After studying earlier this week that Celeb Cruises has bought two of its three Galapagos expedition ships, the road has given discover that it has canceled 2025 voyages on these vessels.
All sailings beforehand scheduled to happen on Celeb Xpedition and Celeb Xploration between January and December 2025 are actually canceled. In an electronic mail to journey brokers and booked friends, the road mentioned “On December 28, 2024, Celebrity Xploration and Celebrity Xpedition will set sail from Baltra for their final time as part of the Celebrity Cruises fleet. We remain committed to the Galapagos Islands, offering sailings on Celebrity Flora, a ship built to sail in the archipelago year-round.”
For friends who had been already booked onto one of many two ships for 2025, the cruise line has offered two various choices.
The primary choice permits friends to pick a brand new sail date aboard Celeb Xpedition or Xploration setting sail this fall. They’ll obtain a free switch to an analogous or higher cabin class with the worth they initially paid protected on choose sailings. The unique stateroom class worth will both be protected or lowered to the present cruise fare fee (whichever is decrease). Friends with flights booked by Celeb can have their air robotically reaccommodated. They’ll even be reimbursed for non-refundable, pre-purchased transportation change charges incurred as much as $400 per visitor.
The second choice permits friends to maneuver to a choose crusing on Celeb Flora — an all-suite ship purpose-built for the Galapagos — on the authentic worth paid. The’ll be capable to select sailings on a like weekend or one week earlier than or after the unique departure date. Vacation cruises are excluded until initially booked on a vacation crusing. The opposite phrases are much like the primary choice.
Celeb Xploration and Celeb Xpedition, which maintain 16 and 48 friends respectively, have been bought to Lindblad Expeditions and are set to bear multi-million-dollar revitalizations subsequent yr earlier than setting sail with the road.
Now, Celeb Cruises can have only one vessel, Celeb Flora, within the Galapagos. The ship debuted in 2019 and may maintain 100 friends and 80 crew members.
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