Carnival to announce Sept and Oct sailings tomorrow (7/13)

[firefly333]

4 hours ago, embarkation75 said:

It sure looks like Carnival is restarting most of the 6+ day cruises before digging too far into the 2-5 day market at a later date. Money is one reason but I also suspect they know the shorter cruises is where more families with kids under 12 cruise that are ineligible for vaccination until later this fall/winter. I'm sure Carnival figures it is not worth the pain on families to have to rebook as just wait on most of the 2-5 day cruises until this winter.

Breeze is leaving I read their CD say. It only does 4 or 5 days. So there goes that theory. Lol

 

I'm doing a b2b on breeze. I have a friend leaving Thursday on breeze. I think he said a 5 day.

 

There were tons of solo deals from florida and texas for short cruises coming up. Couldnt resist the prices. 

[IntrepidFromDC]

3 minutes ago, silversneakers said:

I don't know if they have yet figured out how they will handle quarantine issues onboard if a vaccinated person tests positive. I certainly would not want to be in quarantine because I may have been exposed to the positive person (even though the symptoms may be mild or not).  I do know of a family that were vaccinated (not on a cruise) and all have tested positive with symptoms mild to severe. Still an unknown and may be unknown because of the new variants and how they react to the vaccine.  We will just have to wait and see but I'm sure it is still a big unknown with the cruise industry.

Did you see the livestream from the woman who was booted off RC for testing positive on the ship?  Some wore hazmat suits, sealed everything off and disinfected everything behind her as they wheeled her off the ship and to the waiting ambulance.  She was very upset, no symptoms.  I was glad to watch it so I know what to expect if that happens to me.

[cruisingguy007]

7 minutes ago, IntrepidFromDC said:

Did you see the livestream from the woman who was booted off RC for testing positive on the ship?  Some wore hazmat suits, sealed everything off and disinfected everything behind her as they wheeled her off the ship and to the waiting ambulance.  She was very upset, no symptoms.  I was glad to watch it so I know what to expect if that happens to me.

 

It got deleted. Supposedly there was some misinformation making rounds about that whole thing as well. That NY attitude was unmistakable though..lol

[wemjam]

13 minutes ago, silversneakers said:

I don't know if they have yet figured out how they will handle quarantine issues onboard if a vaccinated person tests positive. I certainly would not want to be in quarantine because I may have been exposed to the positive person (even though the symptoms may be mild or not).  I do know of a family that were vaccinated (not on a cruise) and all have tested positive with symptoms mild to severe. Still an unknown and may be unknown because of the new variants and how they react to the vaccine.  We will just have to wait and see but I'm sure it is still a big unknown with the cruise industry.

I assure you THEY know and have figured out how they will handle quarantine issues.  This is a 100% MUST in order to be cruising again.  They simply are not posting or spelling it out to those of us who are going on board.  Just be prepared, basically, it comes down to being in a full quarantine situation and being escorted off the ship whatever port you may be in and having to deal with coming home from there with appropriate quarantine procedures followed before/during doing so.

 

All the more reason I am buying insurance for my cruises this year for sure - never have before, but I am NOW!

[Lee Cruiser]

30 minutes ago, naxer said:

Maybe not today after all?

Certainly looks that way. Maybe the cruise director list is all they are releasing today. Doesn't go along with her quote though. 

[tiffy0428]

21 hours ago, bobbismith said:

If kids can go to school, let them cruise!

exactly and you don’t need a vaccination to go to school. i’m a teacher and no student in my class is vaccinated. leave these babies alone 

[TomAndJane]

Well I guess no announcement today.  

[firefly333]

37 minutes ago, tiffy0428 said:

exactly and you don’t need a vaccination to go to school. i’m a teacher and no student in my class is vaccinated. leave these babies alone 

Well if you get a chance tell the cdc that and to get rid of the 95% 

 

If carnival sails at less than 95% then you wind up in the mess like rcl and wearing masks onboard. No thanks. And I love kids.. it's the cdc not me,

[embarkation75]

2 hours ago, firefly333 said:

Breeze is leaving I read their CD say. It only does 4 or 5 days. So there goes that theory. Lol

 

I'm doing a b2b on breeze. I have a friend leaving Thursday on breeze. I think he said a 5 day.

 

There were tons of solo deals from florida and texas for short cruises coming up. Couldnt resist the prices. 

First, I didn't say all, but rather most although yes when looking at scheduled sailings by mid September, the Breeze, Magic, and Sunrise are the exception. However, the 6+ days cruises are dominant as just look at what Carnival has open for booking 6+ days by mid September...

 

Dream

Glory

Horizon

Mardi Gras

Miracle (flips to shorter cruises by Oct)

Panorama 

Pride

Vista

 

This leaves the following 2-5 day ships not sailing until the fall/winter...

 

Conquest

Ecstasy

Elation

Liberty 

Paradise

Radiance

Sensation 

Sunshine

Valor

 

In contrast this is what is left for 6+ days after September...

