Royal Caribbean International has suspended calls to Labadee, its private beach in Haiti, as the country has been rocked by violence and political instability.
In a Facebook post on Thursday, CEO Michael Bayley said that the line would halt visits to Labadee for the next week and continue suspensions on a rolling basis with three-day notifications to passengers on affected itineraries.
He said the line would "monitor and evaluate the situation in Haiti."
Bayley also shared a Reuters report that stated that although Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, was "calm" on Wednesday after the prime minster said he would step down, the U.S. and United Nations began to withdraw staff from the country. Haiti has been gripped by chaos since late February, with gangs carrying out a series of attacks, including freeing prisoners from two prisons. Haiti has been under a state of emergency since March 3.
Labadee, on the tip of a peninsula on Haiti's north coast, is about 130 miles from Port-au-Prince. It includes vendors who are licensed to sell crafts as well as beaches and watersports.
According to a post on Royal Caribbean Blog, passengers on the Adventure of the Seas' March 14 sailing will be rerouted to Grand Turk on Turks and Caicos; Symphony of the Seas passengers will get an extra sea day and extra time in Falmouth, Jamaica.