Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Oceania Cruises, Dream Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) have each announced sailing resumption dates, following the latest suspensions in operations.
REGENT SEVEN SEAS
Having already announced the September 2021 return of Seven Seas Splendor, Regent Seven Seas Cruises has confirmed its resumption of sailing plan which will see all five ships back exploring the oceans by February 2022.
The cruise line intends to preserve already published itineraries as much as possible, beginning with Seven Seas Explorer on 16 October, 2021, from Venice, Italy, as the ship takes over three of Seven Seas Mariner’s published cruises, with Mariner going into a technical dry-dock. Seven Seas Mariner will resume sailing 18 December, 2021, from Miami, Florida, as will Seven Seas Navigator on 6 January, 2022. Finally, Seven Seas Voyager will return on 15 February, 2022 from Barcelona, Spain.
As part of the return to sail plan, 17 new sailings in Europe and the Caribbean have been created for Seven Seas Explorer and Seven Seas Voyager, and are scheduled to go on sale in early June 2021.
OCEANIA CRUISES
Oceania will resume cruise operations, with three additional ships, between October 2021 and January 2022.
· Riviera will resume its previously published voyage schedules beginning from Istanbul on 18 October, 2021 and sail a series of Mediterranean voyages prior to beginning the northern hemisphere winter 2021-2022 series of Caribbean voyages from Miami.
· Insignia will resume sailings with the 21 December, 2021 Panama Canal voyage from Miami prior to embarking on a sold-out 180-day Around the World cruise from Los Angeles to New York.
· Sirena will commence sailings starting with the 22 January, 2022 Caribbean voyage from Miami to Panama City, Panama.
DREAM CRUISES
Dream Cruises will restart cruises in Hong Kong from the end of July 2021, with Genting Dream
NCL
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) will resume operations from additional U.S. and international ports this northern hemisphere autumn.
Norwegian Spirit will cruise 12-day Australia and New Zealand voyages from Sydney, and Auckland, New Zealand beginning 9 Feb, 2022.
· Norwegian Joy will cruise from Miami beginning 19 Oct, 2021 with five to 11-day Caribbean voyages.
· Norwegian Breakaway will cruise seven-day itineraries to Bermuda from New York beginning 24 Oct, 2021.
· Pride of America will offer seven-day Hawaii inter-island voyages from Honolulu beginning 6 Nov, 2021.
· Norwegian Bliss will cruise from Los Angeles for seven-day Mexican Riviera voyages beginning 7 Nov, 2021.
· Norwegian Encore will offer seven-night itineraries from Miami to the Caribbean beginning 14 Nov, 2021.
· Beginning 20 Nov, 2021, Norwegian Escape will cruise for the first time from Orlando (Port Canaveral), Fla., offering seven-day itineraries to the Caribbean.
· Norwegian Pearl will sail from Miami offering Panama Canal, Bahamas and Caribbean cruises beginning 23 Dec, 2021.
· Beginning 20 Jan, 2022, Norwegian Jewel will be the first ship in the fleet to offer roundtrip Panama Canal cruises from Panama City (Colón and Fuerte Amador).
· Norwegian Sun will sail for the first time in Asia beginning 28 Jan, 2022, offering a five-day Japan itinerary from Hong Kong, before sailing a variety of 11-day cruises from Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok.
Further redeployments will be announced in the near future.
IMAGE: Norwegian Joy
