Pride of Aloha leaving Hawaii

NCL cruise ship Pride of Hawaii left Hawaii last week.

Now NCL has announced plans for Pride of Aloha to leave in 3 months.

That will leave Pride of America as the only cruise ship that will be based in Hawaii.

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Pride of Aloha leaving Hawaii

I think given the reviews on here of those cruises they won%26#39;t be missed. It was a great experiment it just didn%26#39;t pan out.

Pride of Aloha leaving Hawaii

most of the reviews were written by super economy passengers expecting luxury for their $50 a day cruise.....

I took Pride of Aloha this past October and found nothing to complain about and I am used to Luxury ships.......

The Pride of Aloha was excellent in - layout and ports and food was pretty good....crew was very good.

The departure means a loss to island business of over $166 million... a lot of little places in Kona Hilo and Kauai are going to go under... Who remains will charge more.... It is a very big impact to Hawaii,

No ,the problem was that with 3 ships sailing around the islands there were 7000 cabins to fill each week...and inorder to fill them NCL had to offer up to 86% discounts.....selling $3500 cabins for $549.

Then seeing NCL in Hawaii ...Carnival, Princess ,Holland, Celeb.all stepped in with double their cruises.... and they all had to start slashing fares to breakeven...sort of like the airlines did a few years ago

The days of the cheap cruise to and around Hawaii as I advised last year...seeing this coming, will be by May....gone forever. The total number of cabins now available will be 60% less than last year....THe airlines are doing the same...less seats..more demand= higher prices....its shifted to a sellers market from a buyers market.

Just think how that would effect Honolulu and Maui, it they tore down 60% of the hotels ?

If NCL had to discount up to 86% then they were their own problem for having 3 cruise ships in Hawaii.

With one cruise ship, they shouldn%26#39;t have to discount at all to fill it up.

I don%26#39;t agree with the total loss in business that Hawaii will suffer because of the loss of 2 of their ships.

The ports will lose a lot of $$, but many that were going on a Hawaii cruise will still opt to go to Hawaii %26amp; fly to one or more of the other islands.

What percentage of those that take Hawaii cruises that will still end up going to Hawaii, I have no idea.

I%26#39;m sure it will affect hotel reservations %26amp; rates if a lot of them opt for land instead of cruising Hawaii.

But, to be honest, I thought they were just wishful thinking in that they needed to operate 3 cruise ships in Hawaii.

Hmmmm....

They could always install berths on the Superferry.

Win, win.