Royal Caribbean May Need Volunteers for Trial Cruises

[sfaaa]

On 11/4/2020 at 4:09 PM, deliver42 said:

I'll volunteer, gladly.

Not so fast. You have competition.

[loman]

I`ll take a pass on this one. 

Even if they paid me , i wouldnt go. 

[George C]

I will volunteer if in grand suite or larger.

[yogimax]

On 11/5/2020 at 11:59 AM, Biker19 said:

Who says the ship will go anywhere? They could do a lot of the testing of process at the pier. Quantum is spending a lot of time docked.

o.k., fair enough, but then there would still be no guarantee that you could debark the ship when you expected.  One positive case and you could be quarantined.

[Ocean Boy]

On 11/5/2020 at 9:18 AM, molly361 said:

Royal may need volunteers for trial cruises-  NO THANKS😇

I agree. Sometimes there is a lot of truth in that line from the Wizard of Oz.... there's no place like home....

[Arzeena]

On 11/4/2020 at 6:50 PM, A&L_Ont said:

I thought they were to be Travel Agents and RC employees for the trial cruises.🤷‍♂️

I read (or rather I was read to🙂) that the volunteers were to be from among the crew members and employees, no cruise line passengers.

[orville99]

16 hours ago, Arzeena said:

I read (or rather I was read to🙂) that the volunteers were to be from among the crew members and employees, no cruise line passengers.

And yet there was a report this morning on our local network that more than 200 people have already volunteered. Apparently there are some real addicts out there that are emailing RCL asking to play Royal roulette.😷

[laumicmah]

I'd do it. We are 47. I'd spend a pretty penny too, on bar drinks and upgrade restaurants and in the casino. We don't normally do casino but for a free cruise we would. 

[CruiseJunkie56]

The beauty of volunteering is that no one is forcing you to volunteer.  I would do it in a heartbeat, even if it's just to cruise around.  And it definitely has to be better than being stuck all day at home.

[3red7s]

On 11/4/2020 at 6:50 PM, A&L_Ont said:

I thought they were to be Travel Agents and RC employees for the trial cruises.🤷‍♂️

that would make sense....obtaining a realistic and honest evaluation

 

[carol326]

We would consider volunteering. I think the ships are much safer than the cities.

[wanda1125]

We would love to volunteer if anyone finds out more information.

 

[kangforpres]

This story has gotten a lot of traction in the media, I've had 2 friends who don't cruise egging me on to volunteer. Since I have a "free" gambling cruise on RCI in June I'm not really eager to be a Guinee pig.

 

But if I lived in a port city where they are going to be "practicing" I would sign-up for it.

[BirdTravels]

We would go on a mock cruise. It will be the cleanest, safest cruise operating in the next year.... unless someone brings COVID onboard. But, I suppose that pre-existing conditions and age would exclude us from the guest list. 

Edited November 10, 2020 by BirdTravels

[laumicmah]

They could ask for folks who have had Covid or have positive antibodies. 

[karena1]

On 11/4/2020 at 6:53 PM, Domino D said:

Not a big believer in volunteering.  I'm sure there will be plenty of travel agents and vloggers who will jump in gladly. 

I would go in a heartbeat.  I emailed Vicki and told her I would gladly volunteer!!

Edited November 11, 2020 by karena1

[Domino D]

46 minutes ago, karena1 said:

I would go in a heartbeat.  I emailed Vicki and told her I would gladly volunteer!!

I hope you get picked. 

[karena1]

23 minutes ago, Domino D said:

I hope you get picked. 

I hope so also!

 

[Domino D]

31 minutes ago, Heymarco said:

This popular blogger confirmed that Royal Carribean will only be doing test cruises with employees starting out, no need to reach out to them at all.

 

https://*****.com/y564kpl7

 

Given everything listed in the CDC guidance, I'm not surprised.  Thanks for the link.

 

https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/pdf/CDC-Conditional-Sail-Order_10_30_2020-p.pdf

[bouhunter]

On 11/8/2020 at 7:58 PM, carol326 said:

 I think the ships are much safer than the cities.

Well since almost no ships have sailed in 8 months, no one can really know that.

[Biker19]

3 hours ago, bouhunter said:

Well since almost no ships have sailed in 8 months, no one can really know that.

If you compare COVID numbers on ships in Europe, where they have sailed for the past 3 months, to numbers on land, one can sorta say cruising is safer than being on land.

[Coralc]

Cruise Critic article about the test cruises: https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/5719/

[pcakes122]

On 11/10/2020 at 12:04 AM, BirdTravels said:

We would go on a mock cruise. It will be the cleanest, safest cruise operating in the next year.... unless someone brings COVID onboard. But, I suppose that pre-existing conditions and age would exclude us from the guest list. 

The danger of cruising during a pandemic has very little to do with how clean the cruise ship is, and everything to do with close contact with other passengers who have come from heaven knows where,  most likely fresh off airplanes with hundreds of other people - who have also come from heaven knows where and been exposed to heaven knows what.

 

Contracting Covid from a contaminated surface is relatively rare (if even possible?) when compared to contracting it from another human being.

 

So "clean, sanitized ships" may sound good from a marketing perspective (and it certainly doesn't hurt), but that doesn't go far in terms of preventing virus contraction and spreading.  People should not lull themselves into a false sense of protection from Covid because cruise ships are clean.  It's almost irrelevant. The ship itself is not the danger and never was.  It's the passengers that are the issue (and they are much more difficult to control.)

[Ocean Boy]

On 11/10/2020 at 12:04 AM, BirdTravels said:

We would go on a mock cruise. It will be the cleanest, safest cruise operating in the next year.... unless someone brings COVID onboard. But, I suppose that pre-existing conditions and age would exclude us from the guest list. 

Isn't that the entire reason, in a nut shell, that the entire industry got shut down. It had nothing to do with dirty ships.

 

BTW, the Sea Dream, the first Caribbean cruise to occur since the shutdown, has a case on board. The ship in back in Barbados and everyone is quarantined in their cabins.

[Ocean Boy]

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