Anyone ever have the Cruise Line cancel their cruise?

A few years back my wife and I booked a cruise through and agent and about 5 months before the cruise, the agent contacted us and said that the cruise was cancelled due to the ship being booked by a private party. Come to find out it was large rock bands that had charted the whole cruise. Has anyone ever heard of this?

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Only happened to us 4 months ago. Not a private party, just a complete change of route. We had booked a 7 night cruise on NCL Epic departing Barcelona and going to the Canary Islands in May 2017. Deposit was paid through an agency and all confirmed. It was only when I was looking at upcoming cruises with NCL that I noticed that this cruise was no longer showing on the schedules. I contacted my agent and surprise surprise, they advised me that NCL had changed their routings. They had though known this for 3 weeks. Not too pleased with this and NCL then sent an E-mail confirming their change. They very kindly offered $50 off another cruise !!!

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