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Port bookings in Europe from NCL 2026 so far: NCL Dawn every week in Gibraltar, so she will sail something in the Med NCL Star every 3 weeks in Reykjavik and 4 calls in Bergen, seems that she will replace the NCL Prima cruises 2025 from Southampton to Reykjavik and back. NCL Gem, Pearl, Viva and Escape booked around Mid April 2026 in Ponta Delgada, these will be transatlantics to Europe. Questionable is also, which ship will take over the Baltic cruises of Dawn..

Amsterdam is still available for cruise ships, NCL Dawn was the 3 days ago. 2026 they will limit the cruise calls to 1 ship per day. and they try to move the ships until 2035 to a cruise quay outside Amsterdam.

Recently the NCL Vice President mentioned in an interview on the Getaway that the few Baltic Sea cruises they are offering this year were one of the best-booked cruises, contrary to the expectations. He said that in 2022 and 2023 it was difficult to fill the ships in this area because of the war, but people are booking Baltic Sea cruises again. Therefore, he also mentioned that a larger ship will most likely be stationed in the Baltic Sea in 2026 for more departures in this area. They added recently also 2 Baltic cruises on NCL Prima for Sep/Oct 2025.

2 new ships ordered with an option for a third one. Delivery is expected 2028 and the ships will have 61.800 GT with 690 passenger capacity. https://cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/2024/06/crystal-cruises-orders-two-new-ships-from-fincantieri/

I spotted today Zuiderdam today in Kiel, Germany, it is her last call here for years.

I think you didn't understand my post that way, I didnt say that she will not sail anymore from Kiel. This year there was a grand voyage from Kiel to Dubai bookable from 19 Oct 2024 with stop in Copenhagen on 20 Oct 2024 and ending in Dubai on 16 Nov 2024. They cancelled this one because they decided to go without passengers from Kiel straight to Dubai via Africa, it takes around 4 weeks. That's why the last Norwegian cruise on 13 Oct - 20 Oct 2024 Copenhagen to Copenhagen has been removed and it is now instead a 6 day cruise ending in Kiel on 19 Oct 2024. That's why I think the same could happen to your cruise next year if they plan again to sail in the winter 2025/26 from Dubai as it is at the moment the last Norwegian Fjord cruise for 2025. So on your case the ship sails regularly the 04 oct - 11 Oct 2025 Kiel-Kiel cruise and then heading straight from Kiel to Dubai without stopping in Copenhagen anymore on 12 Oct. That's what I think at the moment.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it will then be stationed in the winter in the Orient, like this year. On October 13th this year there is also only one 6 day trip from Copenhagen to Kiel and they cancelled the 7 day one, because I heard that it will then sail empty with no passengers on 19 Oct from Kiel to Dubai via Africa (due to the war). The same could happen also for 2025 if they plan again to send her to Dubai after her Northern Europe summer season.

Which date is your cruise?

The cruise out of Copenhagen from 30 August until 06 Sep 2025 is available and is ending in Copenhagen, so why would they cancel the embarking from Copenhagen on that day, doesn't make sense for me.

Here is the summer schedule of the ferries in Kiel. Price is 5€ per Person one way and MSC is always Saturdays there, so you have to watch the right side of the PDF "sonnabends, sonn- und feiertags" https://www.sfk-kiel.de/resources/persistent/3382a92b068fcadee98de382c956b37bf2c0ab0a/F1_Sommer2024_Folder_DRUCK.pdf There are also waiting a lot of taxis at the cruise terminal. For the way back from Laboe you could call "0431 680101" for a Taxi and they will come within 15-20 mins. https://www.taxikiel.de/

A big TA had last year P&Os summer 2025 sailings on 20 March 2023. So maybe the summer 2026 is not far away if they keep this rhythm.

Any chance that anyone can upload the pdf here ?

Stockholm released the 2024 cruise list. Brilliant Lady is booked there 5 times overnight between 12 May 2024 and 24 June 2024. https://www.portsofstockholm.com/vessel-calls/ Don't know if they are actual anymore but seems that they also planned to sail some Baltic cruises. Maybe 2025 then.

