Resorts World Cruises has introduced the cancellation of a number of cruise departures from Hong Kong between August 30 and October 6, 2024, as a result of a schedule change in operations.
The impacted itineraries embrace standard weekend cruises at sea, in addition to prolonged voyages to Okinawa, Japan, and Vietnam. The announcement impacts passengers who deliberate to journey on the 1,856-passenger Resorts World One.
“We perceive this cancellation of exits … could have an effect on our visitors,” Resorts World Cruises acknowledged in a discover despatched to passengers. “Any inconvenience induced is regretted and we thanks prematurely to your sort understanding.”
The cancellations have an effect on Friday departures for the 3-day, 2-night Weekend Cruising at Sea on August 30 and September 6, 13, and 20, 2024. Moreover, Sunday departures for the 6-day, 5-night Okinawa Cruise Naha-Ishigaki on September 1 and Naha-Miyakojima on September 15, 2024, are cancelled.
The 6-day, 5-night Vietnam Cruise, Sanya-Da Nang Ha Lengthy Bay on September 8 and 22 and October 6, 2024, are additionally affected.
Nonetheless, Resorts World Cruises’ web site remains to be promoting bookings for a Sunday Okinawa crusing for Naha-Ishigaki on September 29, 2024, and a Friday weekend getaway cruise on September 27 and October 4.
The weekend cruises depart from Hong Kong on Fridays, spend a day at sea on Saturdays, and return to Hong Kong at midday on Sundays. The 5-day cruise will depart from Hong Kong, spend a day at sea, and arrive in Naha for a 10-hour name. The next day, it arrives in Miyakojima for one more 10-hour name earlier than a day at sea and an arrival in Hong Kong.
These three cruises would be the final cruises earlier than the 75,338-gross-ton Resorts World One repositions to the Arabian Gulf, the place the ship will make 75 calls within the area on cruises between Dubai, U.A.E., and Doha, Qatar, and Sir Bani Yas, U.A.E.; and Khasab and Muscat, Oman. The two- and 3-night cruises will run from October 18, 2024, and April 13, 2025.
Because the ships are crusing within the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf, they won’t be affected by the ongoing battle within the Purple Sea that has pressured the cancellations of many Center East voyages.
Passengers Supplied Three Choices
Passengers with confirmed paid bookings on the cancelled cruises have three choices. First, they’ll switch their reserving to a different Resorts World One crusing of the identical period earlier than or on September 29, 2024, or October 4, 2024.
This selection consists of complimentary onboard credit of HK$400 per cabin for a 2-night cruise and HK$600 per cabin for a 5-night cruise. Availability for these transfers is topic to the identical period, kind, reserving situations, and cabin class as the unique reserving.
Second, passengers can cancel their cruise and obtain a cruise credit score for the complete quantity of their paid cabin fare, port expenses, and shore tour charges.
The credit score have to be redeemed inside six months on Resorts World One or Resorts World Cruises’ flagship 150,695-gross-ton Genting Dream, which holds 3,352 passengers. If the fare or port expenses for the brand new reserving are larger than the unique, passengers might want to pay the distinction.
Learn Additionally: The Chinese language Cruise Market: From Rise to Fall to Resurgence
Lastly, passengers can cancel their cruise and obtain a full refund of their paid cabin fare, port expenses, and shore tour charges. If passengers don’t select an possibility by the June 15, 2024, deadline, they’ll mechanically obtain a full refund.
