OK...It's now May 10th...When will Royal cancel July cruises?

[not-enough-cruising]

10 minutes ago, jpurdy said:

 

Yes, of course. So a decision can be made today whether they can resume regardless of what happened yesterday. 

I can not see any decisions being made until a ruling is made on the immediate injunction case in Tampa federal court

[ATLfuzzy]

17 July Symphony here and at this point I just want my money back so I can plan a land vacation.  

[M&A]

Looks like Alaska cruises will be going this summer

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/alaska-bound-cruise-ships-will-bypass-b-c-this-summer-1.6027945

[Jimbo]

35 minutes ago, M&A said:

Looks like Alaska cruises will be going this summer

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/alaska-bound-cruise-ships-will-bypass-b-c-this-summer-1.6027945

Still pending what the CDC says and if the cruiselines abides by what the CDC wants.

[smokeybandit]

14 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

Still pending what the CDC says and if the cruiselines abides by what the CDC wants.

 

The bill has to be enacted as law first.

[kearney]

31 minutes ago, smokeybandit said:

 

The bill has to be enacted as law first.

And it is now in the House...sooooo....

[smokeybandit]

54 minutes ago, kearney said:

And it is now in the House...sooooo....

To which govtrack give a 4% chance of passing

 

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s593

[Jimbo]

6 minutes ago, smokeybandit said:

To which govtrack give a 4% chance of passing

 

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s593

Wow, not very good odds, guess still not a very good time to make plans for Alaska.

[smokeybandit]

7 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

Wow, not very good odds, guess still not a very good time to make plans for Alaska.

I must confess I have no idea how accurate those predictions are or if they get updated after the bill is first created.

[gretchengao]

I wonder if we will hear any announcement this week about July cancellation... My cruise is 47 days away and still no information about this.

[rockmom]

27 minutes ago, gretchengao said:

I wonder if we will hear any announcement this week about July cancellation... My cruise is 47 days away and still no information about this.

Same here--July 3rd.  

[jpurdy]

35 minutes ago, gretchengao said:

I wonder if we will hear any announcement this week about July cancellation... My cruise is 47 days away and still no information about this.

 

July 16th - We've waited long enough. 

[Coralc]

On 5/15/2021 at 6:50 AM, smokeybandit said:

To which govtrack give a 4% chance of passing

 

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s593

 

It says 48% ? 

[smokeybandit]

5 minutes ago, Coralc said:

 

It says 48% ? 

Well that's good. They must have rerun their prediction logic after it got passed in the Senate.

[100viper]

49 minutes ago, gretchengao said:

I wonder if we will hear any announcement this week about July cancellation... My cruise is 47 days away and still no information about this.

Correct me if I’m wrong... but isn’t this the closest RC’s has gotten to a US sail date this entire pandemic?

[100viper]

12 minutes ago, Coralc said:

 

It says 48% ? 

It said 4% when OP posted it. But the fact that it’s at 48% now is great news. Hoping for good news for the state of Alaska. 

[yanks23]

We have a booking out of Miami on July 3rd on the Independence of the Seas.  I would say it is probably 75% - 25% that early July bookings will be cancelled.  Not sure why Royal Caribbean is waiting until the last moment to make a decision either way.  This is for my son's graduation gift and would like to have something to give him.  And since the cruise we are on is not even offered as this was a change already, do anyone have any options that I could pursue.

 

[John&LaLa]

1 hour ago, smokeybandit said:

Well that's good. They must have rerun their prediction logic after it got passed in the Senate.

 

Like any good bookie😉

[smokeybandit]

3 minutes ago, John&LaLa said:

 

Like any good bookie😉

Gotta be somewhere to bet on congressional bills.

[John&LaLa]

1 minute ago, smokeybandit said:

Gotta be somewhere to bet on congressional bills.

 

Good times

[D. B.]

I'm an Optimistic person but as my July 16-23rd. 2021 Celebrity Solstice Alaska Cruise (From Seattle) departure date gets closer I'm beginning to wonder if Celebrity could even have the Solstice Ready and  Crewed by that date?

 Oh well. As of now I'll think of my fully paid booking as a Loan to RCCL with a probable 25% interest payback.

 

We have 12 cruises booked through December 2022 so after our June 12-19,2021 Cruise on Celebrity Millennium from St. Maarten it will be interesting to see When our Next cruise will sail.........

[mlleach]

On 5/10/2021 at 2:13 PM, livingonthebeach said:

 

I don’t think anything will be decided on the day of the hearing.  I posted a link to the CDCs answer to the plaintiff’s complaint on another thread titled Texas joins lawsuit — not looking good for FL, TX or AK.

 

[soremekun]

Check-in is still not available for my July 9 cruise although the countdown says 52 days to go.

[Guest BigRoger]

Purely speculation but I fear passengers may need to adjust thinking re cancellations….
 

RC I think see themselves as a company now moving into sailing and not cancelling…. accordingly I fear they are going to move to (only) fulfil their commitment to let people know a minimum of 30 days before each sailing whether it is cancelled.
 

It becomes a rolling programme of cancelling ship by ship and sailing by sailing rather than month by month…

 

as said just speculation…. Hope I’m wrong…

[Diamond Dandy]

Watching all the cancellation news as are all of you.

 

We have a new wrinkle on all of this. Anxiously awaiting a decision on August cruises, as we are booked on Allure 8/29. Hopefully that will be an August decision even though much of the cruise actually occurs in September. 
 

Once that is decided we go through it all again due to our B2B booking on 9/5. There is even the possibility of a “No” for August and a “Yes” for September, although everything remains a “Maybe” for now.