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Celebrity teasing Coco Cay?
The Cruise Junkie replied to smokeybandit's topic in Celebrity & SilverSea
This move makes a lot of sense for Celebrity now since Laura Hodges Bethge is the new CEO of Celebrity Cruises, and if you are not familiar with her work in the industry, she spearheaded the Perfect Day at CocoCay makeover when she worked over at Royal Caribbean. -
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Great blog! Sorry to hear about your bad disembarkation experience in Port Canaveral! Usually, Canaveral is one of the smoothest and quickest ports to get from the ship to the road. I visited the port that day in the afternoon around 2:00 pm to see Wonder depart for the first time and traffic was the worst I have ever seen on George King Blvd (the road that cruise terminal number one is located on). And I head down that road all the time and there is never a problem every Sunday in the past with Harmony and Oasis being there. It did not clear up that day until 3:30 pm.
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That is the problem right now the port is facing. As of right now, Oasis class can only dock at three terminals (CT-1, 3, & 6) but really only two out of the three can handle an oasis/icon class embarkation (CT-1 & CT-3) however Carnival has rights over using CT-3 for their ships. The major problem Royal faces with using CT-1 is the parking situation. The lots get very full with just a Freedom class ship plus Oasis. With Allure next fall it will get interesting. I know there has been talks for many years of moving the Casino vessel out of CT-2 and making into another cruise terminal, but I think those plans have not gotten anywhere due to them having to move a lot of things such as where that vessel departs from as well as the pilot headquarters.
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I don't think they are leaving Canaveral anytime soon. It is a very good market for the brand. Just look at the three night cruise out of Canaveral. As of right now it is the only market that will have an Oasis class ship doing those sailings. If Canaveral was not popular and selling, they would not have four ships based out of Canaveral this winter. It has actually gotten to a point where royal had to start using two terminals at the port due to the amount of calls they were making on the port so often that they overlapped with the 7 night and the 3/4-night vessels at CT-1.
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Gisser reacted to a post in a topic: Never sailed out of Canaveral, so what's the drill??
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Artemis Launch Saturday: Mariner Question
The Cruise Junkie replied to tonyfsu21's topic in Royal Caribbean Discussion
As of right now this launch is now targeting a late October launch attempt with most of the windows being early in the morning (around 2-4 in the morning). This means that it should not be a problem for passenger traffic at the port until the Oct. 23rd launch attempt as it will start to impact disembarking passengers. The biggest impact from this launch will be right after it take off or scrubs as hundreds of cars are all going to be trying to head back towards Orlando. If you are embarking any of those days and are coming to the port, you should not have a major problem. I was at the port for last Saturday's launch attempt that had at L- of 2:17 pm and the port was not congested with vehicles even with four cruise ships being in port. BCSO did a great job making sure the traffic was able to flow in and out of the cruise terminals smoothly. -
As someone who lives in the area I would personally recommend staying at Cape Canaveral before your cruise as the area is better than staying in Orlando. There is a service at this port called Go Port that offers a hotel package that offers airport transportation and cruise transfers for pre cruise stays.
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Sadly, as other posters have stated, Ebay is the mostly the only place you can buy official ship models after the cruise.
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Richard Fain stepping down
The Cruise Junkie replied to ultimate_ed's topic in Royal Caribbean News and Rumors
Here is a pretty good interview with Jason that is very recent.