Censored Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 CHECK YOUR LOCAL NEWS CHANNEL Tanner and Vancity Cruiser 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJsMrs Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/feds-to-eliminate-pre-arrival-pcr-testing-for-fully-vaccinated-canadian-travellers-source-says-1.5778453 There is nothing online to substantiate this..... yet. Should be next week though!!! Vancity Cruiser 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 You still need an antigen test though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Censored Posted February 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 13 hours ago, smokeybandit said: You still need an antigen test though words not out completely. If you are fully vaxxed, you get a pass is the way I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Censored Posted February 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 13 hours ago, smokeybandit said: You still need an antigen test though https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/feds-to-eliminate-pre-arrival-pcr-testing-for-fully-vaccinated-canadian-travellers-source-says-1.5778453 You may be right... Antigen is far less expensive . $210 for pcr at the Port terminal in Bayonne! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recogneyes Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Eddy said: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/feds-to-eliminate-pre-arrival-pcr-testing-for-fully-vaccinated-canadian-travellers-source-says-1.5778453 You may be right... Antigen is far less expensive . $210 for pcr at the Port terminal in Bayonne! This is terrific news in time for March Break. Did you happen to notice if the Port Terminal in Bayonne is offering antigen tests and if so the price and turnaround time? If they are not offering, then there is testing at most of the bridges. Just trying to plan in advance. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiseGus Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 Looking to be great news for our good friends to the North WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Censored Posted February 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 40 minutes ago, recogneyes said: This is terrific news in time for March Break. Did you happen to notice if the Port Terminal in Bayonne is offering antigen tests and if so the price and turnaround time? If they are not offering, then there is testing at most of the bridges. Just trying to plan in advance. Thanks! Im looking. We will drive to Niagara Falls .Might try a local Walgreens or CVS pharmacy. Might take a hotel night stay at Seneca Niagara resort if worse comes to worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 The article focuses on Canadian citizens/residents. Any word if this will apply to all entering Canada? It sure would make things easier for our June cruise out of Vancouver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovetocruise2002 Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 34 minutes ago, smokeybandit said: The article focuses on Canadian citizens/residents. Any word if this will apply to all entering Canada? It sure would make things easier for our June cruise out of Vancouver We should find out this coming week.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YellowBrickRoad Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 1 hour ago, recogneyes said: This is terrific news in time for March Break. Did you happen to notice if the Port Terminal in Bayonne is offering antigen tests and if so the price and turnaround time? If they are not offering, then there is testing at most of the bridges. Just trying to plan in advance. Thanks! I emailed the port we have appointments for to find out if they do Antigen tests. We were doing the rapid PCR there as another option if needed it. If not, I’ll do a local Walgreens/CVS there or on our ride back to Toronto. I’m also going to see if we can do the Abbott Antigen test that I would purchase from the USA side and use ….. if applicable. We will see how the antigen works for flying and driving when the news comes out next week. May also change by the time our Mid March cruise sails. The news kept saying “likely” antigen so let’s see what that actually means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recogneyes Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 9 minutes ago, YellowBrickRoad said: I emailed the port we have appointments for to find out if they do Antigen tests. We were doing the rapid PCR there as another option if needed it. If not, I’ll do a local Walgreens/CVS there or on our ride back to Toronto. I’m also going to see if we can do the Abbott Antigen test that I would purchase from the USA side and use ….. if applicable. We will see how the antigen works for flying and driving when the news comes out next week. May also change by the time our Mid March cruise sails. The news kept saying “likely” antigen so let’s see what that actually means. Oh I'm so hoping that the antigen tests aren't even required. If they will allow the Abbott tests then the Switch Health antigen tests should be allowed as well. We could order those before we leave Canada. Both proctored so should be no difference - plus the SH ones are Health Canada approved. It is $65 to receive an antigen test near the border but those are 15 minute results. Obviously if Walgreens or CVS can guarantee rapid results free then that's a great option too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovetocruise2002 Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 I am still crossing my fingers for Canada to follow the US...Antigen when arriving by air, attest to vax status at the land border. That would be best case scenario. All others lead to still having to be extra cautious on board so that we don't end up testing positive at the end. That's such a downer lol YellowBrickRoad, Rene Desmarais