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Princess and Virgin announced the replacement cruises in one go. Why can’t Royal?

I have the feeling in a few weeks the Media Section in Miami will come out bragging about an Anthem voyage from London to Dubai around Africa. In the meantime cruisers who have been booked to go on the original cruise for a year will have made other arrangements.

Not a option. We were only doing Southampton to Rome.

We are just waiting to see what the others in the group are doing and looking at other options. The Explorer option does look good. I haven’t received anything from my USA Travel Agent yet. Just waiting for this email to arrive. 1:02 7:32 About Your Upcoming Travels Dear Guest, We have all been closely monitoring the unrest in the Red Sea and were hopeful everything would settle down. Unfortunately, due to security risks and with the safety of our guests and crew top of mind, we've made the difficult decision that Anthem of the Seas will instead have to transit around the southern tip of Africa. As a result, our October 14th, 2024, sailing onboard Anthem of the Seas has been cancelled. We're truly sorry for the impact that this has on your vacation plans. The time and effort you took to plan your cruise is important to us, so we've put together some alternate options that we hope will work for you and those in your party. Option 1: Rebook our Explorer of the Seas 8-Night Greece, Cyprus & Turkey Voyage sailing on October 19th, 2024: Sailing from Rome (Civitavecchia), Italy and debarking in Athens (Piraeus), Greece and visiting: • Santorini, Greece | Mykonos, Greece | Ephesus (Kusadasi), Turkey | Bodrum, Turkey |& Limassol, Cyprus What you'll receive: • Your original stateroom category price will either be protected at your original cruise fare rate or reduced to the current cruise fare rate (whichever is lower). This excludes taxes, fees, gratuities, and other non-cruise fare items. If you were already paid in full and your cruise fare rate decreases, we'll provide you with a refund for any difference in pricing. To sweeten the offer, you'll receive a credit to spend onboard per $100 USD for Interior, Ocean View, and Balcony staterooms | 5200 USD for Suites Plus, an additional 550 USD for each third or more guest to spend onboard. And, you'll also be reimbursed for non-refundable, pre-purchased transportation change fees incurred (such as a flight, train ticket, or rental car). We'll cover up to $200 USD (E161) per guest for Domestic changes, or up to $400 USD (£321) per guest for international changes. Please email your receipts and booking information to RoyalGuestRelations@rcel.com for review, Include the following information in your email: Booking ID, Anthem 10/23/24, Guest Name, and the last four digits of the

I will just sit tight and see what happens. Who knows how long it will take for the actual cancellation to happen. The problem is the replacement Royal Europe cruises are so far overpriced at the moment including the Trans Atlantic’s. Royal are making too much money off the Singapore to Brisbane Voyager repositioning November 2025 to change to this common sense schedule Cape Town to Fremantle. Getting to and from Caperown will be worse for Aussies then the current status of flights Oz to Honolulu. Singapore has heaps of daily flights to Australian cities. Voyager leaving Rome around 20 October 2025 looks a very possible scenario to take on time at Dubai.

Anthem of the Seas appears on this Southampton schedule 10 October 2024 the day she is meant to be in Madeira. This is an extra date. These are the current cruises. 2 to 14 October Canary Island Cruise. 14 to 23 October Southampton to Rome 23 October to 7 November Rome to Dubai 7 to 21 November Dubai to Singapore. It looks probable the Canary Island Cruise will be cut short and go elsewhere. Then depart Southampton 10 October 2024 for Dubai via Capetown. https://www.southamptonvts.co.uk/Live_Information/Shipping_Movements_and_Cruise_Ship_Schedule/Cruise_Ship_Schedule/?source=122648

The number one advice I can give to people booking any portion of the Voyager repositioning from 20 October 2025 to 13 December 2025 including the one wayers to and from Ravenna. Don’t book anything that you cannot get your money back on. This includes airfares. accommodation and tours.

I agree chilli. . Voyager should have been coming to Oz on something similar via Cape Town and Fremantle. But by the sounds of it the Singapore to Brisbane sector has seen heaps of cabins sold.and I cannot see that changing while Voyager is still the ship for Brisbane. But good luck Royal to change things in a hurry for your Voyager repositioning.

Chilli i just got the spam email to buy drinks packages, internet, speciality restaurants, tours etc for Anthem repositioning.

Chilli nothing. Us Anthem cruisers are still waiting to see what happens. Those Anthem cruises have been on the webpage more this week then other recent weeks. Surely it isn’t because of the Voyager cruises going on sale.

I wish Royal would hurry up and do something with Anthem from Southampton to Singapore in October. Another cruise line not going thru Suez. “Marla Cruises has announced the further cancellation of voyages in Asia and the Middle East for Marella Discovery 2, citing safety concerns for the troubled situation in the Red Sea. At the moment, Red Sea tensions include increased pirate activity, including the use of drones, to attack various vessels. This has caused numerous cruise lines to cancel sailings in the region or reroute voyages around the west coast of Africa rather than risk attacks in the Red Sea.’

Thanks Mate Unless they are going to swap Radiance or Serenade onto Enchantment runs to free it up. it doesn’t make sense for now. Oz will need 3 ships when this Lelepa opens. Melbourne could be an option for Enchantment.

Could Serenade and/or Radiance be getting used for Vision ships Royal are off loading?

I know. I think they are dreaming. It should be coming via South Africa.