Passengers booked on the September 2010 Transatlantic on the Norwegian Sun are having a bit of a cloudy day today, as NCL has informed them that the ship will be going into drydock instead, with their transatlantic crossing pushed back to October 4, 2010.
For many passengers, this will be the second bump they've had in their transatlantic road: earlier this year, NCL made the decision to replace the Norwegian Jewel in the Baltics with the slightly smaller Norwegian Sun. This change necessitated re-acomodating passengers already booked onto a ship with a completely different deck plan and a lower overall number of cabins in certain categories, most noticeably suites.
Also problematic is the new itinerary: the Sun will now depart Dover on October 4, 2010 before calling at Lisbon and Ponta Delgada, followed by seven days at sea. The Sun will arrive in Port Canaveral (Orlando) on Sat, October 23, 2010. Gone are the ports of Guernsey, Waterford, La Coruna, and Vigo.
While disruptive, NCL is probably taking advantage of the fact that the Sun is over in Europe, where shipyards are more plentiful and available than in other parts of the world, and plans to do routine maintenance before the ship returns to the Caribbean in late October 2010.
The new itinerary can be found here.
A CruiseCritic thread on the matter is located here.
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