Hurricane Earl has forced several cruise ships to shift Caribbean itineraries, with more changes expected in the next day or two.
The Carnival Victory, which departed San Juan on Sunday, will skip St. Thomas today and remain at sea. That port call will be made later in the week. The call in St. Maarten has been canceled.
The Carnival Pride, which left Baltimore on Sunday, will skip a Wednesday call in Grand Turk and visit Port Canaveral, Fla. A port call at Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas has been replaced with a visit to Nassau.
The Carnival Dream is reversing the order of calls in Roatan, Honduras and Belize set for Tuesday and Wednesday.
NCL's Norwegian Epic, which sailed from Miami on Saturday, is visiting the Western Caribbean this week instead of the Eastern Caribbean. Calls in Cozumel and Roatan replace stops in St. Maarten and St. Thomas.
Royal Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas, which left Baltimore last Thursday, will skip St. Thomas on Monday and call instead at Samana, Dominican Republic. The ship will call at Labadee, Haiti, on Tuesday, spend the next three days at sea and return to Baltimore on schedule next Saturday.
Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas, which sailed from Fort Lauderdale on Saturday, is heading to the Western Caribbean, bypassing St. Thomas and St. Maarten, and stopping instead at Costa Maya on Wednesday and Cozumel on Thursday.
Hurricane Earl also could affect the itinerary of the Norwegian Dawn, which left New York on Sunday.
