October Sailing and Weather?

[goldn]

Hello everyone. I'm wanting to book a sailing in October, but concerned about hurricane season. Should I be? Or just book it, look forward to it and enjoy the trip? I've sailed before (last July) and the weather was awesome! I don't want rain and rough seas to "dampen" my trip. Any words of wisdom is truly appreciated. Especially if you sailed during this time before....
Thanks!

 

[ericamanda01]

Hurrican season runs from June through November so you will be sailing near the end. We sailed in Sept and April and loved Sept because it wasn't nearly as hot. We loved it so much we are sailing agin next Sept. Hope this helps some.

 

[mommasita]

Hello everyone. I'm wanting to book a sailing in October, but concerned about hurricane season. Should I be? Or just book it, look forward to it and enjoy the trip? I've sailed before (last July) and the weather was awesome! I don't want rain and rough seas to "dampen" my trip. Any words of wisdom is truly appreciated. Especially if you sailed during this time before....
Thanks!

I would go ahead and book it...Of course, I would make sure I had a great vacation insurance plan (you never know), and be ready and open to any changes in ports of call, or any other changes needed to make the cruise a safe one...

We were on the 1 day shortened Hurricane Jeanne cruise, and other than having to disembark in a little of a mad rush Friday night, and one day of extremely high seas, and some pool closures on that day, it was the best weather I ever encountered so far...We had sunny beautiful skies every day, and to the best of my memory, never saw a drop of rain....

We have booked for this coming September again..Maybe we are a little loose in the caboose, but, this is the most affordable for us...We go in to it with, insurance, and the knowledge that anything can, and possible will happen, and have somewhat of a backup plan, in case the ship never sailed....

So, this is our experience, and although somewhat harried, we had a MAGICAL time...

HTH

 

[CaribGirl]

It is hard to predict what type of weather we will have this year as far as hurricanes are concerned. Last year was very unusual. I know that they (the weather people) are already predicting a horrible year, worst than last year kind of thing. But it is too early to even be concerned about it. All that said, we are booked for a Sept cruise!!! The weather is usually very nice, little rain, and less people...

 

[Keith Ward]

We cruised mid October last year,weather was perfect,seas flat calm,no rain.Doing it again this year and can't wait.Castaway Cay was a bit brown after the hurricaines but it was a red hot day when we docked there,beautiful....

Keith UK Cruiser.