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He is doing the best he can with ever changing information, trying to balance keeping the regulators happy enough and satisfying his customers and employees.  
All that said, the requirements to cruise have changed, don't hold my money hostage or give me "options" I don't want.  
Do the right thing and refund those that want refunds, I am sure there are many willing to take my place.  
 

This is so disappointing and incredibly frustrating - I absolutely feel your pain.   And I hear Matt when he talks about cancelling...  
In May 2020 we L&S a cruise booked in April 2021.   My husband thought I was crazy and that everything would be sailing by April of 2021... boy was he wrong.   I'm super glad we moved it (especially now that I see the price is 3X what we paid).
This whole situation is so fluid and so disconcerting and SO frustrating.   We all want it to be over and have our regular lives and schedules back.   Someone reminded me the other day that "re-opening" will be a series of baby steps.   And be prepared for one step forward and two steps back.   There WILL be covid on cruise ships.   What will that mean?   Will they be prevented from docking?   What will happen to passengers?   Quarantine on land?   Who knows - but all of these details need to be sorted out and addressed before the cruise lines can hit it with full force.
It's a process...  I keep reminding myself that it's not forever.   It's just for now.

Thanks for sharing. I am sorry too that you lost so much money. I often wondered if this was happening to others and if people fought this. I did talk to management yesterday and he did explain why it was not refundable but it still does not sit well with me. The way things are going, makes me never want to cruise again. 

Just got off a long call with Bank of America, and I am not happy.
I just had a bunch of refunds applied to my card for the canceled cruise planner purchases I'd made for my now-canceled Vision sailing, along with a refund of the port fees and taxes. All told, the total in refunds is more than my last statement balance.
Every single other credit card I have will apply refunds or other credits against the outstanding statement balance. But this is apparently not B of A's policy. They are telling me that unless I were to receive the remaining cruise fare credit and get my outstanding balance down to zero before the close of this statement on June 13 (which I know won't happen) I must make at least a minimum payment or be assessed a late fee. And if I only make the minimum payment, I will still be assessed interest on the remaining balance. I never pay interest or leave unpaid balances, but even if I did decide to just make a minimum payment (which would more than offset whatever interest charges would accrue), B of A is still forcing me to give them an interest-free loan to avoid penalties, just so they can pay me back at their leisure when my balance goes into credit territory.
I can understand if I had paid off the card months prior and then the cruise was canceled / refunds were issued. But this is all within the same statement cycle and their policy here is total BS when they know they have competition from other card issuers who always apply credits against the statement balance.
If you were thinking about getting this card, this is another big reason to not get it. And you can believe that once this is all settled out and my balance is at zero with everything they'll then owe to me paid back, I'll be canceling this card and I don't give two spits about what it might briefly do to my credit score.

But…it’s not a matter of “if” but “when” there will be Covid on a ship.
Panic porn and click bait are good for metrics and ratings and unfortunately the general population fails to put cases of Covid into context because the media never provides details as to the case of Covid 
And sadly, it’s ignorant public pressure because of the conditioning done by the media. People need to be told that Covid is here to stay and is on the way to being endemic and is treatable in 99.90% of cases 

When you sell a cruise the day before it is canceled, somebody knows something !

I am not happy with Royal either with their communication more specifically lack thereof. 
 
I get they are in a fluid situation and they have been shutdown for over a year now but to wait so long to announce their plans for July/August sailings is unacceptable. Especially, when the president/CEO of company gets on FB and announces test sailings on cruises BEFORE cancelling said sailings was truly a PR blunder and bad business move. 
 
AND, I see that no test sailing for Odyssey has officially been announced but selling July 3rd sailing. Less than 30 days out and they are very presumptuous that test sailing will happen and approved all within 30 days. No much room for error if the CDC identifies issues 

RC trying to keep as much revenue as they can....they sell cruises when they know they won't be going out...then they cancel July sailings for people who have been waiting to sail for months...and to top that off they bring in the Odyssey which was suppose to be in Israel.....sell cabins for the month of July at inflated prices..while all of us who were booked and waiting to sail sit at home...I think it's time to switch cruise lines.
 
 
 

Well stated. I am extremely upset ?.  I called for my refund and they told me everything would be returned except for the insurance travel monies.  That insurance would have gone into effect when the actual cruise would have started. This was a total of $550 that they will keep! I asked to speak with management and they told me they would submit a form to the insurance but that it would most likely not be honored. How is that right?? I am going to continue to take it further but I should not have to be fighting for something that they canceled.