Host Carolyn

In April when they said our spike would be mid June everyone scoffed at it. Now we have had huge spike 2 weeks after Memorial Day, highest number in hospital etc.We are in phase 2, have had protests for 10 days and nights. Many wore masks but in general, especially outside metro areas, people ignore all health department suggestions  and do their thun. Hate to think of what numbers will be later this month. 

Back on topic please......protesters and politics have nothing to do with Carnival

There are a variety of reasons why a port can get changed as you are aware. Booking a cruise based solely on one port of call is taking a chance. Is it a tender port, no one knows what situation with corona will be, etc. Just something to consider before final payment.....p

Cruise Critic guidelines do not allow members to recommend or post contact information for travel agents, personal vacation planners etc. They also do not allow one to ask members to email them for contact information.

Hope this clarifies this for you..

Host Carolyn

Are you looking at Carnival or private tours? Especially from Cozumel with ferry involved and distance I would really check out private tour operator folks because you need to ensure they get you back in time.....And also post on the Cozumel and Progreso ports of call boards to hopefully get some first hand recommendations.

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/456-caribbean/

Requiring a vaccine to sail is the topic!!

thank you

2 hours ago, topfuelfan said:

Just venting about our Carnival Cruise plan with a bit of a rant , 

No communications with us about our planned August 2020 cruise to Aruba on the Magic.

The only info is found on twitter.  My guess is 99% of people don't use twitter or know what it is for that matter.

I would guess our planned cruise will not be anything like what we signed up for a year ago if it even sails.  Cruise ports closed ,  Loungers all missing, No shows or terrible ones slapped together, this that and the other shut down or extremely limited. Read NO FUN ALLOWED ! What are we supposed to think?  Would YOU go ??

As we near the 90 days out mark I'm not felling it.  Good-bye summer cruise to Aruba. 

Welcome to cruise critic and the crazy world of cruising and Covid.

This particular thread was sent up as a place where people can talk about what's happening in their hometown, with their family etc, more infected non-cruise -related discussions

If you will start a new topic on the Carnival board called something like "August 2020 on the Magic"  you will be able to get more input and perhaps find others in the same situation in early August. 

Host Carolyn

They just had first case of covid-19 this weekend despite lockdown which had just been eased. Lock down again. Island may not open for cruise ships till late fall. My son has home there, no idea when they can go back, were hoping July but now doubt it

I saw this. It's awful.. More than anyone should have to bear at one time. 

Our cases are spiking just as we are "opening up" gradually but people  are out everywhere doing their thing and no masks etc. 

This has gone so far off topic, again debating stats from different sources. As we all know you can get a different set of stats pretty much site for site depending on what you want to hear. The status of states with homeports will affect cruise departures but arguing and debating statistics is not Carnival related. 

So if we can stay on topic re how social distancing on a cruise will affect cruising on Carnival, will leave for those who have an expressed an interest in discussing that topic.  

4 hours ago, skridge said:

My wife works for a hospital in NC and hospitalization has steadily increases and is still increasing.

But testing is up a lot too. At the daily press briefing they stress how many more tests are being done.....and then there's the Tyson plant with 555 cases

57 minutes ago, jimbo5544 said:

There are hot spots, and the evolution will continue but that said, N.Y. down, ma down, nj down, ct down, tx, down, fl down, pa down, me down, etc etc 

 North Carolina where I live and several other states going up. Our numbers here have trended up at higher rate last 10 days than at any time so far

Here is a link to the roll calls for the Carnival Magic. If your date isn't listed you can create one here as well

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/491-carnival-magic-roll-calls/

Mardi Gras...1988, I think with a friend from work. 3 nights from Miami to Nassau. I loved the ocean liners!

18 minutes ago, Butterbean1000 said:

This is small, sorry.

Butterbean, is this the letter you are referring to??? A letter linked in another post looks like same info?? I don't want to clean it up till I know it this is the right one since one post says "wrong letter"??

1 hour ago, sparks1093 said:

This thread 

seems to have a lot of people posting the status of their refunds rather than just complaining about it (although at the beginning there was probably a fair amount of that going on). I'd start at the end and work backwards looking for refund info. 

     This above thread has numerous smaller threads merged into it. I go through regularly to try to merge general threads on refunds into this as well as merging questions re FCC and OBC into that larger thread. Try to strike a balance between merging general topics but leaving some with more specific questions and situations. Can't please all the people all of the time so try for a simple majority part of the time. 

    Been hosting here since late 1990s and this has always been challenging keeping threads sorted out!

1 hour ago, jimbo5544 said:

Turks and Jamaica have announced plans to open May 15 and June 1 respectively at least for land travel according the the BDM from Sandals.

My son lives there and can't go back to Roatan till probably mid summer...they were here when everything began shutting down. Will have to be tested here then quarantine there. But no cases there so it's worked so far, some cases on mainland

As of the middle of.last week Roatan had no cases! On very tight lockdown. Some cases  on mainland though. Western Caribbean itineraries will be "interesting". 

Tell us what ship too please!! 

You also have to take itineraries as a sort of mystery cruise at this point as Roatan and many other islands have not yet decided when cruise ships can return and restrictions such as masks, temp checks etc they will require. So what itinerary is listed now is really tentative except private islands

Link above to discussion on NCL board

If you want to discuss Carnival stock:

Beautiful pictures! 

Be glad you went when you did! May be next year before any ships call in Roatan. On complete lockdown and even property owners off island probably won't go back till late summer

 This isn't specifically Carnival related but I hope you will comment on the Carnival excursions that you do pay for as well as others.

During this weird time of no cruises, I'm trying to strike a balance between Carnival related threads and those that just relate to cruising where we can hopefully have good discussions without any politics or disparaging remarks ----in another words just hanging out as if we were on the ship sitting around the bar with a couple of drinks talking about what we like to do in different ports

No problem......definitely subject to interpretation. 😁