mattymay

Any chance of a live blog of US trip? Would love to hear about your experiences from OZ to US in this new covid world.

NSW (Sydney) is 2 days off 90% single dose vaccinated, with 90% fully vaccinated estimated by the end of October, Australia as a whole is expected to reach 90% by mid Nov. The first step of getting the ships sailing is hopefully not too far off now.

I'm assuming Perfect Day Lelepa was part of the grand plan to eventually bring an Oasis class to the region. I wonder what will happen with that now? It was originally scheduled for 2022.

I believe you.. just saying it would look massive in port.

From certain angles when you see Ovation between the city buildings from street level she looks gigantic. Not as much out in the open near the Opera House. Couldn't imagine an Oasis class. Let's hope well all see this sight soon:

If not Wonder, then Oasis #6. I believe it can fit, but may get in the way of some of the ferries that use that side of the harbour to dock. It can 100% fit a the new Brisbane terminal. I feel if ever it did happen it would go there. At this point though a campaign for ANY ship will do! Let's see what this ban being lifted means for cruise ships, hopefully they mention something as the ship ban is tied to the international border ban, previously set to expire Dec-17.

Send the ships... we are Opening!!!

Panama, with Alaska season beforehand? Nothing currently booked for that May-Oct period and they'll also have Beyond to replace it by then.

Definitely on the list! I had an Edge class on my list for the next time we travelled to the US without the kids, but now I think we'll start off 2024 with Edge out of Sydney.

Long way off, but good news https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/25894-celebrity-edge-to-head-down-under-for-2023-2024-season.html

So most likely, otherwise it would probably go east if headed back to China? The minor updates to suit the US market also seem to favour this scenario.

Any word if it will come back to US after the Med?

Yes, one of mine was on 20th as well, they moved it a day back and increased the price!

The new itineraries are out..

Just got the email. Ovation cruise is cancelled. Supposedly they are redoing the Ovation schedule to Aus only.

Got my Quantum refund already. Pretty quick. Now to book a non-cruise holiday.. how sad! ?

In other words doing nothing. No change from 6 months ago.

They did the same in Singapore before resuming. Hard to say if it's official or just planning in hope the ban is ended next year. Can still book Oct21 - Dec21 Fingers crossed, I'm on the 20th Jan.

The issue is they won’t let ships full of foreign crew in as it’s deemed a risk to our relatively low case numbers. Our vaccination rate of around 10% is currently too low. Yes, the crew could be vaccinated and quarantine at sea for weeks but for some reason it’s still an issue. Some smaller companies have been able to start with Australian crew.

Speak of the devil.. just got the email.

Yep. I'm going to guess it's rolling cancellations for Ovation until it's no longer worth coming.

I believe for Ovation it's only the transpacific cancelled so far. Probably keeping options open in case by some miracle the ban is ended and they don't need to cancel the whole season.

Total BS on behalf of the government. I have a few cruises booked on Quantum, yet to get the email.

Possibly. Even at 205,700GT (smaller than Icon) the MSC World Europa has that same split structure design. It works so well you'd think they'd have to include it.