 

Freedom

Legend

 

Essentially Carnival is doing MOST of the 6+ day cruises first while MOST of the 2-5 day cruises will be toward the last.

Edited July 13, 2021 by embarkation75

[jsglow]

6 hours ago, embarkation75 said:

It sure looks like Carnival is restarting most of the 6+ day cruises before digging too far into the 2-5 day market at a later date. Money is one reason but I also suspect they know the shorter cruises is where more families with kids under 12 cruise that are ineligible for vaccination until later this fall/winter. I'm sure Carnival figures it is not worth the pain on families to have to rebook as just wait on most of the 2-5 day cruises until this winter.

Not really.  From each of Miami, Port Canaveral and Galveston they expect to operate 2 ships each, a long (6-8 day) duration and a short (4-5 day) duration.  Now it IS true that in each city the longer duration ship is starting (or already has started) first.  But each of the 3 'restart ports' will have their short boat operating within about 3-4 weeks from now.

 

It'll be interesting to see the September/October reopening schedule.

Edited July 13, 2021 by jsglow

[embarkation75]

1 minute ago, jsglow said:

Not really.  From each of Miami, Port Canaveral and Galveston they expect to operate 2 ships each, a long (6-8 day) duration and a short (4-5 day) duration.  Now it IS true that in each city the longer duration ship is starting (or already has started) first.  But each of the 3 'restart ports' will have their short boat operating within about 3-4 weeks from now.

Copy from previous post...

 

First, I didn't say all, but rather most although yes when looking at scheduled sailings by mid September, the Breeze, Magic, and Sunrise are the exception. However, the 6+ days cruises are dominant as just look at what Carnival has open for booking 6+ days by mid September...

 

Dream

Glory

Horizon

Mardi Gras

Miracle (flips to shorter cruises by Oct)

Panorama 

Pride

Vista

 

This leaves the following 2-5 day ships not sailing until the fall/winter...

 

Conquest

Ecstasy

Elation

Liberty 

Paradise

Radiance

Sensation 

Sunshine

Valor

 

In contrast this is what is left for 6+ days after September...

 

Freedom

Legend

 

Essentially Carnival is doing MOST of the 6+ day cruises first while MOST of the 2-5 day cruises will be toward the last.

[jsglow]

1 minute ago, embarkation75 said:

Copy from previous post...

 

First, I didn't say all, but rather most although yes when looking at scheduled sailings by mid September, the Breeze, Magic, and Sunrise are the exception. However, the 6+ days cruises are dominant as just look at what Carnival has open for booking 6+ days by mid September...

 

Dream

Glory

Horizon

Mardi Gras

Miracle (flips to shorter cruises by Oct)

Panorama 

Pride

Vista

 

This leaves the following 2-5 day ships not sailing until the fall/winter...

 

Conquest

Ecstasy

Elation

Liberty 

Paradise

Radiance

Sensation 

Sunshine

Valor

 

In contrast this is what is left for 6+ days after September...

 

Freedom

Legend

 

Essentially Carnival is doing MOST of the 6+ day cruises first while MOST of the 2-5 day cruises will be toward the last.

You're possibly jumping the gun.  Nobody knows what's sailing in September just yet or exactly what ships will be added to the current inventory.  But it does seem to be true that each new port starts with a week-long ship.  So I completely agree that Glory will kick off before Valor, for instance.  It's also a factor that the 'short boats' dominate the offerings from Carnival's lowest priority ports and ships.  Of course that'll be last. 

 

Anyway their current strategy does seem to be in contrast to the thinking months ago that the 3-4 day boats would be the first.  I think the driving determinant has been the decision to require vaccinations and to do essentially 'no protocol' cruises.  Anyway, it's all good.  Let's keep the successful laps clicking off, eh?

[firefly333]

34 minutes ago, embarkation75 said:

First, I didn't say all, but rather most although yes when looking at scheduled sailings by mid September, the Breeze, Magic, and Sunrise are the exception. However, the 6+ days cruises are dominant as just look at what Carnival has open for booking 6+ days by mid September...

 

Dream

Glory

Horizon

Mardi Gras

Miracle (flips to shorter cruises by Oct)

Panorama 

Pride

Vista

 

This leaves the following 2-5 day ships not sailing until the fall/winter...

 

Conquest

Ecstasy

Elation

Liberty 

Paradise

Radiance

Sensation 

Sunshine

Valor

 

In contrast this is what is left for 6+ days after September...

 

Freedom

Legend

 

Essentially Carnival is doing MOST of the 6+ day cruises first while MOST of the 2-5 day cruises will be toward the last.

Well there are always more than one viewpoint.  To me its more about ports possibly than length of days only. Galveston and miami go go go .. Jacksonville maybe not so much. 

 

Idk .. just saying it could be about ports. NY closed I think. I dont follow east coast northern ports at all. Galveston pushed ..

 

And btw dream out of Galveston does 6 and 8 day revolving cruises and will restart after breeze 4 and 5 day cruises. Which ships take longer to get ready etc. 

