Labadee Status?

[Ken at the beach]

1 hour ago, PhillyFan33579 said:

Of course one could argue RCI should have never stopped going to Haiti in the first place because problems existed in Haiti long before RCI stopped sending ships to Labadee. 

I have said this from the beginning, it was never sbout the safety of guests, it has always been about the optics of it.

[orville99]

2 hours ago, BND said:

We are going on AD in Mar/Apr for a b2b2b with two planned stops at Labadee.  We probably won't even get off the ship.  Mainly because my knee doesn't handle sand very well.  Rather just stay onboard and hang out in the solarium.  But, a lot can happen between now and Oct so we'll see.

You can walk about a mile in one direction on Labadee without ever touching sand. DW has bad knees and we typically do between 1-2 miles (we tend to go all the way around to where the zip line ends and then backtrack al the way back to the ship) on Labadee just on the sidewalks

[BND]

5 minutes ago, orville99 said:

You can walk about a mile in one direction on Labadee without ever touching sand. DW has bad knees and we typically do between 1-2 miles (we tend to go all the way around to where the zip line ends and then backtrack al the way back to the ship) on Labadee just on the sidewalks

Oh, we've been there 7 or 8 times but always as a beach day (before my injury).  

[orville99]

40 minutes ago, BND said:

Oh, we've been there 7 or 8 times but always as a beach day (before my injury).  

We don't do beaches any more - but we walk everywhere we can while everyone else is using the beach🏖️

[Cruisenbooze69]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwv0232ppo

[Cruisenbooze69]

They are nuts to take travelers to haiti

[cruisegus]

2 hours ago, Cruisenbooze69 said:

They are nuts to take travelers to haiti

Fear Mongering

Never has been a problem at Labadee.

Perfectly safe to return.

[The Scurvy Pirate]

11 hours ago, cruisegus said:

Fear Mongering

Never has been a problem at Labadee.

Perfectly safe to return.

 

[sfaaa]

14 hours ago, cruisegus said:

Fear Mongering

Never has been a problem at Labadee.

Perfectly safe to return.

Is it? Did you miss a thread posted by RCCL staff who was recently there? Poster stated gangsters were positioning themselves on the high ground and issuing verbal threats to Labadee compound below. As is, the Kenya cop deal is fasting running out of money and may not be able to continue much longer without further funding from donor countries.

[cruisegus]

53 minutes ago, sfaaa said:

Is it? Did you miss a thread posted by RCCL staff who was recently there? Poster stated gangsters were positioning themselves on the high ground and issuing verbal threats to Labadee compound below. As is, the Kenya cop deal is fasting running out of money and may not be able to continue much longer without further funding from donor countries.

Link??

[orville99]

1 hour ago, sfaaa said:

Is it? Did you miss a thread posted by RCCL staff who was recently there? Poster stated gangsters were positioning themselves on the high ground and issuing verbal threats to Labadee compound below. As is, the Kenya cop deal is fasting running out of money and may not be able to continue much longer without further funding from donor countries.

Uhhh….it wasn’t RCCL staff.that posted that. 😇

[Southern Dan]

7 minutes ago, orville99 said:

Uhhh….it wasn’t RCCL staff.that posted that. 😇

It's like a bad game of telephone in here sometimes 😂

[orville99]

23 minutes ago, Southern Dan said:

It's like a bad game of telephone in here sometimes 😂

I was the one who posted the original statement, and I have no association with RCL other than cruising on their ships😇 

[smokeybandit]

3 hours ago, orville99 said:

Uhhh….it wasn’t RCCL staff.that posted that. 😇

Probably posted by the same person that said Labadee was ransacked and looted during the covid shutdown.

[Airbear232]

I guess we’ll see in the next month whether Royal goes back or postpones.  Recent news reports don’t indicate any major improvements. 

[Jetdriver787]

I hear that Icon will not be going there?

Apparently Rover has a claws in his contract!

[Cruisenbooze69]

Only 30 minutes from labadee they are killing off high ranking officials…there’s no way they are taking us to labadee

[smokeybandit]

If you took all the places RC visits where someone was shot and stopped going there, there'd be no cruising at all.

[Cruisenbooze69]

1 minute ago, smokeybandit said:

If you took all the places RC visits where someone was shot and stopped going there, there'd be no cruising at all.

A high ranking official…just saying…they have no law enforcement right now…the UN is involved…bringing tourists is reckless

[smokeybandit]

2 minutes ago, Cruisenbooze69 said:

A high ranking official…just saying…they have no law enforcement right now…the UN is involved…bringing tourists is reckless

Haiti has always been a high crime country. 

[Lionesss]

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Lionesss

[orville99]

37 minutes ago, smokeybandit said:

Haiti has always been a high crime country. 

And a "high ranking migration" official could just as easily be the guy who checks visas and passports at the DC/Haiti border and po'd someone he refused entry.

[cruisegirl1]

Royal has stopped at Labadee to off load supplies.  They did on our July Adventure cruise.  They docked about 11PM, and it took about an hour until the supplies started to come off.  Two hours later they were still working on it.

 

Earlier in the evening, the captain announced the process would take place.  Naturality passengers were not allowed off. 

 

M

[ONECRUISER]

3 hours ago, smokeybandit said:

Haiti has always been a high crime country. 

Yup, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico...Detroit. This is at least 3-4th time Royal stopped going to Labadee since the 80's. Guys I supported in the US Army landed in Haiti 30yrs ago, and wasn't even first time for that in last 100yrs