and cruiserccl 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 Some western countries are starting to ditch entry testing. I can't see Canada (or the USA) doing that right now, but it's coming WAAAYTOOO and Rene Desmarais 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recogneyes Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 28 minutes ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: I am still crossing my fingers for Canada to follow the US...Antigen when arriving by air, attest to vax status at the land border. That would be best case scenario. All others lead to still having to be extra cautious on board so that we don't end up testing positive at the end. That's such a downer lol Exactly - I think this is the best we can hope for! Lovetocruise2002 and cruiserccl 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancity Cruiser Posted February 12, 2022 Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 I’m curious if any Canadians who returned to Canada after cruising in the last few months have NOT been ‘randomly’ selected for additional testing. It’s happened to me both times and everyone I know who has cruised has been ‘randomly’ selected for additional testing upon arrival. WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recogneyes Posted February 13, 2022 Report Share Posted February 13, 2022 5 hours ago, Vancity Cruiser said: I’m curious if any Canadians who returned to Canada after cruising in the last few months have NOT been ‘randomly’ selected for additional testing. It’s happened to me both times and everyone I know who has cruised has been ‘randomly’ selected for additional testing upon arrival. We travelled from Miami back to Toronto in January. Received our PCR tests at 9:30AM at the pier and everyone on our flight had to then line up at Pearson and take another PCR test. With the lack of testing and resources for people who are actually sick we could not believe that the government was wasting so much time and resources to test us all again. Obviously there were lots of people on our flight who had not taken a cruise - they were just testing everyone. Vancity Cruiser 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marlena Posted February 13, 2022 Report Share Posted February 13, 2022 18 hours ago, Vancity Cruiser said: I’m curious if any Canadians who returned to Canada after cruising in the last few months have NOT been ‘randomly’ selected for additional testing. It’s happened to me both times and everyone I know who has cruised has been ‘randomly’ selected for additional testing upon arrival. We were a group of 4 and I was the only one tested in dec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovetocruise2002 Posted February 13, 2022 Report Share Posted February 13, 2022 21 hours ago, Vancity Cruiser said: I’m curious if any Canadians who returned to Canada after cruising in the last few months have NOT been ‘randomly’ selected for additional testing. It’s happened to me both times and everyone I know who has cruised has been ‘randomly’ selected for additional testing upon arrival. Quite the opposite for us. We have taken two trips across the border since the US opened back up the land border early November. Mid-November we went to NYC (not cruise related), drove to DTW and flew from there. On return, at the land border, Hubby and one daughter were "randomly selected" for take home PCR. They gave us Switch Health kits and told them to complete within 24 hours. The following month, we sailed Allure and again flew DTW-FLL and drove back across the land border to return home. No kids with us on that one and the border agent let us both go on our way, no random testing at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiserccl Posted February 13, 2022 Report Share Posted February 13, 2022 21 hours ago, Vancity Cruiser said: I’m curious if any Canadians who returned to Canada after cruising in the last few months have NOT been ‘randomly’ selected for additional testing. It’s happened to me both times and everyone I know who has cruised has been ‘randomly’ selected for additional testing upon arrival. When we crossed the land border on Dec 31st (day we disembarked), we got our PCR tests on 30th on the Anthem. And I was randomly selected while the rest of my family was not. But he said I didn't have to quarantine while waiting for my results. I did anyway. Unfortunately, because I did it on Friday, the rep said that I can either wait to get it picked up on Tuesday or drop it off. So we just dropped it off. To be honest, I was sure it would be lost...but I got the negative result on Tuesday. 3 hours ago, Marlena said: We were a group of 4 and I was the only one tested in dec. Same as me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 Anything formally announced on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJsMrs Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 @smokeybanditAnnouncement will be coming this week... I'm certain there will be lots activity herein when it's announced. I'd bet on something mid-week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovetocruise2002 Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 24 minutes ago, DJsMrs said: @smokeybanditAnnouncement will be coming this week... I'm certain there will be lots activity herein when it's announced. I'd bet on something mid-week. Or maybe Friday. Feds like their Friday announcements I've noticed..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJsMrs Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 6 minutes ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: Or maybe Friday. Feds like their Friday announcements I've noticed..... True Story... keeping my fingers crossed. They're a little busy dealing with the border issues, so that would also lend itself to a Friday announcement. cruisellama and Lovetocruise2002 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YellowBrickRoad Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 5 hours ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: Or maybe Friday. Feds like their Friday announcements I've noticed..... Just made my Shoppers appointments for our March Cruise Antigen Tests and now waiting what type of Antigen we can use on the way back …… WannaCruise and Lovetocruise2002 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 Good article about how anxious the Canadian travel industry is to get rid of all the border restrictions. