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Wear a mask, take a sip of drink than pull the mask up between sips. Same for dinjng

Leaving for Hawaii Thanksgiving day at 9:35AM. Do you get the health questionaire at 9:35AM 24 hours before the flight? How long after you fill out the questionaire do you get the QR code?.

We are fully vaccinated and looking forward to POA in November, if we have to have any kind of tests, it will be a game changer. The tests are frequently wrong and the last thing i want to worry about is testing. 100% vaccinated cruises there is no need. The selfish people who have no intention of getting the vax is causing the 95% vaccinated to suffer. My doctor says there is less than 2% of the population. Who cannot get the vaccine, the others are lying that they cant take it. They are ignorant about the vaccine. You cant cure stupid.the reason we are back into cruising is because we got the vaccine.

21 hours ago, All-ready2cruise said:

I'm still not sure if it will be adequate at the NCL terminal though.  To me, it still seems as though they could easily find it less than what is expected of their (US) Vaccine Card.  

No worries though,  I'm double jabbed with the pfizer (p fire), LOL.  I've also booked a hotel for the full 7 days of the cruise I've booked... cancellation is ok 2 days prior to the cruise date. 

 

I really want to cruise though.  

I have done the same for POA Hawaii 11/27/2021. We will be the first cruise after the shutdown. I have made all my hotel reservations with free cancellation. I dont want a land trip but future air is twice what i have paid, so it is Hawaii even if not by ship.

Done several 15 night Hawaii and is way too long to spend such a little time in Hawaii. I dont mind sea days but there are simply too many. I have 7 day Hawaii 11/27 and hopefully it will sail. If not it will be a land trip.

In case you dont know, POA's first cruise will be 11/27. Any cruises before are suspended. So disappointed, looks like i may be doing land trip instead of POA, damn!

2 hours ago, ClevelandCruisin said:

Are they still requiring covid tests on every island you visit? 

I know the testing between islands for vaccinated in Hawaii has been lifted but not for people from the mainland. When they openup for vaccinated from out of state then I am sure they will treat us the same. They have mentioned mid July but things change on a dime over there. 

16 minutes ago, GarlicBread said:

 

Why?

We are very close to herd immunity. Hawaii is at 56% vaccinated and when they reach 60% people on the mainland are going to be allowed to fly there without being tested, just showing they have been fully vaccinated. We could have been at herd all over the USA 2 months ago but the anti vaxxers are slowing the process down. People can be so ignorant. The people that wont or cant get the vax  still expect to cruise like normal. Be proud that you chose to be vaxed so that we can get back to what we love. Id get 10 vax if it helps not only me but also protect others.

5 hours ago, chefchick said:

 

Some of us do enjoy a good food that is better than MDR  Neither of us are large enough to block out the sun, your remarks sound snarky,  preachy and offensive.

Took 5 months the last time.

We always get the UDP and for 7 night we do Chops 3 times (1st, middle and last.) The others we sandwich in. We dont like the Chops breakfast. We book in advance and have our list of the dining and times we want, so the first thing we do when we get on ship is to find whoever is at their podium. Most of the time they are on the Promenade but have also seen then outside of Windjammer. We LOVE the UDP and just consider it part of our cruise.

11 hours ago, ReneeFLL said:

It doesn’t say if this is for each test or for all of them. I hope it’s for each, otherwise 178.00 really isn’t that much. 

• The per person cost for these antigen tests is $178 and will be applied to your onboard folio. 

According to the TA site, the cost is 139.00 pp. 278.00 for 2 people.

12 hours ago, pcur said:

Some day I hope you can come back to cruising.  Best wishes.

I'm fully vaccinated and have 2 cruises booked. I am referring to something  else.

I am always sad when these cruises get canceled for any reason. You are looking forward to something you love and the rug gets pulled out from under you. I am the same with my cruise, I have alternate plans should that happen to me. Chin up, in a month things could be different. I HATE COVID!!!

23 minutes ago, pcur said:

Obviously, and this is why I feel bad about them having such roadblocks in the way for cruising.

