drusierdmd

I'm on the explorer now.  What's ridiculous is they cram 50 of us on tour bus for 30m...clearly adults traveling by themselves as well.  The windows were all shut, no fresh air ventilation.  Then they passed around a clip board for everyone to sign their name or stateroom!  On the wide open beach we were all assigned to small section and had to pay for umbrellas. We sat 5 feet away from fellow cruisers, 4 rows deep from the water.   I get the times were are living in but this is a bunch of this is medical theater...and I'm a boosted doctor.  

I'm on the explorer right now.  I was told...unless you book a RCCL excursion (and show proof) adventure Ocean time is limited to certain blocks. Imagine the morning group having to pickup by noon...afternoon drop off pick up by 5pm and so on.  The only way to combine blocks was. RcCL tour.  

35 minutes ago, njhorseman said:

If you don't mind someone else answering, either a PCR or antigen test is acceptable for your unvaccinated 6 yo.

Here's the official information from Puerto Rico's government:

https://www.travelsafe.pr.gov/

All persons entering Puerto Rico must:

Complete a Travel Declaration

Click here to complete your Online Travel Declaration Form.

Travel Safe

 

and

Everyone over 2 years old who is not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Moderna, Pfizer or Janssen vaccines, must provide evidence of a negative molecular or antigen test for COVID-19 performed within the 72-hour period prior to your arrival to Puerto Rico.

 

Thank you.  I see that as well.  However I also see this when I move through the travel safe form.  Basically a one point it says either are fine...then when start working the form it says only pcr...more info here

Thank you for being so helpful here.  I am cruising nov 20th with 2 fully vaxxed parents and 1 unvaxxed 6yo.  We are flying in and I understand there is a travel declaration.   What type of test is required for my 6yo? Some places say antigen is fine...other say pcr is required.  Obviously I'll rely on official government travel info but what have you seen?  Thanks.

23 minutes ago, mack44 said:

From the Travel Safe (pr.gov) site, it states "Everyone over 2 years old who is not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Moderna, Pfizer or Janssen vaccines, must provide evidence of a negative molecular or antigen test for COVID-19 performed within the 72-hour period prior to your arrival to Puerto Rico."

 

Royal Getting Ready to Cruise site also states:

• Unvaccinated kids age 2 to 11 must show a negative result for a PCR or antigen test taken within 72 hours prior to arriving at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan.

NOTICE: Any passenger arriving without a PCR test result for COVID-19 will be assessed a $300 fine. However, this will be waived if the traveler presents the test or evidence that a test was performed within 48 hours of arrival. This applies to all travelers over 2 years old who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Pfizer, Moderna or Janssen vaccines.

Fyi: anyone unvaccinated (including my 6yo daughter) will be required to have a PCR test ONLY, within 72h, to enter PR.  This is a new requirement set forth by their department of health.  

2 minutes ago, AustinCruise said:

I’m pretty sure the 6yo will need a negative antigen or PCR within 3 days, but not on the day of travel. And then another test by Royal at boarding. 
 

this is my November sailing. 
 

 

Right, thank you.  

I'm booked for the 21st explorer.  If it wasn't for the rate (about 2k for 2 adults and one child 6yo in a balcony with prepaid tips) I would cancel.  I was actually looking forward to the freedom amplified upgrades.  I was prepared for the possibility of RCI excursions only and booked all a few weeks ago.  I was disappointed to see no maho beach with "kids" aka unvaxxed...but every other beach is okay apparently.  I probably spent more on excursions than the fare.  

That said....tell me if I've got this right: 

 -Adults will need antigen telehealth tests 48h prior. 

-6yo will need in person antigen 48hr prior AND will be tested for free at the port during embarkation. 

-Towards the end of the cruise all 3 of us will receive rapids before we disembark.  

I'm fully vaxxed and just got my Moderna booster today.  

Ovation may 13th. Hubbard, tracey. Samsung s10+ pics, it will be a few days before I process my a6000 shots.

