geneandmary

The ship behind them is the Insignia.

https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9156527

“We cannot afford to have people who are not even Floridians dumped into South Florida using up those valuable resources," he said, adding he is in touch with the White House over the fate of these ships. “We view this as a big, big problem and we don’t want to see people dumped in southern Florida right now.”

dumped?

There are other problems with the new website.

The lack of info about tendering is a problem when planning a cruise, and in general the site is awkward and clumsy to use. Say you want to print out the itinerary, it does not fit on one page, but many with lots of wasted space. We like to make short notes for each port, but that's a lot of wasted paper, and shrinking the page before printing doesn't work, since it bounces back to full size when printing. We also like to know which ports have tendering, require visas and so on, but this basic and important info is no longer available. We called HAL and were told that they can send this info, but if you have a travel agent you have to work through them. HAL can't possibly have gotten any input from people who actually use the website to look for a cruise.

Gene and Mary

The lack of info about tendering is a problem when planning a cruise, and in general the site is awkward and clumsy to use. Say you want to print out the itinerary, it does not fit on one page, but many with lots of wasted space. We like to make short notes for each port, but that's a lot of wasted paper, and shrinking the page before printing doesn't work, since it bounces back to full size when printing. We also like to know which ports have tendering, require visas and so on, but this basic and important info is no longer available. We called HAL and were told that they can send this info, but if you have a travel agent you have to work through them. HAL can't possibly have gotten any input from people who actually use the website to look for a cruise.

Gene and Mary

I can't imagine why we wouldn't get permission, but we will let you know. Thanks to everybody for their input.

I agree.

The whole point about cabotage laws is to prevent foreign companies to transport people within their borders. This makes sense, if you accept the premise that cabotage laws are designed to protect the local companies. If OP is traveling within the same country, and is NOT crossing international borders, just exactly under what legal theory would OP’s behavior be against cabotage laws?

In any case, yes, it makes sense for OP to inform HAL what OP will do. And if getting a permission is problematic, some might suggest that OP just get off the ship at the first port, forget to make it on time back on board, and heroically make it back onto the ship in the second port.

We will just try to get HAL's permission. We do not want to be nuisance passengers who just "miss" the ship.

But apparently it's different when you get off in one port & get back on in another. Not sure why, if it's the same country.

We will be on a cruise this summer with 2 stops in France 2 days in a row about 200 miles apart, so we want to rent a car & drive around between them, meeting the ship on the next day. We mentioned this to our TA and she said HAL requires you to get written authorization from their office beforehand (which she is now doing).

Is this new? My impression was you just had to notify the front desk that you'd be meeting them the next day.

Has anyone done this lately?