mattymay

Same, supposed to have my second next week. Do I really want to?

3.2 of 25.3 million.

I've got Quantum Nov 21, Ovation Jan 22 and Quantum Feb 22. I reckon the Nov 21 is gone. Slim chance of the other 2. Also depends on the itinerary. Anything with overseas ports is done. P&O have cancelled all theirs until next year. Oasis Jan 23 is my backup! ?

I doubt you'll get in before 2023. I have Oasis of the Seas in Jan 2023. Hopefully we can get out.

Yes, and before COVID there were many cruises to nowhere without this rule, or at least it was never enforced. That's going to put a big spanner in the works as RC had reconfigured the 21-22 season to be heavy on the Australia only itineraries.

Anyone looking for a job? The little guys can't even get going, the big guys have no chance! https://cruisepassenger.com.au/exclusive-home-affairs-says-all-foreign-flagged-cruise-ships-must-employ-aussie-staff/ Flying in plane loads from India but can't bring a ship of vaccinated, quarantined crew.

All yours. Send back some new ones around 2025.

Borders likely to be closed until Mid-2022, doubt there will be a 21/22 cruise season anymore.

Australian Health Protection and Principal Committee (AHPPC) - looks like these guys are to blame! https://cruisepassenger.com.au/revealed-the-extraordinary-fight-to-save-australias-2021-cruise-season/ Almost every fortnight, five senior members of the industry – representatives from Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribbean, the Australian Cruise Association , CLIA and Ponant – are on a conference call with officials from the Australian Health Protection and Principal Committee (AHPPC), Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly, and officials from the Departments of Health, Transport, Agriculture, the Australian Border Force and Austrade. The surprising line up of departments is evidence of the level of complexity of the issues they discuss. In the words of Joel Katz, MD of CLIA and who leads the negotiations, the “many moving parts” that are the backcloth to the negotiations. But the stumbling block is the AHPCC – perhaps Australia’s equivalent of America’s feared Center for Disease Control or CDC. While working group members from the cruise side of what is known as the “working group” acknowledge “goodwill” and say some politicians support a resumption, the AHPCC is understandably “risk averse”, with the spectre of the Ruby Princess, which is often cited as the cause of numerous COVID cases and deaths, sometimes raised.

We're locking our own Australian citizens out returning from India now. There is no way we are letting a ship full of foreigners in. Imagine the backlash? Vaccine rollout has also been botched. Supposed to be finished by October, be lucky to be over 50% by then and that's being kind. 2021/22 season is in serious trouble!

P&O have just extended pause until 17-Sep. Expect the government to announce a 3 month extension of the 17-Jun cruise ban soon. Getting very close to the Royal Caribbean season now.

Yeah just means you can drink a lot without falling overboard!

As a non-American I don’t mind Bud Light! Is that bad? ? You can’t get it here so it’s great when the RC ships bring it to town.

Ouch!

Well if Ovation doesn’t roll into Sydney Harbour in November at least I can go get all hot and sweaty with Guns and Roses and thousands of unvaccinated and unmasked!

My biggest issue with getting the vaccine is that by the time this country let us do anything that requires you be vaccinated (eg. cruising) I will probably need to get it again!

Astra Zeneca was not too bad, provided you survive the blood clotting.

4 days ago.. Melbourne, Australia. Just making the point that you could be like this and the CDC probably still wont let you guys sail.

There are more people in this photo from the weekend than a full Oasis class ship. There are more people in this stadium than 14 full Oasis class ships. No masks, no social distancing, no COVID....No cruise ships. The CDC aren't the only losers out there.

78,000 at ANZAC day football game yesterday. I believe that is the biggest crowd anywhere in the world since COVID began. There is no reason the local cruises can't start another than politics.

Wonder of the Seas now available for booking... I would book but still so much uncertainty and lack of anything from the Australian government on whether it would even be possible to get there by then. Not looking likely.

Hong Kong itineraries: 2022/11/20 (5 nights reposition) Shanghai > Naha > Ishigaki > Hong Kong 2022/11/25 (9 nights) Hong Kong > Jeju > Busan > Fukuoka > Kagoshima > Hong Kong 2022/12/04 (5 nights) Hong Kong > Naha [overnight] > Hong Kong 2022/12/09 (4 nights) Hong Kong > Chan May (Danang) > Hong Kong 2022/12/13 (5 nights) Hong Kong > Naha > Ishigaki > Hong Kong 2022/12/18 (4 nights) Hong Kong > Chan May (Danang) > Hong Kong 2022/12/22 (9 nights) Hong Kong > Naha > Osaka > Kochi > Kagoshima > Hong Kong 2022/12/31 (4 nights) Hong Kong > Keelung (Taipei) > Hong Kong 2023/01/04 (5 nights) Hong Kong > Naha > Ishigaki > Hong Kong 2023/01/09 (4 nights reposition) Hong Kong > Naha > Shanghai

Website test cruises up last night..