Thirty-Fourth Sea Day

We started this morning with Bible study.

During Bible Study the Captain made announcement. The announcement said that there will be a schedule update at 10 AM regarding our itinerary which will be broadcast in the Star Theatre, Pool Deck and in Staterooms.

I met Bob and told him that I would like to go to the Star Theatre so we could gauge everyone's reactions. We headed to the theatre.

Mr. Hagen appeared on the screen and told us that we will not be sailing through the Red Sea but will be sailing around Africa. We then were given a detail itinerary update highlighting each of the new ports and brief discussion about probably excursion. We were told that excursion were being finalized and should be ready to book in about 5 days. We were further told that if we decided to leave the ship we would be given reimbursement on a case by case basis. Further, we were told that any reimbursement for missed ports would occur after the cruise. Again, this would be done on a case by case basis.

The new itinerary is the same as the 2019 World Cruise. Bob and I are not excited about the new itinerary.

We had lunch and discussed with Dale and Jenni. We mentioned that we were leaning towards leaving.

I had a lot of questions regarding the vouchers that would be given. I went down to guest services and spoke with Mara. She didn't have a lot of details regarding the vouchers so she composed an email and sent my questions to the home office.

I also asked Mara to put us on the waiting list for the India Overland excursion in case we decided to continue on with the cruise.

After much discussion, Bob and I went to bed leaning towards leaning.Read more