Celeb Cruises has begun reaching out to company booked on upcoming voyages of Celeb Ascent to tell them of a number of itinerary adjustments. Most lately, vacationers on the February 9, 2025 departure have realized they won’t be visiting Labadee, Haiti as deliberate, however as a substitute will go to another port.
The impacted crusing is a 7-night roundtrip crusing from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The unique plan was to go to Bimini, Labadee, and Grand Cayman.
“On account of a change in our itinerary planning for our winter 2024-2025 sailings, we’re eradicating our go to to Labadee, Haiti, on our Celeb Ascent February 9, 2025 crusing,” the e-mail notification learn. “We’ll now take pleasure in a go to to Cozumel, Mexico, on Day 4, with an prolonged keep in port, as a substitute of visiting Labadee.”
This implies Celeb Ascent will probably be in Cozumel on the identical day as initially deliberate for Labadee, and the rest of the ship’s itinerary stays unchanged.
The prolonged keep – from 7 a.m. till 6 p.m. – offers company loads of time to take pleasure in and discover the favored Mexican port of name. The lengthy go to may allow extra intensive shore tour choices, corresponding to visits to the enduring Chichen Itza on the Yucatan Peninsula. Precise shore tour choices obtainable by way of Celeb Cruises will fluctuate primarily based on what might be organized for the go to date.
No precise motive has been given for eradicating Labadee from Celeb Ascent‘s crusing, however this follows one other current change for the ship’s January 6, 2025 departure. That alteration additionally eliminated Labadee from the itinerary, however as a substitute substituted a go to to Falmouth, Jamaica.
The identical reasoning – “a change in our itinerary planning” – was given for that schedule change and port swap as effectively.
Cruise traces do sometimes shift ports and schedules as they stability operational wants and be certain that numerous ports is not going to be overcrowded for every go to. This helps give vacationers the absolute best expertise at every vacation spot they go to.
As a result of these itinerary adjustments all contain Labadee, nevertheless, additionally it is potential that the cruise line is making the choice out of security issues. All port visits to Labadee have been cancelled since mid-March due to growing civil unrest and violence in Haiti.
Royal Caribbean Worldwide, additionally a part of the Royal Caribbean Group together with Celeb Cruises, has confirmed that every one Labadee visits as suspended at the least by way of September.
“We have now suspended all visits to Labadee fleetwide by way of September 2024, and we proceed to watch the state of affairs with our World Safety & Intelligence crew. Please know that the protection and luxury of our company are all the time our highest precedence,” the notification on the cruise line’s web site states.
Whereas the cruise itineraries modified for Celeb Ascent are in January and February, it is extremely seemingly that security and safety are components in making these adjustments. The security of company and crew members are all the time a cruise line’s prime precedence.
Will Extra Itineraries Be Modified?
The 140,600-gross-ton, Edge-class Celeb Ascent is presently within the Mediterranean for the summer season season, however will transfer to Fort Lauderdale, Florida with a 13-night transatlantic crusing departing Barcelona on October 26.
From Port Everglades, the ship – latest within the Celeb Cruises fleet – will provide quite a lot of cruises, largely 7-night sailings. Jap Caribbean itineraries will go to St. Maarten, St. Thomas, and Puerto Plata.
The Western Caribbean cruises are scheduled to go to Grand Cayman, both Bimini or Nassau in The Bahamas, and Labadee. As Labadee is being faraway from at the least a number of departures, and it’s potential the port could also be faraway from all of Celeb Ascent‘s Western Caribbean sailings.
Company booked on upcoming Celeb Ascent cruises with Labadee on the itinerary ought to keep in shut communication with Celeb Cruises in case of updates or alterations.
