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Bon Voyage, have a wonderful cruise!!

Bon Voyage, and have a wonderful cruise!!!!

Bon Voyage, and have a wonderful cruise!!

Bon Voyage!! Have a fantastic South Seas voyage!!

Hi Jacqui: We have cancelled our Zuiderdam - 28-May-23 - 35 day British Isles, Sptisbergen & Icelandic Fiords cruise. Replacing it with a Germany/Austria road trip instead. Thank you!

Hello Jacqui, We have decided to cancel Zuiderdam - 10-Oct-23 - 73 day Grand Africa. We replaced it with a much shorter voyage that immerses in certain parts of Africa. Thank you!

Thank you, #VMax1700, for continuing to assemble this information. I find it useful (and reassuring) when booking and monitoring our travel. Question for you. There seems to be a gap in the Westerdam's schedule on the HAL site from 1/19/2023 to 2/3/2023. Both of these dates have the ship in Singapore, but I don't see any itineraries even when using the Sold Out filter. I was under the impression that this was to be a dry dock scheduled for Westerdam. Do you have any information?

Thank you for your insights about bunker fuel. Do the HAL cruise ships use fuels other than bunker fuel for propulsion--to any significant degree?

We're in a similar boat as you. We were also cancelled from the June 2022 Volendam North Cape/Spitsbergen/Iceland cruise. As a replacement, we booked a Viking Ocean cruise from London to North Cape and the Baltic to see this region. We've been loyal with HAL, but with this Volendam cancellation we took the opportunity to try Viking, and it may become a trend for us. We'd also booked a HAL Spitsbergen/Iceland cruise in May/June 2023. Based on the above posts, I feel that we'll be very disappointed again if Spitsbergen is removed from the itinerary. That would trigger our cancellation because Spitsbergen would be the main purpose for our taking the cruise. So sad that Princess had to wait until after your final payment/cancellation date to inform you of this major itinerary change. Hardly seems fair...

Hi Jacqui: You probably know this already, but HAL recently cancelled all Volendam cruises in July, Aug & September including our September 10th Ancient Mysteries collector cruise. Thanks anyway for posting!

Our fully-paid Volendam sailing date 6/12/22 Cancellation notification received 4/1/22 Submitted cancellation request form 4/4/22 Received refund into our cc account on 4/8/22 Very fast if you ask me. I think the key is to make sure you submit your cancellation form ASAP.

Enjoy your cruises, have a wonderful time!!