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Princess Cruises has announced the cancellation of the Sun Princess inaugural cruise scheduled for February 8th, 2024.
Sun Princess is the first Sphere Class ship in Princess’ fleet and delays experienced at the Fincantieri ship yard have resulted in the cancellation of the maiden voyage.
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That sucks. We were booked on MSC's repositioning cruise from Dubai, which was cancelled. Same issues with flights and hotels, but at least we had a bit more warning.
Very disappointing for you and all that have booked this cruise. It makes so complicated for Australians to do these cruises as it means long haul flights to the other side of the world. It is hard when you have been looking forward to cruise and it looks like you have done a lot of work to be able to provide the ships tour to your followers. Thanks for your efforts. Hope they can provide a better credit toward flights for those travelling long distances.
How disappointing
Sorry to hear this Adrian. We love your work and appreciate all the effort you put into your excellent content. Keep it up , thank you!
Sorry it got canceled. I usually book flight with change of date insurance. It cost a little more but air travel is undependable. Sorry for you.
Oh my! That’s quite the cancellation! Bugger!
This is why we get travel insurance – this is one of those times where it will pay off. So sorry to hear that the inaugural is canceled. I was absolutely looking forward to your content so that I'd get a sneak peek from an actual cruise of the ship. All of the facebook groups for the Sun have been so excited & today it was a big shock for everyone. We are scheduled for late March and are feeling a bit of anxiety that we also will be caught in the cancellation. Fingers crossed for everyone. Sorry again for the blow to your business. 😞
What a colossal failure by Princess. I knew something was up to no good, as usually you would hear more PR and news from them so close to the launch, but it was crickets this last month.
I am so sorry for you and everyone who was booked in that sailing. I hope everyone can get flight credits or refunds
Feeling for you Adrian, so disappointing…I hope travel insurance comes to the party, keep us updated.
Oh no! What a shame, but not too unexpected given the work needed to build such a ship. I hope you can go on it very soon. I look forward to your future tour of it.
I’m in the same boat, I booked non-refundable flights/hotels (yes I know dumb of me, but I didn’t think cruises cancelled)
I'm so sorry to hear about the cancelled cruise Adrian, I'm sure you were looking forward to it a lot, I saw your instagram story of you deleting the notification in your calendar, that hurt to watch. I hope you're able to make the actual inaugural whenever they decide that is.
How heartbreaking! But, as a good travel agent you have travel insurance… I say, go to Barcelona anyway, it's an amazing city. And, surely you can find a Mediterranean cruise without breaking the bank.. As a former crew member of Princess, the Med cruises were my absolute favourite…
I really appreciate your heartfelt video. Very sorry for your hard prep work and script outline work. Stay positive!
come with us on Majestic leaving 1 March x
come on the coral prince 5 feb be glad to have you
Oh Adrian so very sorry for your missed opportunity. We still appreciate everything you’ve brought to the cruise consumer industry and keep following and supporting your vlogs. Keep the faith and don’t be too down about the situation that is out of your control. Warmest regards
Big kick in the guts Mate, Sorry to hear
Good Luck with the next one…
So sorry to hear your cruise got cancelled on Sun Princess it would have been so disappointing for you and other people who were to be on the cruise when I go on my cruise I will have a drink for you onboard
I am so dissapointed in Princess. Letting us and my family in HK and China know 2 weeks before that this couldnt go on? Everybody got days off at their work etc and bought cloths and were looking REALLY forward to this cruise. Really dissapointed. 2 weeks before sailing is not done.
I am one of the pax that received an email notice of Cancellation at 1:30p and an email at 11:37a reminding that we had 14 days till sailing and to buy more excursions. We lost hotel reservations, airfare and doggy sitter deposit and Princess basically said, too bad so sad!!! Full refund plus 50% another cruise, really!!!. We went to rebook for the March cruise and it is now $$$1,000.00 more per person!!! 3k over all higher. The Princess bean counters are hard at work to screw the passengers! Thinking of filing a suit. After this done with Princess
They would have known some time ago, but failed to notify everyone just in case Fincantieri got their act together. $200 compo – totally inadequate! I feel for you given the amount of prep work you'd done. An interesting story line for you will be the insurance recovery path you are about to undertake. Travel insurance costs have gone through the roof post pandemic and I understand claims are being scrutinised to the nth degree. Let us know the results and most importantly the name of your insurer – which I'm guessing will be Covermore or Fast Cover. (2019 Europe and Med Cruise $814.80 – 2024 Europe and Med Cruise $3715.20)
I am gutted for you over this Adrian. I just commented the same to Don on his channel. I hope you can get on there again soon.
Totally sucks about the cancellation. Several of the people who were booked for the 8th rescheduled and joined our Facebook group and sailing for April 17 to 27. Many of the Australian and New Zealand folks in our group are doing back to back cruise.
That sucks. Hard luck!
Love the little joke at the end but I understand how you feel because as you said it’s not just a cruise it’s an inaugural voyage which doesn’t come often, let alone for a brand new ship class. I was booked on it too cause Icon was way too expensive and we booked business class flights so the 200 flight credit doesn’t really help and beyond all its was going to be an awesome experience. 😢
We are booked on the Feb 28 sailing on Sun. Praying ours does not get cancelled as well. I could help take some footage for you, if would like me to? I am NO WHERE as good as yours, but the offer is there.
Hi. We were cancelled 2 days ago, too! Our air flights would have cost us $900 to cancel. After numerous calls to Princess, they ended up transferring us to the manager who stated that she thought our out of pickets expenses losses (US to Europe $900 cancellation fee, Rome to Nice after trip air $132, Casa Battlo tickets 72 euros) was fair. After all $400 equals over $1100, right? Plus we don’t get to cruise! We paid for this all in September. BIG shoutout to AutoEurope for having graciously cancelled all our hotels and offering a workaround for the air cancellation which should hopefully cost us less than the $900. Great video, and I’m sorry you can’t review the Princess Sun. But you kind of are reviewing Princess. And they deserve all the publicity they get over this. They must have known ahead of time that they’d be slipping delivery.
I’m totally feeling your pain. This is a blow to your business. My friend and I were celebrating landmark birthdays with this cruise. We bought our airline tickets back in September. We really worked hard and found a similar itinerary from Barcelona to Rome with Windstar. So we have salvaged our vacation, no, thanks to Princess. We have made no cancellations. I’ll use their future cruise credit but then I’ll be done with Princess. What a catastrophic customer service failure! Spoiled dreams and plans of over 4300 guests. Cheers to your next adventure!
Probably should have left off recording this until it wasn't so raw to you. Just a video of the cancellation and talk about it later. My 2 cents worth ! Cheers, Brian.
You are such a genuine and kind person, one of the many reasons your videos are so great, thank you. I hope you can reach out to Princess to get you on the next sailing.