Navigator replacing Jewel out of San Juan May 2015 on

The weekly newspaper Caribbean Business (vol. 43 no. 3, p. 23) mentions in a broader article about tourism that RCI will be replacing the Jewel with the Navigator year round out of San Juan beginning May 2015.

Sounds good to me.

I am eagerly awaiting the schedule for that repo!

One un-happy camper here. Love sailing the Radiance class out of San Juan every winter. Did AOS once and found it just OK. Why would they have 2 Voyager class ships sailing from San Juan? Are you sure Navigator isn't replacing AOS?

Oooo interesting information, thank you for sharing!

Can't wait for the schedules to see if it is true!

Jo :)

One un-happy camper here. Love sailing the Radiance class out of San Juan every winter. Did AOS once and found it just OK. Why would they have 2 Voyager class ships sailing from San Juan? Are you sure Navigator isn't replacing AOS?

No,because the Adventure leaves for Europe first week of May 2015. The Jewel also leaves for the Pacific in May 2015, I believe. I haven't heard anything about the Adventure coming back to San Juan after the summer of that year.

Worst case will be they only have one class year round out of San Juan, but like you I also hope they keep the same Voyager/Radiance formula for the winter.

One un-happy camper here. Love sailing the Radiance class out of San Juan every winter. Did AOS once and found it just OK. Why would they have 2 Voyager class ships sailing from San Juan? Are you sure Navigator isn't replacing AOS?

More or less both. ;)

NAVIGATOR OF THE SEAS is replacing JEWEL OF THE SEAS for the summer season 2015, but it is very likely that JEWEL OF THE SEAS returns to San Juan in winter, so that both JEWEL and NAVGIGATOR sail out of San Juan in winter 2015/16.

So ADVENTURE will be deployed elseware.

Fingers crossed for jewel to come full time to the west coast. San Francisco Alaska/Mexico. We need a ship here. Loyal to royal.

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Fingers crossed for jewel to come full time to the west coast. San Francisco Alaska/Mexico. We need a ship here. Loyal to royal.

 

 

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Yes, we do need a ship on the west coast, San Francisco would be the greatest, like you said Alaska/Mexico. Come on RCI, let's see if you can make this happen. :D

Yes, we do need a ship on the west coast, San Francisco would be the greatest, like you said Alaska/Mexico. Come on RCI, let's see if you can make this happen. :D

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The weekly newspaper Caribbean Business (vol. 43 no. 3, p. 23) mentions in a broader article about tourism that RCI will be replacing the Jewel with the Navigator year round out of San Juan beginning May 2015.

 

Sounds good to me.

Link to the article you note above.

http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/prnt_ed/tourism-set-for-modest-growth-this-year-9467.html

Link to the article you note above.

 

http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/prnt_ed/tourism-set-for-modest-growth-this-year-9467.html

Thanks!

The weekly newspaper Caribbean Business (vol. 43 no. 3, p. 23) mentions in a broader article about tourism that RCI will be replacing the Jewel with the Navigator year round out of San Juan beginning May 2015.

 

Sounds good to me.

Can't wait to book it!! Thanks for sharing this information. :):)

Awesome news! WE were on the Jewel this past May, and thought it was very blah, especially entertainment-wise. Would love to sail NV on the southern route!

Awesome news! WE were on the Jewel this past May, and thought it was very blah, especially entertainment-wise. Would love to sail NV on the southern route!

Same here, NV is one of my favorite ships, and have always wanted to do Southern Carib. Will book this one for sure.

Does anyone know, or have an idea, which ship will be coming to Galveston?

The Jewel, like all of the smaller Radiance class ships, usually does not provide the non-stop entertainment choices available on the bigger ships. But for port intensive itineraries in warm Summer weather it is great. That is why we are doing a b2b in July. It will be a change from a combined 4 weeks on the Oasis class duo in 2011 and 2013. And the Jewel is the only one of the foursome we have never been on. Looking forward to photographing the pool elephants. :D

Does anyone know, or have an idea, which ship will be coming to Galveston?

I'm hearing either Freedom or Independance. :D

Awesome news! WE were on the Jewel this past May, and thought it was very blah, especially entertainment-wise. Would love to sail NV on the southern route!

That's exactly how we felt about Jewel... now 8 years ago! Just a very blah ship. Nothing special about it and the entertainment was the worst I've seen.

The weekly newspaper Caribbean Business (vol. 43 no. 3, p. 23) mentions in a broader article about tourism that RCI will be replacing the Jewel with the Navigator year round out of San Juan beginning May 2015.

 

Sounds good to me.

I'm so excited. It looks like I'm finally going to book a Southern Caribbean cruise :D. I didn't want to sail on a Radiance class ships again and I had been waiting for a second generation Voyager class ship or Freedom class ship to sail from SJU. It looks like its finally going to happen!

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crown and anchor told us on our cruise last week that jewel of the seas will be going to west coast in 2015. :)

Was also told that either Indy or Freedom will replace Navigator FWIW!

I'm so excited. It looks like I'm finally going to book a Southern Caribbean cruise :D. I didn't want to sail on a Radiance class ships again and I had been waiting for a second generation Voyager class ship or Freedom class ship to sail from SJU. It looks like its finally going to happen!

Roll Tide! I was stationed at Fort Rucker at various times during my military career and I consider Alabama my second home. It will be great to have you down here!

All the others too, of course.

I'm so excited. It looks like I'm finally going to book a Southern Caribbean cruise :D. I didn't want to sail on a Radiance class ships again and I had been waiting for a second generation Voyager class ship or Freedom class ship to sail from SJU. It looks like its finally going to happen!

Same here! I know we've discussed this before, but the pool deck was so small, I couldn't believe it. That's where I spend my time and I was so disappointed not being able to find a chair at all. Radiance was my least-favorite ship. Can't wait to book Navigator.

We're sailing on the NOS this April. So glad we'll get a chance to see her after the extensive refurb. but also excited to get a larger class ship out of Galveston.

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I also like the fact that a large Voyager ship does the summer cruises from San Juan, the Radiance ships are more flexible for other areas.

Then JEWEL seems to sail Alaska and West Coast during the summer period 2015, but she seems to return in winter to SJU, so both JEWEL and NAVIGATOR sail from SJU in winter 2015.

Does anyone have an idea where ADVENTURE could go than, because she seems to be deployed somewhere else than?? :confused:

Looks that Adventure is the big mystery as she doesn't appear on any port schedule.