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Morganno

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  1. ok anyone have any idea when they will post the new sailings online? If I were in charge I would make no announcements until the sailings were posted. I'm not searching every day it's ridiculous. Was about to book but will now wait and see.
  2. ok has their website been updated I was looking at harmony from Barcelona in May it still shows the same cruises? Adventure of the seas is showing no cruises from Barcelona at the moment.
  3. I wasn't talking about the test. If I pay $4000 for a weeks cruise from Barcelona and turn up at port to be denied boarding and have to arrange a quick flight home or 2 week's hotel quarantine my insurance won't cover it. If they start testing before boarding this is a red flag for me as I cannot be stuck in a foreign country. ?
  4. TUI flights Zante (Greece) to Cardiff (Wales) had 7 with corona virus positive cases, mask wearing wasn't complied with and the staff were not enforcing their rules. Massive media coverage all over the UK and in Europe about this. TUI are still operating flights nothing has changed. If cruise lines get a few cases I shouldn't see why this would change a future cruise the next week. Like other (rare) norovirus cases I don't see that anything should change even with a few cases onboard (in isolation)
  5. @Jason12 Do you have to include the flights with the initial booking or can you phone them up to add flights later? Sorry for the questions and thanks for taking the time to answer. PS I love the photo with homer. ?
  6. Thanks Jason that's great news did you phone the UK number or a US agent?
  7. Just look and RC's air travel is only for US and CA residents. For my flight next year Brussels to Barcelona none of the airlines flying the route offer any cancellation refunds or vouchers unless you take business class or fully flexible. Could book though and take a credit on my deposit if i couldn't find the flights?
  8. Doesn't matter it's not for European customers. ? What is the air2sea department? There website doesn't offer included flights does it or is it only shown when you have booked the cruise? I'm in the same position I want to book a good priced cruise for next year but I don't want to take expensive non-refundable flights in case the cruise doesn't sail. It's the first time I've heard of RC booking flights. thanks, John
  9. check out this guy. If you watch on PC you can choose for it to auto translate CC into English, which it does fairly well, abeit with some really funny mistakes but you can get the most of it. Thanks to @Neaxan for posting it a few weeks ago. Seems like he's also doing river cruises. I follow several vloggers doing theme parks as well and not one of them has caught the disease despite being in Florida AND visiting themeparks daily. What does that mean for me? Well it means when you have situations which are controlled and protocols in place the mitigation of this virus is possible. Cruise ships are the ultimate controlled environment.
  10. Good news. I wonder how many actually quarantine when visiting places. There have been several reports of people visiting Ireland and still doing tourist things despite supposedly being in quarantine sadly.
  11. The general non cruising public still think of cruises as petri dishes. Sure even before this pandemic most of my non-cruising friends have cited health issues when deciding not to cruise despite me explaining the fact that outbreaks affect less that 0.01% of annual cruises. "I don't want to be stuck on a boat with everyone sick around me" is the usual quote. When I mention cruising resuming the first answer is Diamond Princess where they cite 70% infection rate. (While failing to even acknowledge that only 10 people had the virus when it docked. Or that it took 6 weeks to spread to the whole ship and that the crew weren't being quarantined properly.) I'd love to go on MSC next week but balcony cabins are 1700€ per person ? and I can't get flights to Venice ?
  12. I wasn't on either of these ships but to see them beach because of this virus is heartbreaking. Just thinking there must be so much kit on them that can be recycled.
  13. Thanks I found him. I speak Dutch so can get the just of what he says with my high school German from decades ago. Supplemented by the funny auto translate from Youtube ? Thanks too for the bar menu that's quite an impressive list of free drinks. Interesting to see they are now offering 7 night cruises as well in August. Only areas of concern would be theater, from his vlog there didn't seem to be much (if any) social distancing in it and the jury is out on non-masked indoor live entertainment venues like bars, cinemas etc.
  14. Many thanks for this. who is your youtuber that you watched. I live a 5 hour drive from Hamburg so was considering the cruise next month. Some of the 4 nighters are 600€ that's great value for money I think it includes drinks.
  15. My fear is the crew more than the passengers. The whole way cruise lines use their crews the long hours and few days off the constant need to be efficient makes me wonder if crew members would be afraid to report health issues due to lack of wages or tips.
  16. Yeah no problem I know it's just guesswork for us all at the moment. My thinking is perhaps there might be 100% availability at the moment in the deck and section I was looking at, could be if I booked they would automatically rope off the cabins to the right and left of me. Also many like connecting cabins so maybe that's why there was availablity as the area I looked (Deck 9 forward port side) had quite a few connecting cabins as well. Let's just wait and see. Hope you have some calm sailings next year if you book Joe John
  17. I am looking at cruises next May and I have the full range of cabins available to me. They aren't holding any back. This was out of Barcelona May 9th on Harmony. I had my full choice in the section so no spacing between cabins. Perhaps they may do whole sections at a time. However all it takes is a sick steward in your room twice a day and BAM ! Welcome to COVIDVILLE. I think we will have to accept limited cabin cleaning during the cruise as well.
  18. For the Diamond Princess my understanding was that less than 10 people were positive when it docked and if they had let everyone disembark or invoked proper quarantine measures the infection rate would have been 90% lower. However the final stats for the Diamond princess were eye opening 26 February 705 positive cases which includes 392 asymptomatic cases So nearly 55% of the cases had no symptoms.
  19. I think themed cruises need a far higher capacity and maybe the cruise lines can't afford to third party the insurance. I wouldn't use this too as any barometer of where we will be in Q1 2021
  20. But doesn't this mean the protocol is working well. They were tested twice and isolated. This is good news. As a matter of course in Belgium we can now get a test certificate 48 hours before travelling. I am optimistic about future cruising, didn't the CEO of RCI post that on the bigger ships they could still turn a profit with 30% capacity?
  21. hi all, Decided against it because I cannot get cheap flights from my home town to Barcelona and the reason for booking (option to cancel) is not available to the flight selection so apart from my deposit of £800 I would also need to add €600 non refundable flights price will only go up as this is a school holiday break week so prices will rise. My insurance company is no longer paying out on covid cancellations on new bookings so I would be stuck with useless flights in case of a cancellation. What a pity. If things improve I'll check again after new year to see what's still available.
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