Bouyant

When you sign up for the cruise, you do agree to accept changed itineraries, so you are getting what you paid for.

Is that due to size? Prima's a big ship. Star, small by today's standards. Is it NCL, or the port saying they can't land there? FWIW, the anchored ship is the biggest object in any of these ports. People on shore can hear the cruise director's onboard announcements.

I'm wondering if cruise lines (not specifically NCL) look to do "new and exciting" destinations (in good faith) that may be difficult to sustain and ultimately get discontinued. Just completed NCL's 10 day Iceland-Greenland (7/13-23) on the Star: Port 1 Djupivogur: Ship pulled into the bay, dropped anchor, attempted tender and canceled the port due to rough seas. (Note that this cruise's itinerary includes this port, but the map does not.) Port 2 Akureyri: Docked without incident. Port 3 Isafjordur: Tendered without incident. Port 4 Nanortalik: Tendered, but village has only one spot to dock a tender, so process is painfully slow. As the ship gives priority to excursions & gold members, it was hours before others would land. Places were in the village were already closing up. It was also over an hour waiting in the rain to tender back. Back on the boat, they announced that Ports 5 and 6, Paamiut and Nuuk would would be canceled due to weather and ice. Instead, they would cruise halfway through Prince Christian Sound, then Qaqortoq. Captain said that the ice was unusual for this time of year. Day at sea, took hours to get out of Nanortalik due to ice. Waited for a cargo ship to break the ice. (BTW, scenery was amazing.) Announced that tender tickets for Qaqortoq would be distributed at 7 AM. Port 5 Qaqortoq: 7 AM announcement that port is canceled. Sailing back to Reykjavik. Offered shipboard credit and discount toward future cruises. Arrived a day early in RVK. Passengers were free to enjoy RVK an extra day and enjoy the ship. My sense is not that NCL did anything wrong here. The captain seemed to make every effort to get to the places that they said they would go. They could have bypassed Djupivogur entirely. They could have switched Norway for Greenland, as they did on a sailing in 2022. (We were ready for this and had a Norway guidebook.) Or headed back to Reykjavik right from Nanortalik. But if you want to visit Greenland, it's probably best to choose a method other than cruise ship, be flexible and allow yourself more time.