Posted on 11/02/2020 8:10:01 AM PST by Capt. Tom
I’m starting to wonder if this is an 8+ billion dollar assault on DeSantis...
If Carnival caves and cancels cruises until March, it will include my Jan one...my next cruise would be on the new Mardi Gras in April...thats if the Mardi Gras has arrived from Europe by then...
I had booked on the Mardi Gras the first day of booking in January 2019 for Jan 2021 but the Mardi Gras was not going to be finished because of the Wu Hu Flu and it was due to start sailing in Feb instead...so in July my B2B cruises were cancelled...
I got great prices 2 years ago but when I rebooked for April the price was a lot higher...
PHOOIE !!!
If that cruise falls through I’ll have to wait until Oct...
I tell ya the cruise gremlins dont like me..if its not one thing its another..
The Jan one is an 8 day out of Tampa (to replace the Mardi Gras)...too long for the CDC and will Carnival be cruising out of Tampa yet in Jan...
I NEED A CRUISE !!!!
I believe CARNIVAL has given up also on any cruises this year and also the Trump Victory Cruise has been also torpedoed. -Tom
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Monday, November 2nd excerpt-
“As we work with the CDC and others toward this shared goal, Celebrity Cruises will be extending the suspension of sailings to include those departing on or before December 31, 2020, excluding our previously suspended 2020/21 Australia and Asia sailings.”
Yes I saw that...Im not surprised...the new order has so much in it it will take weeks to get the ships ready...
Now theres a 6 day on the Legend on Jan 3 and then my 8 day on the 9th...but unless Carnival shortens the cruise by a day to fit the CDC CSO of 7 or less days I wont be cruising in Jan...
And beyond the ships, the Cruise lines are required to have a place ashore to quarantine negative passengers for 14 days getting off a ship that has had a covid out break onboard. That could be thousands of people even at reduced ship capacity.
Lots of problems to be worked out. -Tom
Tampa to partial Panama Canal requires 8 days.
The Legend holds 2,100 passengers so at 50/60% it would be at least 1,000 in quarantine and then the hundreds of crew...what a mess that would be...
The new ship the Mardi Gras holds 5,300 normally...due to sail out of Port C on feb 6...
The last time I did a partial Panama it was 14 days with 5 ports and the canal...I thought 8 days was cutting it fine...but it could be shortened to 7 days by dropping a port...the ports might not be open anyway...
For years now various Carnival ships did the canal from Tampa.
Yes, I’ve been on the 14 day one. The shorter ones were all 8 day. Never saw a 7 days one, but logic suggests 7 days ‘could’ work.
Did the Miracle in Dec 2018. Tampa, Cozumel, Costa Rica, canal, Cartegna, Aruba, Curacao. Cayman, home. Got a deal won’t ever see again. Unobstructed balcony for 14 days for $449 p/p
entropy12 wrote: “I do not believe an asymptomatic infected person exudes enough virus cells to affect healthy people.”
The mask mandates are justified based upon the belief that asymptomatic people can infect others.
I agree with your assessment of Fauci. I remember when he was a prime mover in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Back then the CDC was pushing the idea that AIDS was a breakout threat to the heterosexual population. They used that to justify increased budgets just like they are using CV now. Ever since the Spanish flu of 1918, the virologists have been trying to justify huge spending increases. CV fits this objective quite well. They are trying to extend the CV threat for as long as they can to justify as much budget growth as they can. As Deepthroat said: “Follow the money.”
It takes an extra sea day to get to Aruba... were not going there...
I did the Pride in 2017 sister ship to the Legend...
Yeah, I got the word last night on the cancellation of our cruise. The good news is we get 125% of our fare paid towards the next cruise. I will be talking to Ian the Cruise Guy later today but I notice the same cruise is scheduled for February & March on the Celebrity Edge so hopefully it will be merely a delay.
“Yeah, I got the word last night on the cancellation of our cruise. The good news is we get 125% of our fare paid towards the next cruise. I will be talking to Ian the Cruise Guy later today but I notice the same cruise is scheduled for February & March on the Celebrity Edge so hopefully it will be merely a delay.”.......................................
February would be a good winter month to go.
Hope it works out well. - Tom
Well, it turns out our cruise has been extended two extra days to nine days total but it will be in January... 2022. However, I will probably take a separate cruise this summer to the Caribbean with my wife. But I WON’T be booking it until I already see cruise ships sailing.
“I’m starting to wonder if this is an 8+ billion dollar assault on DeSantis”.........................
DeSantis doesn’t have to run for Gov. for two more years.
A lot will change between now and then.
And we can start with the Presidential election today.-Tom
And here is a very recent example of a Cruise ship out of Barbados and out out of the jurisdiction of our CDC, trying to accomplish a Caribbean trip without a Covid infection. - Tom
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Caribbean Cruise Ship Headed Back to Homeport After Positive COVID Test
Ben Souza
November 11, 2020
The first cruise ship to sail to the Caribbean since March is headed back to its homeport after a passenger tested positive for COVID-19 SeaDream I departed from Barbados on Saturday to become the first cruise ship to cruise to the Caribbean in eight months. Four days into the cruise, the ship is now headed back to its homeport after the positive test.
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