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8 hours ago, livingonthebeach said:

After Pullmantur, comes another casualty.  This time it's the Swedish cruise line Birka Cruises.  Granted, these two were small cruise lines but the idea that they could only last for 3 1/2 months without revenue is a scary thing for the industry.

 

https://thepointsguy.com/news/birka-cruise-line-shuts-down/

It's Finnish.. It did cruises from Mariehamn to Stockholm.

1 hour ago, Chiliburn said:

So just say RC does go bust , would the ship yard get a government grant to finish the project and keep jobs.

Rc has its financing covered already to the ship. It is one of the conditions before they sing the contract. So yes ship yard will build it to finish. Government has some guarantees in those financing solutions.

On 1/5/2020 at 7:21 PM, Raptordash said:

 I am interested in seeing the Northern Lights and have begun research on both cruises and land tours.  In doing so, I came across CC posts as well as info from Google searches that when viewed with the naked eye, you do not see the greens, pinks, and purples that are seen in the gorgeous photographs.  It seems that you may only see white/gray cloudlike scenes with the naked eye.  To be honest, I would not spend the time or money to merely try to see the Northern Lights if you cannot see the colorful display with the naked eye.   (I realize that even seeing the Lights is never guaranteed. We were thinking of March 2021)   If any of you have done either a cruise or a land tour in search of the Northern Lights and seen it, I would ask what you saw with the naked eye.

I would ask for responses from those who were on a cruise or land tour, rather than from people who merely read about it online.

Thanks,

Marc

If I want to find Northern Lights. I would book land based trip, not cruise. I would fly in Lapland (Finland), Northern Sweden, or Northern Norway at least for 2 weeks at the winter time. You will have best chance to find those lights then.  But it just luck, you may or may not see those lights. You can see Northern Lights at least in green color in naked eye. Have seen those few times. But all depend on solar activity.  

20 minutes ago, scooby1 said:

Another Finnish update.

 

https://www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000006058074.html?ref=rss

 

The evacuation appears to have taken 20-30 minutes and whilst on the ship some felt it might tip over. View was that they think the dock has split (we have all hypothesised the same). Seems it was quite a scary time leaving as the earlier video showed. 

 

Maybe in the future they will review if 2000+ crew should be onboard as well as the contractors whilst in a wet dock in future, who knows. 

Few more words. So the article says bit more. I'll try to translate. 

There was some Finnish guy as a subcontractor in the ship. They did have subcontractor meeting. This guy had meeting concerning the fall's refub. As the accident happened the evacuation did take approx. 20-30min. They had only one gangway in use in deck 2 as the other were broken. What comes to ships tilting this Finnish guy did make estimation that ship could have fell a side. And this guy did mention ships damage as like this ships side did have some damage, but not anything broke trough. Did not say anything about azipods.

Edit 1. And he also mentions they apparently have plan to get Oasis in the Spain to repair dock, as we already did know.

Edit 2. And what comes splitting the dock. He doesn't say anything of that kind. He just says the dock probably did broke. 

 

Hi, thinking of doing a 9 night  Scandinavian/ Russia and Baltic cruise on NCL the middle of October- ports include Finland, Sweden, Estonia and St. Petersburg, Russia.  Does anyone know what type of weather we might expect? I've read that the average temps are in the mid 40's F. We are used to cold weather, mainly like this cruise for the ports and the month works for us, but any input from those who have done this itinerary  in the Fall would be appreciated- is it just as beautiful that time of year? Thank you.

In Finland it can be anything between -5C (23F) to 15C (59F). Sunny, Rainy or snowing or everything.