Jangerie

Question: If you contract Covid on a HAL ship are antivirals provided and if so at what cost???

Sadly the new terminal has been built in a difficult area for public transport, but useable for large ships. Can only suggest you go on Translink journey planner site and look at options. There may be a shuttle available on the day??? Taxis will be there but make sure they use their metres.  

Thank you for all the replies, my question has been answered, so for the most part this thread is complete. It is sad to see any business go belly up and staff lose their income. In these difficult times we are prepared to share the pain, but it would have been a simple matter to have generated an auto response that explained their situation. We remain grateful every morning we wake up and for the food on our table, so very many are not this fortunate.

Has anyone been able to contact Saga Travel GeoIceland? When our cruise was cancelled I contacted all of our private excursion providers. Those in Norway were fantastic and provided refunds in a timely manner. Saga replied that it would take 3-4 weeks, but never arrived. Now e-mails to them bounce back. The amount involved is significant. Will now try to take the credit card path. This is the first time in 15 years that private suppliers have let us down, but there again these are strange and difficult times.

Take care to look at each countries exclusions before considering offers

https://www.seatrade-cruise.com/news/australian-border-force-extends-cruise-ship-ban

Australian ban extended until September 17. Would not be surprised if this is extended yet again if there is no vaccine

Australian ports closed to cruise ship up to September 17. Lets see what happens after this date??

SCTI refunded my premium and waved the cancellation fee. Regardless, what use is paying extra for cancellation for any reason if there are reasons to not cover you, it's a bit like the fire insurance that did not cover melting during the last bush fire season. It will be good to know who were the best performers when this crisis is over. So keep adding to this forum with your +ives and -ives. For my part SCTI gets 2 stars on a 5 star scale for refunding the premium. 

Ops sorry we only had an extended morning at the site, far too little to do it justice.

Did this trip about five years ago. DW has walking difficulties and could not keep up with guide so we took our time but missed out on the guides talk. Only made it to the treasury, where she rested, while I went on. She was very slow on the way back due to the slope, missed lunch. On time, but last ones to the bus. Donkey carts were crazy, wanted to get in max trips up and down. Some in our excursion ended up with sore backs. There may be better transport down now??

We were in Rio last year and had the same problem, so hired a private guide with a driver for the day. We were picked up from the dock, and delivered to the airport. Very good day of touring, a lot cheaper than the ship tours, but that's not hard. Guide took us to various places after being dropped off by the driver. While he stayed with our luggage in the car.

Thanks nice changes, information much appreciated. Does anyone have photos of changes to cabins?