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I’m on the first big cruise ship to sail to Alaska in nearly 2 years. It’s so empty, it feels like my own private yacht
The Points Guy ^ | July 21, 2021 | Gene Sloan

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 ...


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To: V_TWIN

If “did all they could do” reflected the guidelines published by a government agency tasked with administering health and safety rules for cruise ships, then the greedy lawyer isn’t likely to be very successful.


61 posted on 07/21/2021 10:09:09 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: DoodleDawg

Just tell the unvaxxed they can’t get on.....even with that its gonna spread on the ships given that it is now been exposed that you can get the jab and still get covid


62 posted on 07/21/2021 10:09:11 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Alberta's Child

On the back of every MLB ticket is a disclaimer stating the park and teams are not responsible for personal injury......you think that’s stopped people from succsesfully suing for being hit by a foul ball? Lol


63 posted on 07/21/2021 10:12:30 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: unixfox

Dropping a couple grand for steerage class must be fun. The vaxx class people get the perks but have the agony of worrying about themselves being lab rats,possibility of health problems for the rest of their lives and for the honor of vaxx to really not be VACCINATED by any stretch of the definition. They get it as easily even vaxxed AND SPREAD the Covid.


64 posted on 07/21/2021 10:13:09 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: DoodleDawg

Yeah, same here.


65 posted on 07/21/2021 10:13:32 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I decided to be a sheepdog after watching what happened to the sheep.)
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To: V_TWIN
Just tell the unvaxxed they can’t get on.....even with that its gonna spread on the ships given that it is now been exposed that you can get the jab and still get covid.

Can't do that in Florida; DeSantis saw to that. Though the law is being challenged in court.

66 posted on 07/21/2021 10:16:09 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: V_TWIN

How many times has someone been able to win a lawsuit — and actually collect on the judgement — in a case like that?


67 posted on 07/21/2021 10:16:28 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Capt. Tom

I am right now at JFK in NYC getting off a Delta flight and it is well under 50% of capacity.


68 posted on 07/21/2021 10:28:47 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Capt. Tom

I am right now at JFK in NYC getting off a Delta flight and it is well under 50% of capacity.


69 posted on 07/21/2021 10:28:50 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: wally_bert
"The only ship’s doctor I want is Adam Bricker."


Bricker's not the real McCoy. LOL



70 posted on 07/21/2021 10:28:50 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Alberta's Child

According to this its about to be a lot:

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2019-10-01/foul-balls-fans-injured-mlb-ballparks-netting


71 posted on 07/21/2021 10:35:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Capt. Tom

Thanks!


72 posted on 07/21/2021 10:48:05 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in China, Cuba, Canada or ?????! I would move there! Covid 19 über alles!!!)
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To: Capt. Tom

The cruise ship lines THINK THEY will dictate to us that we must have a vaccination passport because we are all so eager to get back on their ships. Ha ha ha ha one of them is suing Florida to get control over us.
These fools don’t realize they lose either way. Clearly they have completely misjudged the character and nature of their customers. Sure we want to come back but not with vac passports. More woke = broke. Ha ha ha morons.


73 posted on 07/21/2021 10:54:21 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
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To: MayflowerMadam
Except for that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

It was about as pleasant as Jackie's parade through Dallas.

74 posted on 07/21/2021 10:55:25 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: V_TWIN

I read that article from top to bottom. Where does it say anything about lawsuits?


75 posted on 07/21/2021 10:55:54 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: V_TWIN

My 37th cruise booked in this September, booking another in December, and 4 in 2022 if the bargain prices hold up near where they are now. And me and the wife are fully vaccinated, so it should be all good.

Life is short. I cannot afford to procrastinate at age 81. On my death bed my only regrets will be what I could have done and did not do.


76 posted on 07/21/2021 11:23:42 AM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump was the force behind warp speed availability of vaccines for Americans. )
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To: Capt. Tom

WHen we lived in Seattle area, we did a bunch of Alaska cruises from Seattle & Vancouver. In my opinion best time to do Alaska is before July. The glaciers and calving and floating ice are abundant in April-May. Later on lot of ice melts away, one time in late summer the temp in Alaska port was 76-77F so obviously much ice had melted away.


77 posted on 07/21/2021 11:29:14 AM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump was the force behind warp speed availability of vaccines for Americans. )
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To: Grampa Dave

Plz see post #77.


78 posted on 07/21/2021 11:43:28 AM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump was the force behind warp speed availability of vaccines for Americans. )
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To: Prov1322; DoodleDawg

I would be more shocked if vaxxed were NOT getting covid. Last time I checked, vaccines does NOT create a plastic shield around the vaxxed person. So if some nearby infected person lets out a load of virus, the virus will enter your system.

The difference will be, your body will already be familiar with the protein signatures of the virus, and will not mount an over-reaction to the virus multiplying in the lungs. That over-reaction has been the reason many covid patients had their lungs obliterated by white corpuscles swarming to the lung tissue and destroying it. Also, the ant-bodies the vaccine should have created already will be additional ammo to fight the virus.

In summary, vaxxed people are LESS likely to get seriously sick and expel large loads of virus compared to unvaxxed people and those who have recently recovered from covid.


79 posted on 07/21/2021 11:51:47 AM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump was the force behind warp speed availability of vaccines for Americans. )
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To: Alberta's Child

You think all those injuries and no lawsuits?

This one could open the flood gstes6

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2019-10-01/foul-balls-fans-injured-mlb-ballparks-netting


80 posted on 07/21/2021 12:16:40 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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