Freckles1983

Still completing the tail end of our Alaska / Yukon land tour and most windows of stores had “hiring now” signs in place. So there is a ton of work available. It has impacted service and timing but you can tell everyone is working hard and trying their best. Our tour director on our trip told us that the rest of June land tours had been cancelled.

I personally would recommend masking after seeing how many people didn’t and ended up being removed from the rest of the tour. We all spend so much money and time on these vacations that it’s better safe than sorry. I am still shocked at the amount of people that were left behind on our tour. Safe travels to you

Also to vent further.. there was one woman on our trip who was clearly very ill and not wearing a mask at all coughing up a storm on the bus yesterday afternoon. She could barely stand and was blaming it on allergies and then used COPD as a reason when talking to someone else. Another lady on our tour was very upset and agitated about the testing and was almost in tears during the waiting up until the swabbing. Both were gone today along with their travel companions. Do what you need to do to keep yourself healthy because you would think people who are not well would at least have the courtesy to cover up and protect their fellow travellers but they don’t. People are selfish and as much as I dislike wearing a mask I’m glad I did now. For all I know I still might test positive in the coming days regardless of how careful I’ve tried to be. But to think one tour dwindled down to 3 people out of 32 .. that’s crazy to me. I realize not necessarily all 32 ppl tested positive but 32 peoples vacations were affected by it

We have no idea because they just weren’t in the lobby this morning to go to the airport. Our tour director who has been awesome btw, said that once you test positive the company (Beacon I think it was called) took over and it was out of HALs hands. I’m really curious what happened to all those guests though and how they will get home. one odd thing I will mention was that yesterday morning we did the riverboat tour and gold dredge which was included in our vacation when we booked it. Well after the boat ride they had a lunch that was included that was served family style at long bench/picnic style seating. Literally crammed in there side by side like prisoners in a mess hall. I sat down and kept my mask on and didn’t eat at all cause it seemed like a recipe for disaster. I made a comment that I thought it was gross and my husband shhhd me but how do you stuff ppl in like that?! Well 7 of the people directly surrounding us were not with us this morning so I wouldn’t be surprised if more people turn up sick in the following days (myself and husband included). anyway just seemed irresponsible to feed a group like that but I’m a germaphobe so you can take my opinion as you like. I personally found it a bad idea. I’ll post more info as I get it

Just flew into Canada (Yukon) from Fairbanks and two groups tested last night. Our group started with 36 people and we lost between 8-10 people. The second group had 32 people and they lost 29 people.

Got to Fairbanks yesterday afternoon from denali (on the Y1 HAL land cruise tour) and they required us to have a covid test with a negative result to board our flight to Yukon tomorrow. Even though us/Canada testing requirements have been lifted HAL is requiring it. Also told masking is no longer optional on HAL travel (bus/plane/train etc) thankfully we tested negative but a lot of very nervous people in our group today during the testing

On the nieuw Amsterdam rn and hardly anyone wearing masks. I’m not sure how strictly they will enforce that on your cruise but it doesn’t seem like anyone cares here. We are still masking but seem to be the minority

I just did the online health check in for my upcoming cruise and have a few questions for Canadian citizens - specifically ontarians that have sailed with HAL recently… when you are at the pier do they accept the government issued Ontario vaccine QR code online form? I noticed that it doesn’t say on that page the where and who administered the vaccines. It has all the other pertinent info. I have all my paper copies of reciepts from when I had my shots but my husband is missing one of his paper copies. On these paper copies it states where and who administered the dose. is the online government issued pdf with QR code acceptable or is there a chance we will be denied boarding due to this? anyone else been thru this before and have any answers?? Just trying to figure out if we need to attempt to get this piece of paper reprinted from the pharmacy that gave my husband that dose. thanks for any help!