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  1. Good to know. We did a Seattle RT (including Glacier Bay) at the end of May, and I thought it was a great time (the greenery at low elevation with the snow still on the mountains), but I was thinking about going back and doing a one-way southbound in September in a few years to see the interior and Hubbard Glacier.
  2. Our local urgent care charged $150 per test for the 3 of us, and we weren't told until after receiving them... This is basically a government-endorsed racket.
  3. One other thing - the linked Motley Fool article mentions that the fed hiking interest rates by 0.75% would increase the cruise industry's debt by $550M. Does that mean the loans are variable interest, or is it a hypothetical lifecycle cost where future refinancing is taken into account?
  4. I can understand that; I just wonder if overdoing it would cause hesitation to buy among potential investors, that is, dilute the stock more than the amount of stock issued. I wouldn't buy any of this round of stock if I thought they were going to do it again every quarter.
  5. The CDC is the one compiling the data though (such as it is), so you'd think they'd be in the best position to determine an appropriate course of action. I never claimed letting more people on cruises with COVID would reduce cases; my point was that COVID is and seemingly always will be with us, it isn't nearly the threat now that it was in the beginning, and society isn't collapsing as a result of everything other than cruising being unrestricted. There are lots of things we could do to keep from ever getting sick or injured, but we don't because they're impractical relative to the risk being mitigated. I believe the time has come where COVID testing everyone boarding a ship falls into that category.
  6. Thanks for sharing; this kind of backs up my initial reaction - I'm not an accountant or lawyer, but I don't understand how a publicly traded company can just issue more stock out of thin air. The market dictates the value of the company (market cap). In this case, that was about $11B at $11.09 per share. Company announces $1B stock issuance, and the existing stock drops to $9.95 per share (roughly $1B total), bringing the total market cap to... still $11B, but effectively the company has just stolen $1B in equity from its shareholders. It's like printing money, except by a corporation rather than the government. I'd be rightfully miffed if I were still a shareholder.
  7. This is a good idea. As long as the cruise lines follow the same schedule, and untested ships aren't in the same ports at the same time as tested ones, this is about as close to a scientifically rigorous experiment as you could do.
  8. My wife, her mother, and I cruised Eurodam roundtrip from Seattle on May 21-28, and we think it was worth it. We didn't have much choice since it had been canceled twice (2020 and 2021), and HAL wouldn't extend the FCC past 2022 that we foolishly accepted in lieu of a refund. Weather and scenery were great. Our flight there was on time. A couple shore excursions were canceled, but we were able to find alternatives, and the ones I was most looking forward to went as planned. Of course, this was before the summer travel meltdowns, return of mask mandates, etc. I'm not sure I would enjoy it as much now with the current state of travel. FWIW, we never masked or distanced (nor did about 90% of the passengers), and none of us got COVID (though my wife and I have both had it already, so we weren't too worried about that).
  9. Holland America was like this too. The "Have It All" promo with the drink package, specialty dining, and WiFi was actually free, gratuities already included. And we proactively got a $20pp port fee refund because the dock in Sitka was unavailable, so we had to tender to shore instead. I didn't even know we were entitled to that; someone on this forum told me what it was for. So, to be clear, with NCL's Free at Sea promo, do you only pay gratuities on the specialty dining when you book the specialty restaurant, or do you pay it even if you don't use it? I'm looking at an itinerary that has the promo but it's so short and port-intensive that we'd probably stick to the MDR or buffet.
  10. I always print essential documents in advance just in case there's an issue with the phone, but for ones that you can't (e.g. shore excursion tickets only accessible through the app), I grab screenshots on my phone in advance just in case the app doesn't load when I need them.
  11. I'd have wanted to take the bus/train combo to Carcross, but since that isn't an option this year, maybe you'll have time to take the WPYRR roundtrip to the border and rent a car afterwards to drive to the Yukon, depending on your port times? (On the itinerary I was considering, Skagway was a pretty long stop, something like 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM.)
  12. I got seasick on our first sea day on Eurodam (ocean side of Vancouver Island) but was perfectly fine on the whale watching boat out of ISP. Of course, there's no guarantee as to the weather, but the water around there tends to be pretty smooth.
  13. This would suggest the roundtrips from Vancouver are included, whereas everything else I've seen just said the one-ways between Vancouver and Whittier (in either direction)?
  14. We were on it the week before (5/21) and it seemed fairly empty, but we weren't really sure what to expect.
  15. I'm not sure it's Canada since the Seattle roundtrips stop in Victoria to satisfy PVSA. Also, there are roundtrips out of Vancouver that also aren't included in this policy if I'm reading it correctly. Absolutely agreed on your last point; I think people are frustrated by the arbitrary and inconsistent nature of the restrictions, and often getting shouted down for bringing that up
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