2014 Itineraries

[chknlady]

Can I say I'm in shock... This is not what I was hoping for

Let me get this straight- for dates through April there are no double dips and no NYC sailings? THIS STINKS

 

[erbie]

All from Florida? Meh.

I'm not interested in paying for four airfares to Orlando or Miami when I could use that money on an entire week in Las Vegas, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Sedona, etc. Plus, I just don't want to fly these days. Too much of a hassle.

I'd do another CA coastal in a heartbeat, or really, anything out of Los Angeles. I wish they would do Hawaii during school breaks. I can take the kids out of school for a week, but not for two in a row.

 

[nhgirl]

Can I say I'm in shock... This is not what I was hoping for

Let me get this straight- for dates through April there are no double dips and no NYC sailings? THIS STINKS

I'm hoping for NYC sailings but I am not surprised it won't be before May.

 

[msmayor]

when will you catch on that BERMUDA is a great island to visit? Start in NYC, stops at PC for WDW and this would be a perfect cruise for me. Loved the Canada cruise from NYC. Bring back the NYC cruises! Please.

DCL probably can't get any berth space in Bermuda...NCL, RCL and Celebrity have most every day sewn up at King's Wharf every week. There's only space for two ships at a time to dock and most every ship that sails there stays more than one day.

Most ships sailing today are too large to get into downtown Hamilton which has a cruise ship berth. We docked there this past spring and spent 3 1/2 days in Bermuda on the Veendam...it was heaven...but the Veendam only carries 1300 passengers.

 

[OrcaPotter]

Clearly they are still making enough money out of Florida to have all 4 ships here for the first part of the year. Must be a lot of first timers and non-DIS guests.

Frankly I think it's surprising they haven't done the southern Caribbean yet. I'm waiting for that one!

 

[MamaSue]

I hope they come up with something from the west coast for later in the year, or I'll be cancelling my dummy cruise. I'm not going to Florida!

Yep, we are the same boat (pun intended). It's just too much to fly with a 5 year old from the west coast to FL and have a time change on top of it. Why have they left the west coast out of the loop? Why not do a 5 - 7 night itinerary just around the Hawaiian Island? I mean, the Aulani Resort is on Oahu. I would even consider booking another Mexican Riviera cruise. I sure hope DCL comes up with something for us on the left coast or we may just have to cancel our 2014 dummy cruise and look elsewhere.

 

[chinarider]

I was hoping for another Hawaii- I'm going to transfer my dummy booking to an EC if I can get a decent deal

 

[RedSox68]

Clearly they are still making enough money out of Florida to have all 4 ships here for the first part of the year. Must be a lot of first timers and non-DIS guests.

Frankly I think it's surprising they haven't done the southern Caribbean yet. I'm waiting for that one!

They did do the Southern Caribbean -- in September 2006 on the Wonder. It was WONDERFUL and one of our very favorite itineraries. They left PC and went to St. Thomas, Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua and CC. We were hoping that was a test cruise and that they were going to be doing more in the future. Six years later and we are still waiting

 

[Golden Rose]

They did do the Southern Caribbean -- in September 2006 on the Wonder. It was WONDERFUL and one of our very favorite itineraries. They left PC and went to St. Thomas, Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua and CC. We were hoping that was a test cruise and that they were going to be doing more in the future. Six years later and we are still waiting

Sounds like a great route. I wonder why they haven't repeated it in recent years? That is a route I'd be really interested in. (It is similar to a route we were really looking at for this year on another, but we ended up doing a DCL cruise out of Galveston instead.) How many days was it?

 

[Desi]

Nothing to see here folks, might as well just move right along.

 

[Seamama]

Yes! A 5-7 day loop around Hawaii w/ a stop at Aulani gets my vote, too! Our family also dreams of a Star Wars themed cruise

In the meantime, I just have to hope that they're not done w/ the sailings for 2014, yet... if there's a sailing out of the west coast, we're on it! If not, we'll keep pushing out our dummy cruise so we have more time to save for a cruise out of FL...

Yep, we are the same boat (pun intended). It's just too much to fly with a 5 year old from the west coast to FL and have a time change on top of it. Why have they left the west coast out of the loop? Why not do a 5 - 7 night itinerary just around the Hawaiian Island? I mean, the Aulani Resort is on Oahu. I would even consider booking another Mexican Riviera cruise. I sure hope DCL comes up with something for us on the left coast or we may just have to cancel our 2014 dummy cruise and look elsewhere.

 

[akl432]

They are only spending 3.75 hours in Grand Cayman? Is that a typo? Ashore 12:45pm, Onboard 4:30pm????

