Holland America Line has modified the itinerary for the Oosterdam Transatlantic crossing crusing on November 5 from Barcelona. As an alternative of crusing to Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, visitors will now disembark the vessel in PortMiami.
Though visitors nonetheless have an affordable period of time to make modifications to their journey plans, the transfer from the Seattle-based cruise line does nonetheless inconvenience visitors, 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 visitors informing them that their Transatlantic cruise from Barcelona to Fort Lauderdale is not going to finish in Port Everglades on November 19. As an alternative, the Oosterdam might be crusing to Port Miami.
Though the cruise line doesn’t give a particular cause for the change, the reason being almost definitely the variety of ships scheduled to reach and sail from Fort Lauderdale on November 19. At the very least ten cruise ships might 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 visitors booked onboard the Oosterdam Translatlantic voyage states: “Please be suggested that disembarkation to your upcoming Oosterdam voyage on Saturday, November 19, 2022, will now happen in Miami, Florida, moderately 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 nicely upfront. So when a cruise line modifications an itinerary, it’s often inconvenient. When the cruise line modifications the debarkation port, it may be an actual drawback for visitors booked on the cruise. This can be a difficult state of affairs for visitors with impartial journey preparations.
Holland America Line informs visitors within the letter that these with a Holland America Line post-cruise lodge bundle might be taken straight from the pier to their lodge or the airport.
Nevertheless, these with impartial preparations is not going to be receiving assist from Holland America and might want to rebook their flights or automobile 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.
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For visitors with Holland America Line’s Flight Ease Air, the cruise line has made the mandatory modifications if wanted, and visitors 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 as a consequence of low water ranges. As an alternative, the cruise line made a last-minute change to sail from Rotterdam.
