Coronavirus and DCL Megathread - Suspension of Departures for the fleet until early November. Booking only available from early December.

[Venaros]

If it sails, ours will be one of the first then - Sept 18th

On the Dream? We're booked for that one too. I believe we'll end up being cancelled.

 

[LunaMini]

On the Dream? We're booked for that one too. I believe we'll end up being cancelled.

Yep! I called earlier and spoke to a lovely CM as I wanted to see what my options were as I’m on a non refundable and am traveling from the U.K. obviously at the moment we can’t even get in to the USA. I had the option of pulling the plug today and losing over £600 or sit tight and risk losing more if we sail and we can’t get there. Mum and I had a very long discussion, shed a lot of tears but decided to ride it out and see what happens. Our gut instinct is it will get cancelled with the way things are but on the other hand how cool would it be to be on the first DCL cruise heading out?!

 

[T & R]

how cool would it be to be on the first DCL cruise heading out?!

Very cool. I pray that you find out. The atmosphere would be amazing almost like an inaugural sailing. I bet the locals on shore will give you quite a send off as well.

 

[LunaMini]

On the Dream? We're booked for that one too. I believe we'll end up being cancelled.

I see our cruise is now missing from the booking site. About an hour ago it was showing as the first September cruise with all the others having been removed from the site. Guess it could be curtains for us

 

[Garyjames220]

Royal Caribbean have cancelled all sailing until September 15th

 

[DCLDVC1]

If it sails, ours will be one of the first then - Sept 18th

On the Dream? We're booked for that one too. I believe we'll end up being cancelled.

I bet the Dream doesn't sail until after it's drydock in October assuming cruising is allowed by then.

 

[iannovich]

I bet the Dream doesn't sail until after it's drydock in October assuming cruising is allowed by then.

You called it: The next available sail date on the Dream is the November 1st 7 night Eastern...

 

[Ryan King]

Well our cruise is officially cancelled on the dream August 3rd.

 

[fdefulvio]

I got my August 15th cancellation.

 

[T & R]

Well our cruise is officially cancelled on the dream August 3rd.

I read that notice from DCL. A few of things:

1. So do they just put your 125% in a "DCL account" kind of like a placeholder cruise?
2. How long can you keep it in that "account" (was waiting on late 2021 itinerary release)?
3. I heard the 125% was just for the money spent on cruise. Does the taxes and fees just get auto refunded to your form of payment? (Hope not because I would have to go through a stack of hundreds of gift cards).

Thanks in advance, was hopeful that I would not be in this situation so didn't do much studying up on it.

 

[CaLuCa]

I read that notice from DCL. A few of things:

1. So do they just put your 125% in a "DCL account" kind of like a placeholder cruise?
2. How long can you keep it in that "account" (was waiting on late 2021 itinerary release)?
3. I heard the 125% was just for the money spent on cruise. Does the taxes and fees just get auto refunded to your form of payment? (Hope not because I would have to go through a stack of hundreds of gift cards).

Thanks in advance, was hopeful that I would not be in this situation so didn't do much studying up on it.

1 &3. Yes, you now have a FCC account with 125% of your cruise fare. Taxes, port fees are refunded to your method of payment. My TA was able to tell me exactly which GC the refunded portion went back to (actually it was two of them).
2. I believe the FCC is now good until March 31, 2022.

 

[T & R]

1 &3. Yes, you now have a FCC account with 125% of your cruise fare. Taxes, port fees are refunded to your method of payment. My TA was able to tell me exactly which GC the refunded portion went back to (actually it was two of them).
2. I believe the FCC is now good until March 31, 2022.

Thanks, I'm in kind of a weird limbo. The official announcement came out and my cruise (Oct 2nd Dream) is not on the list of cancelled cruises but the DCL website no longer has my cruise as bookable. What is that? This is a strange form of torture.

 

[skyvoyager]

Can I use a FCC and apply it to another cruise to which I have only placed a deposit? My August cruise was just canceled but I have another planned for December.

 

[T & R]

@skyvoyager
Tried this before and they stated it must be a new reservation. So I just cancelled and re-booked. There are people on their 3rd re-book now so they may have a more recent experience. This was back in March of this year.

 

[skyvoyager]

@skyvoyager
Tried this before and they stated it must be a new reservation. So I just cancelled and re-booked. There are people on their 3rd re-book now so they may have a more recent experience. This was back in March of this year.

Gotcha. Thanks!

The next question is...Are there blackout dates for the FCC (ours is the Christmas cruise and we couldn't use our placeholder for that)?

 

[Mkat27]

Thanks, I'm in kind of a weird limbo. The official announcement came out and my cruise (Oct 2nd Dream) is not on the list of cancelled cruises but the DCL website no longer has my cruise as bookable. What is that? This is a strange form of torture.

Just as a reference, my 7-night Norwegian Fjords on the Magic disappeared from DCL website weeks before it officially got canceled.

 

[T & R]

Just as a reference, my 7-night Norwegian Fjords on the Magic disappeared from DCL website weeks before it officially got canceled.

Thanks. I think?

 

[mmmears]

Just as a reference, my 7-night Norwegian Fjords on the Magic disappeared from DCL website weeks before it officially got canceled.

My Norway, Iceland & Scotland one did the same.

 

[DIS_MIKE]

I was out with some friends this evening and got my DCL cancellation notice for my August 31st cruise. I knew it was inevitable and I prepared myself but it still hurts.

Now I have to decide if I take the refund or rebook for next year.

 

[CaLuCa]

So what's the next available date? Dream has the dry dock. Wonder won't be doing the Panama Canal. Magic has to come back from Europe (Transatlantic was already canceled, right?). Fantasy?