Playing the waiting game for Noordam cruise 4/5 , yikes!

Had the house tented for termites this weekend and only just come back to a nightmare message from Friday that our ship, the Noordam, is overbooked and that we (my husband, 2 kids, mother and brother who paid in full for 2 balcony cabins three months ago) are possibly being bumped or politely being asked to choose to move over to another cruise option as we booked this vacation as ERPs through my cousin.

Yikes, my heart is somehow now pressing up into my throat uncontrollably. My mother is to put it mildly, freaking out after hearing me break the news of this possibility. Not that I can blame her, the poor woman has been caring for my Alzheimer's father for the past 6 years and more than deserves this break to finally take her dream voyage! We are all so psyched to be taking this trip as three generations of a family together. How could they wait this long to deal with overbooking? How can they ask people with only a week or less to just casually bump themselves off a transatlantic cruise???

I'm trying to be calm, really, I'm trying to believe that it will all work out. What more can I do?

No one could answer our call concerning the issue as the ship inventory dept has M-F hours only. So the waiting game is what we have to play. The sad faces of my two kids, my stressed out husband who has worked overtime for weeks to take the trip, and my broken hearted mother are as you can imagine not easy to face, my brother is dealing with it but hopeful!

Keep your fingers crossed that cancellations have come in by passenger choice leaving me, my family and any fellow Noordam travelers who received similar blows this weekend on the ship! I don't want one of their very generous longer cruise offers etc to be voluntarily bumped- we have our hearts set on this trip.

waiting.... optimistic...waiting....worried....waiting...
Kim