Bahamas cruise unexpectedly reroutes angry passengers to Canada, New England
Global News
One traveller said she thought she's been 'punked' by the announcement that her family's Christmas cruise would no longer make it to the Bahamas.
A number of upset travellers have traded in their swimsuits for snow gear after their sunny Bahamas-bound cruise was rerouted to more frigid temperatures in New England and Canada.
The change of plan came at the last minute too, with passengers alerted less than 24 hours before the MSC Meraviglia cruise ship was set to depart from New York on Saturday. Many travellers had already arrived in Brooklyn with their sunscreen and beach bags by the time the announcement was made.
The MSC cruise line said the decision was made “due to unseasonable and rapidly worsening weather that would have made it impossible to safely reach the southern Atlantic Ocean from New York City.”
This week, a powerful storm rocked parts of the northeastern United States and the Bahamas, causing widespread power outages and flooding. At least five people in the U.S. have been killed as a result of the storm.
MSC said “the only alternative” to rerouting the destinations would have been to “take the more extreme step” and cancel the cruise outright.
“The complexities involved in obtaining last-minute berths for unplanned stops and provisioning the ship along its new route left sailing to Canada and New England as the only viable option,” MSC wrote in its statement.
The MSC Meraviglia left New York on Saturday as originally planned and headed first to Boston, Mass., where the ship docked for three days.
On Wednesday, the cruise ship was scheduled to reach Portland, Maine. Thursday, the travellers will cross the border into Canada and dock in the Port of Saint John, N.B. There, guests will be greeted by a province attempting to restore power to its citizens following the storm, and temperatures around -2 degrees Celsius.
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