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We're booked on the Sky for April 2018 and I checked a similar RCC cruise this week and it was cheaper for a comparable cabin (checking again tonight a lot cheaper if we sail in January) + it's a 5 day cruise as opposed to the 4 day NCL.

We're grandfathered in on the NCL cruise, booked the first of June. To book a new cruise we may lose any benefits of having made a deposit before the Trump Cuba news conference. Not sure that will even matter once the dust settles and regulations are in place.

My main interest is being in Havana for two days and hiring who I want to as a tour guide. I don't want to commit to cruise tours only.

My husband and I are 60ish. NCL may fit our demographic better. I think RCC is a younger crowd?

We're booked on Norwegian Sky April 2018. Time to cancel if needed, but I hoping it doesn't come to that. We booked our cruise the first of June so we should be grandfathered in. It'll be interesting to see how the cruise industry handles this. Booking a cruise excursion is not how I want to experience Havana. I've heard so many wonderful stories about the private car tours people have engaged and they sound wonderful. Posters on TA think "Support for the Cuban People" instead of "People to People" could be the answer.

Cuba was briefly discussed on "Face the Nation" this morning. Here is a transcript of the question and answer:

JOHN DICKERSON: Let me ask you about Cuba. Speaking of consequences, there are new provisions the president has put in place to put pressure on Cuba for its human rights record. But when the president-- go ahead.

MARCO RUBIO: Go ahead. I'm sorry. No, no. I wouldn't view it just as putting pressure. I really don't. I think this is an effort to strengthen individual Cubans. Understand what this does. This basically says that American travelers to Cuba, they'll continue to fly on commercial airlines or get there in a cruise.

But when they get there, they have to spend their money primarily with individual Cubans who own private businesses, which is what everybody who supported the Obama opening was always bragging about. They were saying there was all these new small businesses. Well, we want to put them in a privileged position.

And so American travelers to Cuba will have to spend their money with them instead of the Cuban military. That was the goal of this, is to empower individual Cubans to be economically independent of the Castro military and of the Castro regime.

I saw this on twitter from @marcorubio:

Americans who travel to Cuba can stay & spend with any non-military business on island. Now it's up to Castro govt. to allow them to benefit.

April 9th for us too, I hope! Booked an aft balcony cabin, first time trying aft balcony.

We booked for April 2018 for Cuba. Keeping fingers crossed on Trump's decision. If not we will decide from there were our cruise will be but probably not Sky to Bahamas though. Will pick another ship and ports if NCL allows us to change.

We're cruising in April 2018 as well, the April 9th sailing. Fingers crossed we're able to go.