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But are the EU doing 4th jabs either (for the under 75s)? Anyway, it's November, so not going to worry - maybe it will be within the flu jab I have had for years in September? Also interested you are going to Osaka. We want to go in 2025 for their Expo, but not if they still insist you have to only be there in a group tour. Which is your cruise line for that?

Hi les37b I was worried re the 270 days rule too - we are going on a Christmas Market river cruise this autumn, but our Tauck rep assures me it just means if you are more than 270 days from the original pair of jabs (Spring 2021) then you need to have had a 3rd jab - which we did in autumn 2021. Hopefully! If there are no more dangerous variants (as opposed to the ones which gives you a slight cold) then I think the UK will stop vaccinations, not to mention tests. So will cruise lines ban all UK people? Hopefully not.

Has anyone taken the included Silversea bus transfer to Anchorage after your Alaska cruise? What time did you leave the ship and what time did you arrive at the Captain Cook Hotel (approx)? Was lunch included and / or did you stop anywhere on the way? Thank you for your help.

Did you have to do an ArriveCan to actually LeaveCan on the ship, and if so what did you put for your "Canada" address? Did anyone check this? Is it really attached to your passport (magically?)

It's very difficult Terry. We do watch for riots etc in places we hope to visit (eg Chile, maybe Sri Lanka one day), and if you are like me and like to book a long way in advance (I have already booked us to see the Eclipse in 2024) then a sudden uprising after you have booked is very worrying. So for the next couple of years we will stay with North America and Western Europe - hopefully safe there. Of course developing countries need tourism money, so very sad.

Thank you CJANDH. I am still not convinced that a pre-cruise test stops people catching a cough (COVID) as we go along. So long as it's just a few days of a cough, that could have happened in the past anyway. But stopping every passenger having to pay for a test saves a lot of money and time.

Thank you GloriaF, that is reassuring!

Just read that the Mayor of Niagara Falls (Canada) is campaigning for ArriveCan to stop, because people like to pop over the border for the day, then find they don't have a smartphone to download the App and can't get back home! Thank you vswan, we will put the address of Canada Place cruise port.

Gramma of Boys please may I ask what had you put in wrong? Because we are leaving Vancouver (for ever) I am sorely tempted to put the ship name and Pacific Ocean as the address? I am interested karatemom2 that you had to show it to your room steward, so I guess they are still taking it seriously.

I guess we will do it at the Vancouver hotel, thank you.

Thank you Terry! Crossing all my fingers they drop pre-cruise testing for Alaska as soon as possible!x Though I agree with you re Asia - our next cruise was supposed to be to Japan in a couple of years time, but the way the Japanese Govt are treating western tourists as pariahs, not to be allowed to roam (even with a test!) has put us completely off going there.

Thank you SightCRR - let us what happens when we go to Vancouver!

Thank you very much katrina915, Tiggerontheseas and especially Gramma of Boys. That is exactly what I thought - if it's a LeaveCam, I guess I will put the ship name as our residence, for the 3 hours it is in port before it leaves for Alaska. But what if they want an address? I guess I put Canada Place. It seems so silly and I am very glad that it is odds on that no-one will ask to see it. I am very happy to show our vaccination certificates, and if they still insist, our, hopefully, negative test results.

PS We did book this holiday 4 years ago, for 2020, and there was no mention then of online apps. Normally I avoid countries with unnecessary bureaucracy.

That's a good point Ferry_Watcher! And of course we will put ourselves out to find a printer and do the ArriveCan. I am interested though if cruise ships do bother to ask for it or not?

No that's the point - we just get on the ship in Vancouver and don't return to Canada at all - we end up in Seward. So we are LeaveCan, not ArriveCan! Did the ship check your ArriveCan as you boarded - and what else did they check please?

Please may I ask to any of you who have recently had your Alaska cruise from Vancouver - especially anyone who went one-way to Anchorage: Did anyone at the cruise ship actually ask to see your 2nd ArriveCan? Would a printed certificate of a negative COVID test (until those are finally done away with too!) be acceptable - and did anyone want to see that too? Plus a printed NHS COVID Vaccination Certificate? I am vehemently against teeny weeny mobile apps, due to poor eyesight, and it will be an effort to have to find somewhere with a computer in Vancouver to do this - let alone somewhere with a printer to print the 2nd ArriveCan out, whereas the above I can do from my large computer at home before we even get to Vancouver. I hate doing things which no-one then bothers with, it seems such a waste of time. And I used to be a project manager - if no-one will read a report, don't write it!

I guess if they also do away with quarantine, then people will feel happy to cruise, because most people won't get very ill even if they catch COVID. If you are really vulnerable then probably all the tests in the world wouldn't make travelling a good idea, because you can catch diseases when you go on land in strange places.

We have had lovely holidays in Germany - including Christmas Market river cruises. This November we are on the Rhine - our 3rd such cruise.