Haiti! Please Help!

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Kisa

Guest
Hi, Everybody! My boyfriend and I are planning to take our first cruise in April. We are planning to sail on the Mariner of Royal Caribbean. One of the ports of call is Haiti and I was reading a lot of exiting material about that island. But today we came across one article describing the very unstable almost a war like situation in Haiti. We would really appreciate any information from people who had Haiti as a port of call. Has anybody gone on Mariner in February??
Thank you!!!
 
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cruisequeen

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Royal is NOT stopping at Haiti for at least 2 more weeks. I have not heard if they are replacing this stop with something else or not. Go on their site - it might tell you something.
 
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Kisa

Guest
Thank you!!! I don't know why I didn't go to RC site first? I just wanted to see if the addicts know something about it first.... ;)
 
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Sally

Guest
Hi we are going on this ship in March. It wouldn't be that bad to do another
day on board considering we only had 2 sea days anyway. So much to do on such a large ship. Labadee is just the private island anyway. Just beach stuff. Rather be safe. Hafe fun
 
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Colo Cruiser

Guest
I dont think things will get much better in 2 weeks. This has been brewing for a long time. It will take a long time to fix.



Post Edited (02-18-04 09:47)
 
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Kisa

Guest
I think it will take a long time too, but we will see. We are still going in April!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hurrayyyyy
 
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mel47

Guest
We are sailing on the Navigator in April. We are hoping Labadee is up and running as a port. We went there last September and it is a beautiful and very peaceful port, in spite of what's going on all around it.

Haiti's unrest is making news the world over right now. Keep your fingers crossed you get to stop at Labadee - it's gorgeous and a fun beach day!
 
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Sporticus

Guest
things look settled for now. Trust in the concept that if the cruiseline senses even the slightest danger they will alter the port. Also, whomever takes over would be an idiot to do anything to kill the CASH COW that is tourism from the USA and cruiseships
 
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Bruce

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This is an excerpt from a cruise news letter I get.

Civil war continues to spread through Haiti as rebels captured the island nation's second largest city, Cap-Haiten. The U.S. State Department has ordered the departure of all family members and non-emergency personnel of the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince. U.S. citizens are being urged to defer travel to Haiti and those already in Haiti are being urged to depart the country immediately, while commercial air carriers are still operating.

Only one cruise line visited Haiti prior to this insurgency--Royal Caribbean called on Labadee, their private beach on the northern coast. These calls have been suspended for the past two weeks, with ships spending a day at sea or making a stop at Royal Caribbean’s private Bahamian island, CocoCay, instead. Royal Caribbean is monitoring the situation and will cancel further calls in Labadee if necessary.
 
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amistad

Guest
I am also going on the Mariner in April, so I have been watching the RCCL website too, today I saw that they are going to substitute Grand Bahama Island for the near future. I was really relieved to see that they replaced the port, I like to choose cruises that have as many stops as possible rather then sea days.
 
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tg_lindo

Guest
Years ago cruises used to go to Cap Hatien on the north coast but the standard of living was so depressing that all the lines pulled out. This was in the Duvalier era, in the '70's and early '80's. Aggressive panhandlers were a real turn off according to the people I know who have been there. Sad, really.
 
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