Seychelles announces no cruise ships until 2022

[npcl]

https://thepointsguy.com/news/seychelles-bans-cruise-arrivals/

[mom says]

Does Celebrity even have port calls in the Seychelles? Not sure why this belongs on this forum.

[jelayne]

I’ve never seen a Celebrity itinerary with a stop in the Seychelles.

[omeinv]

Nope, even the article says no Royal Caribbean or Celebrity sailings have or will go there.  For this board it's a bit like an announcement that we'll have no cruise ships in Denver.  🙂

 

Harris

Denver, CO

[steamboats]

In this news video (min 3:15) they only say that they have put the authorization of cruise ships on hold. This sounds more like... we don´t want to decide right now whether a cruise ship can dock in 2021 or 2022.

 

steamboats

[Georgia_Peaches]

Maybe the OP was pointing out that some ports are considering longer closures than we think and that perhaps other ports (ones that are frequented by Celebrity) will follow suit.

[Fouremco]

1 hour ago, Georgia_Peaches said:

Maybe the OP was pointing out that some ports are considering longer closures than we think and that perhaps other ports (ones that are frequented by Celebrity) will follow suit.

I agree. There are far too many posts about when cruises restart and their initial itineraries that simply take for granted that ports will be open to them. The announcement by the Seychelles serves as a good reminder that sovereign nations get to decide who can visit, not the cruise lines.

 

Given the great number of other threads that have been started over the past couple of months that have nothing directly to do with Celebrity but have produced some informative discussions, I'm not sure why the angst over this thread.

[TeeRick]

I believe that these type of port and country announcements will continue.  Some will get all worried perhaps if they have a cruise planned for next year or later that stops at those ports.  But I would just wait and see what happens.  A lot can change.  Decisions are reversible or can be modified depending on the changing and  new circumstances.  Some think these things are absolute and perhaps they are for the immediate future through 2020.  But beyond that time and reason will apply.  

[npcl]

3 hours ago, Georgia_Peaches said:

Maybe the OP was pointing out that some ports are considering longer closures than we think and that perhaps other ports (ones that are frequented by Celebrity) will follow suit.

Bingo - The whole point of posting is this is the first indicator of smaller island countries looking at restricting for longer time frames.

 

Will be interesting to see if the south sea island countries, that were the first to ban cruise ships, follow the same path.

[ECCruise]

It is important to note that these port closures are a very fluid situation.

In March, we had approval from Madagascar (pulled 3 days before docking), Sri Lanka (pulled 2 days before docking),  India (pulled the night before docking) and UAE (our disembarkation port, pulled 6 days or so before our disembarkation).  If a port says, for example, "no ships through 2020" than you can likely take that as gospel.  But if they say "we are open for cruise ships at the present time" that can change in a heartbeat.

One of the many reasons that we are taking a "wait and see" approach, even with 11 in the future hopper.

[excitedofharpenden]

13 hours ago, mom says said:

Does Celebrity even have port calls in the Seychelles? Not sure why this belongs on this forum.

Perhaps because it might have a bearing on places that Celebrity does go to?

 

Phil