Star Breeze to forego Alaska in ’21 for Caribbean and Tahiti – Travel Weekly

Windstar's newly stretched Star Breeze next year is trading an Alaska summer for the Caribbean, followed by a fall and winter season in Tahiti.

The Breeze's new schedule plans a debut in the Caribbean May 15 with a cruise from St. Martin to the British Virgin Islands. The cruise, dubbed A Remote Caribbean Getaway, will focus on secluded beaches and watersports, the line said. The ship will stay in the Caribbean until mid-August, when it plans to transit the Panama Canal and reposition to Tahiti, where it will sail from September to March 2022.

The Breeze will join Windstar's Wind Spirit there, which has long has a presence in the Society Islands. Windstar said that a cruise on the Breeze in Tahiti, "where Windstar's 148-passenger Wind Spirit typically only sails, is a unique opportunity to experience the islands on this newly transformed yacht."

Windstar said it had canceled the Breeze's 2021 Alaska, U.S. and Mexico ports.

The ship, which has been stretched to accommodate 312 passenegers and add other amenitiees, had originally been scheduled to debut in 2020 with Alaska cruises, but those sailings, like others, were canceled during the pandemic and the global cruise pause.

Windstar also updated its sailing schedules for the Star Legend, Star Pride, Wind Surf and Wind Star, which it plans to operate next spring in Europe.

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