne said:

Any ship chartered would likely need a dry dock after, and Fantasy class ships were utilized after Hurricane Katrina.

 

If the infrastructure can't support cruising at the moment, Gulfport has been used before.

Sensation was last dry docked in January 2020, and presumably would go back in January 2023 - might not be a bad candidate for moving that up to 2022, especially if she has to cross the Atlantic to get work done.

 

Paradise is scheduled for 10/1/21-10/22/21 so she is out of the running.

 

Ecstasy was last serviced in October 2019 and would be due again in April 2022, so this is a good candidate.

 

Elation hasn't carried a passenger since March 1, 2020 when she went to dry dock and came back to a shuttered world. Not a candidate.

Edited September 5, 2021 by tidecat
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[BlerkOne]

9 minutes ago, tidecat said:

Sensation was last dry docked in January 2020, and presumably would go back in January 2023 - might not be a bad candidate for moving that up to 2022, especially if she has to cross the Atlantic to get work done.

 

Paradise is scheduled for 10/1/21-10/22/21 so she is out of the running.

 

Ecstasy was last serviced in October 2019 and would be due again in April 2022, so this is a good candidate.

 

Elation hasn't carried a passenger since March 1, 2020 when she went to dry dock and came back to a shuttered world. Not a candidate.

Sensation and Ecstasy were used before, so why not. Too bad Carnival didn't have a crystal ball - they likely could have made more money off of the ships they scrapped then the scrapper paid.

[BoozinCroozin]

I would listen to Carnival before some random non-affiliated YouTuber.

[N7786W Flyer]

The below link was just posted on John Head's page...sounds like NOLA authorities (maybe FEMA???) are negotiating for Glory's charter.

 

https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_d0c24e84-0dbc-11ec-96ee-8b8b890b66b1.html

 

Garnett

[BlerkOne]

https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/25793-bahamas-paradise-steps-up-in-hurricane-charter-deal-for-entergy.html

[BoozinCroozin]

Not that this has any direction on when sailing may begin. A family friend is retired and FEMA certified. He was contacted for a minimum contract for FEMA in NOLA. They told him it the contract was 4 months minimum and limited ability to fly home. From the last stint he did with them, it was great money and limited to work. He turned it down due to not being able to get home a few days every other week.

[BlerkOne]

Only until the 19th (allegedly)

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/carnival-cruise-line-to-provide-carnival-glory-to-support-new-orleans-recovery-efforts-from-hurricane-ida-301370429.html

[JaniceB]

https://www.nola.com/news/business/article_30975e30-0ff2-11ec-ab8a-e7c55e58a096.html