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While technically it might be possible. I doubt the cruise line would accept it. If it was inline with the current interpretation of the law, then it would be easy for the cruise lines to sell 1 day shorter cruises with no overnight in each direction, with the passemgers getting their own hotel rooms and get a lot more people interested in the cruise. Yet they do not. I suspect that even if one disembarks for 24 hours in the same city would not be acceptable to the cruise line. Maybe if one got off in an earlier port ( such as is accepted when one disembarks in Victoria, then reboards in Vancouver). But same port i suspect is a higher hurdle to climb. Canadian immigration would also have to agree to staff for disembarkation the day before. Go ahead book the cruise and have your arguement. Let us know how it works out for you.

If you go ahead with the cruise, check the room and see if you can find out the reason for removal from inventory. Would be very interesting information.

Actually the case for the guest entertainer was on a different line, Princess to be exact. The other case i mentioned, the decision to take a few cabins out of inventory for work was also on a different line, Celebrity. Just mentioned those in terms of cabins being removed from inventory (not affiliated woth a specific cruise) Cruise lines different language the same.

Currently on Regal staff numbers are at listed crew occupancy levels for the ship. According to Captain 1345.

Just as mine was before they pulled it from inventory to be used for the entertainers family. In my case it was 1 week before the cruise started. When i called to get it back i was told that i was moved for operational reasons, and could not get it returned because it was removed from inventory for that cruise. On board the cruise i was able to find out that it did not contain passengers, but instead was used for a guest entertainer and his family. Considering that cruises are sold 2 years in advance. Unlikely that a cabin will be removed from inventory until a reason exists to do so. In this case it happened to already have been booked before whatever reason that led to it being removed from inventory came up.

The comment about the stateroom no longer being affiliated with your cruise means that the cabin has been removed from sellable inventory for that cruise. That can happen for a wide variety of reasons. Had that happen to me once when a visiting entertainer planned to bring his family along and wanted a bigger cabin then they normally put him in. Cabin was changed for operational reasons and removed from bookable inventory. Have also seen it when they plan to do some work between dry dock on a few cabins each cruise. There is the possibility if the cruise is sold in multiple configurations, such a a 7 day or part of a longer 14 day that they will not include it in the sellable inventory for the shorter cruise, though i have not encountered one being removed from inventory for that reason, and in those cases customer service can usually work around the restriction.