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It doesn't shock me. I spoke to someone that claimed my whole family is marked down as vaccinated. If they were, why am I getting e-mails to schedule antigen tests at the port? Clearly they are not marked as vaccinated. I just ignored the e-mails and assume I will have a ton of issues as the port since they refuse to actually mark them properly and allow me to upload their cards. Some of these customer service people really have zero clue.

I think this post is pretty much any job in retail or hospitality right now. Most of these people are just trying to make a living and they got stuck in the middle of an ugly political battle. They don't like it because they don't want to enforce the rules that they may or may not get yelled at for enforcing, but since they don't know the patron they probably assume the patron is going to not like what they are telling them. I am so glad none of my kids are old enough to work and that I am well past retail/hospitality jobs. I feel awful for most people that have to do customer face to face interactions.

Harmony? Nice, I might actually gamble more if there is no smoking on my upcoming cruise.

Clearly they changed this rule because of Symphony having so many cases. Personally I am hoping a ton cancel so the cruise I am going on is not so packed. I noticed the cruise I am on doesn't show up at all so my guess is that as people cancel they are not opening those rooms up because they are trying to lower capacity. The CEO said it would be 65% and it seems they didn't follow that and now they are in trouble because they sold too many rooms. A shame because I am really hoping this cruise doesn't suck because they crammed the ship to 100% without really having the staff or shows for 100% with social distancing protocols. All a money grab in my mind. But this new mask policy is to reduce spread that clearly happened on a ship.

What is even more confusing is it isn't kids it is unvaccinated. lol Like my 6 and 11 are fully vaxed and therefore antigen is fine for them and they will not be tested at port. But my 4 year old is PCR and antigen at port. It really has nothing to do with age and they should change their e-mails to just reflect vaccinated and unvaccinated.

And them not running them is why we are on RC. But they will be starting to run them as kids can be fully vaccinated, so that is why we would move over. Carnival is most likely who we would sale with as my understanding they have some great ships for kids. We would have been on them if their kids club for under 5 would have opened with the 5 and over. But our 4 year old throws everything off. I haven't heard the same from the Oasis class ships, so we will see how Harmony is. I am hoping to use them a couple times as the whole reason we picked RC over Carnival and paid 3k extra was because of the AO being open and Carnival not having theirs open for the under 5 crowd yet.

I was more thinking to allow more capacity they could have vax and unvax sessions for AO. The vax wouldn't have to social distance and therefore they could increase how many attend that session. I don't care about the mixing, I just don't like what some have said about how strict they are with social distancing in AO and how hard it is to even get a slot there. Honestly this will be our last cruise with RC unless they start mandating vaccines for all those that can. It makes AO very hard compared to other cruiselines. My son should be able to get vaccinated early next year and then at that point we can go on other cruiselines which I will do instead. RC seems to have zero plan to handle the mix of unvaxed and vaxed kids with the social distancing and reduced capacity yet I am hearing my holiday cruise may be at 80% which is NOT what the CEO originally stated. He said December would be 65%. So I am all around a little disappointed in all of this. You can't increase to 80% and still have the same protocols in place.

I was able to book Walgreens once it was a week out, so we did Walgreens on Christmas Eve morning for us and my son the day before (he is only 4) at Walgreens. I have actually him set for Walgreens and CVS as RC was zero help telling me if they accepted ID NOW as PCR so I plan to ask the pharmacy and if not then an hour later we will do CVS PCR. I also have backup appointments for us in case Walgreens says they won't honor the less than 24 hours timeframe at another place that I have never heard of. So I would much rather do Walgreens.

I would test on 12/24. I have found very few places on 12/24. I am trying to be cheap and get a free test and I really didn't think it would be an issue testing on Christmas Eve, but so far it seems to be an issue.

I called and the guy said we are all marked as vaccinated which is clearly wrong since my 4 year old can't be vaccinated. I also asked about PCR tests and if ID Now is accepted as PCR and he was lost. I don't think this guy was very well trained. I was told unvaccinated had to be 6 feet in AO and that is what made the capacity lower and a bad experience. So now they have vaxed mixed in that won't need to distance I was curious if they would change anything. But based on the call I just had and from someone else stating something I am thinking vaxed will be treated like unvaxed in AO.

I was curious how it would go with under 12 vaccinated since this was the first weekend that people could be on ships with vaccinated under 12. Seems they are not prepared at all. That sucks as I was hoping for some rules changes in AO and stuff like that in prep for this.

I am going to call RC tomorrow since my kids became fully vaxed this week. When I spoke to an agent before she asked if I was vaccinated and she marked our file and I asked about the kids since they would be and she said call back once they are fully vaxed and then she can mark them. I am hoping once their file is marked that I can then upload their card. I am super curious about AO kids and wondering how they will handle vaxed kids and non-vaxed since the strict rules are not needed for vaxed.

Florida and Covid testing, Antigen. We already have the PCR appointment for my son, the rest of us need Antigen 2 days out.

Someone had mentioned a testing website where you can look and book appointments for multiple places. I clicked on it and it has places near me but not my date as it was too far out. Now I can't find the site again, does someone know?

under 12 couldn't be vaxed for Thanksgiving. This weekend is the first cruises leaving that could have possibly had fully vaxed 5 to 11 year olds on it.

I am really curious about this too as my 6 and 11 will be vaxed for our cruise over New Years so the protocols that make it low capacity wouldn't be needed for them. So will they start to do vaxed timeslots that they can offer to more kids and the unvaxed that are lower capacity? It would be smart over a holiday cruise to do that since there will be more kids and then they can service more kids. Clearly the young age can't be vaccinated so that would just stay the same.

Cococay they are allowed to get off without an excursion since it is just cruise ships on the island.

It will be on your documents when they are created.

CentraCare flat out said they wouldn't do testing for travel. My guess is some do and charge you. But CVS on their website when I went thru said I qualified for a free test.

How do you check and change your check in time?

That is so odd I am in Central Florida and CVS even has travel as a reason and it stated it would be no charge.

Luckily my 6 and 10 are fully vaxed, but my 4 year old can't be. I have ZERO clue how I am going to be able to do this as we cruise on Jan 26th and a PCR is going to be a tough squeeze with the holidays. I am already concerned we won't have time for our antigen and I knew I was safe for him since he had 3 days, but now I am really going to have issue with him. On a side note for the longest time my cruise stated testing protocols were not released yet and I thought they would change and well they did, but for the worse not better. Ugh. They now state the PCR for unvaccinated.

I noticed the same thing. I was hoping they would update it after people could get their second shot. I am wondering if they are waiting for them to actually have the ability to be fully vaccinated. They already approved my card which looks like there card and it from the same pharmacy, so I am not concerned.

It probably wouldn't stick where the vaseline is. It is very sticky, but once it starts peeling off it will keep going. We had to normally tape the edges of it down with Duct tape so that we wouldn't have to change it often. But the bottom of her cast would sometimes get wet when her dry suit leaked a little during swimming and if it got wet it would all come off really easily.

We would get big rolls of this from Amazon when my daughter was doing serial casting for her scoliosis. It helped on the edges of the cast to not rub as much.