Norwegian Cruise Line has begun notifying booked friends that its upcoming ship, Norwegian Viva, won’t be able to make her preliminary sailings as deliberate in July and August, 2023, attributable to world provide chain constraints.
Due to this, the ship’s cruises from July 3 via the deliberate August 17 departure are actually canceled.
Norwegian Viva Delayed Once more
The much-anticipated Norwegian Viva is not going to be debuting in early July 2023 as deliberate. Emails despatched to booked passengers and the cruise line’s journey companions on August 17, 2022 have introduced the delay.
“Given the worldwide provide chain constraints impacting industries worldwide, together with the maritime business, we should cancel Norwegian Viva’s sailings from July 3, 2023 via and together with August 17, 2023,” the e-mail learn.
Whereas Norwegian Viva was floated out on the Fincantieri shipyard in Italy as deliberate on August 2, 2022, this solely signifies the ship’s exterior building is full.
Inner building and outfitting the ship will take months to finish, and with additional provide chain delays, the ship won’t be able to hitch the Norwegian Cruise Line fleet on time.
That is the second delay for the second Prima-class ship. Norwegian Viva was beforehand scheduled to debut in mid-June, 2023, however her preliminary sailings had been canceled earlier this summer time.
World provide chain constraints had been additionally cited as a part of the rationale for that preliminary delay, which canceled two sailings for the vessel. Now, six further sailings have been canceled, bringing the full of canceled cruises to eight.
Compensation Supplied
Impacted friends have two choices in lieu of their now-canceled Norwegian Viva cruises.
The default possibility is that each one bookings are to be moved to comparable sailings aboard the Breakaway-class Norwegian Getaway, preserving stateroom classes and booked promotions, with a 20% low cost on the cruise fare. Particulars for this selection, together with the itinerary and closing bill, can be accessible to friends by September 13, 2022.
No motion is important for friends who settle for this default possibility.
Company preferring to cancel their cruise fully should contact Norwegian Cruise Line no later than September 2, 2022. Full refunds will routinely be returned to the unique type of cost. If the cruise was booked with a future cruise credit score (FCC), 100% of that credit score can be returned to the visitor’s Latitudes account.
As additional compensation for the inconvenience and disappointment, Norwegian Cruise Line can also be providing all friends, whatever the possibility they select, a further low cost.
“We wish to do the perfect for our friends, so along with the above, all impacted friends will obtain a ten% low cost on their subsequent cruise,” the e-mail explains.
That additional low cost is combinable with all present promotional provides when the brand new reserving is made, and will be utilized to any crusing from August 28, 2023 via December 31, 2024. The reductions can be added to friends’ Latitudes accounts by August 22, 2022.
“We apologize for this inconvenience and can’t wait to welcome you aboard within the close to future,” the e-mail concludes.
New Inaugural Date
With the cancelation of those further sailings, Norwegian Viva‘s new inaugural voyage is deliberate to set sail August 26, 2023. This can be a one-way, 9-night journey from Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy, to Trieste, Italy, with ports of name in Italy, Greece, Croatia, and Slovenia alongside the way in which.
The brand new ship will spend a number of weeks crusing quite a lot of Mediterranean itineraries earlier than repositioning to San Juan, Puerto Rico, in December 2023 for the winter season within the Caribbean. Norwegian Viva will return to the Mediterranean in spring 2024.
