When notice of cancellation from MSC

[travelberlin]

Some cruise lines have already informed their clients that they will not sail until March 2021. Providing this information as soon as possible is very important specially for long voyages. Clients do not have to make final payments and are not forced to accept any voucher for the total amount paid.

Reading the information from the MSC webpage, I notice that MSC only offers vouchers in case the company cancels a cruise. This vouchers have to be used until December 2021. This policy is very restrictive because there is no clarity how the situation with cruises will be next year.

I am wondering if notice of cancellation of a cruise are giving before the date line of final payment or if MSC waits that the clients make their final payments before cancelling the cruises. Does anybody have an experience with this?

Ivi

[CruisingFox27]

Some cruises have been cancelled for next year already, many of the longer cruises, so final payments not required.

 

With the shorter cruises for the Med or Caribbean for example, they aren't yet cancelled as presumably MSC do not know the feasibility of these cruises going ahead.

 

A tough call in many circumstances, passengers want to know where they stand and not pay their balance but cancel too soon and the cruise might be able to sail and passengers are unhappy they miss their trip. Decisions should be made in a timely manner though, agreed. Unfortunately, at present it's all such an unknown situation 😟