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We're on the Celebration during Feb break. On NCL Joy next week out of NYC. Love the megaships, never understood people liking small ships with less to do unless just holding on to memories of the past. Celebration still dwarfed by our April Break cruise......Wonder of the Seas. That one will be something to see, looking forward to it.

Thank you that makes sense!

Anyone with experience with Priority Access know if your room is also ready earlier or just earlier to board? We're headed out of Manhattan next week, have a boarding window of 9-9:30am. I'm certainly not expecting the room to be ready at that time, but wondering if they ready any sooner than normal. Thanks!

It would be pretty hard to complain if your on your THIRD entrée 🤪

Time to dust off the ol' Rum Runners!

I was wondering the same thing. So if you are fully vaccinated do you no longer have to test? confusing.

Also just FYI, from the Bermuda gov't travel site, looks like they are only requiring testing for unvaccinated passengers as of next monday 8/22

Great news--about time!

its close to FL, easy, and has a big pier. I agree, not a ton to do. We've been there a half dozen times at least. Usually get a chair at the beach, hang out and go back to the ship early. Some decent snorkeling out to the big drop off which is cool.

Yep, some pretty bleak statistics for many Boomers. I'm a millennial myself. Start early and your gold. Unfortunately some folks dont or cant start saving until their already in their 50's.

Correct--Mexico doesnt require any testing. That's required by the US to get back in. Happy its gone now. We have done a bunch of Mexico trips in the past couple of years--great times. I remember a year or two ago talking to a guy at the pool in Cancun. I was telling him I was still stressed about the covid test to get back home he said 'I come here every other month....if someone ever tested positive, the hotel puts you up for free for quarantine.....TRUST ME you'll be negative' 🤪

Mexico doesnt require testing....Even more simple then: If you havent taken the test, you cant get off at a port that requires it..... 7 nighter to Jamaica, Grand Cayman, and two spots in Mexico. If you take the test pre cruise, you can get off at all of them. If you dont, you can get off at all of them other than Grand Cayman. That seems simple, would cut down the stress of testing, and encourage many others to cruise.

As I stated before--I have zero problem with a sovereign country requiring testing to disembark. Totally within their rights. But, if you eliminate embarkation testing, its then giving personal choice to your cruise passenger whether they choose to get off at a port that requires testing (my guess, would be that many countries would not require the test, since they know the more passengers disembark, the more $$ it brings in to the economy.....Mexico executed this with much success over the past few years, not requiring vaccines or any testing for entry). Furthermore---if a particular country was set on demanding testing for disembarkation there, done at the port or even the day before, those results would be much MORE accurate than tests done 5-10 days earlier---pre-cruise....

Good for you. And yes, retirement savings...or even thinking about it, is something so easy to 'put off since its so far down the road' for people, by the time they realize they're in a bad spot its too late. Invest early, invest often!

LOVE me some APA! What a great stock. Bought them and FANG back in 2020 as well. Apache is a great company, good for your dad.

CDC didnt give a final word, they gave a recommendation that most cruiselines have followed because they didnt want to be targeted and shuttered again by draconian orders...

A virus that is like the cold to most people at this point. We were never worried or demanding flu testing back in the day, whats the difference? And if someone is that worried about being exposed....THEY can stay home 🙂

Thats awesome--thanks for posting this!

Yes obviously its for air travel...hence my post 'being lifted for air travel: is cruiseing next?' Thanks for your input.

Its not worth it. That's a ridiculous argument. If we all lock ourselves in our homes until we die of natural causes in 50 years, is that worth it? Flights and cruises are certainly different dynamics, proximity vs length. But, I still be it drove you wild when the masks dropped....

I still think it will be phased out. It was the same pushdown to demand testing for cruises as it was for air travel, and the same lobbies working to remove both. Certainly within the rights of individual islands/countries to require testing for entry if they want, but I think the testing before embarcation will be gone soon.

Couldnt agree more. We have been going to Mexico AI's a few times a year for the past couple of years since it was convenient with no vaccine/testing requirements. But having to get one down there to come home as always such a pain and stress point. Glad to see it gone!

ya, not like many of their economies rely on tourism....

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/10/biden-administration-to-drop-covid-testing-requirements-for-international-air-travel.html The covid testing requirement is being lifted for air travel: I wonder if cruiselines will follow suit?

Thanks! Looking for the hard stuff though. Appreciate it.