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We were told by our contact at Oceania (we booked directly through them) that we could get an FCC late last week (not in writing, over the phone), and when we called back Tuesday to accept were told it was no longer available, we’d have to take the cruise or lose our money.

I might be a day out two off on this, but our agent at Oceania told us late last week (Thursday?) that we could take the FCC, and we had until Nov 30 to book the next cruise and had to take that cruise by the end of 2025. No deadline to respond, and we told him we wanted to think about it. By Tuesday when we called back to take it (because we had read here that they were no longer offering it, and thought we’d try), he said he was informed that morning it was no longer available.

No, just that the “decision was made yesterday”

Although we are on a different cruise (Riviera, end of Nov, Istanbul to Dubai), our issues are very much like the OP’s. We were offered FCC late last week, had decided to wait to see if perhaps the cruise might be canceled altogether), and O pulled that offer as of this morning. So we are now skipping stops in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Oman, visiting 6 Greek islands and spending 9 days at sea through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, the Arabia Sea and the Gulf of Oman…which to us is also at least somewhat unsafe. We are told that we either can go, or forfeit our money (about $25,000). We are looking into actions we may be able to take to receive at least some of our money back. Again, I understand, like the OP the need to cancel these stops, but wish we could have received some money for a FCC.