Spin-off Thread: How many port stops have you missed while cruising......

[lorimay]

Just reading through the thread about missing Castaway Cay and I thought about the other ports we have missed along the way. I will say every port we have missed was the port we booked the cruise for in the first place, such is life.....

1. KEY WEST - We were scheduled there and Key West decided they were going to start allowing less ships into port. They did replace it with a second day at CC.
2. CATALINA ISLAND - Bad weather unable to tender in. We were given an extra sea day.
3. AMSTERDAM- last year people protesting the arrival of ships, Disney gave us an overnight at Hamburg, Germany in place of Amsterdam.
4. PUERTO RICO - Last month. Damage to pier we were suppose to dock at. We didn't receive the email until the morning of sailing. I think they were already aware of this, I don't know why they waited to announce it. We were given a day at Look-out Cay. It was a beautiful beach day and we enjoyed Look-Out Cay in spite of it.

What are your missed ports?

 

[erionm]

9 DCL Cruises and no missed port stops. We had one entire cruise cancelled on us (10/11/2024 due to Hurricane Milton).

 

[dreamer17555]

On our very first ever, Disney Cruise we missed castaway in 2020 due to high winds. We also missed Bermuda for our eight night sailing two years ago, but we knew about it in advance due to a hurricane, and we were rerouted to a western with a doubledip at castaway.

 

[PsylockeSmythe]

Four cruises so far and zero missed ports.

Psy

 

[lorimay]

On our very first ever, Disney Cruise we missed castaway in 2020 due to high winds. We also missed Bermuda for our eight night sailing two years ago, but we knew about it in advance due to a hurricane, and we were rerouted to a western with a doubledip at castaway.

We were originally booked on that Bermuda cruise, but changed because of a new grand baby coming around that time.
Waiting for another offering of Bermuda.

 

[OKW Lover]

20 DCL cruises and no missed ports. However one cruise had the itinerary changed to a different date to dock at CC because of weather but we did get to the island.

 

[msmama]

We skipped the Azores on an EBTA due to weather. Apparently it's a tricky port to get out of and they were afraid we'd get stuck there. It didn't seem like a big deal until we hit Lisbon and realized just how long we'd been away from land!

 

[sjuncfan]

We've been on 9 cruises.

We missed Cozumel on the Fantasy due to Hurricane Franklin in 2017. It was our first "long" cruise so we enjoyed an extra day at sea.
We missed Puerto Rico on the Fantasy in 2019 due to civil unrest (I think a lot of people on this board were on this cruise). We went to St. Thomas instead.
We've always been able to dock at Castaway Cay though there was at least one time when they closed the snorkel lagoon due to thunderstorms. We got drenched and everyone was back on the boat by about 1 pm that day.

 

[Chirple]

One port in 18 cruises--Newfoundland on the 2017 WBTA.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Never missed a port due to external issues.Have hidden from relatives though..

 

[happycamper47]

22 Cruises, including 4 PC and we've only missed one (Grand Cayman due to high waves) and one change in the day we visited Castaway Cay. We swapped our sea day and Port day because of weather.

 

[o&smom]

13 cruises and all was well until March 2020. Got on the Wonder in New Orleans on March 6 and we all know what happened days later! We did get to two ports before the world shut down...Cozumel and Grand Cayman, but no Cartagena, Colombia, Puerto Vallarta or Cabo San Lucas. Arrived in San Diego a day early. Crazy experience!

 

[Dug720]

On Disney no officially missed ports. I did have that day that we were docked at Castaway but due to a squall that didn't move we were stuck on board all day. But we docked so it's not officially missed.

On Royal Caribbean, we missed the Hubbard Glacier cruising day due to leaving Seward extremely late because a bad car accident shut down the one road between Anchorage and Seward for several hours - which prevented RCCL busses from getting there. Not a port, but a missed scheduled experience.

On Celebrity Edge I missed Costa Maya due to unrest with taxi drivers and bus drivers - in consultation with the captain of the Reflection (which was there the day before our scheduled stop when the unrest was highest) and Celebrity's main office, Captain Kate made the call to skip that port.

 

[Joanna71985]

I've only missed Castaway Cay in 2012 (and that was due to Hurricane Sandy)

 

[dad of 3 addicted to DCL]

28 cruises and missed:
1. Castaway Cay once due to winds
2. Grand Cayman once for same
3. San Juan Puerto Rico TWICE (once for riots, once for the pier issue)

We booked an Eastern Carib in 2017 that was changed to a Western due to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria

 

[tlovesdis]

2 DCL cruises and one missed stop. Couldn't go to Grand Cayman on our first cruise as the port or dock or something was damaged. We almost missed Castaway too, which would have made it an all sea day cruise, but after 4 tries our captain got us parked. We got on the island late so there was no bbq lunch but we got there!

 

[tvguy]

Only missed one port in 45 years of cruising My first cruise in March 1980 was supposed to stop at Dominica. The island had been devastated by Hurricane David 7 months before. We cruised by slowly and close to land and all we saw were piles of rubble. Almost everything was gone.
https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/remembering-hurricane-david-42-years-later/

 

[otten]

On our Panama Canal cruise in March 2020 we missed all but the first two stops. The first missed port was Cartagena Colombia because we had to turn back to Grand Cayman for a medical evacuation. The other two ports missed were Puerto Vallarta and Cabo which was because by that point the pandemic has officially been declared.

 

[fredandkell]

Missed Royal Caribbean’s private island twice on two different cruises due to wind. I’ve yet to see CocoCay!

 

[Pens Fan]

11 cruises - 5 on DCL, 5 on NCL, 1 on Carnival. Never missed a port, though we were delayed at a Castaway stop once due to a medical emergency. We woke up in Nassau but did get to Castaway in the early afternoon - still had a good 4 or 5 hours there.

I guess we've been lucky. All of our NCL cruises were between 7 and 14 days long and very port intensive - very few sea days. We still made them all.