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Pricing is pretty dynamic. I watch over a period of a week or so and whenever I start a query, I'll get a different set of airlines and price sets depending upon when i'm checking. If I'm zoning in on a specific airline, the Air2Sea or Flight by Celebrity may not yield equivalent pricing, in fact it tends to be higher. Depending on the timing you can find a lower price on your elected airline directly. I lean toward the cruise line connections on international and play the direct to airline game for domestic travel. What's constant is the travel assist you get with the cruise line air booking. They service and adjust your flight schedules when delays could impact embarkation. Its a good perk.

Wow - didn't realize its that much.

As a footnote, if you go onto an airline direct booking site you see they publish flights up to 9 months out. Air2sea or Flights by Celebrity can't load their system until the airline publishes their schedule. That's one way to gauge when you can start looking. Another rule of thumb is the rate sweet zone - some travel blogs will tell you the cusp in prices will present about 4 months out from your desired date. Not sure if that holds under our current circumstances.

interesting times. I'm curious why the sudden growth spurt in RCL stock price while the others are pretty anemic. Especially when no one is operating.

If only Terrence and Phillip were in charge.

Thats really done right!

If you like motor vehicle tours (ATV, Jeep) they offer those. Of course water sports such as snorkeling. Usually an excursion to Nevis which is the neighboring capital island. It has an interesting history with ties to colonial era trade..

Not an elegant lunch, but to avoid the crowds on embarkation, we go to Park Central cafe when on Oasis class. Its fast, and enough to recharge as we're walking the ship.

Banished for a period of time but it will come back when all gets figured out.

Oasis class are floating resorts - haven't been board yet staying on those ships. I hope to someday try the Q class - would expect the same.

I've used and had very good luck. Now its even better with the deferred payment as you describe above. Also like the "re-routing" if issues come up on a connection.

As far as Caribbean, I really don't mind staying on the ship while in port and just relaxing. If it becomes too complicated to take an excursion, I'd just stay on-board. But it will be an interesting experiment to watch.

POA is flagged US right - so subject to US labor laws etc. Be interesting to understand the differences in profit margin / passenger of US vs non-US flagged.

Thanks for the clarifications. So in theory, a waiver could be granted to lines operating the Alaskan region with relief on having to visit a foreign port such as VBC in the event Canadian law prevents lines from filling the non-US port visit requirement. Would think even Alaska would not want to lose revenue another entire tour season and have an interest in seeing some level of travel from the lower 48.

Bet one of those ships has mouse ears.

Me to0 - they're able to test the waters (pun intended). The fact the EU has more control over their immediate sailing region (than the US has over the Caribbean or Alaskan market region) it makes the test runs more practical.

Regarding the Passenger Vessel Service Act, can a ship just stop at the foreign port for provisioning (fuel/food), but not allow passengers to disembark? Will that fill the square? If so, could that allow Canadian passthrough (if CA is good with it)?

Cunard also pushed start to end of March '21. Need some ports to open to enable operational restart. Several chickens and several eggs trying to figure out who comes out first. o

Same late year timeframe. Around Nov-Dec last year. Wishing they would move up the 2nd half of '22.

If you include European experiments, things are already off to a slow start

Its the ultimate tracing task - identify every type of touch point and contact a guest might have - from the point they enter the luggage queue pre-embarkation, to the time they get through customs - post- debarkation. Even more when you consider a pre/post cruise line sponsored excursion.

Seems to always be late in the year. Nov-Dec, so behind much of the competition which I don't understand - I'm sure there's some sort of strategy behind it. But with all the cancelations, would have though they would want to move the release up to include the back half of '22 and capture some additional deposits.

Skipped the movie, but guilty of watching Invicta watch sales on Home Shopping Network

Found the same - on board bookings were lower than going off-board (included line website)

Prime and paint :)