{"id":340240,"date":"2026-03-21T04:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340240\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:52:08","slug":"technical-fault-sees-five-bluebridge-cook-strait-sailings-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340240\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical fault sees five Bluebridge Cook Strait sailings cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">8:15am<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Picton-Wellington<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">2:30am <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Picton-Wellington<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">2:00pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Sunday 22 March<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Wellington- Picton<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">8:15am<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Picton-Wellington<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">2:00pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">The operator said all affected customers will be notified by email and text.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDue to limited re-booking options, standby lists across subsequent sailings will be operating from each port for affected customers to be added to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cYou can <a href=\"https:\/\/book.bluebridge.co.nz\/change-booking\/?_ga=2.44527842.715430450.1772999889-1211905945.1755032857\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">change your booking<\/a> online or contact our Customer Service team on 0800 844 844 (8:30am-8:00pm).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">People who booked through a third-part travel agent have been asked to contact them directly to reschedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe apologise for the disruptions this has caused to our customers\u2019 travel plans and appreciate your understanding as we work to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">The website warns availability in March is extremely limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8:15am Picton-Wellington 2:30am Picton-Wellington 2:00pm Sunday 22 March Wellington- Picton 8:15am Picton-Wellington 2:00pm The operator said all affected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[135010,20703,4194,62381,47117,1342,111,43,139,69,24559,135011,29647,14042,7187,4248,1961,4767,4576],"class_list":["post-340240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-bluebridge","tag-cancelled","tag-cook","tag-fault","tag-ferry","tag-five","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-resolve","tag-sailings","tag-sees","tag-strait","tag-team","tag-technical","tag-this","tag-weekend","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}