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Ali
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posted 08-22-2000 12:47 PM      Profile for Ali     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Our cruise is scheduled for next May and my brother-in-law, a previous cruiser, announced that May is in hurricane season. Is this correct? Has anyone ever cruised through one before? I know the ships steer around the worst of it, but what is it like? How does it affect port destination arrivals? Do you just cruise around out at sea? Thanks!
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NAbbott
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posted 08-22-2000 01:09 PM      Profile for NAbbott   Email NAbbott   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ali,

I think hurricane season in the Atlantic and Caribbean is June thru November. I have lived in Louisiana all my life and do not recall one as early as May. However, we did have you a few years ago in December.

We were on a cruise in the Pacific in February and cruised through a Tropical Depression. WHAT A RIDE!!! IT WAS GREAT!!!All doors to the outside were locked and passengers were not allowed on any outside deck. I selpt like a baby. That was the best nights sleep I think I've ever had! The only thing I had to be careful of was ascending or descending the stairs. They had a way of disappearing out from under you as the ship went up or down the next wave.

We have cruised in the Caribbean in September with a hurricane out there, but we did not know about it until we returned home. We are cruising to what I hope will still be St. Thomas and St. John in less than five weeks. I hope "Debbie" does not do too much damage.

Don't worry about the weather. The Captian of the ship will not sail into a hurricane. And the odds of one being in May I think are pretty slim.

Have a GREAT TRIP.

Nancy


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billee
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posted 08-22-2000 04:06 PM      Profile for billee   Author's Homepage   Email billee   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Not going on a cruise because of hurricanes is like not going to California because of earthquakes.
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jwine
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posted 08-22-2000 07:53 PM      Profile for jwine   Email jwine   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Traditionally hurricane season is June thru October, usually August thru October are your worst months.
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sympatico
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posted 08-22-2000 08:07 PM      Profile for sympatico     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ali - your brother-in-law is pulling your leg. He's probably jealous that he is not joining you on the cruise.
The others are right - August - October and possibly November is hurricane season - just look at Debbie blowing around in the Carib right now.
Don't laugh Billee - we didn't go to California a number of years ago because they had just had a bad earthquake. We had never experienced one and didn't want to take the chance. We did go a few years later a couple of times to pick up a HAL ship, twice to Hawaii and twice for the Canal. On our last trip, there was an earthquake and we slept through it in our hotel in San Pedro - it was a minor one. Heck, last year my house in Toronto shook from an earthquake in Quebec.

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K&K
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posted 08-22-2000 08:08 PM      Profile for K&K   Email K&K   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I believe that the Alantic/Caribbean huricane season is August-November the Pacific season starts on May 15 and I think ends in september.
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Paddy
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posted 08-23-2000 04:44 PM      Profile for Paddy   Email Paddy   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
At least on a cruise you can sail away form it. My aunt is getting married on Saturday and going to Antigua on Wednesday for a sailing holiday honeymoon. Hope Debbie stays away! She hasn't seen my aunt in a bad mood!

Paddy.


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JoeO
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posted 08-23-2000 11:16 PM      Profile for JoeO   Email JoeO   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
VERY INTERESTING!!!
Last November 12-22 1999 we sailed round trip Ft. Lauderdale-Southern Caribbean aboard Celebrity Horizon, a great sailer at only 46K tons.
I can't remember the name of the huricane that blasted through the islands but we played cat and mouse with it for three days.

Captain Lefteris Konstantinedes did a wonderful job of evading the worst of it and keeping us safe and with a surprising minimum of choppy seas.

November 18th ALL CARIBBEAN PORTS were closed. We were scheduled to dock at St. Johns, Antigua that day sailing from Barbados but instead turned south (in the opposite direction) and ran from the storm thereby missing the port and the huricane.

Our next stop was St. Thomas so we turned north again and this time chased the storm rather than IT chasing us.

We got an extra day at sea instead a day in Antigua. EVERYONE, I MEAN EVERYONE was pleased and thankful for a safe, calm journey, shrugged shoulders and "chalked it up to fate."

Oh, well! We'll just have to take another cruise that takes in Antigua. Darn!


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Malcolm @ cruisepage
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posted 08-28-2000 12:47 PM      Profile for Malcolm @ cruisepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ali, no one can predict weather and sea conditions, season or no season. Your chances of meeting a hurricane on a cruise are minimal! Just relax and look forward to a great cruise.
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