Royal Caribbean’s Journey Of The Seas simply made a change to its itinerary for its 6-night Western Caribbean cruise embarking on August 16, 2025.
This itinerary change was introduced in a letter, outlining that as a substitute of stopping at Excellent Day at CocoCay on August 17, 2025, the Voyager-class vessel will as a substitute be making a cease in Georgetown, Grand Cayman.
CocoCay is Royal Caribbean’s personal vacation spot for Royal Caribbean friends within the Bahamas. It options stunning seashores and thrilling actions corresponding to zip-lining, the Thrill Water Park, and each water sport one can think about.
Within the letter, Royal Caribbean said, “As a consequence of a berthing battle at Excellent Day at CocoCay, we’ve adjusted our itinerary, and can now go to Georgetown, Grand Cayman, as a substitute.”
Berthing conflicts can occur when a number of cruise ships are scheduled to go to the identical port on the identical day, however the port services will not be geared up to deal with the entire ships relying on the dimensions or passenger capability.
However attributable to this alteration, the one ship at CocoCay on August 17 will probably be Utopia of the Seas.
CocoCay sometimes has the capability for 2 ships, suggesting the battle may be attributable to one more reason, corresponding to pre-planned upkeep. Nevertheless, the cruise line has but to verify a particular motive for the change in itinerary.
This 6-night round-trip voyage will probably be primarily based out of Port Canaveral, Florida, and also will name on Falmouth, Jamaica, on August 19, and Labadee, Haiti, one other Royal Caribbean personal vacation spot, on August 20, disembarking on August 22.
As of this time, all different ports of name stay unaffected.
In gentle of the itinerary change, as a present of excellent religion, Royal Caribbean will probably be including credit to spend on board per stateroom.
Inside and ocean view cabins will probably be getting $50 USD, balcony cabins will probably be receiving $75 USD, and suites will probably be receiving $100 USD. A further $25 USD will probably be given to staterooms with three or extra passengers.
For anybody desirous about reserving this crusing, it’s value noting that Royal Caribbean has but to replace the itinerary on their web site.
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This isn’t the primary time Royal Caribbean has has to vary its itinerary attributable to berthing conflicts, however it’s fascinating that it’s occurring at its personal personal vacation spot.
Passengers of Journey Of The Seas may be particularly disenchanted about this itinerary change, particularly since this 6-night cruise is marketed as one which particularly goes to Excellent Day at CocoCay – which is among the hottest cruise line-owned personal islands on the market.
One passenger who booked the cruise said, “I’m coronary heart damaged, and was so excited to see Utopia of the Seas in her glory,” expressing their disappointment each in regards to the itinerary change and the missed likelihood to see Royal Caribbean’s latest ship.
Initially, Utopia Of The Seas and Journey Of The Seas had been each set to be at CocoCay on August 17, 2025.
Utopia Of The Seas is because of embark from Port Canaveral, Florida, on August 15, 2025, and can sail to Nassau, Bahamas, on August 16, earlier than stopping at CocoCay on August 17.
Because of this mixed, the 2 ships may have introduced as much as 9,506 passengers to the island vacation spot – which might accommodate as much as 13,000 friends in sooner or later.
The newly constructed Utopia Of The Seas has a most passenger capability of 5,668, sitting at 236,470 gross tons, that means it’s virtually twice the dimensions of Journey Of The Seas.
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Others commented on the state of affairs, mentioning that from August 18 via August 21, 2025, there will probably be two cruise ships stopping at CocoCay day by day, which might be confirmed with cruise monitoring knowledge.
With Utopia of the Seas‘ giant passenger capability, it might make it tougher to accommodate the as much as 3,807 friends that might be booked onboard Journey of the Seas – particularly if one thing extra is happening within the port that day.
Celeb Cruises, which is owned by Royal Caribbean, was additionally given permission to go to the unique vacation spot as of April 2024, so it’s doable that extra itinerary adjustments might be coming attributable to congestion or extra berthing conflicts.
