AnniversaryCruizer

On 3/20/2023 at 5:29 PM, AnniversaryCruizer said:

I'm booked on Radiance of the Seas in August and we were scheduled to dock at ORE.  After looking at this thread, I rechecked the website and saw that my favorite port, Skagway, is now off the agenda.   I checked the App, and it is also off the list of ports the ship is going to.  They still offer excursions for Skagway but our only stop that day is Haines from 7 pm - 11 pm.  I called the cruise line and was told to uninstall the App and re-install it as well as rebooting my computer and clearing out cookies.  I'm not the dummy he thought we all are.  He said they had not gotten any communication about a change in ports.  

Update on our cruise planned for the Skagway port in August. . .   Without a satisfactory or definitive answer from the cruise line regarding whether or not our ship would dock in Skagway, I called the Cruise Line Agency of Alaska and spoke with a very knowledgeable and helpful man.  He checked and verified our ship will not lose their spot in Skagway.  I encourage anyone wanting information from people that are in the know to give them a call.  The number for the  Skagway office is (907)983-2815.

On 2/3/2023 at 4:20 PM, Panhandle Couple said:

I have been looking at on line articles, and no mention of anything past late November.

The status then was as follows:

Landslide area is still being worked on, much of the work manually.

 

A new large "holding net will be installed to replace the destroyed one, and an additional, closer to dock, net installed.

 

This will NOT allow two ships to dock however.  It will be the same as the end of last year.  One ship docking at the far end and tendering in to the small boat harbor.  No one will be allowed to "walk the dock".

 

An expansion of the other "ore dock" to allow 1 small, and 1 large ship will not happen.  Neither RCL or NCL said they can bring their ships in unless the plan lengthens the dock.  With a steep drop of, that is nearly impossible, tripling (or more) the cost.  A moot point, as the cheapest bid for the original plan was 75% over budget.

 

Carnival has the lease for the large dock for 1 more year.  No discussion of what happens after that.

 

Tendering another large ship further away is a problem.  The water is deep, and there are not enough small boat tenders to support.  The tide also is large, up to 20ft, making tender access at all times difficult.

 

Does anyone here have any updated info?

Rumors or inside info from the locals there?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

I'm booked on Radiance of the Seas in August and we were scheduled to dock at ORE.  After looking at this thread, I rechecked the website and saw that my favorite port, Skagway, is now off the agenda.   I checked the App, and it is also off the list of ports the ship is going to.  They still offer excursions for Skagway but our only stop that day is Haines from 7 pm - 11 pm.  I called the cruise line and was told to uninstall the App and re-install it as well as rebooting my computer and clearing out cookies.  I'm not the dummy he thought we all are.  He said they had not gotten any communication about a change in ports.