Oceania cancels 2023 cruises to the Baltics

[ReaderGirl57]

I just read on a roll call for a 2022 cruise that Oceania has cancelled their 2023 cruises to the Baltic region. A quick search of their website shows no ports east of Germany in the south and Sweden in the north. We have a Baltic Cruise (minus St. Petersburg) scheduled for August. Any ideas on what this might mean for Baltic Cruises for 2022?

[PhD-iva]

I saw multiple Baltic cruises w ports in Finland, Estonia, Latvia that are about to be released in May for 2024. 
I can see how 2022 might not get there due to P’s war.

[PhD-iva]

Anyway, it doesn’t make sense for 2023 to be canceled already. 2022 is much more likely to encounter difficulties, no?

[pinotlover]

I had one Oceania cruise cancelled 20 days before Embarkment and another at around 45 days prior. So one thinks they’re now canceling them a year out. 
 

Chances are overwhelmingly Fake News.

[LHT28]

Cancelling SPB  is a given at this point in time  but going to Sweden/Finland/Denmark are still on the table 

Estonia could be on the chopping block 

 If Putin decides to invade those Countries  there will be no cruises in Europe 🤔

JMO

[basor]

I believe that Oceania has "canceled " Russian ports of call on their 2022 and 2023 cruises but have not canceled the whole cruise.  Oceania is replacing the Russian ports with a revised itinerary.  We had this occur on our Fall 2022 Baltic/Arctic cruise.

[ReaderGirl57]

I did a more in-depth search on their website. Of the 37 cruises listed as “Baltic and Scandinavia” for 2023, only two stop in Finland, Poland, or the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Maybe not a total pullout, but surely a huge change from previous years. So I believe the roll call member was telling the truth when she said that the cruise she had booked was cancelled. 

[basor]

1 hour ago, ReaderGirl57 said:

I did a more in-depth search on their website. Of the 37 cruises listed as “Baltic and Scandinavia” for 2023, only two stop in Finland, Poland, or the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Maybe not a total pullout, but surely a huge change from previous years. So I believe the roll call member was telling the truth when she said that the cruise she had booked was cancelled. 

It would be helpful if you told us exactly which cruise she is talking about......

[Hawaiidan]

There is an excellent chance that things in the entire region will be in a state of flux ..... years after  Ukraine

  While not mentioned,  the far east / China will be worthwhile observing in the wake of any outcomes in the west..........     Realize the world is in a very fragile geo-political state..  Too many players too many goals. Too many unknowns at this point to rely on anything..    

[ReaderGirl57]

29 minutes ago, basor said:

It would be helpful if you told us exactly which cruise she is talking about......

She didn’t say. It was a roll call for a 2022 cruise in which this was mentioned. The point is that that Oceania surely had many cruises going to St. Petersburg and the Eastern Baltic in 2023 but now, with St. Petersburg off the table, they have re-routed a number of them and currently have only two cruises in the Eastern Baltic in 2023. Perhaps they feel that SPB is the big draw there - and they are probably correct in that assessment.

[basor]

Just now, ReaderGirl57 said:

She didn’t say. It was a roll call for a 2022 cruise in which this was mentioned. The point is that that Oceania surely had many cruises going to St. Petersburg and the Eastern Baltic in 2023 but now, with St. Petersburg off the table, they have re-routed a number of them and currently have only two cruises in the Eastern Baltic in 2023. Perhaps they feel that SPB is the big draw there - and they are probably correct in that assessment.

That is correct, the cruises have been rerouted and so you can choose to keep your booking and go on the new itinerary or cancel but Oceania did not cancel the cruise....this happened to us on our Baltic 2022 cruise.  It is probably just semantics, cruise not canceled but all Russian ports canceled.