Ashleigh

Curious if anyone has insight into potential issues between Royal Caribbean and San Juan, PR. For about a decade, Voyager or Freedom class ships departed out of San Juan for 7-night cruises with alternating routes. Now, the ship has been downsized to Radiance class sailing one route for March 2024 (nothing posted for April 2024 yet). Not only that, no ships are showing PR as a port of call. This leads me to believe there are issues behind the scenes but it’s disappointing since San Juan is our favorite place to depart for a Caribbean cruise. 

On 2/5/2023 at 7:26 PM, Merlot said:

I realize that. But when we choose BTB cruises there was always several stops with just one port repeated. Now in 24 mostly the same ports 2 weeks in a row. And heard chatter that RCL not happy they weren’t consulted about planned upgrades to Pan American pier. 

Hi Merlot - I came here looking for the very same answers. We’ve sailed out of San Juan for years on Voyager Class and once on Freedom and was surprised to see it downsized to Jewel in March 2023. Then I realized San Juan isn’t even a port of call for other ships. There must be some dispute between PR and Royal Caribbean but it’s disappointing. The Jewel is just a tad to small for us.