There are things that I loved to do and miss terribly, but my medical condition prevents it. I don't whine about it, I adjusted my life and continued on. The same with cruising, if you cant or wont take the vaccine, then you need to  find another type of vacation. The vast majority of cruisers want and got the vaccine, to continue to do something they love.

I really think the cruise lines blew it with what these beginnings would be like. When you were a baby did you go from lying down to walking? No you crawled. For the beginning of cruising they should have only had 100% vaccinated people instead of this 95% hair splitting. Then as cruising rolled out they could back up and be less strict.

5 minutes ago, harkinmr said:

I think they will "tag" people's cruise card for verification purposes and access to designated venues, but the cruise card does nothing to help monitor mask wearing generally on the ship.  There has to be an identifier of some sort for crew to be able to monitor compliance.

The easiest would be to have vaccinated wear wrist bands similar to what hospitals do. I do think that people with kids will not want to cruise because it will be like wearing a scarlet letter. I can assure you that there will be conflict with passengers especially when alcohol is involved. We are seeing that currently with airlines and more aggression.

1. CDC has noticed an uptick for Covid in children. The virus needs  a host to survive, the more people vaxed, the more the  unvaxed kids will be the bullseye. I do not want to cruise with kids, because eventually they will be the ones that will be the threat on a cruise.

It will look like class distinction. You will  see where they are sitting in the dining room and the shows. Frankly I would be embarrassed having to go to a separate area, maybe that is why they are doing it, to encourage people to get the vax. I think ultimately people who don't want the vax will cave if they want to cruise.   

RCL as well as other lines are sending a clear message, get the damn vaccine and get on with life. If you don't want or can't get the vaccine, I'm sorry, you will need to find some other vacation until and unless the rules go away. You would think the way people talk, that the vax is made from rabid dragon spit, or some other nonsense. Many states would have reached herd 2 months ago, but there has been a slowdown in requests for vaccines, in fact so much they are selling them to other countries. I just don't understand people. The vaccines WORK that is why we are talking about upcoming cruises that we are booked on, how do you think we got to this point?? Because we did what they wanted us to do. I applaud people for seeing this for what it is. It is due to our efforts that we are crawling back to normalcy.

1 hour ago, Jimbo said:

Chris, 

Post here what's going on?

 

Also did you get your Covid shot back in the UK or did you have to wait until you got to Florida?  

 

If so were you quarantined after getting the shot for 14 days, if you got it in Florida I assume you are still in quarantine.

 

How locked up is the ship now, everyone staying in their cabins?

 

Most likley he's not going to come on here and say anything, Royal probably told him to keep quiet......

 

But putting it out there if he wants to say something?

If he wants to keep his job, he will say nothing.

I hope they are not doing antigen tests. If positive they need to do the PCR to verify. I will not cruise on a ship that uses Antigen, it is too un reliable, some countries and also Hawaii will not accept them. The two on Celebrity had 2 positive antigen tests and then had 48 hour PCR and it was negative. I would not trust an antigen.

Not in the current situation. TSA is taking a lot longer to screen with social distancing, before Covid I would have said yes. Allow extra time or you could miss your flight. I wouldnt do a 10:45 but that is me.

I pray they dont do the antigen test. Hawaii is extremely strjct and does not accept the antigen test. The Antigen tests are not reliable.Those 2 Celebrity passengers were put through such anxiety for no reason. They both had 2 Antigen tests and both came back positive, then they did the 48 hour PCR which was negative. They never had a positive Covid result, the Antigen tests gave false positives. The media ran with it like we knew they would, but never updated that those passengers. Never had Covid to begin with.The cruiselines will use the antigen tests because they are cheap, if my Hawaii NCL cruise in November requires the Antigen test i will cancel, no way would i be worried about quarantine if that unreliable test was given and showed positive. 

18 hours ago, Catnip said:

 

I have not seen this reported yet, maybe I missed it.  Can you provide valid links?

The only thing that I read came from a passenger that was a TA. She stated the two people both had 2 positive ANTIGEN tests but the 48 hour PCR test was negative. That is why Hawaii will not accept Antigen test, only PCR and IDNOW. If the antigen is the test that they will give onboard for end of cruise i will cancel in a heartbeat, they are way too unreliable.  Those two passengers went through all that anxiety for nothing.