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Thanks for the support everyone. I did indeed get the refund on Saturday and donated to WCK immediately. So far Princess is not offering and excursions at Hilo. My guess is that we are in port only 9 hours, just enough time to get off the ship and pike around a bit. Looking forward to the Kilauea show.

Its official: your info is correct. My travel agent forwarded a notice from Princess with the same order of stops. It also stated we would be refunded for any booked Maui excursions, of which I had one for day trip up Haleakala. I checked the excursion section in Princess App and my Kauai trip to Waimea was changed to 10/9 and I don’t have to change my visit to Pearl on 10/8 booked thru Viator. Was thinking I’ll donate some of the Haleakala refund to World Central Kitchen to help the Lahaina effort.

Some more clues. Maui wants visitors to return, but stay away from the effected areas. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-28/la-na-hawaii-maui-tourism Come on Princess, is cruisers have plunked down thousands of dollars and deserve better communication than we are getting.

This news may be a clue as to what our ship will do. That said, Princesscrealky needs to reachniut to us. https://www.cruisehive.com/norwegian-cruise-line-to-resume-calls-to-destination-hit-by-wildfires/109783

Hi Rosemary. I read your post before I posted mine. That said, my moral compass hopes there are no stops at Maui. The County of Maui is under great strain right now, and IMHO cruises shouldn’t be goin there for awhile. However, anyone who thinks we should not go anywhere in the state is misguided. As we are seeing with these hurricanes etc., itineraries are changed all the time; that’s just part of cruising. My beef is that Princess should have done outreach—even just a ‘hey, we are working on it”—far sooner than they have. I had a text chat today with someone at Princess today, and all she could say is they would advise as to any changes between now and departure on 9/30. There are a number of fine charities helping Lahaina in the aftermath of this horrible tragedy. I urge you all to donate if you can.

Sure would be nice if Princess would have said something. Original itinerary: https://www.princess.com/cruise-search/details/?voyageCode=3325N

I am booked on Crown Princess for cruise to Hawaii out of Seattle beginning on September 30th. Our 4th stop is scheduled to be at Lahaina on October 9th. Given the tragic situation on west Mauro, I am frankly a little upset that there has been no outreach from Princess to cruisers or travel agents as to plans for an alternate itinerary. In fact, excursions on Maui booked through Princess have shown no changes, although I have notice some cancellations.