Carnival Adventure Skips Mystery Island After Port Vila Departure Delay
If you were aboard Carnival Adventure's July 6-15 Vanuatu and New Caledonia sailing, check your Sail and Sign account for the AU$100 per stateroom onboard credit and, if you'd booked a Mystery Island shore excursion, confirm your refund posted there too. The rest of the itinerary, including the July 12 Noumea stop, ran as scheduled. No action is needed beyond verifying these credits before your account closes at the cruise's end.
What strikes me here is that a stuck pontoon door in Port Vila turned into a lost island stop purely because of the clock, not the mechanics. Vanuatu bars inter-island travel after dark to stop the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle from spreading, and that rule left no room for even a shortened Mystery Island call once departure slipped. Carnival ate the compensation, AU$100 per stateroom plus excursion refunds, rather than push the timeline, which tells me the line is protecting its standing in Vanuatu more than the day's schedule. That's notable given Carnival Adventure was the first ship back into Vanuatu after last December's earthquake. My read is Carnival views that relationship as worth more than one missed sea day. If I were aboard, I'd take the credit, check my excursion refund landed, and not expect an argument to change the outcome.</reasoning> </invoke>