smokeybandit

I think the FCC concept was a good short term idea and was never intended to go for 15+ months.

Who knew RCBlog was a stringer for the Bahamas News?

I don't doubt your sources at all. I'm just skeptical. This crew would have to be Adventure and/or Vision for it to make any sense.

My first cruise I was 20 and was able to drink back when ship drinking age was 18. It was great. Now that many years later, I'm not a fan of 18 yr olds drinking on ship. Then again I have nothing against 18 yr old drinking per se, but I hope it doesn't become amateur hour on board. Then again plenty age 21+ turn their drink packages into amateur hour, too.

It doesn't make sense that those who have already left India and gone through the quarantines to be blocked from joining the ship.

I'm still waiting on $197 in March refund money. Last time I called they just said it wasn't 45 business days from cancellation yet.

In this case it was American, in which I haven't gotten flight changes for non-A2S reservations in the past either.

The worst part I've found about Air2Sea so far is that if the airline changes your flight, Air2Sea doesn't tell you. It was thanks to a tip from this board to check my flights and sure enough they changed. I changed them again to get back to the schedule I wanted, that much was fine and the Air2Sea reps were very helpful. But Air2Sea's website still shows my very original itinerary.

I'll be curious how these initial sailings get crewed. Does seniority play into it? Geography, maybe favoring those crew from the western hemisphere?

I'm skeptical, but for a minute let's assume it's true. What would it mean? We know cruising isn't starting until July at the earliest no matter what happens with the CSO. Having crew stateside in April really would only make sense to get them vaccinated. Too early for cruise ramp up otherwise. We already know from the vlogs that crew have had their deployments postponed. Is there any idea how many foreign crew are legally living in the USA already? It would seem quite cost prohibitive to come to the USA just to get vaccinated, both for the individual and cruise line. But then again anyone in the USA should have easy access to vaccines at this point.

I said please!

Twitter also

I'm in a suite in July. Don't leave any blood stains or hidden bodies please

MSC wants to homeport in Nassau, too https://ewnews.com/gaining-momentum-msc-cruises-could-be-third-major-cruise-line-this-year-to-start-homeporting-in-the-bahamas

Agreed, searching for cruises is cumbersome. While their search supports searching by specific days in a month (if you know how to manipulate the URLs), you can only pick specific months through the UI. I'd like to see the ability to save searches, too. Again I do that by having a spreadsheet with specific URLs, but that should be offered on the UI itself. Also add the ability to sort by cheapest price by cabin class, not just cheapest overall price. Even Expedia cruises lets you do this.

Onboard, the elevators. 4 elevators in one cluster, yet only 1 ever seems to be in use. Online, the lack of detail on a reservation given. Can't look up FCC, can't view the full invoice.

Sorry that was supposed to be a "of course I get my cruise news from RCBlog.com" joke

Got any suggestions?

Some cities had mandatory outdoor mask mandates for a while. Maybe some still do.

Next time that happens try clearing the cache on the RC app

And a lot of those things would likely be very trivial things or inspections, but just stuff they have to check off the list before blessing the protocols

We don't know. And it is very arbitrary. But it's a political source of ransom.

"Just last year" Yep, they're not giving up on the Diamond Princess. Also, "just last year" -No vaccine -No treatments -No mass testing -No knowledge of how it spread Also, "just last year" -Not thought to spread among humans -Don't wear a mask -15 days to stop the spread!

I don't think it'll feel too small at all, especially since it's new

80% vaccinated to reach herd immunity? No way. That'd be 80% vaccinated + recovered + pre-existing cross immunity, noting there'd be some overlap between those vaccinated and the other two categories.