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We never eat in the Lido---we have always dressed and go into the main dining room. But, we chose cruises that are port intensive.

I researched this topic the other day and found a post from early in the year that said 3. But, our family recalls only dressing up twice on 11-14 day cruises.

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We are considering the Alaska Hawaii Cruise, Aug 30 to Sept 15 and there is no mention of cruising the inside passage. There is no map

We were to celebrate 41 years since we met, on a cruise a few weeks ago. After following these message boards, which at the time had a number of people giving a play by play of spending their vacation in a cruise cabin due to either having covid, or being exposed to covid, we decided to cancel our cruise and wait for the fall. Shortly thereafter 2 sets of friends returned from cruising and tested positive as soon as they got home. One was on a Caribbean cruise, and the other was on a repositioning cruise from LA to Vancouver. Both were Princess cruises. Like you, I do not want covid. We have too many long haul covid family members, to ever make me think it is just the flu. We enjoyed cruising in years past because we were around people and we were easily able to see many different places while on one vacation. We carefully considered what cruising would currently be like now, and we decided to wait to cruise rather than be disappointed with the experience. And as an aside, my daughter has a friend in Alaska and she advises the covid numbers are high. HAL is one of our favorite cruise lines as it is very low key and the ships are smaller. We stopped cruising on NCL as we felt like we were being nickel and dimed. We occasionally cruise Carnival out of LA, when they have cheap rates and it is off season. It is a younger crowd who cruise on Carnival because it is cheap. I haven't been ono Royal Caribbean in years as the ships are too large. Our May cruise was to be on Celebrity---definitely more upscale and a wealthier crowd. The cruise lines are having a fire sale on Alaska cruises. For someone who isn't concerned with getting Covid, it is definitely the optimum time to buy a cruise. But, for me, I will wait a little longer, to at least when the kids are back in school.