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In case anyone didn’t see the announcement this week, Harmony will be restarting on August 15th with cruises from Barcelona and Rome. Directly from Royal’s website… https://www.royalcaribbean.com/cruise-ships/itinerary-updates

It’s a fun guessing game. Unfortunately it’s not Harmony, look at carpet from office a year ago.

Marc Walker’s (Cruise Director) Facebook….

Marc Walker shared we can expect a Harmony announcement next week!

Another great sign…. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-05-29/spain-to-welcome-back-international-cruises-from-june-7

It’s been very quiet on the European front as of late, was hoping to have some updates by now. Good news is that Harmony is still cruising around empty in the Med, picking up supplies in Barcelona every now and then. No more updates from Marc Walker though (cruise director slated to return to Harmony), he still appears to be in Florida.

I did a quick scam analysis on the website and everything seems legit. It has been up for 21 years, has high traffic, and is not blacklisted anywhere. Sounds like a great deal on a block of rooms they are trying sell. One time I booked a top balcony room for a cruise on the Royal Carribean Germany site for cheaper than an interior room was going for on the Royal Carribean US site.

Good sign. Although every day that goes by, the CDC’s CSO feels more and more outdated. I live in the Northeast and my state has dropped all covid restriction including masks, capacity limits, and social distancing. It’s just a matter of time for cruise ship guidance to catch up. At this point we’re talking about a ship with 5,000 vs arena with 10,000.

I hope Royal will continue to make exceptions for the youngest ones until vaccines are available. Both Royal and CDC have indicated it would be ok.

Royal officially cancelled all of the Israel sailings and is bringing the ship to Florida. Interesting move since it is almost full of crew, seems like they are banking on resuming soon from US instead. https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2021/05/15/israel-conflict-royal-caribbean-cancels-odyssey-haifa-sailings/5108878001/

I think the bill should have just made the exclusion permanent. The goal of the PVSA was to help US firms and workers. For Alaskan cruises, it only benefits Canada.

Harmony will be in Barcelona for the first time this season on Monday.

Just signed the new one too!

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