HAL Europe 2025 Cruise Release Dates

[Dave from Ont]

We had to cancel our Greek, Italy & Istanbul cruise. Just wondering if anyone knows when HAL will release it's lineup for Europe 2025. Perhaps it has already been announced and I've missed it. Thanks in advance for your help.

[CruiserBruce]

It must be getting close, as this question is popping up every week.

 

Should be this month or next.

[rodndonna]

11 minutes ago, Dave from Ont said:

We had to cancel our Greek, Italy & Istanbul cruise. Just wondering if anyone knows when HAL will release it's lineup for Europe 2025. Perhaps it has already been announced and I've missed it. Thanks in advance for your help.

 

You haven't missed it. We have some FCD and "come back and sail" OBC burning a hole in our pocket waiting for the TA's for fall 2025. Our PCC thought they would be out before end of summer.

[Dave from Ont]

We will continue to wait patiently.

[Andi Land]

The 2024 release was done in December of 2022. So, just about 6-7 months ago. When I asked onboard last week, the cruise consultant said she didn’t have a release date yet. 

[rodndonna]

Oddly enough, I can see some Holland itineraries for 2025 to be booked on a major on-line TA. For Europe, it is just for spring 2025 with longer repositioning cruises. A couple of days ago, they only had Alaska cruises for 2025, but today there are a few more destinations so seems like things are starting to roll out ....

 

Still nothing on HAL's site though.

[CruiserBruce]

1 hour ago, Andi Land said:

The 2024 release was done in December of 2022. So, just about 6-7 months ago. When I asked onboard last week, the cruise consultant said she didn’t have a release date yet. 

HAL is still catching up post Covid. Expect Europe 2025 soon.

[CruiserBruce]

1 hour ago, rodndonna said:

Oddly enough, I can see some Holland itineraries for 2025 to be booked on a major on-line TA. For Europe, it is just for spring 2025 with longer repositioning cruises. A couple of days ago, they only had Alaska cruises for 2025, but today there are a few more destinations so seems like things are starting to roll out ....

 

Still nothing on HAL's site though.

What you can see is Winter-Spring 24-25. Schedules are released by seasons, not calendar years.

[rodndonna]

1 minute ago, CruiserBruce said:

What you can see is Winter-Spring 24-25. Schedules are released by seasons, not calendar years.

 

What puzzles me is I can see/book things like Alaska in September 2025 on a TA site, but it doesn't show up on HAL's site. Same for a couple of longer fall 2025  TA cruises...  

[Haljo1935]

7 hours ago, rodndonna said:

 

What puzzles me is I can see/book things like Alaska in September 2025 on a TA site, but it doesn't show up on HAL's site. Same for a couple of longer fall 2025  TA cruises...  

Interesting. Why would HAL make bookings available to TA over direct agents?

Edited July 3, 2023 by Haljo1935
Typo

[RuthC]

18 hours ago, Haljo1935 said:

Interesting. Why would HAL make bookings available to TA over direct agents?

I expect the poster you are quoting meant 'TA' to refer to 'trans-Atlantic' cruises, and not 'Travel Agents'. 

[Haljo1935]

55 minutes ago, RuthC said:

I expect the poster you are quoting meant 'TA' to refer to 'trans-Atlantic' cruises, and not 'Travel Agents'. 

I interpreted it as travel agent, hopefully @rodndonna can clarify. 🤔

[rodndonna]

8 minutes ago, Haljo1935 said:

I interpreted it as travel agent, hopefully @rodndonna can clarify. 🤔

 

This is what I was trying to say -

 

there was a while yesterday (don't see them today) where I could see 2 HAL TransAtlantic (repsositioning) cruises for 2025 on an online booking Travel Agency. I don't see them anymore (maybe I was losing my mind)... but... I can still clearly see Alaska 2025 (through to October 2025) on an on-line Travel Agent booking site. I can see the cruises and cabin pricing, but will not go farther than that (gives an error if trying to book saying no cabins available). It seems odd that I can view cruises on other Travel Agent sites, before HAL's site.

 

 

[Haljo1935]

6 minutes ago, rodndonna said:

 

This is what I was trying to say -

 

there was a while yesterday (don't see them today) where I could see 2 HAL TransAtlantic (repsositioning) cruises for 2025 on an online booking Travel Agency. I don't see them anymore (maybe I was losing my mind)... but... I can still clearly see Alaska 2025 (through to October 2025) on an on-line Travel Agent booking site. I can see the cruises and cabin pricing, but will not go farther than that (gives an error if trying to book saying no cabins available). It seems odd that I can view cruises on other Travel Agent sites, before HAL's site.

 

 

Thanks for clarifying; I thought you meant Travel Advisor - which is why I thought it strange they could see cruises before HAL site users. Phew...glad to know my mind still works sometimes, lol.

[Andi Land]

24 minutes ago, rodndonna said:

 

This is what I was trying to say -

 

there was a while yesterday (don't see them today) where I could see 2 HAL TransAtlantic (repsositioning) cruises for 2025 on an online booking Travel Agency. I don't see them anymore (maybe I was losing my mind)... but... I can still clearly see Alaska 2025 (through to October 2025) on an on-line Travel Agent booking site. I can see the cruises and cabin pricing, but will not go farther than that (gives an error if trying to book saying no cabins available). It seems odd that I can view cruises on other Travel Agent sites, before HAL's site.

 

 

We just got off the ship on Saturday and if I remember correctly, they said Alaska 2025 will be released any day now. Maybe that’s why it’s showing up on another site? I wonder if the other site published them earlier than allowed?