smokeybandit

So if the dates and prices work out, I could cancel my other July cruise (which I've put no money into except FCCs) and book Adventure without any extra change fees?

I would imagine fares will be sky high for these cruises

Good news and bad news at the same time.

The state-level vaccination you basically just put your name on a list and wait until they notify you (my wife got notified the first day she was eligible). The pharmacy-level vaccination program is more a direct signup

I'm eligible today for a vaccine but none of the signup websites for my state have been updated to allow my group to register.

CDC is going to great lengths to keep the cruise ships out of the water

I've used a lot of promo codes. Just, none of them ever work.

Yeah, good point. That other site tends to have less favorable outcomes for this type of thread topic.

I was expecting this to be an anti-travel agent thread.

So does the USA.

Moosehead Beer. But seriously I doubt the "loan" is ever repaid. When will Canada suddenly have a surplus of 1.5 million doses that the USA would then be able to use?

Yes, several European countries halted it over blood clot fears, but there hasn't been anything actually linking the two yet. But the AZ vaccine wasn't going to be used in the USA any time soon

USA giving 1.5 million of the AZ vaccine to Canada https://www.axios.com/vaccine-astrazeneca-us-doses-canada-mexico-45c3aea8-4995-4ceb-a6cd-fb64d819fa8b.html

Sign me up. I so look forward to when school and work calendars align that I can take more than a 7 day cruise.

You have upwards of 10 people actively adding to their plates at a time at a given station. There will be no room to have enough staff to be filling that many plates at a time

The odds of getting covid from a buffet is amazingly low (unless everyone in line licks the tongs). If people thought lines were long before, it's going to be real bad now.

That's what I think of every single time I see this thread.

There's also a still undetermined portion of the population that has a pre-existing cross immunity to covid. Studies have suggested it being anywhere from 20-50% Also though there's mixing between those vaccinated and those who had covid. And the same for those with a cross immunity, too.

The funny thing is, especially in hindsight, how cruising WASN'T a "petri dish" for covid. Look at the poster child for anti-cruising. The Diamond Princess. Despite a lot more people having covid upon boarding than originally thought (though one single guy is blamed for all of it) and despite such an old age of cruisers on that ship (69), and despite having no mitigation/treatment/testing protocols on board, they still only had a couple hundred symptomatic cases. People are worried now about an entire ship getting covid, which is pretty much impossible based on that.

The more I think of it, and maybe I'm just a pessimist (I am), but I would think any news of a restart would be better served coming from the top, not from the sales person, albeit at the VP level.

If this truly has been put on hold, then I would guess it may well be something about CDC guidance because the CDC has gone back and forth quite a bit lately on announcing the relaxation of travel guidance.

And I wouldn't see that as something teased by a sales person to the audience of travel agents.

The CDC treats vaccinated people the same as unvaccinated except for small gatherings. So for the purposes of cruising, I doubt vaccinations matter as it relates to test cruises.

Well the only two pieces of info anyone cares about that much to have hyped up are test cruises and restart dates. If it's anything other than that, then it's just plain wrong to hype it.

Well we're half way through March with still no indication the CDC is going to give the lines what they need to start test cruises. Losing June is not at all a surprise.