prairiecruisecannuckers

Not acquainted with the rules of posting (new to this). But in truth I was curious to know if skipping ports is common to other cruise lines besides Carnival (I did email my question directly to Carnival and John as well). And frankly I asummed this rarely happened, and usually only becuase of Hurricanes and things like that. I still find this very disturbing - and although I have read the fine print - I just didn't think skipping ports was actually something that happened except on very rare occasions.( Especially not multiple time in one month)

So my follow up question to skipping ports is - do some cruise lines tend to skip more ports then others? I have cruised 9 times and this is the first time I experienced it. And when I started to look into this cruiseline, it appears they seem to do it consistently. I'm starting to think that from now on - I would like to research a cruise ship's past records in skipping ports before I choose which line to go with.

Please explain to me how cruise ships can arbitrarely not stop at some of the ports. This summer same cruise line but different dates- skipped their Monte Carlo stop (they said there was nowhere to park); and another time just weeks before that they also skipped Monte Carlo - this time because the waves were too rough; and just this past week they didn't stop at Naples (they said it was because of a strike); and when we took their 9 day Med. cruise two weeks ago - they skipped our stop at Palma (same thing - strike on the island-they said).

I know I pick my cruises based on the ports - is this common to have a cruise ship skip ports on almost everyone of their cruises?

Please explain to me how cruise ships can arbitrarely not stop at some of the ports. This summer on different cruises have skipped their Monte Carlo stop (they said there was nowhere to park); and another time just weeks before that they also skipped Monte Carlo - this time because the waves were too rough; and just this past week they didn't stop at Naples (they said it was because of a strike); and when we took their 9 day Med. cruise two weeks ago - they skipped our stop at Palma (same thing - strike on the island-they said).

I know I pick my cruises based on the ports - is this common to have a cruise ship skip ports on almost everyone of their cruises?