Eastern going Western

[camper49]

Paid our final payment today for our 01/27/18 epic cruise. TA spoke with an ncl rep while I was there. Our Eastern itenary will definitely be Western now. They just don't know exactly which ports.

[Windsorontario]

I'm on the same cruise. I've been checking different ports. Still haven't seen anything yet.

[sid_9169]

There are a couple of different variations of Western cruises for the Escape... One includes Roatan, Harvest Caye, Costa Maya, and Cozumel. The other is Falmouth-JA, Grand Cayman, Great Stirrup Caye, and Cozumel...

[cruise947]

The 1/6 sailing is on cruise port schedules for the following ports: Great Stirrup Cay, Falmouth, Grand Cayman and Nassau. No finalized changes from NCL, however.

[brookie848]

Any idea why NCL is doing Falmouth instead of Ocho Rios? I like that Ocho Rios is more centrally located to a lot of the excursion destinations.

[sid_9169]

Edit: The alternate itinerary I meant to type was, Falmouth-JA, Grand Cayman, Great Stirrup Caye, and Nassau...

[amuth1130]

We will be headed to Falmouth now on 12/9 as well, and I've been having a hard time finding info on what people do when they are in port there. Agree it seems like so much farther from most excursions I have read about compared with Ocho Rios. Looks like Escape will be only ship in port that day too, at least as of now.

 

 

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[kpjb]

Any idea why NCL is doing Falmouth instead of Ocho Rios? I like that Ocho Rios is more centrally located to a lot of the excursion destinations.

 

Just a guess, but with all the cruises changing ports I bet that Ocho Rios is pretty booked up. There are a lot of ships needing new destinations.

[uneamie]

Our cruise on Jan 19th is a 14 day original Western Caribbean out of NYC. I suspect that the ports will be filled with other cruise ships so they had to get creative about switching them around so that there are not too many ships in one port........including other cruise line ships.

[ready2cruzagain]

We are on the Epic on Jan 13th and Jan 20th. I sure hope they don't give us the same Western itinerary on the 13th as we have on the 20th.

 

We were suppose to go to Tortola, St Thomas and GSC on the 13th.

[newmexicoNita]

Any idea why NCL is doing Falmouth instead of Ocho Rios? I like that Ocho Rios is more centrally located to a lot of the excursion destinations.

could be due to crowds. We have to remember there are so many ships, so many lines affected by the damage to the ports and only so many can be in any one port on any one day. That is just my guess.

[zqvol]

We are on the Epic on Jan 13th and Jan 20th. I sure hope they don't give us the same Western itinerary on the 13th as we have on the 20th.

 

We were suppose to go to Tortola, St Thomas and GSC on the 13th.

 

We have done back to backs where the ports were pretty much the same both weeks and found that it as a really good experience. You get a chance to enjoy everything that you wanted, which is hard sometimes when you are only there for one day. While it may seem on the surface to be a bad thing it is not a big deal at all.

[SosaCruising]

We are on the Epic sailing Dec 30th. Original schedule was BVI, USVI, and GSC. No word yet on the alternative schedule. 94 days out now.

[nednrom]

We will be headed to Falmouth now on 12/9 as well, and I've been having a hard time finding info on what people do when they are in port there. Agree it seems like so much farther from most excursions I have read about compared with Ocho Rios. Looks like Escape will be only ship in port that day too, at least as of now.

 

 

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We will be in Falmouth in January too. Have been to Falmouth before. There is a nice Margaritavilke and the port is fairly big with many stores but the do say not to go

Out of the gates. There are excursions to Dunn falls and such. We stayed at port for a while and returned to ship since we’ve been to Jamaica a few times before. Asking about the Royal there which is all inclusive, may go there this time.

[fridaythe13th]

We did an excursion from Falmouth that was fun, but it was a 2 hour ride. The Blue Hole which is river tubing and jumping into the refreshing water along the falls. Definitely bring water shoes! It included lunch and rum punch.