Freedom Jan 2025?

[TravisMA81]

There aren't any sailings from December to February 25.  Will it be in dry dock, or those dates haven't been added yet?

[Jolly Ogre]

That is what we all have been wondering for several months now...I have a sailing booked on Freedom for Dec 7-15 2024.

[WhoCruiser]

Much discussion on this subject and the cruise line's extremely annoying silence on the issue on at least two other discussion threads. Apparently it was originally supposed to be dry docked for several weeks during January and February (which is just about the 5-year statutory mark since it was last dry docked, so that made a hell of a lot of sense) and that's why no dates were announced during that time period when the schedules for that late 2024 early 2025 winter schedule became public. Then a couple of months ago the mid-november through late December dates suddenly disappeared with no explanation, and the ship showed up with a scheduled port call on the Harbor Master's public register in Funchal, Madiera, midway across the ocean on its way to Europe in mid-november. Those of us who know the business well enough have already figured out that they switched the dry dock period to an earlier time, but they have NOT bothered to cancel or even inform those booked on the November and December voyages of even the possibility that they may be $#!t out of luck now, nor have they reannounced new dates in January and February for the time that it will probably be available now. My travel agent has specifically inquired on this issue with his contacts at the cruise line and has been repeatedly told that it is a simple clerical error on the website, which is obviously bull$#!t because if that were true it would have been corrected long ago, and would certainly not have caused the ship to suddenly show up on a port register halfway across the ocean on its way to dry dock in Spain, hahaha how dumb do they think we are? Hell of a way to run a cruise line.