Tom here- Good gravy, that is considered good news from a cruise line occurring millions of dollars in debt every month?
I guess you have to put the best face on a problem you can't control, and which involves many livelihoods asea and ashore, and Billions of borrowed dollars. -Tom
Even if you think you're immune to illness, what about getting stranded at sea because they won't let you dock the ship?
Why not do a test cruise on a small ship? They could do it on a volunteer basis for free. Several hundred passengers and crew all verified inoculated with the vaccine. The companies would need some kind of legal disclaimer for responsibility in case of illness. Send them out for 10-14 days at least a month after their 2nd inoculation and see if any get sick.
If it’s successful it will give the cruise companies and passengers confidence to start cruising again.
Cruise Critic is a shill for the cruise industry.
I bought carnival cruise stocks because I know they will be back. Made 8 bucks per share already. Plus they give 100 dollar ship board credit if you have 100 shares. Great company. Cruise must be 7 days of its 50 bucks....still not bad.
Have they re-flagged as US ships yet? They should get no funding from the US so long as they are foreign owned and foreign flagged. Nor any special consideration.
He meant all the ships by the end of the year...
Some of the Carnival ships wont be back until later in the year...
Right now the schedule for 2021 is
Breeze April 4
Conquest April 2
Dream April 3
Ecstasy April 1
Elation April 3
Freedom April 27
Glory April 4
Horizon April 11
Legend May 17 (Europe)
Liberty April 2
Magic November 6
Mardi Gras April 24
Miracle October 3
Panorama April 3
Paradise November 1
Pride April 4
Radiance April 27
Sensation April 3
Spirit June 27 (Australia)
Splendor May 7 (Australia)
Sunrise April 1
Sunshine April 3
Valor November 1
Vista April 3
Cruises are probably nice things to do if you are into them, but honestly, every cruise ship on the planet could vanish and I could see no way that it would have an impact on the lives of anyone I know.
My wife wants to go on vacation (via plane) to Hawaii. I told her to include me out because no way will I wear a mask on a plane for the looooong flight to Hawaii and back. Also I don’t like the idea of suffering on the flight to Hawaii and then have to endure the restrictions while on “vacation” there.
On Saturday I packed up my cruise wear (all those beads and sequins!) and took it to the Salvation Army. Sadly, the fauxdemic they used to take out Trump took joy out of almost everything.