BND Posted June 20, 2022 #1 Share Posted June 20, 2022 I know this will probably get moved to the ports of call board, but I hadn't seen it posted. I could have missed it, but... https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericawertheimzohar/2022/06/17/its-better-in-the-bahamas-bahamas-removes-travel-health-visa-requirements/?sh=87c4ec92d6d4 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare crewsweeper Posted June 20, 2022 #2 Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) Still requiring tests for unvaccinated. And cruise passengers didn't have to fill out the Heath Visa to begin with. Edited June 20, 2022 by crewsweeper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BND Posted June 20, 2022 Author #3 Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) 8 minutes ago, crewsweeper said: Still requiring tests for unvaccinated. And cruise passengers didn't have to fill out the Heath Visa to begin with. But cruisers did/do have to have a negative test. POINT IS, this is another step towards testing going away. More and more countries are dropping the requirement. Edited June 20, 2022 by BND 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted June 20, 2022 #4 Share Posted June 20, 2022 There aren't many (any?) countries left that RC serves (talking specific to the Caribbean) that require a negative test to enter. Even fewer that require that of a cruise passenger. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare twangster Posted June 20, 2022 #5 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Any day now... come on CDC. Any day now. Drop pre-cruise testing. It's coming... any day now. 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BND Posted June 20, 2022 Author #6 Share Posted June 20, 2022 9 minutes ago, twangster said: Any day now... come on CDC. Any day now. Drop pre-cruise testing. It's coming... any day now. It's what I was hoping for when I posted the story lol. Our upcoming July cruise is to Bermuda. They changed the requirement to provide a negative test for vaxxed individuals on their travel authorization already. I have four tests I will gladly toss in the trash and take a loss on if I don't ever have to use them 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean Boy Posted June 20, 2022 #7 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Now Bermuda should get its money grabbing act together..... Edit: just saw the above post. @BNDDo you still have to pay the $40 for their travel visa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BND Posted June 20, 2022 Author #8 Share Posted June 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said: Now Bermuda should get its money grabbing act together..... Edit: just saw the above post. Do you still have to pay the $40 for their travel visa? Yes. In fact, starting today we can submit for our 22 July cruise. From everything I've read, that won't be going away anytime soon. They have it figured into their budget until sometime in 2023 at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean Boy Posted June 20, 2022 #9 Share Posted June 20, 2022 1 minute ago, BND said: Yes. In fact, starting today we can submit for our 22 July cruise. From everything I've read, that won't be going away anytime soon. They have it figured into their budget until sometime in 2023 at least. I had heard March 2023. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucfan2 Posted June 20, 2022 #10 Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, BND said: They have it figured into their budget until sometime in 2023 at least. They're fitting in nicely w/ the rest of the world...'get all ya can while ya can'. Edited June 20, 2022 by bucfan2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoBe2010 Posted June 20, 2022 #11 Share Posted June 20, 2022 We do check daily now and hope that testing will be dropped, since we wish to book multiple cabins. But we won't as long as testing is required. Can't take the risk the one party is denied boarding and all others have to cruise. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BND Posted June 20, 2022 Author #12 Share Posted June 20, 2022 1 hour ago, SoBe2010 said: We do check daily now and hope that testing will be dropped, since we wish to book multiple cabins. But we won't as long as testing is required. Can't take the risk the one party is denied boarding and all others have to cruise. Countries are dropping the requirement and letting people in to spread out among their populations so there is absolutely zero reason to keep testing cruisers. Tourist are staying in hotels, eating out, going on excursions with others, etc. Apparently logic completely evades the CDC. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BirdTravels Posted June 20, 2022 #13 Share Posted June 20, 2022 5 hours ago, twangster said: Any day now... come on CDC. Any day now. Drop pre-cruise testing. It's coming... any day now. That would be awful. Testing helps keep active COVID off the ships. 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorewalk Holmes Posted June 20, 2022 #14 Share Posted June 20, 2022 36 minutes ago, BirdTravels said: Testing helps keep active COVID off the ships. Hard to argue with this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BND Posted June 20, 2022 Author #15 Share Posted June 20, 2022 7 minutes ago, Shorewalk Holmes said: Hard to argue with this. I can't tell if you're being serious or facetious. Cause you know, no one goes ashore when on a cruise. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorewalk Holmes Posted June 20, 2022 #16 Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, BND said: I know this will probably get moved to the ports of call board, but I hadn't seen it posted. I could have missed it, but... https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericawertheimzohar/2022/06/17/its-better-in-the-bahamas-bahamas-removes-travel-health-visa-requirements/?sh=87c4ec92d6d4 Thanks for the information. Our problem with Bermuda cruises wasn't the testing per se, but the extremely short timeline after reporting the results for the Tourism Office to get approval back to the passenger to allow boarding. Edited June 20, 2022 by Shorewalk Holmes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorewalk Holmes Posted June 20, 2022 #17 Share Posted June 20, 2022 1 minute ago, BND said: I can't tell if you're being serious or facetious. Cause you know, no one goes ashore when on a cruise. People go ashore whether you test or not. Precruise testing cuts down on another stream of possible infection. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BND Posted June 20, 2022 Author #18 Share Posted June 20, 2022 1 minute ago, Shorewalk Holmes said: People go ashore whether you test or not. Precruise testing cuts down on another stream of possible infection. Pretty sure you missed my point. Get ready because pre-cruise testing will be going away. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorewalk Holmes Posted June 20, 2022 #19 Share Posted June 20, 2022 6 minutes ago, BND said: Pretty sure you missed my point. Get ready because pre-cruise testing will be going away. Can you elaborate? What was your point then? It appears you were suggesting that because people go ashore there's little point in precruise testing. Clearly this isn't a logical position. Precruise testing reduces the infection stream coming aboard, as @BirdTravels said. It's beneficial whether people go ashore or not. That said, I hope you're right that someday testing will go away when the chance of illness disrupting people's cruises is much smaller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallnthensome Posted June 20, 2022 #20 Share Posted June 20, 2022 1 hour ago, BirdTravels said: Testing helps keep active COVID off the ships. It does? Apparently it does not ....... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorewalk Holmes Posted June 20, 2022 #21 Share Posted June 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, tallnthensome said: It does? Apparently it does not ....... The key word is 'helps'. He didn't say it keeps all Covid off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne_trisha Posted June 20, 2022 #22 Share Posted June 20, 2022 1 hour ago, BirdTravels said: That would be awful. Testing helps keep active COVID off the ships. Active covid is on the ships. Testing clearly has not stopped it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorewalk Holmes Posted June 21, 2022 #23 Share Posted June 21, 2022 6 minutes ago, wayne_trisha said: Active covid is on the ships. Testing clearly has not stopped it. No, but it helps. I guess we don't know how bad things would have been all this time without testing. Unless maybe someone knows of a real case of a line with large ships and no testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallnthensome Posted June 21, 2022 #24 Share Posted June 21, 2022 18 minutes ago, Shorewalk Holmes said: The key word is 'helps'. He didn't say it keeps all Covid off. So forcing the testing of hundreds of thousands of healthy vaccinated people days before the cruise to find the few that are postive only helps but does not prevent covid on a ship here people sit outside moving through fresh air and have no more than 3 seconds of prolonged exposure to 99 percent of the people on board who are vaccinated ...... sounds logical and should be done forever...... said no sane person ever. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne_trisha Posted June 21, 2022 #25 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Even not having passengers on ships stopped covid. It is now part of our life. Testing also costs a lot of money and who is paying that cost? All these people taking "free" tests that are not free. TAXPAYERS!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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