Question for recent Golden to Hawai cruisers

[flamomo]

Since the port of Kona has been deleted from the itinerary,I'm wondering if there was still the evening sail-by, after leaving Hilo, past the lava flowing into the sea.

That was one of the best highlights of the cruise earlier this year when Kona was still on the itinerary, and I am hoping to experience it again on our next Hawaii cruise (assuming the lava is still flowing).

[rcacace]

My guess would be no, since what reason would they have to sail southward, the long way to the next island.

[Suzieb]

On our cruise in October we did not do a sail by, due to the fact the lave flow is not on the surface so there is nothing to see

[Tina G]

Holland America still has the Kona port. We will be seitching to HA because of this.:(

[queenofdnile]

On my cruise, depart 12/10/08, the Golden did not sail past the lava flows.

[flamomo]

That's disappointing. We did the sail-by in March of this year, when the itinerary was still 15 days, and were thrilled to get to see the lava flowing at night.

[sassyredhat]

Don't feel too disappointed.

 

We sailed with HAL last April, and there was so much "VOG" that we really didn't see much lava.

 

We had sailed that itinerary 2 yrs. previously, and we did see alot of lava. Since the volcano started spewing, the vog blocks out alot of the flow.

 

Pat