EJK Posted May 29, 2021 Report Share Posted May 29, 2021 I'm booked to cruise on a 9 night sailing out of Baltimore on Enchantment. We booked this in Jan 2020 right after returning from our first RC cruise. Original dates July 1-July 10 2021. I have always and still do, assume this will not sail, although I would love for it to go forward. It is 33 days out and I haven't received any notification, and "official" cancellation date is still through June 30th (one day before). Today, I noticed that the dates on my upcoming cruise summary are listed as July 1-July 7th, so it has been shortened by 3 nights. I still don't think it will sail but I thought this was very strange to see. Still no notification about such a change if it is true. The cruise planner still lists all 10 days and check in is not available. Any thoughts on what is happening? Are they shortening other sailings in July > 7 nights? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshleyDillo Posted May 29, 2021 Report Share Posted May 29, 2021 Other folks have been reporting this across the board, not that specific cruise, but they are seeing their July cruises altered like this in the app. With Royal IT you never know what they are doing, so no way to tell if this is a sign or just Royal IT being Royal IT. JeffB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt V Posted May 29, 2021 Report Share Posted May 29, 2021 I'm on that cruise too. Bermuda disappeared too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffB Posted May 29, 2021 Report Share Posted May 29, 2021 5 hours ago, EJK said: Any thoughts on what is happening? Are they shortening other sailings in July > 7 nights? I don't follow RCL as closely as others here but the CSO, before several provisions were eased just recently in bilateral discussions between the CDC and the cruise lines, limited sailing to 7d. Right around that time, I had changes to two Celebrity cruises I booked in the first quarter of 2021. They went from 8 to 7n. I was kept fully informed of these changes by both my TA and the cruise line. Then they were cancelled. Fine ..... I still can't flesh out whether this provision stayed in the latest guidance update on May 26th or was eliminated. As far as I can tell the original CSO released in October, 2020 restricted passenger cruises to 7d and that remains. Updates in April did not discard this restriction although it was rumored here "8-10n itineraries were back" at some point after that. I'm not sure. Maybe someone else has a solid link. I can't find one. Anyway, you're not alone in wondering about cruises longer than 7n and I find it troubling that customers on RCL cruises within 90d, more troubling within 60 or 30d like yours still don't know what's happening. I've whined plenty about this so, done with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deep1 Posted May 29, 2021 Report Share Posted May 29, 2021 7 hours ago, EJK said: I'm booked to cruise on a 9 night sailing out of Baltimore on Enchantment. We booked this in Jan 2020 right after returning from our first RC cruise. Original dates July 1-July 10 2021. I have always and still do, assume this will not sail, although I would love for it to go forward. It is 33 days out and I haven't received any notification, and "official" cancellation date is still through June 30th (one day before). Today, I noticed that the dates on my upcoming cruise summary are listed as July 1-July 7th, so it has been shortened by 3 nights. I still don't think it will sail but I thought this was very strange to see. Still no notification about such a change if it is true. The cruise planner still lists all 10 days and check in is not available. Any thoughts on what is happening? Are they shortening other sailings in July > 7 nights? SOunds more like RCL IT at it again... My last cruise was a 7 nighter and it showed as a 2 night right before going. Had it happen a few times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Jensen Posted May 30, 2021 Report Share Posted May 30, 2021 We are booked on the 9 night cruise out of Baltimore on July 15th. Haven't heard anything regarding it's status. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisellama Posted May 30, 2021 Report Share Posted May 30, 2021 We'll need to continue to push through these early, uncertain itineraries. I think they're placeholders in place to enable for the restart (if all the ducks get lined up). Continues to be a moving target as the "do able" becomes "less doable" as reality is realized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EJK Posted June 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 I decided to call Royal Caribbean since today is 30 days and I still don't have any more info. Since I booked this cruise through Costco Travel, the RC agent told me that Costco should have contacted me back in march about my options. I remember calling Costco Travel a few months ago and they didn't have any information then. Since then I've just been waiting for the official RC cancellation date of 6/30 to change, otherwise I didn't think Costco would have any more info than that. I asked her about the shortening of the dates and she said that's a possibility, and reiterated that I should call Costco travel to learn about my options. I'll update when I get through to Costco (so far no answer, grr). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisa montesi Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 Thanks i have the same cruise July 29.. what does the new schedule look like? How many days in a port and what ports? Thank your Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisa montesi Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 By the way Royal Caribbean really should give you an answer thats crazy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EJK Posted June 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 I finally got through to a Costco travel agent, who got an RC agent on the line to find out the details with me on hold. After all that, she told me the 9 night is still on. Check in is still closed and she said I could get information about check in any day. So strange, I still think the chances are very slim but we'll see. I would love to go on this cruise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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