Franky G

We’ve actually just pre-booked appointments with Fast Test Now. No geoblocked site, which is awesome. 
Best of all, their Orlando site is in walking distance to our hotel. 

Thanks a lot for the great info @Mike.s!

12 hours ago, JeffB said:

You're past the time frame needed to order and receive monitored self tests (eMed or Optum, BinaxNow, among others) for boarding purposes. I assume you will have the required Antigen test to enter the US.

Options in order of overall ease and decreasing stress levels for getting the testing you need is (1) a Rapid Antigen Test taken in the Miami Airport. You'll get the necessary had copy test results in hand before you leave. Just insure the timing is right and it may not be since you report that you are arriving on a Friday and have to clear boarding protocols on Sunday.

So, if your flight arrives at 1030h on Friday, your test is resulted at 11:30 and you are scheduled to board Allure at 1130 on Sunday (48h later) if you board after that, your test has been resulted more than 48h before boarding - won't work.

Just watch that and adjust accordingly. No appointments are needed for in-airport testing but if you can make one, I'd do that (head of the line if there is one) and (2) A local Walgreens or CVS Pharmacy. I looked this up for someone else asking a similar question and I recommended using a Walgreens that has a University of Miami Health Care System clinic inside. You can schedule your test in advance by actually talking to a real person instead of the hated bots and do all your registration on line in advance. The downside of a CVS or Walgreens is that you have to Uber/Lyft from your hotel and back. If that pharmacy is close to where you are staying drivers don't like short trips and will pass on it - it can be hard on Fridays. Saturdays, less hard. 

Good luck. Don't stress, it's not going to be hard to get what you need.

I read somewhere that CVS, Walgreens etc. are testing US residents only. So a foreigner like myself won’t be able to test there. 
Is this not the case?

So I’ve recently cancelled two excursions for an upcoming cruise. 

Does anyone know how long it usually takes to actually receive the refund?

Almost two weeks now but nothing came back so far. 

Yup MCO seems to be the best bet. From the research I’ve done it should have the most available times and least cost.
But you can only book an appointment when you’re physically in the US, the site is geo-blocked. 
We‘re coming in from Germany and can only try to book this once we arrive in the States. 

7 hours ago, Pattycruise said:

get your price adjusted if it's lower than what you paid!  If you are inside of final payment they will give you on board credit (OBC)

That’s what I did and received $110 OBC. Plus I repriced an excursion and paid that with my previous OBC. All in all a saving of app. $210. Well worth doublechecking your bookings. 

We’re booked on Symphony on Feb 26 and until yesterday all cabin categories were fully booked (assuming capacity restrictions) except suites. 
As of today all categories have opened up again, at slightly lower prices. 
Does this mean they added capacity again (due to CSO being lifted) or because of (mass) cancellations? What do you guys think?