Guests were given a choice between sailing to the new stops or canceling for future cruise credit. “The only alternative would have been to take the more extreme step of cancelling the cruise-and thousands of people’s vacations-outright,” MSC Cruises added. MSC Cruises said the weather would have made it “impossible to safely reach the southern Atlantic Ocean from New York City.” But it’s just, like, Bahamas, Boston … it’s a huge difference,” passenger Val Montgomery told NBC’s “TODAY” show. The sudden change was a shock to some passengers already in New York for the cruise. Instead, one day before its departure from New York on Saturday, passengers were informed about a last-minute itinerary change due to “unseasonable and rapidly worsening weather.”
The cruise ship, the MSC Meraviglia, was supposed to set sail for sunny, sandy Caribbean beaches over the weekend. Passengers aboard a Bahamas-bound cruise trip had their holiday beach vacation dreams turned upside down when they were rerouted to Boston, Maine and Canada instead because of weather concerns.
