Posted on 07/21/2021 8:45:31 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
I’m on the first big cruise ship to sail to Alaska in nearly 2 years.
As I look around, I count just two other passengers on the ground level of the room. A few more are in the balcony spaces above. Nearly all the clusters of chairs that fill the Centrum are unoccupied.
Last night, as I was dining at the ship’s Italian eatery, Giovanni’s Table, I noticed at one point that the entire staff was attending just to my table and one other table that was occupied.
A Royal Caribbean executive this week told me that there are about 630 passengers on board for this sailing. This for a ship that can hold up to 2,476 passengers when full to the brim.
For starters, passengers must wear masks for now in the interior spaces of the ship. And some areas of the ship — the casino, for instance, and the pub — are off-limits to passengers who aren’t vaccinated for COVID-19.
In addition, travel parties with unvaccinated passengers are not allowed to leave the ship in ports unless they purchase a local tour through Royal Caribbean.
Passengers who aren’t vaccinated are required to take a PCR test for COVID-19 when checking in at the terminal and an antigen test for COVID-19 onboard the ship near the end of the voyage.
Passengers under the age of 2 are exempt from the testing requirements.
Despite the new mask-wearing rule on the ship and other COVID-19-related changes, the basic cruise experience feels relatively normal. As noted above, the most noticeable difference right now with the cruise experience on Serenade of the Seas as compared to pre-COVID times is that the ship is unusually empty.
In addition, the Windjammer restaurant is closed at dinnertime.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Look like a slow economic start for Royal Caribbean in Alaska.-Tom
Sounds like they are operating at a loss.
Sounds like a dream vacation.
Does anybody know how they verify a person has been vaccinated. I know you get a card when you do but its not an official document. To my knowledge there is no database, at least that the cruise industry can see and its easy to forge the vaccine card.
I took the cruise about 2 and a half years ago but the Tracy Arm was fogged in. Went to Alaska, then Israel last year. They’re the only places I want to visit again.
Which makes Deep State very happy.
Ships practicing medicine. They are no longer pleasure cruise lines, they are extensions of politics.
“mask-wearing rule”
Will you be marooned if you don’t wear one?
Who wants to drop $2k on a trip only to have to wear a diaper on your face half the time.
Unvaxxed can’t do this, unvaxxed can’t do that.
No wonder its empty.
Maybe this will be a wakeup call for these cruise lines
If you are now on an Alaska cruise, please tell us all about the wondrous critters you might be seeing!
Making unvaccinated people into second class passengers is no way to run a ship line. None of your business if I’ve been jabbed or not. Take it yourself, you’ll be just fine.
“Despite the new mask-wearing rule on the ship and other COVID-19-related changes, the basic cruise experience feels relatively normal”
Well it certainly doesn’t sound like it.
I’ve been on my share of cruises but won’t be anytime soon as long as this silly mess is goin’ on....sheesh
They require proof of vaccination and the only proof readily available that I know of is the card you get when you get your shots. So they're relying on that.
What port was this ship in before its cruise?
It is if you would rather not deal with unvaccinated passengers.
A cruise I could handle.
Automate it completely and I would be sold.
The only ship’s doctor I want is Adam Bricker.
Unvaxxed can’t do this, unvaxxed can’t do that.
Their ship, their rules. Don't want to comply then don't go.
Or a ghost ship
“only to have to wear a diaper on your face half the time.”
But you can wear the same diaper that you wore on the airplane !!! Save $$$
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