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We are taking our kids on a cruise in September, and we have been asked if we feel safe on a cruise.  To be honest, I feel more safe on a cruise ship than I do sending the kids to school.  With the health protocols that are in place, I feel like cruising is safer than a lot of activities we do on land.  

We are taking our kids on a cruise in September, and we have been asked if we feel safe on a cruise.  To be honest, I feel more safe on a cruise ship than I do sending the kids to school.  With the health protocols that are in place, I feel like cruising is safer than a lot of activities we do on land.  

We are taking our kids on a cruise in September, and we have been asked if we feel safe on a cruise.  To be honest, I feel more safe on a cruise ship than I do sending the kids to school.  With the health protocols that are in place, I feel like cruising is safer than a lot of activities we do on land.  

We stayed in interior cabins on our first cruise, and have balconies booked for the next 3.  So it appears that we will never stay in an interior cabin again, lol.  
I didn't mind the darkness, but could not stand not being able to wake up and see where we were from our room. 

We stayed in interior cabins on our first cruise, and have balconies booked for the next 3.  So it appears that we will never stay in an interior cabin again, lol.  
I didn't mind the darkness, but could not stand not being able to wake up and see where we were from our room. 

I am sailing on Independence of the Seas on September 19th and our check-in just opened this morning.  Perhaps yours will soon as well.

Our first time on a Royal was also our first time to ever crusie.  It was Liberty of the Seas in 2019, we were immediately hooked on cruising and Royal.  We now have 3 cruises upcoming after that initial cruise.

We were on the Liberty in 2019 on the Texas Country Music Cruise.  Like you, we found out from a Facebook group, or maybe when we joined the Cruise Critic Roll Call.  I am not a country fan at all, so was not really excited about this.  Not having access to some of the areas of the ship was a big bummer.  The participants of the TCM cruise were not bad at all, just some of the things we wanted to do we could not.  Needless to say, when we booked the follow up cruise that was supposed to happen in 2020, and then when we moved that one to this year we made sure we were not on the same cruise as the TCMC.  Hope it works out for you!

The vaccines are 95% effective, which is excellent, never has it been said that the vaccines offer 100% immunity. No vaccine in history has offered that. What they do guarantee, 100%, is you wont end up in the hospital fighting for your life. I work in a hospital. Today is our first day since March 2020 we do not have any COVID patients. In the past 3 months every patient in the hospital, some of whom died, were guess what? NOT Vaccinated. What the Celebrity Millennium demonstrated was the effectiveness of the vaccines at stopping spread. 2 patients (who were vaccinated) tested positive but asymptomatic, and not 1 other crew member or passenger tested positive. That's 2 people out of about 1300. Amazing results. 

Good to know! I called RC and they can't do anything about it (plus the 8/15 saling doesn't even come up for them) since I went through a TA so I'll just have to wait and see what the TA can suggest. Did you book directly with RC?

We were on Liberty in September and were also switched to Independence.  Our room was also switched to a less ideal room for our family of 6.  We eventually sent a message to Michael Bailey on Facebook, and he responded by having someone contact us.  They were able to get us into rooms that worked better for us.  I would keep trying to go higher up if you can't get help getting the room switched.  Hopefully they can make it happen for you easily without having to go higher up in the command chain.  Good luck!
We too were bummed out by the itinerary change, as we went to Cozumel, Costa Maya, and Roatan last time and were looking forward to going to the other places.  However, at this point I just want to get on a ship ? 

Hopefully that happens, our reservation is showing up as cancelled on the cruise planner.
Update:  I was also told by Royal that our sailing is being transferred to indy as well.  Plus we get an extra day! Yay!

I bet Explorer is going to Indy.  The person at Royal told me our cruise scheduled to leave on September 19th will be the last transferred to Independence.  Yet, the Royal Caribbean press says Indy passengers booked through late October will be transferred to Odyssey.  I guess that is for the Explorer people.

Miami Herald reporting Independence has been approved for test cruise out of Galveston

That will be August. There is only a 2 week window for most families in August before school and by that time people will have already taken alternate vacations. They should not wait to do this.
AND there will be several people that want refunds not FCC. Cant assume everyone will want to rebook

I thought the exact same thing when I saw his post.  It was completely tone deaf.
 

I thought the exact same thing when I saw his post.  It was completely tone deaf.
 

We got ours in July for $44 on our Liberty cruise.  Not sure the price will go lower.

It looks like the Sky Bar will be open until 11 each night.  
We are on that same cruise.  Can't wait!

It looks like the Sky Bar will be open until 11 each night.  
We are on that same cruise.  Can't wait!

I'm sure you could turn it into one.  There is a chapel on board and you could meet with other clergy.

I am a clergy person.  I get 30 days off, plus 4 Sundays.  I also get a week off for Spiritual Retreat.    I don't think I will be able to count our cruise as a spiritual retreat ?