YellowBrickRoad

Wow….crazy!! You did it though! Hooray for you!! Our last Saturday drive with that winter weather was no joke. When we got to the hotel after seeing so many accidents, we were spent from the stress but grateful we got there ok. Definitely have to preplan and leave yourself room for unforeseeable situations. Many in our cruise missed the ship because their flights were cancelled.

Sorry this happened to you. Glad it got accomplished for you. We decided to do it early in the morning the same day as we figured it would be easier. We are almost home now. This was our experience:

3 tests just taken! All Negative! See you soon Anthem!

Is your 14 day in Toronto? I hope your wife is ok. We drive to New Jersey for our sailing on Sunday.

Thanks for the update! I’m going to do it when we we get to the port…..no ship rolling..

For me, I ordered my 2 boxes (total of 4) test kits last Thursday…On Friday my shipment was on its way per email I received and it arrived on Monday. That was pretty quick! Regular shipping method, not rush.

Thank You for the great info! We received our SH kits in the mail a couple of days ago. I have set up the accounts for the three of us so we are ready when taking test the morning of leaving our cruise since we now know we can take day of with new guidelines ……much easier to be able to do in the room!

We have always ended up getting the photo package…twice should have been done before when we saw it more of a deal. For us, we ended up getting to know the photographers and they took time with getting great shots for us. We love so many of them and some have become our Christmas Card. We were very impressed and have tons of memories attached to them. Totally a personal choice….but the camera loves us….lol

Yes….this explanation helps a lot for us as we can take our Antigen SW kits day of leaving our cruise to cross border in Toronto. ……just received them in mail yesterday for our Mar 13 cruise.

Will be Great to know how it turns out for you. We will be using RAT from Switch Health to disembark day prior. We have Shoppers Antigen Test to board but would love to hear how your boarding process works out.

We crossed over to USA via land border as well and only was asked for passports. We used enhanced QR code to cross border back into Canada in Nov/Dec with no issues. It was uploaded in the ArrivCAN App and we are Nexus so they have all our info.

Maybe this time is the charm…lol At least I’ll be prepared either way…….

I just order 4 Switch Health antigen tests (need for 3 of us but comes in a 2 pack) for our March Cruise return (driving) from Cape Liberty to Toronto. We decided to go this route as we can take the test kits with us and do the day prior to coming back… We know we can take at the local Walgreens near port but was worried aboard not enough time as we are driving to land border same day we get off cruise ship. We traveled through the border in Nov but was Walgreens PCR test at the time and had no issues …. I’m watching the news now and officials from both sides are calling for elimination of testing at land borders …….

We decided to buy three separate Voom&Stream instead of sharing one code and it was on sale so about same price individually. We found this to be much easier for us than worrying about who is on or kicking anyone off. Will always go this route from now on no matter the price difference. Peace of mind is priceless.

Just purchased our deluxe drink package with the money we will be saving from our PCR tests….

Good article. We should here soon with the new changes. Likely on Friday.

Just made my Shoppers appointments for our March Cruise Antigen Tests and now waiting what type of Antigen we can use on the way back ……

I emailed the port we have appointments for to find out if they do Antigen tests. We were doing the rapid PCR there as another option if needed it. If not, I’ll do a local Walgreens/CVS there or on our ride back to Toronto. I’m also going to see if we can do the Abbott Antigen test that I would purchase from the USA side and use ….. if applicable. We will see how the antigen works for flying and driving when the news comes out next week. May also change by the time our Mid March cruise sails. The news kept saying “likely” antigen so let’s see what that actually means.

I’m hoping land borders won’t require the antigen as well…. If this is not the case, we can now save money and get the antigen test done at Walgreens/CVS nearby…will see what any new protocols for the home tests are before going that route. At least it’s progress!

Let’s see what the border announcements next week will be…….

You are not in the minority because after our our last cruise, I realized quickly we needed our own individual accounts…..sanity is huge!

Is it better to individually get the Zoom Surf+Stream for each of us, this way we get three different sign in codes verses the 3 device plan that has one code to share if we want to use around the same time? I notice the price is also cheaper if we purchase individually…… Thanks in advance for any help.

For disembarkation, Does anyone know what type of testing is available with Immediate Care/Royal Caribbean Testing Partner outside the ship in Port Liberty- New Jersey? Such as a rapid PCR Test? We will be driving back to Toronto and need are results quicker. Thanks!

Just did my check in…it was 45 days out