Originally Posted by
oldart
If the delay was with a fly/cruise holiday, then you would have to cancel the holiday, probably no options to catch up with a ship forty hours later.
For a short delay there is often time built in to allow an arrival to the ship from the original port, often several hours before it leaves. On occasions they will hold the ship but it's rare due to disrupting the ships program. I have seen on a number of occasions that the flight might do a double drop, for example a Canaries cruise starting in Tenerife but first stop in Gran Canaria may mean the original flight routing UK-LPA-TFS-UK. TUI's cruises are generally around certain parts of the Med so don't get too far away by the next day in order to drop off at another Airport en route.