Nearly two weeks after France’s Christian Estrosi, mayor of Nice, personally arrived by boat to demand Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas leave the Villefranche-sur-Mer harbor, a French court has temporarily blocked the new restrictions he set. On Sunday, July 13, 2025, the French news source La Monde reported the administrative court in Nice sided with Prefect Laurent Hottiaux and suspended an order issued just four days earlier by the mayor. The mayor’s order would sharply limit stopovers by ships carrying more than 2,500 passengers, such as Voyager of the Seas, which carries up to...

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