“,,,do you have any idea how many would protest/complain about cancelling the trip?”
No way of knowing. I do know that the group of passengers that were around us in the stairwell before being allowed to get off the ship at the first excursion were not happy. I do think if they had offered not to take the cruise for the weather problem and told the passengers what might happen, and did, a number of passengers would have cancelled as at least a dozen were hurt and they tried to hide that by getting them off the ship unseen. Scuttle gets around on shipboard so everyone found out and there was an air of distrust of the crew after that.
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whitney69 wrote: “No way of knowing. I do know that the group of passengers that were around us in the stairwell before being allowed to get off the ship at the first excursion were not happy. I do think if they had offered not to take the cruise for the weather problem and told the passengers what might happen, and did, a number of passengers would have cancelled...”
Airlines don’t give notifications of rough flights or other weather effects. Why would cruise lines?
One issue would be returning those who wished to cancel to the US. Most of those ports in alaska have very small airports. If they cancelled the whole cruise it would be a complete nightmare arranging transportation.
Now, if you’re talking about a pre-cruise cancellation, no cruise line is going to offer something like that. Pre-cruise cancellations would require a complete refund plus a very significant amount of compensation. almost unaffordable. That’s incredible rare even during hurricane season in the gulf.