- Happy Days Are Here Again!
- Day 1, Bon Voyage!
- Day 2, The Endless Cruise
- Day 3, Black and Gold
- Day 4, Earthquake at Sea
- Day 5, Roseau, Dominica
- Day 6, Cook like a Lucian
- Day 7, Grand Gala Party
- Day 8, Devil’s Island
- Day 9, Sunday Brunch Sampler
- Day 10, Belém
- Day 11, Samba Sizzle
- Day 12, Tenor Terrific
- Day 13, Recife, Brazil
- Day 14, Gold, Glitz and Gleam
- Day 15, Selfies at Sea
- Day 16, Rio!
- Day 17 – A Carnaval Experience! (sorta)
- Day 18, Iguazu Falls
- Day 19, Iguazu Falls – Argentina
- Day 20, Walking to Buenos Aires?
- Day 21, Back Home
- Day 22, Montevideo
- Day 23, Black and White
- Day 24, Rock and Roll!
- Day 25, Falkland Islands -Almost
- Day 26, Drake Lake & Penguins!
- Day 27, Admiralty Bay and Deception Island
- Day 28, Neumayer Channel
- Day 29, Charlotte Bay
- Day 30, Super Fog on Super Sunday
- Day 31, Drake Lake – Redux
- Day 32, Cape Horn
- Day 33,Ushuaia
- Day 34, Punta Arenas
- Day 35, Sarmiento Channel
- Day 36, Paparazzi Night
- Day 37, Puerto Montt
- Day 38, At Sea, En-route San Antonio, Chile
- 2022 Grand World Voyage Survey
- Day 39, Valparaiso Artist Studios (San Antonio/Santiago)
- Day 40, Polynesian Cultural Ambassadors
- Day 41, Abba Fabulous!
- Day 42, My Sweet Valentine
- Day 43 – THE MAN THAT DOESN’T TALK
- Day 44 – Easter Island
- Day 45 – Cabin Crawl!
- Day 46 – 7 Billion Meditators
- Day 47 – Mutiny on the Bounty
- Day 48, Joie de Vivre
- Day 49, En Route Papeete
- Day 50, Papeete, Tahiti
- Day 51, Tropical Paradise
- Schedule Change Take #2
- Day 52, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
- Day 53, Mardi Gras at sea!
- Day 54, Advance Clocks 23 Hours
- Day 55, Nukuʻalofa, Tonga
- MAJOR SCHEDULE CHANGE
- Day 56, Bowlers and Bumbershoots
- Day 57, Super Tuesday at Sea
- Day 58, Wine on Waiheke
- Day 59, Auckland Yarn Crawl
- Day 60, Parasailing in Paradise
- Day 61, Captain’s Gala Dinner
- Day 62, Straight Flush on the Flop!
- Day 63, Sydney Australia, Walkabout Park
- 2020 World Cruise will end in Fremantle due to Corona Virus
- Amsterdam Grand World Voyage Ends Early – Heading Home
- Day 77, Keep Smiling!
- Emilio Valle Rocks the Amsterdam Main Stage
- Day 78, The Long Road Home
- The Final Leg Home
- Alana Conway – Superstar!
2020 Grand World Voyage will end in Fremantle (Perth)
At noon today, 13 March 2020, Captain Mercer confirmed that our wonderful World Cruise will be ending in Fremantle on 24 March 2020, 10 days from now.
After the announcement, Henk held an informal town hall by Guest Services. He explained that HAL is looking at various options to get us back to Fort Lauderdale. He didn’t have anything firm, but we all speculated that HAL may charter aircraft to fly us back.
A few guests suggested that we put the ship into a no frills mode and sail directly back to Florida. This would take about 18 days and we should be allowed entry to the US if no one onboard presents with symptoms. While this is intriguing, most people consider this one unlikely. The last thing HAL wants now is another Grand Princess scenario off the Florida Coast.
Some guests are medically prohibited from flying and they will present a special challenge for HAL.
More to come as things develop, but we have 10 days left in this wonderful cruise.
I wondered what wasting to be the outcome for you on the world cruise. I will miss your posts, but in this environment not much any cruise line can do.
Thank you for bringing me along with you both..
Thanks for following. Our adventure continues for now!
Sorry to hear your news.
We are dealing with our own cancellation. We arrived in Ft Lauderdale last night and as we were checking into our hotel we advised that our 48 day South America to Vancouver was cancelled.
Sorry to hear that. Things are crazy. Hope everything settles down soon
So sorry to hear this–keep us up to date on what happens next–we so enjoy your posts and look forward to the next ones form your next creuise.
Wendy & Al
Thanks for following!
I have been enjoying your adventures. I’m so sorry your cruise is ending this way. I hope to do a world cruise someday.
Thanks – I hope you will be able to do a world cruise – they are a lot of fun!
Sorry to hear that this adventure will be shortened! If the ship could get back to Fort Lauderdale without stopping anywhere for 14 days, which is unlikely, because you would probably need to refuel, that would make sense and no quarantine off of Florida would be needed, because you would have already self-isolated for the required two weeks.
I just saw on HAL twitter that we will be going to Fremantle to offload the 22 and 23 March.
Nothing announced here yet. Still early