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What do you think of the new CDC developments? And when do you think cruising will resume in the United States?
The update from the CDC was very disappointing, nothing much new other than adding some info on vaccinating the crew. I think it is a continuance of the stalling tactics that will keep sailings from taking place until late Fall when the US is mostly fully vaccinated or have achieved herd immunity. I feel sorry for people who can only sail from the US as opposed to being able to fly to alternate home ports. I will be cruising in Europe this July, I hope, and may likely cancel my December Oceania cruise form Miami. Such a shame that the cruise lines are being treated like this when every other form of transportation in the US is wide open as well as hotels, restaurants, etc. It is a total embarrassment.
Even though it's baby steps, I'll take it!
That was a good version of the national anthem but if I can get Dee to sing a version it would be great
I just wish they would lay out what all of the steps are going to be… I read some of the rules… And I saw somewhere in there where step 2-B would come out next… So my question is, exactly how many steps are they going to have???
Awesome video, thanks for the update Mark!
Please do not put too much faith on the CDC release of guidelines. It took them 5 months to release these and they were probably written last week due to lawsuit threats and bad publicity. If you do read the whole release, it smacks of subterfuge. Except for the vaccine part (that's why i said it was written just last week- sarcastically) most everything they ask is being done already by the cruise lines that are currently and are schedule to cruise- outside of the US.
Putting impossible hurdles is akin to a No Sail Order. The Conditional Sail Order was No Sail order spelled differently. This is no different.
Just to put in perspective. This is one item what that 7-8 page release said.
to ensure disembarking and embarking passengers do not occupy the same enclosed or semi-enclosed areas (e.g., gangways, terminal waiting spaces, check-in areas) within the same 12-hour period, and
to ensure disembarking and embarking travelers from different ships do not occupy the same enclosed or semi-enclosed areas (e.g., gangways, terminal waiting spaces, check-in areas) within the same 12-hour period.
Meaning that when a ship docks, it cannot discharge passengers and then pick up new ones. So if a ship docks and fully discharge passengers by 10 a.m., it CANNOT commence to load new passengers not until 10 PM. 12 hours.
Maybe line an airine. Arrive on the second floor and check in on the first floor. But then new gangways are required.. And really, we will be occupying the same space on the boat.
The CDC guidelines that the Miami mayor happily reported were “coming shortly” following his call with the CDC director have arrived at cdc.gov. As I predicted here, the new guidelines are just the long awaited technical instructions for the Conditional Sail Order and they are a nightmare. Read them at cdc.gov Technical Instructions for Local Agreements.
I waded through the new CDC requirements and found them impossible to accomplish in less than six months. Each cruise line will have to enter into agreements at EACH port with BOTH the local port and health authorities. If Carnival wanted to embark at six ports that will be 12 separate agreements! The required content of these agreements is spelled out in a multipage set of rules that sets up the impossibility.
Neither the cruise line lawyers nor the lawyers for port and health authorities at each port are ill prepared for the gargantuan Herculean task of this type of forced constrained content contracting. It would take a team of lawyers six months to do separate agreements with the health and port authorities at each of six ports. How can these authorities cope with negotiating agreements containing these terms? It took me an hour just to read them. And this is just to launch the conditional sail cruises.
If I were tasked to set up a plan to finish off cruising in the United States I could not do better than these CDC requirements in the new technical guidelines. Bottom Line: Be careful what you ask for.
Prepare to view Don’s forthcoming anti CDC Rumplestiltskin level rant.
Great news hopefully
Carnival Cruise Lines Great stock investment! This thing going to shoot up Monday. Also if you own 100 shares you get discount on cruises. I bet you will double your money in a few months.
Hope more good news on the horizon soon and that things will go in the right direction
Double like and thumbs up for this new ship for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line woohoo 🥳
Mark, this seemed like good news to me but it seems half of the input is positive and half
is negative. How do you feel?🐸
I am booked to sail 6/5/21 carnival vista and they haven't canceled yet do you think this will still happen?