Celebrity Cruises has canceled the 2024-2025 South American sailing season due to increased vessel movement to its Florida home port for deployment changes and Caribbean itineraries. celebrity equinox.
Instead, the ship is homeported at Port Canaveral and offers a variety of tropical cruise holidays. The world’s busiest cruise port.
Celebrities cancel South American season
Celebrity Cruises has reached out to booking guests and travel agents to confirm the cancellation of the 2024-2025 South American voyage season. celebrity equinox, because the ship will be based in Florida during that period. This affects departures from 21 November 2024 to 1 March 2025.
“As we position our brands for continued success, we are constantly looking for opportunities to make our already great products even better.” Notice read. “With this goal in mind, Celebrity Cruises is pleased to announce the relocation of Celebrity Equinox from South America to the Caribbean in November 2024.”
The now-canceled South American route was due to call at ports in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay, as well as excellent options to Antarctica, Patagonia and the Falkland Islands.
Instead, the ship would sail in both the Eastern and Western Caribbean Seas, not too short, not too long, and without requiring extensive air travel to reach distant embarkation ports. We offer a very popular 7-night itinerary as a great getaway.
All guests who had reservations on the currently canceled cruise will be automatically refunded all payments. If future cruise his credits were used to book a reservation, those credits will be refunded to the guest’s account.
In addition, Celebrity Cruises will provide affected guests with an onboard credit of $200 per stateroom ($400 for retreat bookings) for future cruises as compensation for the inconvenience. This is the same compensation provided for: Recent Cancellations of Two Other Celebrity Ships, celebrity apex and celebrity zodiac sign.
With the first cruise canceled over a year away, guests still have time to choose another Celebrity Cruise for their great ocean trip in 2024 or 2025.
An all-new homeport
121,878 GT Solstice class celebrity equinox will be First-ever Celebrity Cruises to sail from Port Canaveral to home port.
“By homeporting Celebrity Equinox, more cruise travelers will be able to experience the quality experience of a cruise line while experiencing the comfort and ease of travel that our port offers. It creates great opportunities.” Captain John Murray, CEO of Port Canaveral, said:
Announcement of celebrity equinox The voyage from Port Canaveral to its home port is just the latest announcement of a new vessel calling into Central Florida Port.
In June, Royal Caribbean International announced: sea utopia Based in Port Canaveral It will debut in July 2024. This ship will be the cruise company’s last very popular ship. Oasis class vessel. sea utopia For a quick and easy getaway, we operate short cruises of 3 or 4 nights.
Similarly, Princess Cruises announced in May: caribbean princess Scheduled to depart from Port Canaveral in November 2024It will be the first time a cruise company has a ship based in central Florida. The vessel offers 6- and 8-night Caribbean voyages to some of the region’s most popular ports of call.
Norwegian Cruise Line, Disney Cruise Line and MSC Cruises also depart from Port Canaveral. Port Canaveral is also served by several shipping lines, including Cunard Line, Holland America Line and TUI Cruises.