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And day 2 we did the Mt Rainier tour with tours northwest. We had terrible weather but that's okay bc of how blessed we where during our cruise. It's a long tour, about 10hrs and pick up was at 6:50am! But overall we enjoyed it.

I'll process my Sony a6000 shots later and update if I have anything noteworthy.


We are home safe and sound as well. It was a pleasure sailing with this group.

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And for anyone interested in Seattle pre or post...we stayed at the pan Pacific Seattle, it was a beautiful hotel. My only minor not picks are the door slammed shut so we heard our neighbors come and go and the therostat was off by about 10 degrees. On the plus side, they provided complementary Uber or house car (within 2 miles). They picked us up for free and called about 4 Ubers for us the first day back. We went to pikes market, gum wall, Ferris wheel (all just a walk in one location) and ubered to the space needle.

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Maybe I read it wrong on the earlier pages of this thread but I thought earlier in the cruise you asked for and got your money back at GS for "The Key "which you said wasn't much use to you and your family on this sailing? Did you still eat the "The Key" breakfast when debarking this morning?

Key breakfast. Icon deck 4.

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We got company.

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Got Verizon 3g back at this location.

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Just ask you room steward for another set of bed blankets. We sailed with our 3yo who slept on the pullout and I used her bedding multiple time to take naps on the balcony. Shhhh don't tell.

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Thank you so much for taking the time to post this. I’ve read every word of it! A question, is there an “indoor” pool on Ovation’s Alaska cruise in the Solarium where kids can swim or is the entire Solarium adults-only? And if so is the outdoor pool the only one for kiddos? Many many thanks again. 

Kids were allowed everywhere but the solarium...including hot tubs.

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No Key signage in IFly, however follow what Biker and Drusierdmd said in. Previous posts... you get to go at a specified time that you do not get to choose (so might be 8am or 7pm, whatever the decide to be able to fit you in) and you’ll also have a reservation via Royal IQ app

Not exactly. You get to make 2 reservation for ifly. One 60s flight each. Pisses me off to see groups of 2 or 3 doing ifly or the staff playing around in the tunnel by themselves..not a demo.

Flowrider and rockwall had 1hr key only reserved slots...during port hours. I just got done with the flowrider..pick you time to go based on the cam footage on your cabin tv....it was me and one other guy, until we got tired and left it vacant.

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Are there any other Key benefits on this sailing like front of the line on the bumper cars?

My girl loved her ifly. Unfortunately they disallowed multiple flights. 1 regular, 1 key. Flying standby, even when they had space or cancellations, was impossible.

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In October of last year I did i-fly early in the cruise booked through the cruise planner.  Instructor told us as a group we could reserve it again but  it but had to wait until the last 2 or 3 days of the cruise and if space was available we could do it.  I went down early in the AM on the day they told us to come back and got my second reservation.  I loved it so much we picked Anthem again for a cruise this year.  We were on an October cruise and not too many kids were on board.  It all depends on the demand for it.

I miss glaciers

Use Google maps or ask the Jeep people where popcorn factory is...they pointed us there ( 2 blocks). We stopped at the dog sled/gold pan/museum in carcross they had snacks/ice cream. Emerald lake is less than 5 min past carcross and was our turn around point. There is one road you can't get lost. Green Jeep provided a photo tour booklet with mile markers and pics so you know where you are. Use Google maps to download the area for offline use if you are worried. Oh and carcross has 4g too.

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Sunset from starboard balcony cell phone pics. A little heavy on the "enhancements" but we don't get em like this back home.

The top tier event (above gold) was cool. It was in 270 and they demoed the projectors and robot screen...pretty cool.

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On ovation they seem to more "strict". One normal reservation, one additional for key holders. I'll try for a third tomorrow...wish me luck.

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Beautiful scenery this morning. Caution to future visitors. We were told 7am to 12 at the glacier. We spent maybe an hour or less at our closest approach. It's a narrow channel filled with ice and we made 5kts or less coming and going.

Protip: if trying to get a window table at the jammer, pick the side away from the glacier...it's less of a fight and the boat will rotate into view shortly.

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