Seems that NCL is making changes, NCL Sun not bookable anymore for the Europe Cruises 2025. Her last cruise in the system ends now on 28 March 2025 in Singapore. I looked at the port schedules of Amsterdam and Le Havre for 2025 and they show now the NCL Sky in Europe instead of Sun.

Swell on Saturday in the Bay of Biscay : https://www.ventusky.com/?p=45.7;-7.2;4&l=wave&t=20231104/1800

There are 6 new calls that came this week in Bergens and Alesunds list for Valiant Lady on summer 2024. They start on early July until the end of August, mostly with 10-11 day intervals. Wondering what is going on, maybe Brilliant will take over the cruises out of Miami and Valiant heads to Northern Europe?

There was an accident between 2 cargo ships. One of them sank and sailors are missing. The Iona was behind the accident and is now supporting the rescue efforts. https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/Schiffskollision-auf-der-Nordsee-Mehrere-Vermisste-vor-Helgoland,nordsee550.html

The zero net emissions from 2026 in Norway have been adjusted. It is now also permitted to sail the two fjords Geiranger and Flam with bio LNG on a temporary basis for some years. Therefore, there are now 2026 port bookings in Geiranger from the LNG ships MSC Euribia, AIDAnova, Costa Smeralda, Iona and a Newbuild of TUI Cruises who can all use bio LNG.

Resilient Lady will do the cruises out of Portsmouth. Itineraries: 23 Aug 2024: Portsmouth - Amsterdam - Amsterdam - At Sea - Portsmouth 27 Aug 2024: Portsmouth - At Sea - Zeebrugge - Portsmouth 30 Aug 2024: Portsmouth - Amsterdam - Amsterdam - At Sea - Portsmouth 03 Sep 2024: Portsmouth - Amsterdam - Amsterdam - Zeebrugge - At Sea - Portsmouth 08 Sep 2024: Portsmouth - At Sea - La Coruna - Bilbao - La Verdon - At Sea - Portsmouth 14 Sep 2024: Portsmouth - At Sea - Amsterdam - Amsterdam - Zeebrugge - Portsmouth 19 Sep 2024: Portsmouth - Amsterdam - Amsterdam - At Sea - Portsmouth 23 Sep 2024: Portsmouth - At Sea - La Coruna - Bilbao - La Verdon - At Sea - Portsmouth

I am watching the cruise lists of ports a long time. Brilliant Ladys calls in Amsterdam are almost one year old, that's why I think that they should not be actual anymore. But 2 months ago Resilient Lady appeared in Amsterdams cruise list from 27 August 2024 until 21 Sep 2024 in 5 day frequencies. https://sea.cruiseportamsterdam.com/cruise-calendar/2024/

Viking is lucky that they fit through the Kiel Canal with their fleet. That's why I can't understand why they kicked the Kiel Canal out of their itineraries since 2019.

Baltic is still beautiful without St Petersburg. Stops like Stockholm, Tallinn, Helsinki, Riga, Copenhagen, Oslo are worth to see. Actually, almost all cruise lines continue to sail the Baltics except Royal Caribbean. Sky Princess last Baltic cruise this month was fully booked. NCL Dawn both Baltic cruises on August 2023 are fully booked. MSCs Baltic on MSC Fantasia are fully booked. Carnival Pride was fully booked last week. The bookings in the Baltic collapsed in 2022 after the war began, but this recovered very quickly this summer because nobody is scared anymore. Therefore, we can expect that there will be more Baltic cruises in the future and I hope RCI will sail at least 2-3 cruises in that area. So far, only some cruise lines have published the 2025 timetable but there are still Baltics in: NCL 6 Baltic cruises P&O Cruises 5 Baltic cruises Regent Seven Seas 7 Baltic cruises Azamara 2 Baltic cruises Princess 3 Baltic cruises Viking 10 Baltic cruises

Cruisemapper is not an official port site where official port announcements can be viewed. Cruisemapper copies all trips from the homepages of the cruise line. Therefore, you should look for the right port sources. But here also no good news for the Brilliant Lady TA. Unfortunately, the Brilliant Lady has actually disappeared from the Funchal 2024 official list.. -> https://www.apram.pt/site/index.php/en/ports/wharf-reservations?page=6

She will go back to Kiel.

She is still near Kiel and moves very slowly..