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Emails about my Aug 14 cruise on Carnival Mardi Gras

Email at 8.30PM Thursday June 10

Important Operational Update – August 2021 Schedule

GUEST OPERATIONS UPDATE
Mardi Gras – Port Canaveral – 07/31/21 - 08/28/21
Carnival Horizon – PortMiami – 08/01/21- 08/29/21
Carnival Breeze, Carnival Vista – Port of Galveston - 08/02/21 - 08/30/21
Carnival Sunrise – PortMiami – 08/14/21 - 08/28/21
Carnival Panorama – Port of Long Beach – 08/21/21 - 08/28/21

Dear Carnival Guest:

Thank you for your continued patience and understanding as we work on our return to guest operations. We are happy to share with you our plans to operate the above-referenced sailings in the month of August, including your cruise. We expect to operate with vaccinated guests. We are working with state and local officials to finalize the necessary plans. Attached is the press release that was issued earlier today.

We know you are eager to learn more about our Have Fun. Be Safe. protocols, which continue to evolve based on our discussions with the CDC. We will get this information just as soon as we can. Final payment on your cruise was extended until Monday, June 14. That date is still in effect. If for some reason after we share our protocols you determine that you are unable to sail, we will work with you on rebooking for another date.

If you’re booked on Carnival Sunrise or Mardi Gras, we have had to make some itinerary modifications. You can find out more by logging in to MyCruiseManager on Carnival.com. Changes will be available by Friday morning.

Once again, we appreciate your patience and look forward to welcoming you on board.

Sincerely,

Christine Duffy
President, Carnival Cruise Line

NEWS RELEASE

CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE CONFIRMS FIRST SAILING FOR MARDI GRAS;
ANNOUNCES MORE SHIPS RETURNING IN AUGUST

MIAMI, June 10, 2021 – Carnival Cruise Line today laid out plans for its next wave of the summer restart of guest operations, including the first cruise for Mardi Gras and the return of additional ships in August. Highlights of the plan include:
Mardi Gras will start operating her seven-day cruises from Port Canaveral on Saturday, July 31, with pre-inaugural sailings to the eastern and western Caribbean.
Carnival Magic will return from her dry dock – and with her new hull design – and homeport from Port Canaveral where she will pick up four- and five-day cruises to The Bahamas and Caribbean that were previously scheduled for Carnival Elation, effective Aug. 7 through Oct. 7. Guests already booked on Carnival Elation will be re-accommodated on Carnival Magic, and because she is a larger ship, additional stateroom inventory is being made available on Carnival.com and other sales channels. Carnival Magic will also operate three new six-day cruises and one new eight-day cruise from Port Canaveral between Oct. 11-31.
Carnival Sunrise will enter service from Miami, effective Aug. 14, sailing four- and five-day cruises to The Bahamas and Caribbean.
Carnival Panorama will enter service from Long Beach on Aug. 21, sailing her seven-day Mexican Riviera cruises.
Carnival Vista and Breeze (from Galveston), Carnival Horizon (from Miami) and Carnival Miracle (from Seattle to Alaska) will continue with their cruises through August that are part of the line’s restart plans in July.
Given the above plans, Carnival has extended its pause for other ships through Aug. 31, 2021, as follows: Carnival Pride (Baltimore), Carnival Sunshine (Charleston), Carnival Dream (Galveston), Carnival Ecstasy (Jacksonville), Carnival Liberty (Port Canaveral), Carnival Conquest (Miami), Carnival Sensation (Mobile) and Carnival Glory (New Orleans).
Guests and travel agents are being advised of the August schedule plans and Carnival will be providing more details directly to them next week on guidelines and protocols. Carnival plans to operate these August sailings with vaccinated guests.

“We are very excited to finally welcome guests on Mardi Gras,” said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. “With our desire to preserve summer vacations for our Mardi Gras guests, we are going to find a later date to formally christen her so that we can operate these pre-inaugural sailings just as soon as we can.”

Duffy also noted that Carnival intends to expand its initial restart from Florida, Texas and Washington to California, with the return of Carnival Panorama from Long Beach in late August. “ We are excited to resume our West Coast operations and intend to sail Carnival Panorama with vaccinated guests starting August 21. We are working with state and local officials to finalize the necessary plans,” Duffy said.

Carnival will continue to ramp up more ships and homeports in September and beyond, bringing hundreds of crew on board each week to be vaccinated, complete CDC-mandated quarantine and then begin work to prepare for guests and the return to guest operations.

“Our focus remains on the health and safety of our guests, crew and the communities we serve and visit,” said Duffy. “We are taking a deliberate approach so we can execute with excellence and deliver a fun experience to our guests, who have been tremendously patient and supportive throughout this pause.”

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EMail at 9.05PM today, Friday

Important Operational Update About Upcoming Voyages

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR UPCOMING CRUISE

Dear Carnival Guest:

We are excited about our summer restart and I wanted to follow up on our email from late Thursday about our plans to operate your cruise.

Things are moving quickly, and in our desire to share information with you in timely fashion, we know that there a gaps to fill in.

First, as we work through this restart process and our operations for August, we are extending final payment on your sailing to Monday, June 21.

As we operate to meet the CDC guidelines, there is an exemption process to accommodate a small number of guests who are unable or ineligible to be vaccinated (children under 12 and other exceptions as required by federal law). The current standard to meet the CDC’s criteria for a fully vaccinated cruise – under which guests can sail without a mask and other restrictions – is that at least 95 percent of all guests on board are fully vaccinated. In addition, our crew will be fully vaccinated.

We will be sending details next week about this exemption process, and additional protocols as they are finalized. It’s important to note that the number of exemptions will be a very small subset, will largely be children under 12, and it will be less than 5 percent of guests to account for no shows and other operational matters. And, we cannot begin to process these exemptions until after all final payments are received and we have certainty on the total number of guests on board – so that we can determine the number of exemptions. But we are committed to moving as quickly as possible.

In the meantime, it is important that you make sure your booking is up to date, which includes the names and ages of all guests in your party. You can manage that in the MyCruisePlanner function on Carnival.com, with your Personal Vacation Planner, your travel agent or by calling us at 1-800-CARNIVAL.

Thank you for your support and patience. We are working hard to restart operations and welcome you and our other great guests back on board.

Sincerely,

Christine Duffy
President, Carnival Cruise Line