Posted on 12/03/2020 11:01:53 AM PST by Capt. Tom
Carnival Cruise Line has provided a major update that includes another delay for the new Mardi Gras cruise ship and cruises in February out of three homeports. This comes as the cruise line continues to work on making sure operations can resume safely in 2021.
Mardi Gras Delayed Again The Mardi Gras will be delayed once again which will be a huge disappointment to those guests that were looking forward to the ship’s debut in February 2021 out of Port Canaveral.
Carnival has said the ship will be delivered from the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland later this month but she won’t kickstart sailings until April 24, 2021.
Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line, said:
“We apologize to our guests but we must continue to take a thoughtful, deliberate and measured approach as we map out our return to operations in 2021.”
“Our commitment to the health and safety of our guests, crew and the communities we visit is at the forefront of our decisions and operations.”
One of the most anticipated new vessels in North America for 2021 is the first XL-class in the fleet and powered by Liquified Natural Gas (LNG). one of her biggest new features is the first roller coaster at sea named BOLT.
Carnival has already started email those impacted guests about the further cancellations covering compensation options:
On Cruise Hive we’ve already covered her recent sea trials along with videos and photos during the fitting out of all the interior spaces.
Mardi Gras was originally scheduled to debut on August 31, 2020, out of Copenhagen but was delayed until November 2020 due to the pandemic. She was then delayed again until February 6 out of Florida, and now cruisers will have to wait even longer to enjoy Carnival’s most advanced and largest cruise ship ever.
More Carnival Cruises Cancelled Carnival Cruise Line has also announced further cancellations with departures from Miami, Port Canaveral, and Galveston, all cancelled through February 2021. This means operations will now remain on hold until March 2021 at the earliest.
Carnival is working on implementing new health protocols and working through the new Conditional Sailing Order announced by the CDC on October 30, 2020.
The Miami-based cruise line was previously planning on restarting cruises in February with a limited amount of ships from just three homeports. It did seem this would be the final delay, but unfortunately, cruising will just have to wait a little longer just like other major cruise lines that have also suspended operations well into 2021.
A hostile CDC and the Cruise restart in the middle of the flu season aren't helping either.
And who knows what the Biden appointments would bring to this Cruise restart problem?
A great time to be in the cruise scrapping business as cruise lines are planning on selling off more ships than normal. -Tom
Turn them into homeless shelters. Free drugs.
apparently we just need to wait and see what the communist part of china tells us to do, and then we will just do that
One thing I am probably too paranoid about is the LNG fuel. I know freighters use LNG but a passenger ship has me thinking. A fire near the storage tanks or leaks would be huge fireball.
In trying to placate the environmentalists and green new deal people, expect to see more new cruise ships getting away from fossil diesel fuels.-Tom
Lost 2 more cruises today...
That makes 11...
The Cruise Gremlins hate me !!!
(SOB) (SOB)
I NEED A CRUISE# !!!!
.... A fire near the storage tanks or leaks would be huge fireball. Plus a Italian captain showing off near shore in shallow water.....
“Lost 2 more cruises today...
That makes 11...
The Cruise Gremlins hate me !!!
(SOB) (SOB)
I NEED A CRUISE# !!!!”
I knew you were looking for a Mardi Gras cruise so on Oct 27 I sent you a Freepmail hoping you would make it, but alas, that Cruise has gone downhill also.
Makes me wonder how many more months can these Cruise lines go with out income, and monthly debts of hundreds of millions of dollars? -Tom
“Makes me wonder how many more months can these Cruise lines go with out income, and monthly debts of hundreds of millions of dollars? “
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Just saw this tonight on Cruise Industry news. -Tom
Looking to raise cash, Royal Caribbean Group on Thursday announced it would raise another $1 billion in a stock offering.
The company revealed it had filed a prospectus supplement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, under which the C]company may offer and sell shares of its common stock, having an aggregate offering price of up to $1.0 billion.
Royal Caribbean said it expects to use the net proceeds from sales of Shares under the ATM Offering for general corporate purposes.
Capt. Tom wrote: “More delays in trying to restart cruising.
A hostile CDC and the Cruise restart in the middle of the flu season aren’t helping either.”
The cruising public isn’t helping a lot either. Many demands on Cruise Critic for guarantees that all cruises will be virus free. That isn’t going to happen.
Rick Munarriz of Motley Fool has picked up on the potential loss of Cruisers. Here is an excerpt-
"Someone's going to have to jump through the CDC hoops, because by the time March rolls around it will have been a year since the industry was generating any kind of meaningful revenue.
The longer the lull the more this becomes about wooing back passengers than simply resuming operations. Cruise lines can't control the vaccination process, but right now the waters are too chilly for the one industry that they can manage."
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