levib2 Posted September 23, 2021 Report Share Posted September 23, 2021 We are booked for an early December cruise to Cozumel. Read that RC sent emails to people changing their Sept and Oct cruises to Bahamas instead. Has anyone received information about this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer Burke Posted September 24, 2021 Report Share Posted September 24, 2021 I would like to know this too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted September 24, 2021 Report Share Posted September 24, 2021 While not confirmed, I think this is about ensuring the ship has a Bahamas visit so Royal Caribbean can require adults to be fully vaccinated because of the Bahamas' mandate for it. That's just a guess, no firm evidence to back that up. cmcclelland, Jennifer Burke, CruiseGus and 3 others 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer Burke Posted September 25, 2021 Report Share Posted September 25, 2021 I would love to trade one of my ports for CocoCay. Never been there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurdueFlyer Posted September 25, 2021 Report Share Posted September 25, 2021 interesting. everything on Royal's website in October on Serenade is showing Bahamas stops (the 5-nighters to Nassau & Coco Cay, the 4 nighters to just Coco Cay). Then in November, everything shows Mexican stops, until Nov 27th, where it switches back to the Bahamas. I have a Nov 8th sailing on Serenade so mine is still showing Cozumel / Costa Maya for now. No changes. I just booked it this week. Our Nov 3rd sailing on Oasis was swapped from Labadee to Cozumel due to geo-political reasons, so I wonder if early and Mid November they are just maxxed out at Nassau and Coco Cay and can't re-direct any more vessels there? I like Matt's theory, but maybe they can't do Bahamas with every ship & have to pick their battles. cmcclelland 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PG Cruiser Posted September 25, 2021 Report Share Posted September 25, 2021 My Brilliance sailing (also from Tampa like the Serenade) in December this year also has a stop in Cozumel. I hope they keep this itinerary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EJK Posted September 26, 2021 Report Share Posted September 26, 2021 Our itinerary on Mariner Nov 20-25 was originally stopping Cozumel and Costa Maya, now the Costa Maya day changed to Perfect day, but only on the shore excursion calendar, where it was previously Costa Maya, but the change is not on made on the full calendar yet. I wonder if the change is in the works but not fully cycled through yet. I'd be happy either way, but it is interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EJK Posted September 28, 2021 Report Share Posted September 28, 2021 I received an official itinerary change last night Costa Maya is now Perfect Day at Coco Cay!! SpeedNoodles 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baked Alaska Posted September 29, 2021 Report Share Posted September 29, 2021 We just had our excursion canceled for our Cozumel port day, Dec 29th on Oasis. WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiseGus Posted September 29, 2021 Report Share Posted September 29, 2021 None of my close in November sailings from Galveston have changed Cozumel. Sounds like a Florida problem to me, as Matt allued Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurdueFlyer Posted October 13, 2021 Report Share Posted October 13, 2021 update: signed into rc.com today, and our Nov 3rd 4-nighter on Oasis has changed from Cozumel to Nassau / Coco Cay. The cruise planner reflects the stops although there are virtually no excursions to choose from (Thrill water park at Coco Cay not even showing up). I think this is a very recent change. Have not received an email from the TA yet. This sailing was already swapped once, from Labadee, to Cozumel, and now to the Bahamas. I have a Side-to-Side right after that, on Monday Nov 7th on Serenade out of Tampa, and that one is still showing Cozumel / Costa Maya. I wonder if this will be the next domino to fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gears Posted October 13, 2021 Report Share Posted October 13, 2021 Our November 28th cruise on the Jewel has a stop in Cozumel scheduled for December 2nd. As of right now the itinerary remains unchanged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
levib2 Posted October 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 We were changed from Cozumel to Costa Maya for our December 2nd cruise on Serenade. Have to check things out...thinking of Jaime's, Krazy Lobster or Blue Kay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffB Posted October 24, 2021 Report Share Posted October 24, 2021 I have no doubt that part of what is playing here is that Caribbean ports - the ones that are ostensibly open to cruise ships - are limiting how many ships they will host. Part of that is country or locally specific mitigation measures to reduce cruise passenger overload in the surrounding city. As RCL sets out to ramp up sailings, they're finding that operationally berthing space is limited and port agents may be finding local authorities reluctant to have 6000 or more cruise passengers descend on their city. There's still a lot of COVID fear and apprehension. I know berthing space was a factor on our recent Apex sailing that was to port in Lisbon Portugal. That port call got cancelled and replaced with a sea day. This weekend there was an article in the Economist about Asia reopening to tourism. The most striking finding involving this process was that the Asian countries that most depended on tourism as a staple of their economies were the one's opening up much slower to tourists, being selective about which citizens can visit for a holiday and were likely to have more restrictive COVID mitgation measures in place. One factor dictating slow openings according to the various Asian travel ministers interviewed for the article was concern about overwhelming hotels, bars and restaurants that had been closed for nearly 2y. One has to acknowledge, restarting travel and leisure dependent economies is not a whole lot different than restarting a cruise ship, just on a much larger scale. Canadian-Cruiser 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted October 24, 2021 Report Share Posted October 24, 2021 1 hour ago, JeffB said: I have no doubt that part of what is playing here is that Caribbean ports - the ones that are ostensibly open to cruise ships - are limiting how many ships they will host. Part of that is country or locally specific mitigation measures to reduce cruise passenger overload in the surrounding city. As RCL sets out to ramp up sailings, they're finding that operationally berthing space is limited and port agents may be finding local authorities reluctant to have 6000 or more cruise passengers descend on their city. There's still a lot of COVID fear and apprehension. I know berthing space was a factor on our recent Apex sailing that was to port in Lisbon Portugal. That port call got cancelled and replaced with a sea day. This weekend there was an article in the Economist about Asia reopening to tourism. The most striking finding involving this process was that the Asian countries that most depended on tourism as a staple of their economies were the one's opening up much slower to tourists, being selective about which citizens can visit for a holiday and were likely to have more restrictive COVID mitgation measures in place. One factor dictating slow openings according to the various Asian travel ministers interviewed for the article was concern about overwhelming hotels, bars and restaurants that had been closed for nearly 2y. One has to acknowledge, restarting travel and leisure dependent economies is not a whole lot different than restarting a cruise ship, just on a much larger scale. I don't think it's as much limiting how many ships can be there (with regard to covid), but the fact that having 3 destinations closed for various reasons (Cayman, DR, Labadee), 1 just ramping up (Jamaica), and the geography of the Caribbean making it not practical to go to other countries with those others closed just causes a log jam at the countries that are open Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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