Posted on 06/09/2021 10:38:25 AM PDT by SJackson
Carnival Cruise Line releases its more specific health protocols for departures out of Texas which begin in July with two cruise ships.
Carnival Cruise Line released its health protocols for cruises out of Texas which covers Carnival Vista and Carnival Breeze, both scheduled to begin sailings this July out of the Port of Galveston. The cruise line has already released more detailed protocols for cruises to Alaska.
Carnival Texas Health Protocols
Carnival guests will be able to begin planning their cruise out of Galveston, Texas as the cruise line released its more specific protocols for sailings out of Texas as part of its Have Fun. Be Safe. guidelines.
Carnival Cruise Line released its health protocols for cruises out of Texas which covers Carnival Vista and Carnival Breeze, both scheduled to begin sailings this July out of the Port of Galveston. The cruise line has already released more detailed protocols for cruises to Alaska.
Carnival guests will be able to begin planning their cruise out of Galveston, Texas as the cruise line released its more specific protocols for sailings out of Texas as part of its Have Fun. Be Safe. guidelines.
We already know that guests will need to be fully vaccinated at least 14 days before departure, as announced by Carnival on June 7. The proof will need to be shown of full vaccination, including the second dose. How this impacts the recently signed vaccine passport bill remains to be seen.
Carnival’s Texas Health Protocols
Guests are being warned to be fully prepared before their voyage as they will be denied boarding if there is no proof of being fully vaccinated. There will be no refund. The CDC does still require masks on all forms of transportation, but the situation is fluid, so Carnival has not yet committed to those details just yet.
Worth Reading: Where Do the Major Three Cruise Lines Stand on Vaccine Requirements?
The CDC has been relaxing rules recently for vaccinated passengers, especially for cruise ships. The hope is that guests won’t need to wear a mask while onboard. However, this could be different when a ship is docked in port as the cruise line must follow local rules.
Even though Carnival is a very family-focused cruise line, taking the fully vaccinated route for these sailings allows guests to enjoy the cruise experience. If they took the alternative route, there would be more strict measures during the voyage, which would be difficult for families, including kids.
Just days ago, Carnival Cruise Line president Christine Duffy said “We appreciate the progress and support for our U.S. restart from the CDC and other key federal agencies; however, the current CDC requirements for cruising with a guest base that is unvaccinated will make it very difficult to deliver the experience our guests expect, especially given the large number of families with younger children who sail with us. As a result, our alternative is to operate our ships from the U.S. during the month of July with vaccinated guests,” said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line.”
Also Read: Carnival Cruise Line Issues Vaccine Mandate for Two Ships in July
It is important to know that the health protocols are only for the cruises during July with Carnival Vista which begins sailing from July 3 and Carnival Breeze which begins operations on July 15, 2021.
The cruise line is currently working on its protocols for Carnival Horizon out of PortMiami. For Carnival Miracle out of Seattle, more specific health protocols have already been released.
I agree the way Florida and Texas politicians reversed course and began attacking the cruise industry in this way is shameful. These complicated enough international businesses without US politicians and bureaucrats and their grandstanding nonsense.
Cruise lines require a CDC certification to operate in US waters. I suppose they could go to court, wait a few years and see what they have left. Operate at much lower capacity outside of the US which some are doing. And they are being treated differently than other modes of transportation. Some states have had mask requirements over the last year, others haven't. Airline and buss passengers are required to wear a mask irrespective of the states they're traveling between. This is a state vs federal government spitting match with the cruise lines caught betwee.
if the cruise line industry doesn’t want to adhere to desantis’s executive orders they’re free to take their business elsewhere...
I agree. And as transportation companies they’re clearly under the purview of the Federal government. Though I’ve nothing to base it on I’ve felt the CDC restrictions, the lines should never have been shut down this long, were de facto punishment for Florida, Texas and Alaska, red states. A shame Florida and Texas took this position. Embarking on a cruise in one state on a international/interstate voyage is quite different than going into a restaurant or concert. If either state were to pass a law banning a mask requirement, don’t think for a minute airlines and bus lines would comply. A lot of economic damage for nothing.
Good, I don’t want to be on a cruise with anxiety ridden tards who shed their poison fake vax on me.
Except the left (as usual) is using corporations/big businesses to do their dirty work. DeSantis and Abbott see this for what it is...thankfully.
If this was only about “safety” they’d include those with Covid antibodies but of course they don’t.
Wrong - not if they want to sail in/out of Florida ports. Or pay 5,000 USD penalty each time they ask.
Cruise lines are free not to use Florida ports.
Thank God for the free market. Freedom means letting people do as they choose and take the consequences. What I don’t see is how the hell it is any business of any government entity if a cruise line (or any other entity) requires, prohibits, or just doesn’t give a damn about *either* of our opinions and decisions.
I wouldn’t want to spend good money on a cruise that has Marxists at the helm regardless of my vax status.
There’s literally hundreds of places where these types can blow snot bubbles, bite pillows and wet themselves without having to board a ship........
It’s the Federal Government that is the problem. Check temperatures on boarding, keep the ship clean, and have COVID therapeutics ready and available.
No healthy person under 65 was dying of COVID before the vaccine. No one under 25 died in the whole state of Florida. The COVID therapeutics are working great if used early. With therapeutics the death rate is no more than the common flu. If you have a compromised immune stay home.
If temperature is check, warning against non-healthy people (let them make the choice), more outdoor activities, and cleaner ships they would be safer than ever before.
Everyone’s pearl clutching because of the fear the mainstream media has spread. I wonder what the true death total is (dying with COVID vs dying because of COVID)?
Time for the Great Covid swindle to end.
Florida should up it to over $50,000.
Exactly
I know that in my 24 year military career and 17 years contracting in combat zones I have likely had more vaccinations than anybody I know. I am not an antivaxer but I am anti companies mandating customers undergo experimental mRNA gene therapies.
Mandating experimental gene therapies that are not approved by the FDA is a gray area - one that may result in long-term public hostility and angry boycotts of the company's products. Management had better think very carefully about choosing the business of Karens over that of the COVID-recovered who do not need vaccines.
“If you are vaccinated, what are you worried about?”
“Worried that the anti-vaxxer will pick up a case of covid in port and bring it back to the ship. Infects a few other random anti-vaxxers, who end up in the infirmary, and suddenly the remainder of the cruise is cancelled and none of the surrounding countries will allow the ship to dock, as happened in March 2020.
I’m vaccinated so I’m not worried about catching or spreading the virus - but all it takes is one case among the non-vaccinated for the cruise to become hell at sea.”
FYI it is not a guarantee. From the Mayo Clinic:
“Can I still get COVID-19 after I’m vaccinated?
COVID-19 vaccination will protect most people from getting sick.
A very small percentage of fully vaccinated people will still get COVID-19 if they are exposed to the COVID-19 virus. These are called vaccine breakthrough cases. Some people might not experience any symptoms and some people could become sick due to COVID-19.”
Sure. Of course they need to think carefully. And it may well vary by what your target audience is; I mean a gun store in Texas that had this requirement for their employees, or a shooting range for customers would be idiotic; a yoga studio in Marin California not so much. My point is that the free market will sort it out; cruise line A requires vaccination, cruise line B doesn’t, but the state or feds should have nothing to do with it.
I’m vaxxed, I don’t really give a crap about someone unvaxxed; I had the damned Covid in January of ‘20, too. But these idiot governers are just as bad as the CDC in telling businesses what to do or not do.
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