Labadee

Most port pages start with where the ship ties up.

This one starts with whether a ship comes at all.

Right now none does.

Royal Caribbean has suspended all ship calls to Labadee through June 2027.

Seatrade Cruise News reported that extension on July 16, 2026, carrying the line's own words, and Cruise Industry News and Travel Weekly followed with the same statement on July 22.

So this is the company's position, not a reporter's inference.

Royal Caribbean's statement: "As we continue to evaluate conditions in Haiti and our ability to deliver the best vacations responsibly, we have decided to extend the suspension of ship calls to Labadee through June 2027."

A Royal Caribbean Group spokesperson added that the decision "was made with the safety and well-being of our guests and crew members in mind."

The last call is reported two ways and neither is precise. Seatrade says Royal Caribbean ships have not visited since the first quarter of 2025; Travel Weekly says April 2025, which is also the month the cancellations began.

Either way this is a pause well over a year old, not a fresh announcement — and nobody publishes the date of the last passenger call.

We looked for a newer trade report and found none. As of September 21, 2026, the last Labadee item in either outlet's own listing is dated July 22, 2026 — which is not the same as nothing having happened since.

A Royal Caribbean fan blog reported on August 10, 2026 that Adventure of the Seas made a brief supply stop at Labadee the day before, with a skeleton staff keeping the property up. No primary source carries it, so we are printing it as unconfirmed rather than as a call.

Royal Caribbean's own notices page is behind the trade reporting, and you should know that before you check it.

royalcaribbean.com/notices/travel-updates does render, and it does carry a Labadee notice: "We have suspended all visits to Labadee for the remainder of 2026, as we continue to monitor the situation with our Global Security & Intelligence team."

That notice is stamped January 29, 2026. It has not been updated for the June 2027 extension the line itself announced in July.

So if you follow our advice below and check with Royal Caribbean, you may be shown a shorter suspension than this page states — the line's own notice is older than the line's own statement.

Royal Caribbean's marketing page for Labadee carries no status notice at all, which we checked rather than assumed.

Treat June 2027 as the current target, not a promise.

This same pause has moved four times.

The trade record is dated throughout, so this is a chronology, not an impression.

Calls were suspended on March 14, 2024, with more cancelled on March 22. Adventure of the Seas returned on October 8, 2024, after a seven-month hiatus.

Cancellations resumed on April 18, 2025, and were extended again in May, in August and in September of that year.

In mid-January 2026 the line extended the pause through that December, saying it had done so "after ongoing evaluation and monitoring of the situation in Haiti" — Travel Weekly's report of it is dated January 14. In July 2026 it extended through June 2027.

The advisory behind it, in the State Department's own words and nobody else's.

travel.state.gov rates Haiti Level 4, its highest tier: "Do not travel to Haiti due to the risk of crime, kidnapping, terrorism, unrest, and limited health care."

That advisory was issued July 10, 2026 and last updated July 23, 2026 — the update changed neither the level nor the risk indicators.

The same page states that a national state of emergency has been in place since March 2024 and that US commercial flights to Port-au-Prince are prohibited.

Those are the State Department's own words, not our summary of them.

Trade reporting attributes the April 2025 pause to increased gang activity. We are not going to characterise Haiti beyond what the State Department and Royal Caribbean say themselves.

What Labadee is, for whenever it reopens.

It is a 260-acre peninsula on Haiti's north coast near Cap-Haïtien, leased from the Haitian government and run entirely by Royal Caribbean.

A destination, not a port. Nothing about it was ever municipal.

The start year is unsettled inside a single source. Wikipedia's own article carries both — the land leased in 1985 under Jean-Claude Duvalier, and the site leased to Royal Caribbean in 1986, with the lease later extended to 2050. No primary document is public, so we print both years and resolve neither.

It is not a town and it never has been — Wikipedia describes the site as guarded by a private security force and doubly fenced off from the surrounding area, and that guide describes the same thing.

The village of Labadie sits nearby and is not part of any Royal Caribbean product, suspended or otherwise.

You could not visit it before the pause either. The fence was the limit of the day, not the property line on a map.

Ships docked rather than tendered. A 2009 upgrade allowed Royal Caribbean's largest ships to berth — whether the newer Icon class was ever rated for that pier is something nobody has published either way.

Nothing on the property is for sale, and every figure in our excursion guide predates the pause.

Dragon's Breath Flight Line, Dragon's Fire, the Arawak Aqua Park, the Dragon's Tail Coaster, the cabanas and the boat trips were all Royal Caribbean's own products at Royal Caribbean's own prices.

There was never an independent operator here to compare them against.

That made the usual ship-versus-independent question meaningless even when the place was open. The choice was which line product, not whether to use one.

The free layer was real — loungers and a buffet lunch across Nellie's Beach, Adrenaline Beach and Columbus Cove, with Barefoot Beach reserved for suite guests.

Plenty of people spent the whole day on that, not on the paid menu.

Royal Caribbean says it is helping place Labadee staff in positions across its fleet and destinations during the pause. It also describes ongoing community commitments, and we could not confirm the current, dated status of those programmes.

If Labadee is printed on a document you are holding, the document is probably stale.

Cancelled calls have been rerouted to Nassau, Grand Cayman and Cozumel per passenger reports in one of those trade pieces, and that guide lists several more substitutes.

Check your sailing's current itinerary with Royal Caribbean directly — and treat the notices page as one input rather than the answer, because it is currently the older document.

We cannot confirm the status of any specific future date, and neither can any page written before your cruise. That is a limit of the evidence, not modesty.

Eight of those sat inside a fence that no ship is currently delivering anyone to. The last two never formed part of a Labadee day at all — Labadie is a real town beside the resort that no Royal Caribbean product reached, and Cap-Haïtien is the nearest city rather than a stop. So read the list as a description of a suspended property, not a plan.

The specific picks — which paid excursion is actually worth it, what to skip, and why — already have their own dedicated guide, built and kept current on its own schedule. This page stays at the port-identity level on purpose; that one goes deep.

Booking a tour yourself? Our comparison of Shore Excursions Group and Viator covers which of the two suits which kind of port day — and when the ship’s own tour is still the better buy.