Encore is at dock in Taino bay today!

[Slk1z]

Its true!  Encore is docked at Taino Bay DR..

Hopefully this will continue

 

[BirdTravels]

6 minutes ago, Slk1z said:

Its true!  Encore is docked at Taino Bay DR..

Hopefully this will continue

Cool. The world's largest cruise ships dock there, other than the "Escape incident", there is no reason NCL should not.  

Edited January 20, 2023 by BirdTravels

[Turtles06]

And, oddly, the Dawn was sent to Amber Cove today, although she has been showing on the Taino Bay schedule since it was posted for January. Note that the Dawn now shows up on the Amber Cove schedule not only for today, but also for January 31.

 

https://ambercove.com/Port-Schedule.aspx

[wil e coyote]

Also oddly, Encore is not on the Taino Bay schedule for today!

 

Taino Bay, Puerto Plata (porttainobay.com)

[randomthought]

Great news, thanks for sharing!  We'll be on that ship in the same port in 2 weeks and are really hoping it will be in Taino Bay instead of Amber Cove.  Our plan for the day is to just explore Puerto Plata instead of doing an excursion so that will make things much more convenient to be docked there.

[kdmbluerzr]

Interesting,  the cruisemapper webstie shows Encore docked at Ward Cove and Dawn docked at Taino Bay. So who knows. 

[Turtles06]

10 minutes ago, kdmbluerzr said:

Interesting,  the cruisemapper webstie shows Encore docked at Ward Cove and Dawn docked at Taino Bay. So who knows. 

 

I'm not sure what you are looking at, but here's a screenshot from cruisemapper earlier this morning showing the Dawn at Amber Cove and the Encore at Taino Bay.  (Looking at cruisemapper now, it also shows that the Celebrity Constellation is docked at Taino Bay as well.)

 

[surfone]

I hope the encore will dock at Taino Bay next week vs. Amber cove. We are on virgin valiant lady now and our first stop this week was Taino Bay,  loved it! Of course, we were only ship there and we have less than 900 cruisers on board so it was relaxing and quiet.

[surfone]

Meant to say we will be getting off Valiant Sunday and boarding Encore. Will be a whole different vibe for sure.

[BirdTravels]

35 minutes ago, kdmbluerzr said:

Interesting,  the cruisemapper webstie shows Encore docked at Ward Cove and Dawn docked at Taino Bay. So who knows. 

The passengers will wake up with a big shock to be in Alaska (Ketchikan) Ward Cove. 

[excitedtocruise]

Just checked cruisemapper and it looks like it is in Taino Bay. I am following, have a Escape cruise planned in March. 

[dbrown84]

This is great news.  I'm on the Escape in April.  I hope the dockings continues 

[goldmom]

Is there a fee to use the pool, chairs and umbrellas in Taino Bay?

[Paul_TO]

5 hours ago, BirdTravels said:

The passengers will wake up with a big shock to be in Alaska (Ketchikan) Ward Cove. 

 

The itinerary on the app showed Charlottetown, Canada as one of the stops this week.  Not sure how we were supposed to get to Tortola for the next day.

 

 

 

 

[vettprincess]

Thank you Birdtravels and Paul for the great laughs regarding ports.  I sorely needed those today.

[dbrown84]

1 hour ago, Paul_TO said:

 

The itinerary on the app showed Charlottetown, Canada as one of the stops this week.  Not sure how we were supposed to get to Tortola for the next day.

 

 

 

 

I think the new Captain brought transporter technology with him

 

[SanMarc]

Thanks for the update. We’re first time on NCL and the Encore. Looking forward to the port in March, fingers crossed we get there! 

[kdmbluerzr]

Oh my gosh!   I need to look at the maps closer and don't get my Coves mixed up!  We did visit Ward Cove last summer.  Hoping we get to visit Amber Cove soon.  Thanks everyone.  🙂 

[Oceansaway17]

On 1/20/2023 at 11:30 AM, kdmbluerzr said:

Interesting,  the cruisemapper webstie shows Encore docked at Ward Cove and Dawn docked at Taino Bay. So who knows. 

aw well cruisemapper is wrong about 15% of the time or behind in updates.  

[lilalila]

On 1/20/2023 at 2:31 PM, goldmom said:

Is there a fee to use the pool, chairs and umbrellas in Taino Bay?

On my 12/07/2022 visit there was no fee for using the pool/chair(s)/umbrella(s). 

Not sure if there's a fee to use the large pool floaties. 

Food/beverages not included. 

The music was too loud for my liking. 

[Ken the cruiser]

It now looks like the Dawn along with the Gem will now be docking in Taino Bay on Jan 31, with the option of the Dawn also docking in Amber Cove! 😂

 

https://www.porttainobay.com/en/arrivals

 
https://ambercove.com/Port-Schedule.aspx

 

[BirdTravels]

8 minutes ago, Ken the cruiser said:

It now looks like the Dawn along with the Gem will now be docking in Taino Bay on Jan 31, with the option of the Dawn also docking in Amber Cove! 😂

https://www.porttainobay.com/en/arrivals

https://ambercove.com/Port-Schedule.aspx

The important thing to realize is that these are sites maintained by the local tourism folks, not the port authority. And everyone needs to treat them has "only somewhat reliable" 

[lfdemt]

And the Escape docked at Taino Bay today.