The new Carnival ship the Mardi Gras left Finland last month arrived in Rotterdam for a couple of days to one of the LNG refueling ports and left there Dec 22...
After 14 days of going around in circles outside Barcelona she finally docked Jan 3...was that a quarantine ??? (Barcelona is the only other LNG refualing port in the world)
MG has been moored in Barcelona since then...a friend suggested that the US may not let her come into Port Canaveral (her new homeport) just yet...
she is suppose to do her inaugural cruise April 24 but if Carnival cancels April thats another of my cruises gone ...right now I’m O-14......
If theres no Med this summer there goes a couple of others...next up March 2022...
Good thing I’m in goodish health for my 72 years...I have so much OBC now ($600 each cancelled cruise) I’ll be cruising till Im 82 to use it all...
“If theres no Med this summer there goes a couple of others...next up March 2022...”snip
Tom here- a big problem the Cruise lines have in scheduling is individual authorities political or medical can throw monkey wrenches into itineraries.
If the attitude expressed below catches on in other places around the world, scheduling will become a nightmare for the Cruise Lines.
Excerpt from latest Cruise Industry News
Note; Alden McLaughlin is the premier of the Cayman Islands
McLaughlin referred to cruise ships as “crucibles” for the coronavirus and said he does not think cruising will resume on a “significant level” before 2022.
“I think we would have to be satisfied that the world was in a very different place in terms of safety-related to the coronavirus before we would even consider having the cruise ships come here. They’ve demonstrated that they are really crucibles for the virus because of the way people have to live in such confined spaces and in such close contact with each other,” McLaughlin said.