Feb 2016 coral princess canceled???

[redcruzer]

I was trying to book the 10 day panama canal cruise for Feb 2016. All cabins are showing "sold out" for all 3 sailings in Feb. Does anyone know anything about this? Were they all canceled, chartered?? thanks

[Cruise Junky]

Not sure if it's confirmed yet but speculation is dry dock so she can be butchered like Island.

[MacGuffin]

The Coral is getting butchered in Feb, rebuilt with more cabins and less public space to match the Island. :(

[Colo Cruiser]

Too bad. :mad:

[Whimsy]

I sure wish they would rethink changing the Coral. It was our favorite ship due to her size and layout.

[seamanfs]

I sure wish they would rethink changing the Coral. It was our favorite ship due to her size and layout.

 

Agree completely!!

[chamima]

Isn't February high season for cruising?

(It would certainly seem so to us because that's when we like to get out of the frozen tundra and if I compare fares to other months they're higher.)

Why would they do a drydock then rather than in the fall?

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[Colo Cruiser]

Isn't February high season for cruising?

(It would certainly seem so to us because that's when we like to get out of the frozen tundra and if I compare fares to other months they're higher.)

Why would they do a drydock then rather than in the fall?

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Coral cruises are pretty much sold out year round, it doesn't matter.

Its all about the future $$$.

[pablo222]

Coral cruises are pretty much sold out year round, it doesn't matter.

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So it doesn't matter when you schedule a dry dock?

 

It would seem to me that it would be smarter to schedule it

during the first two weeks of december when cruise fares

are low, than over christmas/new years, when the fares might

be three-times as much.

 

Of course not every ship can be in dry dock at off peak times,

because there are a finite number of drydocks.

[JimmyVWine]

Of course not every ship can be in dry dock at off peak times,

because there are a finite number of drydocks.

 

I would imagine that this is the answer right here. Backward looking metrics will show which two (or three) consecutive weeks yield the lowest profit per ship and I'm guessing that whichever those weeks are, they remain fairly constant for all ships and all cruise lines. So cruise lines likely line up around the block to have their ships serviced then. The wait list for drydock time during those particular weeks is likely years long. Princess probably figures that the sooner it can stuff more cabins onto Coral, the faster it can reap the increased revenue. So taking the ship out of service in February is probably an incremental loss that will be quickly gained back by not waiting years for "low season" drydock space. Better to chop her up in 2/16 than 12/16 (or 12/17, or 12/18).

[sunsetbeachgal]

I wonder where the dry dock will be done? Seems as if most of the major dry docks including the one being done to the Island are done in Europe.

 

Very sad...

Edited May 15, 2015 by sunsetbeachgal

[pablo222]

I wonder where the dry dock will be done? Seems as if most of the major dry docks including the one being done to the Island are done in Europe.

 

They did the skywalkers-ectomy in Freeport, so it seems like

major work can be done there.

 

But, if the new cabins are fabricated near Trieste, probably near there.

 

My guess -- look at the last revenue cruise, and the drydock will probably

be near the end of that cruise.

[sunsetbeachgal]

I don't see anything offered on the Coral between January 16 (last day of Jan. 6 cruise) and March 6.

Edited May 15, 2015 by sunsetbeachgal

[Colo Cruiser]

I would imagine the Coral will be done in Italy.

[dorisis]

I don't see anything offered on the Coral between January 16 (last day of Jan. 6 cruise) and March 6.

 

We were booked on the Coral for Jan. 16, 2016 and that, too, was cancelled. We booked it during a special sale and when we rebooked for a later cruise, we were denied the sale benefits.

[chamima]

The January cruise ends in Fort Lauderdale and the March cruise begins there so my money is on the Bahamas.