Saturday February 7th, 2026 Queen Anne, At Sea, Indian Ocean

Two days ago the captain announced that due to projected bad weather the ship would not be able to stop at our next two ports of call: Reunion and Mauritius islands and that we would be changing course to go north through the Mozambique Straight between the African coast and the island of Madagascar. The announcement also included the promise to look for replacement ports; so now it feels a bit like we are on the “lost ship”.

Today the captain announced that Cunard had been successful in obtaining approval to stop at the Seychelles and the Maldives. Even though these new ports will both require us to tender i.e. use the ship’s lifeboats to go ashore, everyone on board is thrilled! We will also be able to keep our originally scheduled stop in Sri Lanka after the Maldives. Cunard is working on setting up shore excursions for both of the new stops and will announce these later today.