em.down.the.rabbit.hole

Not just you, I can only book one room on that sailing on the UK system, same for all August sailing from Southampton, strange, very strange. Having said that at the prices they quote I couldn't afford 2 staterooms

Maybe it's unique to the UK.
The strange thing is for the same cruise departing from Southampton I can book multiple cabins on the US website.

I booked a cruise earlier today (from UK) and since then they have changed one of the booking screens:
Can now only book 1 stateroom at a time...wonder what's prompted this...?  Wasn't there 5/6 hours ago

Surely Anthem can't go from Southampton to the Greek Isles & Israel and back within 2 weeks?

Well I'm happy to be out of the EU tbh.
The anthem is due to have 3 two week long cruises this summer, coinciding with school holidays.  It is feasible that they can change med ports of call to Greece, Cyprus, Israel for vaccinated peeps (they are interested in looping in the UK in their existing group)...and 2 week sailings makes this feasible to cruise to from Southampton.
Also, I was pleasantly surprised to discover we have a dedicated maritime minister who is feeding into the review of international travel the UK is doing for 12th April.

Couldn't agree more ... we should be allowed to travel at our own risk, and now that vaccines lower/mitigate the risk we pose to others I think it's not unreasonable to expect people to be vaccinated before travelling

Couldn't agree more ... we should be allowed to travel at our own risk, and now that vaccines lower/mitigate the risk we pose to others I think it's not unreasonable to expect people to be vaccinated before travelling

A comment on the variants and vaccinated people: Everything I am reading that goes beyond the shock and awe headlines the press likes, e.g., "NEW VARIANTS INFECTING THE VACCINATED" stated as if this if scientific fact.
News Flash: It's not!
Virologists do have legit concerns about the variants. However, the consensus appears to be that the current ones (there are 4-6 depending on how you count them) are known to increase transmissibility. That is the only aspect of the variants studied enough to give weight to that conclusion. The rest you can dismiss as premature and mostly uninformed, meant to be scary click bait from the MSM. 
The 6 variants come from three original viruses in 3 lineages. That means that vaccine developers only need to deal with a limited number of tweaks to their vaccines to make them go from pretty good to very good. Those are my terms. They are vague because if I more definitively defined them, it would take me a couple of pages. Generally, there is a ton of misinformation about the vaccines; there's a ton of information on the web if you'd like to understand the differences between the main ones and why just being "65% effective" is very good and 55% effective (e.g., against the Brazilian Variant) is still pretty darn good.
The FDA bar for approval of vaccines is 50% effective; flu vaccines are 45-55% effective. The rare few that have been re-infected after vaccination by a variant have had no or mild symptoms. I think in the entire  world, there is only one person that got re-infected that was hospitalized. There have been no deaths (caveats about how countries report apply). It's becoming clearer every day that we're not goin to eliminate SARS-2; it will be controlled with sporadic outbreaks that we will be well prepared to deal with; most illness coming from being infected will be mild. Yes, vulnerable people will die from it ..... jsut like they die from being infected with influenza. Perspective. 
What impact does this have on cruising?  If cruising resumes and you are comfortable with what you will have to deal with and the health risks you are assuming by cruising/traveling, go cruising. You can talk your self out of most things if you seek endeavors that involve no risks. Whne it starts back up, don't let cruising be one of them because of what the lay press says about COVID. I think I'm preaching mostly to the choir here.

Oh apologies, thought this article was accessible to everyone and not hidden behind their payroll....I'll just pop in and post some exerts....

Looking promising I think

Oh apologies, thought this article was accessible to everyone and not hidden behind their payroll....I'll just pop in and post some exerts....

Looking promising I think

Starboard

I look forward to the opportunity to search endlessly for it ?

I think they mean that domestic cruising is assigned to that part of the road map out of lockdown ... the part that is currently slated as 17th May...ie if they move the 17th May date out, then everything slated to reopen at that time moves out to a new date.  I take it as a positive that cruising (albeit domestic) has been specified and added to the road map out of lockdown.

Australia...?

 

I'll be joining you, so that's at least 3 of us signed up ?

Me too! a cruise to no where for a few days would be nice!

I for one hope they do change their mind. My wife has had both of her jabs and I am booked in for mine (first one on Saturday) so if a RCL UK cruise did become available we would book it in a heartbeat ?

The UK has the vacine rollout spot on!
 
Southampton here we come

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/09/travel-news-holiday-abroad-covid-restrictions-spain-portugal/
This is a round up of the Travel news bulletins from today in the UK... lots of cruise posts, insights and statements... International cruising likely to be up and running this summer, and testing (of health protocols) already done in Europe...the update at 3.47pm is an interesting read...
Thought fellow cruisers would like to see some positive cruise news for once... enjoy ?

Ah I'm on the Anthem the week after you guys...I'll wave as we pass in the cruise terminal ? ... but good news today about International cruising out of the UK this summer...fingers crossed for all of us Anthem bound cruisers.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/09/travel-news-holiday-abroad-covid-restrictions-spain-portugal/
This is a round up of the Travel news bulletins from today in the UK... lots of cruise posts, insights and statements... International cruising likely to be up and running this summer, and testing (of health protocols) already done in Europe...the update at 3.47pm is an interesting read...
Thought fellow cruisers would like to see some positive cruise news for once... enjoy ?

Key takeaway for me:
Matt booked an airplane to England!  

After a long day vaccinating ... that's great news that I get 125%, but shame the Fjords will have to wait for another year.