May 2021 cruises removed from the website

[otten]

Just did a search for May 2021 cruises and get 0 available. Appears as though May cruises are not far from cancellation.

 

[Niclovesdisney]

Yes they were there a few hours ago but gone now. I had already come to terms with our Med cruise being cancelled but it will still hurt when the official cancellation comes. We rebooked from May 2020 but will get a refund now.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Oh no....DVC member cruise is in June!

 

[Cruising Engineer]

Yep, our May 15th cruise on the Fantasy is MIA.

 

[mellvswdw1]

Hi! Quick question, how long does it take them to cancel the cruise after they remove it from the website? Our cruise was at the end of May into June. Thanks!

 

[Cheburashka]

Hi! Quick question, how long does it take them to cancel the cruise after they remove it from the website? Our cruise was at the end of May into June. Thanks!

It varies. Sometimes as short as one day. Sometimes it can take weeks.

 

[cvjw]

Yep, our May 15th cruise on the Fantasy is MIA.

We were also on that cruise - moved from the same May cruise that was cancelled in 2020. We had 2 cabins on this cruise - cancelled one and moved one to September a few weeks ago. The writing has been on the wall for a while, unfortunately.

 

[Cruising Engineer]

We were also on that cruise - moved from the same May cruise that was cancelled in 2020. We had 2 cabins on this cruise - cancelled one and moved one to September a few weeks ago. The writing has been on the wall for a while, unfortunately.

I feel your pain. We reached Platinum in January 2020. Since then we've had a B2B Sept 2020 canceled, January 2021 Concierge canceled, and now May Concierge on the verge of cancellation. All dressed up and nowhere to go !!!!!

 

[Cruising Engineer]

It varies. Sometimes as short as one day. Sometimes it can take weeks.

I'm hoping for a few weeks before the notification. Maybe Summer 2022 will be out so we can move our May 2021 to next year.

 

[Cheburashka]

I'm hoping for a few weeks before the notification. Maybe Summer 2022 will be out so we can move our May 2021 to next year.

Summer of '22 does give hope, doesn't it? Imo cruising will likely be relatively back to normal by that time.

 

[Cruising Engineer]

Summer of '22 does give hope, doesn't it? Imo cruising will likely be relatively back to normal by that time.

But it seems so far away. Got our 2 shots of Pfizer. We are ready to cruise now. I really need to get rid of the Sept 2020 and the Jan 2021 door magnets sitting on my crafting table. Sad reminders.

 

[Cheburashka]

But it seems so far away.

Yes, summer of '22 is far away. That's why I actually have real hope for it.

 

[DCLDVC1]

June and July cancellations can't be too far behind.

 

[Cheburashka]

June and July cancellations can't be too far behind.

And far or close, they are inevitable.

 

[figmentfinesse]

June and July cancellations can't be too far behind.

Do you have hope for august? I have already moved my august to April 2022, but I’m still curious to see if it would have sailed.

 

[ngl]

Do you have hope for august? I have already moved my august to April 2022, but I’m still curious to see if it would have sailed.

I posted this the other day on a similar question but for whatever it is worth, we have a friend who works in the Executive Staff for a US Port Authority. They do have cruise ships at their port but not Disney (meaning during regular times). They are hearing that US cruises are aiming for September assuming all goes well but will be very limited, shorter duration cruises. Again, just hearsay but from a more credible source, I suppose. We have an Oct Dream cruise celebrating a milestone birthday for me with family & friends but not sure it will actually go and also not sure I want to be one of the first to go! Will see what the next 6 months or so bring....

 

[Cheburashka]

Do you have hope for august?

I don't. It is extremely unlikely that DCL will resume cruising before fall. The other mass market lines, like Carnival, Royal, NCL, might start sometime in the summer if all goes well between now & then, but Disney will wait and watch, just like they did for the parks reopening (they opened a month behind Universal & Sea World). Because cruising is even riskier than the parks, they'll likely lag more than a month behind the other lines. Safety is a big part of their brand and they don't want to look reckless by cruising asap, or generate bad press via a major outbreak onboard.

 

[DCLDVC1]

Oh no....DVC member cruise is in June!

It will be very interesting to see how DCL & DVC handle all of those points when it cancels.

 

[tvguy]

I posted this the other day on a similar question but for whatever it is worth, we have a friend who works in the Executive Staff for a US Port Authority. They do have cruise ships at their port but not Disney (meaning during regular times). They are hearing that US cruises are aiming for September assuming all goes well but will be very limited, shorter duration cruises. Again, just hearsay but from a more credible source, I suppose. We have an Oct Dream cruise celebrating a milestone birthday for me with family & friends but not sure it will actually go and also not sure I want to be one of the first to go! Will see what the next 6 months or so bring....

Well, DCL hasn't even scheduled the required test cruises yet, and they have to give two months notice before they do those, so that would put the earliest test cruise at April 13, 2021 IF they filed plans today. Lord knows now much time they would need after that to fix any issues that come up and do test cruises with any necessary modifications. And a point I keep hammering, they will need to gather a fully vaccinated crew which may be a challenge since the nations many of their International crew are from have no vaccination plans in place yet. Some have suggested Disney might buy their own vaccine, but how do you get it around the world to all those employees so they can travel to the ships? President Biden this week announced they have secured 200 million additional vaccine doses, still short of what the U.S. needs by 30 million, and the announcement did not specify when those vaccines would be manufactured and distributed, just that it would be after July.

 

[bcwife76]

It will be very interesting to see how DCL & DVC handle all of those points when it cancels.

Hopefully it will be a bit smoother this time if it's cancelled, as they cancelled the 2020 DVC member cruise (which was supposed to go to Alaska). So they should have a process in place this time around.