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Edit: I had no idea what a JS was...

With the Canary Islands now on the "safe" travel list from this weekend, Marella's restart cruises with Explorer in November look a little more realistic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54650531

Dream is leaving the Adriatic and is cruising towards Malta at the moment.

Done two cruises from Tenerife, not had an issue. For some reason the in past it was significantly cheaper to pick up the cruise in Tenerife, but looking lately that doesn't seem the case now. Both islands have decent airports and I wouldn't be bothered which one I was starting from.

I've had two refund emails, both had a red box with the code there. The code is an image, so is it possible your email client is blocking images for security reasons?

For the record I applied for refunds using the two codes and got them processed quickly.

It's showing up for me:

Link to TUI

It's only a 6 day one-way cruise.

It's Explorer (not 2) operating out of Corfu.

And 3 hours later my credit card has been refunded. Very pleased.

My credit code turned up yesterday and I immediately applied for a refund, process worked no problem. Was told the refund could take up to 28 days as expected.

However unexpectidly today TUI refunded £150 to my debit card (which was the deposit), now waiting to see if the rest of the balance will be refunded as quick to the credit card.

31 minutes ago, FIFE1 said:

 

See a post from staff on disc 2 off Isle of Wight awaiting to go home to India. They have been waiting 100 plus days in various places. I hope they all get home soon and more importantly stay safe and well

Did you mean Discovery? Discovery 2 is currently in the Med near Malta.

Appears to be just drifting at 1 Kt, no destination lodged.

Discovery 2 made a sharp turn and headed towards Gibraltar, although it stopped short and just outside the harbour, still reporting Valletta as its destination.

Celebration has left Barcelona and is reporting its destination at Malta.

Dream is anchored a few miles off Valletta and never docked.

I've paid the deposit on a cruise on Dream in October (not for me, my son is getting married and was to be a honeymoon present) which will not be going ahead according to the information page on the TUI page. Full payment would normally be required in July, so it will interesting if TUI will attempt to request the payment even though they know the cruise will not be sailing. There has been no communication regarding this cruise as yet.

I have another cruise booked (Discovery 2 in September) which was fully paid last year, this one has been officially cancelled by TUI, just waiting for the credit to be offered so I can get full refund.

After several weeks of drifting off the Mediterranean coast of Morocco, Dream is now proceeding to Valetta, Malta.

Discovery is now on the last leg of its long journey from the Indian Ocean. After heading south and stopping off at Cape Town and then Gran Canaria it is now just about to cross the Bay of Biscay on its way to Southampton.

At around midnight last night, Discovery passed within 20 miles of Celebration going in the opposite direction, it is headed for Barcelona.

The other 3 ships are still off the coast of the Isle of Wight for the time being.

Just had a email from TUI regarding my September cruise on D2, it has been cancelled. Refund credit will be issued.

This is the latest information from the TUI site regarding what has been cancelled:

Marella Cruises sailings on or before 30 June 2020 and all sailings detailed below
    o  All sailings on Marella Celebration
    o  Sailings on Marella Discovery 2 up to 30 April 2021
    o  Sailings on Marella Dream up to 4 May 2021
    o  Marella Discovery sailings in December 2020 and January 2021
    o  Marella Explorer 2 sailings between 5 May 2021 to 20 October 2021 

Explorer has left the Canaries and is headed to Ceuta, due there on the 7th.

3 minutes ago, Rebel Rouser said:

And for a very sad reason too. 

Indeed

https://www.chronicle.gi/cruise-ship-crewman-dies-with-virus-type-symptoms-leaving-port-facing-public-health-dilemma/

According to MarineTraffic Dream docked for 2 hours in Malaga today.

7 hours ago, MX-Drew said:

To clarify that is Discovery 1, Discovery 2 is due to reposition from Jamaica to Naples on 21st April and at this time Marella are saying it is still happening, yeah right!

There are no cruises now listed leaving anywhere for the whole of April.

2 minutes ago, insidecabin said:

Probably a cheap place to anchor and lay up the ship till they know what happens next

It now seems to have stopped short a couple of miles short of Gibraltar.

13 minutes ago, howmuch! said:

Thats interesting, as according to captain, we were denied docking in Gibraltar Saturday.

It certainly wasn't closed, P&O's Oceana was denied docking at Malaga on Friday and went straight to Gibraltar on Saturday. According to a passenger they were free to leave the ship but not allowed to cross into Spain.

Dream has left Malaga and is now apparently on its way to Gibraltar.

Dream has just done a 180 and is now heading north again, so it looks like it is either returning to Cadiz or possibly heading to Lisbon.

Dream left Cadiz yesterday and was supposed to be heading for Casablanca, instead it just drifted around for a few hours. It now appears to be heading to Gibraltar which quite possibly might be it's dock for a while as it won't be able to travel onwards to Malaga.

And today she is in in Tarragona, which isn't even on the itinerary..