gretchendz

Uniworld has suspended all cruises until April 23 and Virgin Voyages has delayed their inaugural cruise until August.

mahasamatman

Cancellations are through 11 May - just barely taking our 09 May cruise with them.

returnoftheyeti

My parents are on the “Pride of America” right now in Hawaii, I am worried for them, and worried that they can make it back to Detroit without a 2 week quarantine.

Happy

They retroactively give those who canceled since Feb 4th? So I believe if the situation does not get better, they will revise the policy again to extend the coverage. Ours is Apr 11, miss the cut off of Apr 8 for 50% FCC after the 100% refund. Ours would be the same as yours, at 25%. I would imagine many people might opt for Option 2.

The system was overloaded for hours after mid-day but is now back up. I would wait till sometime next week to do the cancellation, first check with Chase Ultimate Reward (Connexions Loyalty Travel) because the refund will go to their credit card then we get back the corresponding points.

Need

Canada bans all cruise ship over 500 people until July. I guess if we didn't cancel our May's Alaska cruise, it would have been cancelled for us.
https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/c...july-1.4851940

747FC

Time to book Seabourn's and Silversea's smaller ships.

Edit: Maybe not, after reading the article, the 500 includes crew as well.

Randyk47

Unless the Congress passes some short term relief to the PVSA this will gut a large portion of the Alaska cruise season. And I note they say they will revisit the ban in late June to see if it needs to be extended.

Randyk47

Problem is that they include staff, crew, and passengers in that count. Only the smaller expedition ships meet that limit.

ralfkrippner

Good that we didn't take this trip. This cruise is the one that was cancelled on the day of departure this sunday, leaving several hundred pax stranded in Chile. The Eclipse is still circling outside of Port San Antonio. Chile decided on Sunday to not allow any cruises coming in. This is especially problematic as international flights into south america are getting cancelled since sunday now.

Richard Chen

We cancelled our March 8 RCCL cruise and have no plans for any cruising for 4y since the unsanitary conditions on board has lowered our confidence given our many young kids.

747FC

We pulled the plug on our Antarctica cruise this December. Haven't yet received deposit back from Seabourn, but it has only been two days.

Can't invision a good scenario for travel for quite some time.

Randyk47

We decided not to book an August 2021 cruise. Two factors. One, my wife was set to graduate post-grad school in July 2021 and this was her graduation gift. Problem is they have delayed the school’s residency scheduled for this June and have pushed the whole schedule out. While no details they are talking about a later 2021 graduation. Two, even if school gets back on schedule I’m not sure what the cruise industry is going to look like. If this pandemic goes several more months I would expect a pretty significant revamping. Could be nothing but could be lower fares to reenergize the industry and maybe fewer lines and ships until demand returns. The diehard cruise customers will return quickly but getting new cruisers will be a challenge.

747FC

And the industry--with its vast fleet expansion and refitting of older ships for higher capacity--requires lots of new cruisers.

My wife was set to join me in retirement sometime this year, and our retirement concept included lots of travel. I believe we will have to rethink what retirement means for us.

mahasamatman

Same here. I'll be retiring in two years, and was planning for 4-6 cruises a year. We'll have to see what happens.

747FC

I received a survey from Seabourn, soliciting opinions about where I might cruise again, and where I feared going in light of the COVID-19. I gave them some feedback in free-form as well:

One deep concern I have going forward is that employees are flown from all over the world on little aluminium tubes called airplanes, arriving just before embarkation. The thought of this in a COVID world scares me. I think that cruise lines need to implement a very rigorous screening procedure for employee embarkation that would go well beyond questionnaires and temperature checks. Perhaps 14-day on-shore quarantines would be needed, or swabs of employees for traces of COVID-19 on their person.

And, what do we do with the passengers who face the same issues?