Scarlet Lady Breaks Mooring Lines in Rhodes Swells, Touches Catamaran and Two Small Boats
If you are booked on Scarlet Lady's 7-night Greek Isles sailing that left Piraeus on September 27, 2026, the Rhodes incident did not stop the ship from completing the Chania call on Friday, October 2. She has since departed for Santorini. The itinerary change came from the Mykonos closure, and your original Santorini date of Saturday, October 3 is the next stop to watch. For later sailings, check your cruise line notifications for weather-related port swaps, since Virgin Voyages announced this one on Tuesday, September 29.
My read is that this was a weather story that grew a second chapter. High winds closed Mykonos, Virgin swapped it for an extra night in Rhodes, and that extra night is why Scarlet Lady was still alongside when the swells arrived; under the original plan she would have sailed at 6 p.m. Credit where it is due: no injuries, no immediately reported damage, tugs on standby, and the ship got back to her berth under her own power. Compare that with AIDAperla in Le Havre on September 8, 2026, which hit the quay, closed the port and lost its Zeebrugge call. The lesson is that a broken line is routine until contact turns it into a cancellation. The winners are the Scarlet Lady guests who still reached Chania on October 2 and Santorini next. If I were aboard, I would watch the app for port changes rather than worry about the mooring.