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/travel-vacation-bookings-covid-1.6351578 YellowBrickRoad and WAAAYTOOO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YellowBrickRoad Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 9 hours ago, smokeybandit said: Good article about how anxious the Canadian travel industry is to get rid of all the border restrictions. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/travel-vacation-bookings-covid-1.6351578 9 hours ago, smokeybandit said: Good article about how anxious the Canadian travel industry is to get rid of all the border restrictions. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/travel-vacation-bookings-covid-1.6351578 Good article. We should here soon with the new changes. Likely on Friday. WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WannaCruise Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 Looks like border announcement is today at 1pm https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/02/15/covid-19-border-restrictions/ WAAAYTOOO and Rene Desmarais 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 Border restrictions easing AND the Ambassador bridge reopens in the same week - sounds like Christmas in February for @Lovetocruise2002 Rene Desmarais, WAAAYTOOO, YellowBrickRoad and 2 others 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovetocruise2002 Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 2 hours ago, twangster said: Border restrictions easing AND the Ambassador bridge reopens in the same week - sounds like Christmas in February for @Lovetocruise2002 I am not too excited if we still need an antigen test. Other than cost, it doesn't really help much. cruiserccl and MamaShark 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recogneyes Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 7 minutes ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: I am not too excited if we still need an antigen test. Other than cost, it doesn't really help much. I hear you - I was so hoping that fully vaxxed could drive back across border without negative test. No mention of potential fine with positive test being removed. Reference was made to telehealth tests being allowed to enter Canada so I assume the switch health antigen tests should at least be allowed. cruiserccl, YellowBrickRoad and Lovetocruise2002 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJsMrs Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 DONE!!! End of the month no m ore PCR tests needed. Insert happy dance here https://globalnews.ca/news/8619015/new-border-rules-covid/ Rene Desmarais 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 You still need an antigen test within 24 hours and still can be subject to random PCR testing upon arrival. But no quarantine required. YellowBrickRoad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/pcr-test-arrival-travel-drop-1.6350469 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 Did you all hear that? It was the sound of @Lovetocruise2002 slamming her credit card down to book more cruises Lovetocruise2002, WAAAYTOOO, BeachGal and 4 others 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rene Desmarais Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 https://globalnews.ca/news/8619015/new-border-rules-covid/ via this link Quote: When it comes to travelling on cruise ships, the government also says they will have a plan. “I can assure you that we will have more to say very soon about how testing for cruise ship travellers arriving at Canadian ports in time for cruise ship season this spring,” Alghabra said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YellowBrickRoad Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 8 minutes ago, Matt said: Did you all hear that? It was the sound of @Lovetocruise2002 slamming her credit card down to book more cruises Just purchased our deluxe drink package with the money we will be saving from our PCR tests…. Rene Desmarais, Cruiser4Life, Jen W and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recogneyes Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 5 minutes ago, Rene Desmarais said: https://globalnews.ca/news/8619015/new-border-rules-covid/ via this link Quote: When it comes to travelling on cruise ships, the government also says they will have a plan. “I can assure you that we will have more to say very soon about how testing for cruise ship travellers arriving at Canadian ports in time for cruise ship season this spring,” Alghabra said. I'm taking that to mean Alaska cruising season ...... at least I hope that's what it means!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 8 minutes ago, Rene Desmarais said: https://globalnews.ca/news/8619015/new-border-rules-covid/ via this link Quote: When it comes to travelling on cruise ships, the government also says they will have a plan. “I can assure you that we will have more to say very soon about how testing for cruise ship travellers arriving at Canadian ports in time for cruise ship season this spring,” Alghabra said. That's concerning. Are they going to make cruise ship passengers test again to visit a port? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Van Niekerk Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 This is pretty good news. Means a much less expensive test for return home. 46 days and counting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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