[jsglow]

1 minute ago, firefly333 said:

Well there are always more than one viewpoint.  To me its more about ports possibly than length of days only. Galveston and miami go go go .. Jacksonville maybe not so much. 

 

Idk .. just saying it could be about ports. NY closed I think. I dont follow east coast northern ports at all. Galveston pushed ..

 

And btw dream out of Galveston does 6 and 8 day revolving cruises and will restart after breeze 4 and 5 day cruises. Which ships take longer to get ready etc. 

I think it's totally about the ports firefly.  Nobody in Jacksonville or Mobile should think they'll restart before New Orleans where Glory is a lock to be ASAP.  Now what I wonder about is whether Carnival will go 'full capacity' in Miami (by starting up Conquest) before relaunching, say, Sunshine up in South Carolina.

 

Anyway, interesting to watch for sure.

[pogoism9]

45 minutes ago, jsglow said:

I think it's totally about the ports firefly.  Nobody in Jacksonville or Mobile should think they'll restart before New Orleans where Glory is a lock to be ASAP.  Now what I wonder about is whether Carnival will go 'full capacity' in Miami (by starting up Conquest) before relaunching, say, Sunshine up in South Carolina.

 

Anyway, interesting to watch for sure.

 

Yeah sucks they didn't announce today like they said they were going to. Egg on my face I guess. My opinion is the next 2 ports would be Baltimore and Nola, just because they are the biggest of the rest. 

[DenaInWyo]

3 hours ago, wemjam said:

I assure you THEY know and have figured out how they will handle quarantine issues.  This is a 100% MUST in order to be cruising again.  They simply are not posting or spelling it out to those of us who are going on board.  Just be prepared, basically, it comes down to being in a full quarantine situation and being escorted off the ship whatever port you may be in and having to deal with coming home from there with appropriate quarantine procedures followed before/during doing so.

 

All the more reason I am buying insurance for my cruises this year for sure - never have before, but I am NOW!

 

Along with..get yer danged passport already!

[groundloop]

3 hours ago, tiffy0428 said:

exactly and you don’t need a vaccination to go to school. i’m a teacher and no student in my class is vaccinated. leave these babies alone 

First off, attending school and going on a cruise are two totally different worlds.  School is pretty much a necessity, cruising is a luxury.

 

My daughter teaches 2nd grade, she and her students are required to mask, she has zero issues with kids not masking properly.  

[imola]

23 hours ago, EMOSEA said:

Really crossing my fingers for Glory in September! I jumped the gun and booked airfare already 😬 

We are sailing first one out in October and bought our plane tickets the week before 4th of July before fares jumped up again. 

[EMOSEA]

1 minute ago, imola said:

We are sailing first one out in October and bought our plane tickets the week before 4th of July before fares jumped up again. 

I was tracking our fares and had to jump at the price drop when it happened. So I guess if it doesn't sail I'll be spending the week in NOLA, lol. 

[K_e_short]

3 hours ago, tiffy0428 said:

exactly and you don’t need a vaccination to go to school. i’m a teacher and no student in my class is vaccinated. leave these babies alone 

 

I'm a teacher as well and because we are not requiring vaccinations we will be wearing masks for a while.

Just because your students are not vaccinated does not mean that children should go on cruises unvaccinated.

The controlled environment of a classroom is very different then a cruise ship.

 

Remember this is just a short term measure until as many people as possible are vaccinated.

If you want to go on vacation there are a lot of all inclusives that do not require masks, do not require testing, and are running less the 100% so you have more space on the resort.

 

[imola]

2 hours ago, EMOSEA said:

I was tracking our fares and had to jump at the price drop when it happened. So I guess if it doesn't sail I'll be spending the week in NOLA, lol. 

Yes that is how we are thinking. However can cancel Air and take a credit good for a year. 

[imola]

I have been reading all these posts and am so confused. Do ya'll think the Glory will sail out of New Orleans on October 3rd?  Be kind please. 

[sailingships]

17 minutes ago, imola said:

I have been reading all these posts and am so confused. Do ya'll think the Glory will sail out of New Orleans on October 3rd?  Be kind please. 

I hope it does for you. The Glory was our last cruise cancelled, in June. I like the Glory Been on her a couple of times.

[Cafedumonde]

11 hours ago, LHARTWICK said:

Sept 4 and Dec 18 bookings for us - both vaccinated and ready for a booster if needed.  Just let me know which arm! Vaccinated cruises are fine with us.  But I'm curious - how long can vaccinated cruises continue?  Are there enough vaccinated cruisers to sustain the industry for a while?  I sure hope so!  NOT playing devil's advocate - just asking the question.  

Not long term.  Look how much CCL stock has dropped since they flip flopped on their vaccine status.  When carnival was still saying they would not require a vaccine,  the stock was very high.

Edited July 14, 2021 by Cafedumonde

[sailingships]

7 minutes ago, Cafedumonde said:

Not long term.  Look how much CCL stock has dropped since they flip flopped on their vaccine status.  When carnival was still saying they would not require a vaccine,  the stock was very high.

Hmmmm Good points. Suddenly children will be a cash crop for Carnival?