CruiseJungle Storm Watch

Tropical Storm Hanna is moving past to the east of Florida and will skirt the U.S. East Coast over the next few days.

Hanna, which has already drenched the Bahamas, is expected to shower heavy rain over a number of states this weekend. A hurricane watch remains in place in parts of North Carolina and South Carolina. A tropical storm watch is still in place across parts of Georgia and Virginia and has been extended northward to parts of New Jersey.

The Bahamian port of Nassau is open for business, and Freeport will be open as Saturday September 6^th.  Grand Turk will welcome its next ship on Wednesday as scheduled.

At this point, cruise lines have not announced any further itinerary changes due to Hanna. Weekend turnarounds in Florida should go off as planned. Hurricane Ike is currently churning in the Atlantic and may make land fall early next week as a category 2 or 3 storm and could impact S. Florida based ships.  Carnival, Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean altered itineraries due to the storm’s path earlier this week.