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A call revealed that it is just a glitch and I was able to book over the phone
 

I think in general he is correct.  So many return guests don't leave the ship.  Why is that?  They are near the bottom in surveys just above Freeport.  That's doesn't say much about how Nassau is received by the cruising public.
If you are into drugs there is a beach you walk to be and you'll be offered a choice of drugs.  That's not a good look and a pretty poor family experience.
Royal is building their beach club next door to establish a place that can be something to do and somewhere to go because without it there is little point getting off the ship. 
Nassau needs to be honest with itself if it wants to change.  Griping about cruise ships guests not leaving the ship won't accomplish anything.  Someone needed to say it.  

We are on this sailing as well. Looking forward to an Oasis-class ship out of Texas!

First year's itinerary:

Boarded Odyssey this morning at Port Everglades- all four of my family used the iHealth proctored test. Showed the negative result image file provided by iHealth and had no issues getting on board. They didn’t scan the QR code or anything, just looked at our phone screenshots.
 Hope this helps everybody considering using this test as we weren’t 100% sure if it would be accepted.
Paul

Would like to know also if he/anyone else had success with using iHealth tests. We have quite a few as we stocked up in January, would be much easier to use them and just buy the proctored test service.

Would like to know also if he/anyone else had success with using iHealth tests. We have quite a few as we stocked up in January, would be much easier to use them and just buy the proctored test service.

No worries, it's pretty standard boilerplate. I just hope they let us know sooner rather than later, since with kids there's always more moving parts to a vacation.

I will be interested to see how this plays out. We are scheduled to sail on Adventure next Monday, 3/14. Got notice yesterday evening that the sailing is not at the 95% threshold, and we needed to confirm vaccination status of our two kids. Our 8 year old is fully vaccinated, our 5 year old gets his 2nd shot today.
We could not have (honestly) vaccinated him sooner....his 5th birthday was exactly 2 weeks ago. He'll have both doses but not be 2 weeks out from the second. 
If we get bumped, I'll detail our experience. Fingers crossed that we don't.

No worries, it's pretty standard boilerplate. I just hope they let us know sooner rather than later, since with kids there's always more moving parts to a vacation.

No worries, it's pretty standard boilerplate. I just hope they let us know sooner rather than later, since with kids there's always more moving parts to a vacation.

I will be interested to see how this plays out. We are scheduled to sail on Adventure next Monday, 3/14. Got notice yesterday evening that the sailing is not at the 95% threshold, and we needed to confirm vaccination status of our two kids. Our 8 year old is fully vaccinated, our 5 year old gets his 2nd shot today.
We could not have (honestly) vaccinated him sooner....his 5th birthday was exactly 2 weeks ago. He'll have both doses but not be 2 weeks out from the second. 
If we get bumped, I'll detail our experience. Fingers crossed that we don't.

I will be interested to see how this plays out. We are scheduled to sail on Adventure next Monday, 3/14. Got notice yesterday evening that the sailing is not at the 95% threshold, and we needed to confirm vaccination status of our two kids. Our 8 year old is fully vaccinated, our 5 year old gets his 2nd shot today.
We could not have (honestly) vaccinated him sooner....his 5th birthday was exactly 2 weeks ago. He'll have both doses but not be 2 weeks out from the second. 
If we get bumped, I'll detail our experience. Fingers crossed that we don't.

The Ultimate Family Suite entrance
 
 

I'd happily trade booster for eliminating the headache of pre-cruise testing though.

There are two measures that will define the date upon which SARS-CoV2 will no longer disrupt our normal routines, e.g., we can go back to a pre-COVID life that includes lots of cruising:
(1) A medical endpoint. Determining this endpoint is the realm of virologist and epidemiologist who deal with the enormous amounts of data that are available to define it globally, nationally and regionally. Regionally, we are very likely already there or very close to it. The several metrics that define disease burden  - viral prevalence or percent positives of screening tests and hospital admissions with a COVID diagnosis are examples; regionally and growing beyond that, all those metrics are declining and in some case significantly. There are others.
(2) Reduction in the fear of COVID - measures of mobility and economic activity are examples of ways to measure that; again, there are others - a lot of them. Fundamentally, all of these have been on a steady rise for more than 6 months with an almost imperceptible drop with the onset of Omicron. That in itself is revealing. People are coming to grips with the new reality of life with SARS-2 and it does not have to be awful and definatley not as deadly as it first appeared to be.
The biggest obstacle to a return to normal routines - COVID fear -  also has two sub-components: (1) The reaction of governments as defined by the  degree of restrictions to mobility and social interaction placed on their citizens to control the spread of SARS-CoV2 (China is without a doubt the worst, GB better), (2) Our capacity to rationally judge our real risk of exposure to SARS-CoV2 and the development of a serious, life threatening case of COVID. The reality is that it is low and as government agencies and, specific to our interests, cruise companies come to realize this and act on it, we'll start to see a return to operational normalcy. 
On January 27th, Boris Johnson, the PM of the UK, lifted all COVID restrictions. ALL OF THEM.  Of course, he is being assailed by his political opponents as being dangerously irresponsible. He is cheered by UK citizens and has the backing of the NHS - world renowned in providing good stuff wrt SARS-2 and C19. The net impact on UK citizens is that they are going to have to move from the government telling them what their risks are to making those kinds of decisions themselves.  Many countries are headed in that direction, Spain and Portugal are notable practitioners of that approach.
We're headed in the right direction. It's going to take time to recover from the fall-out of the Pandemic worsened by the media's constant fear narrative and government's, often inappropriately over- reacting to it. A lot of that movement is going to be changing people's minds about risks - never an easy undertaking. We'll get there. Meanwhile approach your cruise planning like you're going to cruise. Period. Final. Once you've done that go for it and let the chips fall where they may. That's not to say throw caution to the wind. Back-up plans these days are important and if you've formulated them you should cruise with confidence.

We ended up doing this already - were supposed to be on the 2nd sailing of Wonder over spring break. Initially I was really excited, but jumping through all the testing hoops and then getting on board with the possibility of limited Adventure Ocean, not being able to see shows, etc. We cancelled and are driving to the coast instead. We'll sail on Wonder in June and I hope things will be better by then.
We cruised with an open mind over Thanksgiving, but having our kids so restricted cramped our vacation too - couldn't even go have a few cocktails after dinner in the evening which was a bummer, and if we aren't going to have a reliable child care option, we'd rather know it going into the trip than be surprised.

Yes Yawn.
 
I look forward to the day where they no longer name Covid variants kind of in the same way we no longer name different variants or strains of flu. 
The flu vaccine is modified every year based on what scientist believe will be the most active strains of that virus. I look forward to the day when that happens to Covid which will continue to mutate.  Just modify the vaccine, make it available to the public and keep it moving while leaving the rest up to the individual to choose if they want to take it or not.  At this point there is no eradicating Covid, there is no need stopping the world every time a new variant pops up it is time to move forward.
 

Yawn indeed.
There's going to be variants. Lots of them. That's the nature of this type of virus.
We, as a society, need to stop be so hyper focused on every single one, especially with the prevalence of vaccines and effective treatments.

According to the vlogger, they are having difficulty getting materials needed to finish due to supply chain issues.