O JOY!!! PRIMA HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN???

well, they were both designed and built by italians???? Yukyuk!

Two cruise ships broke from their moorings amid windy weather (msn.com)

And another breaks loose (80 mph winds)

NCL Prima is joined by MSC Sinfonia on those breaking loose from their pier moorings in high winds.

Hummm I wonder if there is anything in common ???

Sound advice! But....concerned my niches may be crowded. Bought VIBE passes...we always do on any NCL ship that has one..we'll see how it goes..the shows are underwhelming, a corporate decision awhile back....I'm a bit more concerned about dining. We have done our homework.....fingers x'ed.

She will be a fine cruise. Once onboard you will fit into your niche and the rest will take care of itself.

I agree with you right down the line...., bwtfdik? seems to me they're ALL being built taller and taller...and as an aside, we had TWO on Prima, about a month apart...cancelled the one for MARCH 24...I have never read so many critical reviews about the design of a ship ever....I discount ALL of them where the person writing admits to being on their "first cruise ever...but"...they mean nothing to me....the ones that concern me are written by clearly experienced cruisers (and not shills either) with some serious design criticisms....and now, if you follow such things, the rest of the ships in the so-called PRIMA class have been redesigned to address some of them. I know that sometimes things dont always go as planned onboard...and have long since learned to make the best of them anyway...but I've never started out that way.....time to trot out every trick in the book for this one..

IMO - this is one design fault of these huge cruise ships. Having relatively flat sides, gives so much surface area for the winds to negatively impact. A wind from the bow or aft is probably manageable. But if strong headwinds impact the port or starboard sides, that resulting surface force has to be dissipated somehow. There are (normally) only so many mooring lines, and so many bollards to accept these mooring lines on a dock. They may look like overkill to us (who needs 12+ lines on the bow AND aft ??), but obviously, they serve a necessary function.

Possibly another reason some ships skip a port when adverse weather conditions exist. Just a thought.