Itinerary Change for QA voyage H526 (Spain and Portugal), 12-26 Oct 2025

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QA voyage H526 (Spain and Portugal, 14 Nights) was originally scheduled to call at Palma de Mallorca on 18 Oct 2025, Barcelona on 19 Oct 2025 and Alicante on 20 Oct 2025. Those calls have been rearranged so that QA will now be calling at Alicante on 18 Oct, Palma de Mallorca on 19 Oct and Barcelona on 20 Oct.

 

Ordinarily this wouldn't cause much of a fuss especially this far out. But QA was scheduled for two separate 7-night voyages (H526A and H526B) which were to end and start in Barcelona on 19 Oct 2025. A guest booked on voyage H526A (Southampton-Barcelona) has reported receiving notice their voyage is canceled. Presumably those booked on voyage H526B (Barcelona-Southampton) are receiving similar cancellation notices. Voyages H526A and H526B have been removed from the Cunard website.

 

The reason given for this change is that QA cannot dock in Barcelona on 19 Oct 2025. I've been reading where Barcelona is restricting the number of cruise ships to no more than seven per day. At least one online cruise ship schedule shows eight cruise ships (including QA) were scheduled to be in Barcelona on 19 Oct 2025. That might explain the reason for this itinerary change where the date of QA's call at Barcelona has been moved to 20 Oct 2025.