Seabourn Announces Additional Voyage Cancellations For Three Ships, Updates Itineraries For New Seabourn Venture Expedition Ship

SEATTLE, Aug. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Seabourn, the ultra-luxury resort at sea, declared today that it will terminate additional voyages for 3 cruise ships in its fleet as a part of its pause in international ship operations.  

The announcement applies to Seabourn Ovation, Seabourn Encore, and Seabourn Quest with just about every ship possessing a various “productive by” day. Precise specifics are as follows:

• Seabourn Ovation: with its operations pause productive by January three, 2021
• Seabourn Encore: with its operations pause productive by January 6, 2021
• Seabourn Quest: with its operations pause productive by Might ten, 2021. 

Seabourn is also announcing a revised shipping day for its new ultra-luxury goal-built expedition ship, Seabourn Venture, which is now scheduled for December 1, 2021. The delay is because of shipyard closures at T. Mariotti previously this year as part of responses to COVID-19, which resulted in disruptions to the all round construction and ending approach for the ship.

The brand declared that Seabourn Quest will work the line’s 2021-2022 award-winning Antarctica encounter. Seabourn Venture will debut in December 2021 with a sequence of initial-ever “Norwegian Winter season” voyages the place they may well be ready to see the Northern Lights. Guests will be ready to area a potential cruise deposit on the new Northern Lights itineraries.

Aspects about the revised inaugural time for Seabourn Venture are at the moment currently being finalized and will be declared in October. The brand has opened a wait around list for visitors intrigued in the voyages from December 2021 to April 2022. Guests at the moment booked on the inaugural voyage for Seabourn Venture will be available the opportunity to sail on the new inaugural itinerary on a priority foundation right before it is open up for sale to the general general public. Additional specifics on rebooking for other afflicted Seabourn Venture voyages will be shared with booked visitors and vacation advisors in mid-October.  

Owing to the redeployment of Seabourn Quest to Antarctica, the line is cancelling Seabourn Quest‘s Panama Canal voyages scheduled for November seven – December 19, 2021.

Seabourn is continuing to evaluate the timing to resume operations on Seabourn Odyssey in the Caribbean. As a courtesy to visitors booked on December sailings aboard Seabourn Odyssey, last payment will now be thanks 60 days prior to departure.

Seabourn experienced formerly declared a pause in its international ship operations from March fourteen by Might 2021, based on the ship, correctly cancelling all voyages for all those ships scheduled to work in the course of that timeframe. The conclusion to terminate additional voyages is a proactive action to offer with the situations continuing to evolve from the international response to the COVID-19 problem.

“Our utmost priority is the wellness, safety and nicely-currently being of our visitors, crew and the persons in locations. We understand the very long direct time for setting up an ultra-luxury Seabourn encounter and with that in brain, we proactively announce the cancellation of these additional voyages,” explained Josh Leibowitz, president of Seabourn. “We are operating really carefully with science and clinical advisors as nicely as our resource and place marketplaces to acquire protocols for the greatest return to operations.”

Seabourn will be speaking improvements for voyages scheduled to depart in the extension timeframe with all booked visitors and their vacation advisors.

Guests who are at the moment verified on just one of the afflicted voyages on Seabourn Quest‘s Antarctica, Amazon, Panama Canal, South The us and Transatlantic cruises scheduled involving November seven, 2020 and April twenty five, 2021, will quickly be re-accommodated in the very same suite on the very same voyage in the course of Seabourn Quest‘s 2021-2022 time, at price paid, within just thirty days, as nicely as receive a shipboard credit that is calculated dependent on voyage size. The shipboard credit is $three hundred for each suite for voyages up to 20 days in size and $five hundred for each suite for voyages of 21 days or more.

Guests booked on impacted cruises on Seabourn Encore and Seabourn Ovation will quickly be cancelled and all visitors will receive Long run Cruise Credits. They can also request a complete refund of monies paid to Seabourn. Precise specifics are as follows:

• Compensated in Full: all those visitors paid in complete will receive 125% Long run Cruise Credit history of the base cruise fare paid to Seabourn. Guests can also request a complete refund of the monies paid to Seabourn.  
• Deposited bookings: all those visitors with deposited bookings will receive a Long run Cruise Credit history valued at 125% of the deposit quantity paid, up to the base cruise fare paid to Seabourn. Guests can also request a complete refund of the monies paid to Seabourn.   

The Long run Cruise Credit is legitimate for twelve months from the day of situation and may well be used to reserve sailings departing by Dec. 31, 2022. The quantity of non-cruise fare buys may be transferred to a new booking. Alternatively, visitors may well request a refund of the monies paid to Seabourn, which will be reimbursed to the primary kind of payment.  

Guests and their vacation advisors will be sent distinct specifics applicable to their booking. Seabourn asks visitors and vacation advisors to use the online sources available on its web-site initial rather than calling the Reservation Contact Centre for details about the cancellations due to the probability of high call volumes and the probable of long on-hold wait situations.

For reservations or more details about Seabourn, be sure to call Seabourn at 1-800-929-9391 or pay a visit to www.seabourn.com.

About Seabourn:
Ultra-luxury Seabourn at the moment operates a fleet of 5 present day ships and is a happy member of World’s Main Cruise Traces. The unique alliance also incorporates Carnival Cruise Traces, Holland The us Line, Princess Cruises, Cunard Line, Costa Cruises, AIDA, P&O Cruises United kingdom, and P&O Cruises Australia. Seabourn is a brand of Carnival Corporation and plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL and NYSE: CUK). Seabourn is the formal cruise spouse of UNESCO World Heritage under a multi-year settlement to aid endorse sustainable tourism at World Heritage web-sites around the environment.

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Notes to Editors:
Seabourn is consistently ranked amid the world’s top vacation selections by qualified critics and the discerning readers of prestigious vacation publications this kind of as Departures, Travel + Leisure and Condé Nast Traveler.  Its elegant, exclusive cruising holidays are renowned for:

• Intimate ships with a personal club ambiance
• Intuitive, customized support delivered by workers passionate about exceeding visitors anticipations
• Curated voyages to all seven continents delivering award-winning ordeals
• All ocean-front suites, luxuriously appointed
• Complimentary top quality spirits and high-quality wines available on board at all situations
• Welcome Champagne and complimentary in-suite bar stocked with your choices
• Tipping is neither necessary, nor expected
• Greatest resort at sea that is masterfully developed
• World-course eating, even further increased by a culinary partnership with Chef Thomas Keller
• All eating venues are complimentary, dine the place, when and with whom you want
• Seabourn Discussions, connecting with visionary specialists
• Ventures by Seabourn™, optional shore excursions, improve and lengthen your encounter in decide on locations*^
• Find purposeful and sustainable vacation ordeals as the Formal Cruise Partner of UNESCO*
• Spa & Wellness with Dr. Andrew Weil, that includes an unique aware dwelling method*
• An night amusement encounter in collaboration with Sir Tim Rice†
• Fully commited to environmental stewardship and sustainability

*Optional applications, for additional demand

^Offered on Seabourn Odyssey, Seabourn Sojourn, Seabourn Quest, Seabourn Encore, Seabourn Ovation

†Not available on board Seabourn Venture

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