I HOPE it's a typo!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Never to old]

We would like to go to Europe, Hawaii and different Carribbean ports.

 

[AZMermaid]

Ugh. Too expensive for this West Coast family to go to Florida *and* do a cruise.

Ditto.

 

[JLDSMD]

Clearly they are still making enough money out of Florida to have all 4 ships here for the first part of the year. Must be a lot of first timers and non-DIS guests.

Frankly I think it's surprising they haven't done the southern Caribbean yet. I'm waiting for that one!

They did do the Southern Caribbean -- in September 2006 on the Wonder. It was WONDERFUL and one of our very favorite itineraries. They left PC and went to St. Thomas, Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua and CC. We were hoping that was a test cruise and that they were going to be doing more in the future. Six years later and we are still waiting

Sounds like a great route. I wonder why they haven't repeated it in recent years? That is a route I'd be really interested in. (It is similar to a route we were really looking at for this year on another, but we ended up doing a DCL cruise out of Galveston instead.) How many days was it?

DCL could so run down to the Southern Caribbean if they wanted in 7 days. Princess is sailing out of FLL in Spring 2014 with stops at Princess Cay (DCL could do Castaway), Curacao and Aruba, with three days at sea (one down and two on the way back).

 

[Meghatron]

What happened to Galveston? I thought DCL signed a 3 year agreement with the port. I was so happy to have a ship in my backyard. I'm so sad now...

They had a contract with Los Angeles, too, which they're breaking this week to send the Wonder back to Florida. If I were a port authority I'd be very weary of signing anything with them now.

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[shburks]

Yes! A 5-7 day loop around Hawaii w/ a stop at Aulani gets my vote, too! Our family also dreams of a Star Wars themed cruise

In the meantime, I just have to hope that they're not done w/ the sailings for 2014, yet... if there's a sailing out of the west coast, we're on it! If not, we'll keep pushing out our dummy cruise so we have more time to save for a cruise out of FL...

Can't do a Hawaii loop cruise without the ship being registered in US which means majority is ship employees must be US. NCL tried this with their Pride of Aloha, America, and Hawaii. We found the service to be atrocious and after a few years they pulled two if three ships out.

Otherwise you have to include a foreign port (often Ensanada, Mexico) which means you must sail across the Atlantic and the cruise in its entirety cannot be accomplished in a week!

 

[jdb in AZ]

Can't do a Hawaii loop cruise without the ship being registered in US which means majority is ship employees must be US. NCL tried this with their Pride of Aloha, America, and Hawaii. We found the service to be atrocious and after a few years they pulled two if three ships out.

Otherwise you have to include a foreign port (often Ensanada, Mexico) which means you must sail across the Atlantic and the cruise in its entirety cannot be accomplished in a week!

I'm sure you meant the Pacific -- can you imagine the length of a transatlantic cruise, through the Panama, then across the Pacific to Hawaii? Sounds fun, actually.

Disney seems like such an American product, but their ships are registered in the Bahamas which is a big part of why they keep sailing to Nassau. yawn. For a ship to be registered in the US, it has to be built stateside (mostly.) NCL Hawaii ships were partly built over-seas and it took an act of Congress to register them under the US flag.

 

[shburks]

I'm sure you meant the Pacific -- can you imagine the length of a transatlantic cruise, through the Panama, then across the Pacific to Hawaii? Sounds fun, actually.

Disney seems like such an American product, but their ships are registered in the Bahamas which is a big part of why they keep sailing to Nassau. yawn. For a ship to be registered in the US, it has to be built stateside (mostly.) NCL Hawaii ships were partly built over-seas and it took an act of Congress to register them under the US flag.

Of course I meant Atlantic! So silly of me! (I was responding at 5 am though so you'll have to cut me some slack!

Yes to what you said about NCL although Pride of Aloha was repurposed, IIRC, whereas America and Hawaii were designed to sail Hawaii. Like I said, nearly all American crew and prepaid gratuities plus Free Style Dining means our service was horrid

 

[jdb in AZ]

Of course I meant Atlantic! So silly of me! (I was responding at 5 am though so you'll have to cut me some slack!

Yes to what you said about NCL although Pride of Aloha was repurposed, IIRC, whereas America and Hawaii were designed to sail Hawaii. Like I said, nearly all American crew and prepaid gratuities plus Free Style Dining means our service was horrid

We did NCL Hawaii too -- the week before we sailed, 1/3 of the crew walked off in a labor dispute. And that was only one of several major problems on that cruise. Never again!