Storm Damage at Royal Caribbean’s CocoCay Di...

The extreme climate that disrupted cruise operations across the Bahamas last weekend is having an ongoing influence at one of the vital in style locations within the islands: Royal Caribbean’s personal island, Excellent Day at CocoCay.

Company on each Freedom of the Seas‘ and Superstar Reflection‘s present sailings at the moment are studying their visits to CocoCay should be cancelled as a result of the injury limits berth capability. It’s vital to know that each vessels are owned by Royal Caribbean Group, so vessels from each traces can go to the island.

“Resulting from this previous weekend’s winter storm, which included sturdy winds and heavy seas at Excellent Day at CocoCay, Bahamas, catwalks fell into the ocean on the japanese facet of the pier,” the notification letter to guests onboard Freedom of the Seas defined.

“Sadly, divers haven’t been in a position to find all of them, which prevents us from safely docking the ship at Excellent Day at CocoCay.”

Freedom of the Seas is at the moment on a 5-night Bahamas crusing that departed Miami on Monday, February 2. As a substitute of CocoCay on Tuesday, February 3 as deliberate, the ship spent the day at sea and a name to Cabo Rojo within the Dominican Republic has been added to the itinerary.

Equally, Superstar Reflection‘s plans to go to CocoCay this week are additionally disrupted. The ship departed Fort Lauderdale on Monday for a 5-night crusing that was to have visited each CocoCay and Nassau. Now, Superstar Reflection will go to Freeport as a substitute of CocoCay, although the go to to Nassau ought to stay the identical.

Some Ships Can Nonetheless Dock

It needs to be famous that whereas the east facet of the pier is at the moment unsafe for docking, ships can nonetheless dock comfortably on the west facet of the pier.

Because of this one ship can nonetheless go to CocoCay every day, however on days when two ships are scheduled for the personal island, one could need to be diverted to a day at sea or an alternate port.

On Tuesday, February 3, Surprise of the Seas was in a position to get pleasure from her deliberate go to to CocoCay whereas Freedom of the Seas was at sea as a substitute.

With the popularity of CocoCay on Royal Caribbean Bahamas itineraries, most days do have two vessels scheduled for docking. This implies many alternative ships might have the port cancelled within the days to return till the japanese facet of the pier might be reopened.

Which ship shall be granted entry to CocoCay on any given day will seemingly rely upon the ship’s capability, which ship was already scheduled to be docking first or on the western facet of the pier, and the place various ports may very well be added to particular person ship itineraries.

In some instances, it might be doable to shift ships to a special day to go to CocoCay. For instance, on Thursday, February 12, there are not any ships at the moment scheduled for the island, so one vessel may very well be accommodated that day if itineraries allow.

Little question, the cruise line will notify friends shall be notified onboard or simply previous to their crusing if their visits to CocoCay are impacted.

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Naturally, any pre-paid shore excursions booked by means of Royal Caribbean (or Superstar Cruises) for CocoCay shall be routinely cancelled and refunded if a ship is unable to go to, as is commonplace follow for any port go to.

How Lengthy Will Repairs Take?

There was no timeline introduced for a way lengthy the repairs could take to reopen either side of the CocoCay pier.

It’s important to both find the lacking catwalks or else be sure that the whole docking space, together with any turning basin area or strategy avenues, is obvious and protected for ships to maneuver with out danger of hitting submerged particles.

The catwalks can even should be changed and inspected earlier than the pier can be utilized for docking once more. This might take only a few days, or the disruption may very well be longer and influence many extra ships in each fleets.