Sailing out of Baltimore on Carnival Pride May 12

[IMANOT]

I am sailing in just over 3 weeks. I called Carnival and they are not providing any information until 15 days prior to sailing.

what are people doing?  Rerouting my flights for 3 people will cost an extra $1000. I am finding this very stressful 

Edited April 20 by IMANOT
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[teknoge3k]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you're not sailing out of Baltimore in May. You may want to go ahead and reschedule your flights and hotels for Norfolk. 

[grima625]

Carnival has been providing transportation from and to Baltimore if your cruise doesn’t sail from there. You just have to sign up for it ahead of time. 

[wxtrix]

no one should make any non-refundable changes until you hear directly from Carnival.

[IMANOT]

I am pondering the possibility of changing my flight to Norfolk and renting a car to drive to Baltimore if I made a bad decision.  The 4 hour bus ride will be too tight for my flight home.  I am disappointed that they haven’t reached out at all

[mz-s]

31 minutes ago, IMANOT said:

I am pondering the possibility of changing my flight to Norfolk and renting a car to drive to Baltimore if I made a bad decision.  The 4 hour bus ride will be too tight for my flight home.  I am disappointed that they haven’t reached out at all

 

Carnival is not the one cleaning up the harbor, so they don't control the timeframe. What would you like them to tell you?

[thesmiths]

I'd fly in to BWI and rent a car if its the day before..

If flying day of, switch flights to Norfolk.

 

 

 

 

[Umwakichwa]

13 hours ago, IMANOT said:

I am sailing in just over 3 weeks. I called Carnival and they are not providing any information until 15 days prior to sailing.

what are people doing?  Rerouting my flights for 3 people will cost an extra $1000. I am finding this very stressful 

I also called and was told that they were only contacting people “a week out” via email. Others found out via John Healds Facebook page days before they received an email. 

[wxtrix]

3 hours ago, IMANOT said:

I am pondering the possibility of changing my flight to Norfolk and renting a car to drive to Baltimore if I made a bad decision.  The 4 hour bus ride will be too tight for my flight home.  I am disappointed that they haven’t reached out at all

 

i’m on the 5/5 sailing and haven’t heard anything.i don’t think the 4/28 people have yet, either.

 

imo that’s a positive sign if you want to sail out of Baltimore.

[bumorgan]

I'm on the May 5th cruise. Living on LI NY it will take me 4-4.5 hours to get to Baltimore. Does anyone know what time the shuttle bus leaves Baltimore for Norfolk? Thanks.

[JMAE]

We are the Pride on 4/28 and haven't been advised yet. 

[PC 462]

Carnival Pride has a draft of 25 feet.  A third channel was opened today with a depth of 20 feet, so we aren't there yet.  It is still planned to have a 35-foot channel opened by the end of April, with the full 50-foot channel re-opened by the end of May.

If the 35-foot channel is opened, and if Carnival will run through with 10 feet to spare under the hull, then the April 28 and later cruises may leave from Baltimore.

If they won't chance the 35-foot channel, it's not likely.  A large part of the steel bridge and the concrete roadway are still on the bow of the container ship, and two bodies have yet to be recovered.

[Umwakichwa]

John Heald just posted on fb that those sailing 5/12 would be getting an email on Wednesday 5/8 and will likely need “an immediate response”

[IMANOT]

I got the same email. Carnival’s communication skills leave much to be desired.  What are the chances that the ship can disembark in Norfolk and then make the 198 nautical mile journey to pick us up?

[Umwakichwa]

31 minutes ago, IMANOT said:

I got the same email. Carnival’s communication skills leave much to be desired.  What are the chances that the ship can disembark in Norfolk and then make the 198 nautical mile journey to pick us up?

I was thinking the same and wonder if they’ll depart norfolk then return to Baltimore one of these times.  The post on fb header was “Carnival Pride  - Norfolk  - Baltimore”

[toad455]

Why is Carnival giving guests just 4 days notice?? I saw Heald's post yesterday and thought their late decision making is extremely poor on them.

[IMANOT]

That was the cruise line’s first communication with us.  I will never cruise with them again.  Their PR stinks.  It is an unprecedented situation, but I feel that we should have had them reach out even if just to offer support.

[StephPS79]

5 hours ago, IMANOT said:

That was the cruise line’s first communication with us.  I will never cruise with them again.  Their PR stinks.  It is an unprecedented situation, but I feel that we should have had them reach out even if just to offer support.

 

Not trying to be rude, but what kind of support are you expecting?  

[IntrepidFromDC]

39 minutes ago, StephPS79 said:

 

Not trying to be rude, but what kind of support are you expecting?  

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sorry, but I'm overdue for some kind of Seinfeld-related contribution.

[Gari]

Good luck folks m following your experiences as I'm headed out in a couple of weeks 

[JMAE]

Just returned from the Pride on 5/5 and I thought CCL communicated as can be expected considering what transpired.  From what I heard officials are attempting to float the Dali this week.  Still the Unified Command is using the cruise port terminal as their command post so until this major part of the cleanup is complete, I don't think they will be moving or downsizing their command center until then.       

[wxtrix]

8 hours ago, IMANOT said:

That was the cruise line’s first communication with us.  I will never cruise with them again.  Their PR stinks.  It is an unprecedented situation, but I feel that we should have had them reach out even if just to offer support.

support how? they’re providing transportation to the new port.

they have no role in the decision to reopen the port. 

[Umwakichwa]

On 4/19/2024 at 8:50 PM, IMANOT said:

I am sailing in just over 3 weeks. I called Carnival and they are not providing any information until 15 days prior to sailing.

what are people doing?  Rerouting my flights for 3 people will cost an extra $1000. I am finding this very stressful 

I just wanted to check in and see if the email they said would come today arrived as I haven’t seen anyone post it as they have been with the other notices?

[IMANOT]

It arrived at 5:45pm.  Ship is leaving and arriving from Norfolk.  There is a 5 hour bus ride as an option and a $100 on board credit per room.  Got the news 3 days and 19 hours before boarding.  Better late than never.

[Umwakichwa]

4 minutes ago, IMANOT said:

It arrived at 5:45pm.  Ship is leaving and arriving from Norfolk.  There is a 5 hour bus ride as an option and a $100 on board credit per room.  Got the news 3 days and 19 hours before boarding.  Better late than never.

That’s really terrible, I’m sorry that happened. So many people are going to be out hotel money and need to scramble to find alternatives and parking and flight changes. I’m worried for those that are driving and looking at maps of drive time, because crossing the tunnel to Norfolk is just awful and just that last stretch can take hours and there’s construction right now. I hope you have a good trip after all of the stress though.  🙂