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My suggestion is to purchase telehealth kits and test yourselves on board within the 24-hour window. The added advantage to this option is that, in the off chance that you test positive, Celebrity will be required to arrange for your quarantine. BTW, if you haven't already done so, familiarize yourself with the requirement for an ArriveCAN submission prior embarkation.

As the cruise starts in Seattle, disembarking in Hawaii would be a PVSA violation. Administratively, I can't see HAL allowing passenger swaps part way through sailings as more and more people might want to "share" longer cruises.

The dispensers are going to be at least as COVID-free as any other surface in your cabin.

Hopefully we'll soon see some live reporting on the issue.

With your dry run, you've indicated Vancouver as the first port of entry. I'm not sure if one can use the embarkation port as the first port of entry in this scenario, but it does seem to get around the problem. Hopefully it would be accepted when submitted.

Thank you both, but I've tried it both ways, as a Canadian and as Discretionary/optional travel (Foreign national). It made no difference to the questions asked with respect to the marine trip.

Grrrrr.... OK, talk me through it, I'm obviously missing something. How do you manage not to get asked the country of original departure question? It comes up with a red asterisk indicating a required field. Reason for travel: Canadian citizens... How are you entering into Canada: Entry by marine Country of original departure: Canada Date of embarkation: 2022-05-06 12:30 The next question is Port of Entry. Without responding to this question with a Canadian port I can't progress.

The cruise in question is with HAL and does terminate in Whittier. But even if it was Anchorage, the problem persists. The current version of the app allows you to select marine ports of entry, but when you go to enter your marine trip details, you can enter Canada as your "Country of original departure", but then the only option is for "Port of Entry: This is the first port of arrival in Canada". So, contrary to the requirement specified in the GOC docs, there doesn't seem to be a means by which one can enter a Vancouver-Whittier cruise that doesn't have a port of call within Canada. Many of us have questioned the logic of this requirement. Perhaps the change has been made eliminated the need and the docs are simply not up to date.

I may need to retract my post. While there are a number of current GOC documents stating that you need to use ArriveCAN to board a cruise within Canada, I just tried to enter a Vancouver-Whittier cruise without success. As I've not had trouble in the past making dummy entries, I don't think it's my ability to use the app that's in question, but instead that the app can no longer accommodate the stated requirements. Comments?

Correct. A crew and passenger manifest must be provided to the authorities of each country to be visited, and must list the travel documents for each person. For Canadians, all countries other than the US require a passport.

I believe that you are on the 7-Day Glacier Discovery Northbound that embarks in Vancouver but disembarks in Whittier, Alaska. While logic might suggest that you wouldn't need an ArriveCAN submission for a cruise that departs Canada and terminates in the US, the government requirement is that you must make an ArriveCAN submission for any cruise that arrives or departs Canada. Before boarding your cruise ship: all travellers must submit their embarkation test information into ArriveCAN within 72 hours of boarding a cruise, including Canadians and those who just used ArriveCAN to enter Canada: in another country for a cruise that will enter Canada in Canada https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/cruise (Updated 2022-04-22) So, yes, you will need an ArriveCAN submission for your initial entry to Canada and a second one prior to boarding your cruise. Fortunately, with all of your passenger information already loaded into the app and saved with your first submission, it will be very quick just entering the new trip information the second time around.

Only for US and Canadian ports of call. For any cruise that stops elsewhere, we use our passports.

DW and I experienced the same issue in Boston a few years ago when checking in for a Canada-New England cruise terminating in Montreal. The terminal staff, including the supervisor, were totally unaware of NEXUS and we were refused boarding without showing our passports. Fortunately, we too always travel with our passports as well. This was 5 years after NEXUS had been introduced, and we had used NEXUS on previous cruises, so I really don't understand why there was this confusion.

While most cruiselines state that a telehealth test kit must be FDA approved, I've yet to read a post where a test result from a Switch Health or other kit approved in Canada has been rejected at embarkation. On the other hand, there have been many posts from Canadian cruisers stating that they have successfully boarded with such a test result. The general consensus on this board is that the cruiselines' focus is on the date and result of a test, not the manufacturer of the test kit.

Every sister's fantasy, deleting her brother and redoing him! 😇

It's hard to get more explicit than this: For example, if your flight is at 1pm on a Friday, you could board with a negative test that was taken any time on the prior Thursday.

Whomever you spoke to at Air Canada is wrong. From the CDC: The 1-day period is 1 day before the flight’s departure. The Order uses a 1-day time frame instead of 24 hours to provide more flexibility to the air passenger and aircraft operator. By using a 1-day window, test acceptability does not depend on the time of the flight or the time of day that the test sample was taken. For example, if your flight is at 1pm on a Friday, you could board with a negative test that was taken any time on the prior Thursday. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/testing-international-air-travelers.html#:~:text=Air passengers traveling to the,for all passengers before boarding.

I suggest that you redo it. Remember, the identities of travellers included in ArriveCAN must match their passports.

Here's an example from right here on the HAL board:

Phone numbers in Canada consist of 11 digits — the 1-digit country code, a 3-digit area code, a 3-digit central office or exchange code, and a 4-digit subscriber number. Our country code is 1. So: +1 (123) 456-7890. Depending on the app, you may or may not need to enter the brackets around the area code, spaces or the hyphen.

No, that wasn't Photoshopped: https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/4614-101410-aidabella-enters-guinness-book-of-records-pulling-a-water-skier-.html

I wouldn't book any flight out of Schiphol before noon at the earliest. After a lovely relaxing cruise, why subject yourself to the stress of very possibly missing your flight home. Edited to add that I just came across a similar thread on the Celebrity board:

Many have used the Switch Health kits without issue. Lots of reporting on the Canadian Cruisers board.

The online version is very straight forward. To allay your concerns, I'd suggest that you make a practise entry now, using all of your actual information with the exception of the sailing date. Just don't submit the information at the end. The main advantage with using the app is that you don't need to have wifi access as you do with the online version. Like other infrequently used apps, it's simple to delete when you are finished using it. With my iPhone, I can go one better by offloading the app but retaining the data.

Ah. Maybe they feel that they need a bit more lead time.