chrismelissa Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Why doesnt Royal Caribbean cruise to South America , like Brazil, Chile, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barjpoe Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 no, We had to use her sister - Celebrity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steverk Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Royal doesn't sail there but a Curious thing happened the day before yesterday. I looked at the website and searched for cruises. I selected Departure ports and Valparaiso was listed. Wow! That's in Chile! I selected it to see what was happening and no sailings appeared. Could it be that Royal is preparing to sail from South America? Stay tuned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaMG Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 2 hours ago, chrismelissa said: Why doesnt Royal Caribbean cruise to South America , like Brazil, Chile, etc. 16 minutes ago, steverk said: Royal doesn't sail there but a Curious thing happened the day before yesterday. I looked at the website and searched for cruises. I selected Departure ports and Valparaiso was listed. Wow! That's in Chile! I selected it to see what was happening and no sailings appeared. Could it be that Royal is preparing to sail from South America? Stay tuned. They did in the past. I don't know why they stopped but I would guess it was down to how much money they were or weren't making sailing those routes. Valparaiso is a departure port for one of the segments of Serenade's World cruise. That's why you can see it but nothing comes up when you select it. There's a separate website for that cruise but I don't know if you can book it online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Essentially, they can make more money with their ships elsewhere. Part of this decision has to do with the Brazilian currency value tumbling last decade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonOasis Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 3 hours ago, chrismelissa said: Why doesnt Royal Caribbean cruise to South America , like Brazil, Chile, etc. I asked this question some time ago on this site and I even sent Royal an email. The response on this site from most people was they use to then they stop mostly because they were making money off South America cruises. The response I got from Royal via email was thank you so much Mr. Smith for your email if you wish to experience a South American cruise please visit CelebrityCruises.com, and although you will not received credit on your Crown and Anchor account for any cruise on Celebrity, Celebrity will honor the status you've earned with us here at Royal. That was the response I received from Royal, so I have no idea if Royal ever intends to go back into South America or if their strategy going forward is to continue to push passengers who wish to cruise out of South America over to Celebrity Cruises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinJ Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 South America is a destination we're interested in. Since we'll reach D+ this May we're already looking at Celebrity cruises and have booked one for 2024. Will look at them for South America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobroo Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 I’m sure I’m pretty much alone on this but I’m hoping they mean Valparaiso, Indiana. I looked on Google Maps and it looks like there might be a retention pond big enough for a smaller ship. <crosses fingers> Austin, FionaMG, SpeedNoodles and 4 others 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steverk Posted March 12, 2023 Report Share Posted March 12, 2023 Valparaiso Chile is listed again on the website, but doesn't have any cruises. Very strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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