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Jewel of the Seas disappeared also from Reykjaviks cruise list on August 2024. Only the 2 calls in May and June remain. So I expect a shorter Northern Europe season for Jewel, last planned cruise could be the 11 night British Isles cruise on 18 July 2024 before heading to the Med.

Pride from Baltimore is bookable since months. Legent should do Europe for sure, there are some European cruise lists showing the Legend (Reykjavik, Cadiz, Leixoes...)

07 July - 09 July 2024 28 July 2024 18 August - 20 August 2024

It seems that Brilliant Lady will spend her summer season 2024 in Northern Europe. There are a lot of calls in Reykjavik and Zeebrugge for her.

Look first at P&Os itineraries for 2023 and 2024 before writing this. There are still Baltic cruises planned, they didn't cancel all. Compared to other cruise lines there are still a lot Baltics from P&O.

If it would not be safe in the Baltic, they would cancel all cruises. So it is clearly a lack of demand..

Caribbean Princess will also be in Northern Europe

If they don't base a ship out of Copenhagen why don't they even sail with Jewel a Scandinavian cruise out of Amsterdam..

The Pride isn't going directly to Stockholm. It goes to Nynäshamn with distance about 50 minutes to Stockholm.

Last year the Carnival Pride itineraries were available at the end of September 2021 for summer 2023. It seems that they need this time longer, maybe Nov oder Dec..

Euribia will sail in winter 2023/24 the same program like Virtuosa this winter from Southampton/Hamburg.

Many Americans take the tour to Berlin but take in mind that the train ride takes about 3 hrs from Warnemunde to Berlin. But I think it's worth it. If it is too long for you then Warnemunde is also a nice little place. In Kiel a lot of passengers are going to the "Kieler brewery" it is around 5-10 minutes from the quay. I don't like beer but if you like.. 😉 Hamburg is also great but here you have to take a train or bus ride for around 1 hour. I don't know why Carnival stays here only 9 hours when they support Hamburg for this stop.. If you like walking near the ship, then you can go to the "Kiellinie" or you follow the blue line to the town and shopping areas.

I'm from Germany and I can tell you in Kiel you will get the central quay at "Ostseekai" LP 27 or 28. Warnemunde will be Pier 7 or 8, also really central in the small place of Warnemunde. In Stockholm you won't pass the archipelago, you will berth at Nynäshamn, it is not directly in Stockholm (about 45 minutes distance with bus).

Last year they released the summer 2023 program on July. This year they are later.

Seems that they will reduce 2024 the Baltic cruises. Britannia has still 5 gaps where she was supposed to do Baltics and she is booked now on 12 June 2024 in Orkney.

How many guests are onboard this Baltic cruise?

Marina is still doing 2023 2 Baltic and 2 Scandinavian cruises. Riviera 1 Baltic and 1 Scandinavian. Maybe he thought about 2024.

Anyone know what's going on here? A few months ago, NCL canceled the Baltic tours and replaced them with Caribbean tours. A few days ago, an Atlantic trip to Southampton on August 28th was also bookable, which has now also disappeared. Again redeployment?

Warnemunde is fully booked on 24 Sep 22 that's why they had to cancel it. Construction work is currently taking place on the 3rd large berth in Warnemunde where NCL Star should dock. It doesn't affect your cruise.

Here an info from the port of Amsterdam about this problem. https://sea.cruiseportamsterdam.com/adjusted-passage-regime-at-ijmuiden-sea-lock-affects-calls-at-cruise-port-amsterdam/

Visby Ronne and Skagen are the 3 most cancelled ports in the Baltic because of the open location in the sea. Several cruise calls there have been cancelled this year, so this is not only a specific P&O thing. I live in the Baltic and follow the daily cruising movements in the Baltic.

So no one is replacing here? I saw that Brilliance is also not bookable anymore for the summer months 2023.

I don't think they will cancel her Europe season. Pretty sure they will take off Russia now and replace them with other ports. Or maybe changing some Baltic cruises with Norway cruises.

I'm not saying he's inexperienced, he just seems not to know how the canal works. Maybe he was frustrated that he is not allowed to navigate the ship himself through the canal because each ship over 100 metres needs a "Kiel Canal helmsman" and they are navigating the ships safely through the channel. The Azamara Quest took exactly 9 hours for the passage. Any other ship of this size needs the same time. So it was not "the slowest transit ever" like he said. Now she is on the way to Copenhagen with 17 knots.

Here some photos of the passage. Sadly today was bad weather..