Holland America Line has modified the itinerary for the Oosterdam Transatlantic crossing crusing on November 5 from Barcelona. As a substitute of crusing to Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, friends will now disembark the vessel in PortMiami.
Though friends nonetheless have an affordable period of time to make adjustments to their journey plans, the transfer from the Seattle-based cruise line does nonetheless inconvenience friends, particularly these with impartial journey plans.
Oosterdam to Sail to Miami, Not Fort Lauderdale
Seattle-based cruise line Holland America Line has despatched a letter to friends informing them that their Transatlantic cruise from Barcelona to Fort Lauderdale is not going to finish in Port Everglades on November 19. As a substitute, the Oosterdam will probably be crusing to Port Miami.
Though the cruise line doesn’t give a selected motive for the change, the reason being most certainly the variety of ships scheduled to reach and sail from Fort Lauderdale on November 19. A minimum of ten cruise ships will probably be utilizing the port that day as an embarkation port, which implies a busy day on the port.
Two different Holland America Line ships are scheduled to be in Port Everglades on November 19, Nieuw Statendam and Volendam will nonetheless use the port as deliberate.
The letter despatched to friends booked onboard the Oosterdam Translatlantic voyage states: “Please be suggested that disembarkation in your upcoming Oosterdam voyage on Saturday, November 19, 2022, will now happen in Miami, Florida, fairly than Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as beforehand suggested.”
Oosterdam’s Transatlantic cruise will sail from Barcelona on November 5. The ship will make a number of port calls alongside the way in which, together with Cartagena, Malaga, and Cadiz, in Spain. Different calls embrace Lisbon and Madeira earlier than arriving in Miami.
Main Inconvenience for Friends
Planning a cruise is one thing that many make preparations for properly upfront. So when a cruise line adjustments an itinerary, it’s often inconvenient. When the cruise line adjustments the debarkation port, it may be an actual downside for friends booked on the cruise. It is a difficult scenario for friends with impartial journey preparations.
Holland America Line informs friends within the letter that these with a Holland America Line post-cruise lodge package deal will probably be taken immediately from the pier to their lodge or the airport.
Nonetheless, these with impartial preparations is not going to be receiving assist from Holland America and might want to rebook their flights or automotive rental preparations themselves. To permit time for extra transfers, Oosterdam is arriving in Miami an hour earlier, 6 AM in Miami, the place the vessel was scheduled for 7 AM in Fort Lauderdale.
Learn Additionally: IDEAL Accommodations NEAR Fort Lauderdale Cruise Port (Port Everglades)
For friends with Holland America Line’s Flight Ease Air, the cruise line has made the mandatory adjustments if wanted, and friends will nonetheless fly from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport.
Friends booked on the next cruise, a 31-night Panama Canal, Inca & South America voyage, will embark on Oosterdam in Miami as an alternative of Fort Lauderdale.
It’s not the primary time Holland America Line has been compelled to alter the debarkation and embarkation port for a cruise this yr.
In July of this yr, the Rotterdam was scheduled to sail from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which the vessel couldn’t attain on account of low water ranges. As a substitute, the cruise line made a last-minute change to sail from Rotterdam.
