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Gala Gary
First Class Passenger
Member # 5710

posted 03-09-2006 05:17 PM

I`am thinking of booking a caribbean cruise for my honeymoon at the start of October, can anyone tell me if we will miss the hurricanes?

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 03-09-2006 06:39 PM

Welcome Gary & congrats on your forthcoming wedding. The Caribbean hurricane season runs from 1 June to 30 Nov, and there may also be the occasional one outside these dates. Really it is pot luck as to whether any cruise would be affected with an altered itinerary. If you want to visit somewhere in particular, forget the cruise and go for a land holiday... but even that could be 'blown away' if there's a hurricane about. If you just want a cruise and not fussed where you end up, maybe on a mystery voyage.. take the cruise

The chances of a hurricane affecting your specific cruise though are not very high.

Pam

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 03-09-2006 07:07 PM

As Pam said, no one can tell you. It's all a mtter of luck. The cruises are not normally cancelled, but the ports of call are sometimes changed.

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Frosty 4
First Class Passenger
Member # 5826

posted 03-10-2006 10:29 AM

Why not try New England and Canada? A number of cruise lines venture there. Nice Fall colors,but then again you might have that at home. No worry abouy Hurricanes that far North.
Frosty4

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Gala Gary
First Class Passenger
Member # 5710

posted 03-11-2006 12:16 PM

Thanks guys
I have been round the Med about six times now and just fancy sommething different.

Today a travel agent suggested NCLs cruise from New York down to the Bahamas which would give us a few days in the big apple into the bargin.

Has anyone been on this?

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Cambodge
First Class Passenger
Member # 906

posted 03-13-2006 06:05 PM

No worry about Hurricanes that far North!!!

I know, Frosty 4, it was before your time. But there are those still among us who remember the New England Hurricaine of 1938 as being one of the most destructive to hit the country...ever.

From New Hampshire, where thousands of trees were felled; through Cape Cod, where property damage in both houses and boats was in the millions; and Long Island Sound got quite a bit of it too. We didn't know the term "storm surge" then, but we sure saw it!

Sorry to disillusion you, but I was there.

[ 03-13-2006: Message edited by: Cambodge ]

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Linerrich
First Class Passenger
Member # 4864

posted 03-14-2006 06:55 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Frosty 4:
Why not try New England and Canada? A number of cruise lines venture there. Nice Fall colors,but then again you might have that at home. No worry abouy Hurricanes that far North.
Frosty4

Many are the times in recent years where hurricane activity has forced itinerary changes for the New England/Canada cruises. Sometimes they (the ships) end up going to Bermuda or down to the Bahamas (not bad, but certainly a disappointment if you've planned to sail North!)

Not to frighten anyone, but please be aware that hurricanes can and do go up along the Atlantic Seaboard as far as Canada.

Rich

[ 03-14-2006: Message edited by: Linerrich ]

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sympatico
First Class Passenger
Member # 797

posted 03-14-2006 10:15 AM

quote:
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Not to frighten anyone, but please be aware that hurricanes can and do go up along the Atlantic Seaboard as far as Canada.
Rich[/QB]

They certainly do. Hurricane Hazel hit Toronto, Ontario Canada, October 15, 1954 and I was there. Tremendous amount of damage and a lot of lives lost. Toronto is nowhere near the Ocean and yet it still hit us.

I would be very hesitant about taking a cruise to the Caribbean or Canada/NE (where it can be very cold and raining) in October. Don't even know if a Mexican Riviera cruise would be any better.

Could you put off your honeymoon, say until the middle or end of November?

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Frosty 4
First Class Passenger
Member # 5826

posted 03-14-2006 01:58 PM

Yep. Sort of before my time as I was only 1yr old in "38". I guess I just thought "Nor easters" hit that area. Not refered to as hurricanes????I did cruise NE/Canada in Oct. and it was fine.
As to Mexico -well, not my cup of tea!! How about Alaska??
F4

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Frosty 4
First Class Passenger
Member # 5826

posted 03-14-2006 02:01 PM

Oopps!! No Alaska cruising in October. I don't think??
F4

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