From the looks of it, it wasn't the Jewel and Radience that were involved in this particular deal. This one called for the 2 ships in question to be there for 3 months and house the Royal Canadian Mounted Police security guards.
Maybe the Jewel and Radiance are still on for some other kind of charter.....who knows?
This is about the Jewel and Radiance.
Both ships have had there schedules changed.
The Radiance has cruises listed sailing from San Deigo to Vancouver on 1/22/10 and return to SD in March.
It is up in the air right now. If they do not get this worked out they will have to reschedule the ships again.
John (SJ)
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I bet if they put those two ships back into the cruise schedules, there will be some pretty good deals to be had. I love both of those ships, so will be watching how this turns out.
It was a 3rd party that chartered the ships. They may be the ones to offer great deals. Or maybe they will charter it back to RCL....
John (SJ)
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RCL has now added the Jewel northbound to their list of available cruises to book.
It is interesting that they have added the northbouk Jewel after the contract was said to not exist.
You can now book a 6 night northbound on the Jewel or a 9 night northbound on the Radiance. They are both scheduled to sail from San Diego, January 22 and January 25, 2010
Both ships are scheduled to leave Vancouver on March 2, 2010. The southbound trips will be 9 and 10 nights
John (SJ)
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