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Another cruise line has cancelled all West Africa ports. Ocean Princess sailing from Cape Town to Dover in May 2015 today cancelled Benin, Togo, Ghana and Senegal. Fortunately for their passengers it is well before final payment (90 days prior).
I guess all we can do is sit and wait for an announcement from Oceania but I am feeling less and less confident we will see Benin and Togo as it looks like every other line has cancelled ports anywhere near areas with Ebola.
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Let´s keep reasonably confident. Point 4.d of the Ticket Contract between Oceania and the Passengers says quite reasonably "If the United States Department of State publishes a Public Announcement regarding a specific country or location included in the scheduled itinerary, We reserve the right to operate the Cruise or CruiseTour as scheduled or to change the itinerary, at Our discretion with no further liability for refund, payment, compensation or credit of any kind". Or there are not at the moment no current restrictions applicable to travellers in both countries in the US Department of State site. More, because Nigeria announced this Monday the end of its outbreak of EVD, there is about 1000 km of distance between the ports of scale of Insignia, World Cruise, January-July 2015, and the three only countries suffering the outbreak, Guiney-Conakry, Liberia and Sierra Leone (the USA and Spain cases look sporadic and controlled). Addionally all the flights between Togo and Ben
in and the three outbreak´s countries where suspended. In these circumstances an alteration of the itinerary of the cruise looks a break of the Ticket Contract, unless it appears some reported case on one of the those countries (or São Tomé and Principe) causing a a drastic alteration in the Public Announcements of US Department of Sate. Let´s wait then and see
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Another cruise line has cancelled all West Africa ports. Ocean Princess sailing from Cape Town to Dover in May 2015 today cancelled Benin, Togo, Ghana and Senegal. Fortunately for their passengers it is well before final payment (90 days prior).
I guess all we can do is sit and wait for an announcement from Oceania but I am feeling less and less confident we will see Benin and Togo as it looks like every other line has cancelled ports anywhere near areas with Ebola.
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Let´s keep reasonably confident. Point 4.d of the Ticket Contract between Oceania and the Passengers says quite reasonably "If the United States Department of State publishes a Public Announcement regarding a specific country or location included in the scheduled itinerary, We reserve the right to operate the Cruise or CruiseTour as scheduled or to change the itinerary, at Our discretion with no further liability for refund, payment, compensation or credit of any kind". Or there are not at the moment no current restrictions applicable to travellers in both countries in the US Department of State site. More, because Nigeria announced this Monday the end of its outbreak of EVD, there is about 1000 km of distance between the ports of scale of Insignia, World Cruise, January-July 2015, and the three only countries suffering the outbreak, Guiney-Conakry, Liberia and Sierra Leone (the USA and Spain cases look sporadic and controlled). Addionally all the flights between Togo and Ben
in and the three outbreak´s countries where suspended. In these circumstances an alteration of the itinerary of the cruise looks a break of the Ticket Contract, unless it appears some reported case on one of the those countries (or São Tomé and Principe) causing a a drastic alteration in the Public Announcements of US Department of Sate. Let´s wait then and see
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So there you have it....wait and see.....
