No testing for the vaccinated on cruises under 10 days!

[ileys]

From the Royal website:

 

Starting with September 5^th, for U.S. cruises that don’t visit Canada or Bermuda:
 

• Vaccinated guests won’t have to take a pre-cruise test on cruises that are shorter than 10 nights.
• Unvaccinated guests age 5 and up will need to test within 3 days before boarding, regardless of cruise length.
• We will begin accepting results from self-administered home tests. See full testing details

[aubreyc1988]

Of course I would be sailing Sept 4th haha 

[Happy Cruiser Girl]

What we've been waiting for! Yay!

[lovinlife58]

Great news!!!! Leave Sept 25!!!

[nelblu]

That sucks, I'm sailing on September 3rd.

[smokeybandit]

Fantastic. Finally and truly getting back to normal, at least for the vaccinated.

Now to eliminate testing for the unvaccinated to align with new CDC guidance.

[GCS2000]

Canada killing me, lol.

 

Oh well have to hope for the best for my Alaska cruise in 25 days

[poocher]

One less plan to make!

[Toddcan]

tough to keep up.... But this is welcomed news!! 

 

Q - I have a grandchild who is currently 4, but turning 5 before the cruise who is not yet vaxxed. Everyone else is... he'll need a neg test, or get his vax's complete - correct?   6 night cruise. 

[smokeybandit]

And you can now use at-home tests without proctoring.

[sandebeach]

Still hoping that they will eliminate all testing, doing a trans-Atlantic and then a trans-pacific cruise. 

[ramja96]

Just now, smokeybandit said:

And you can now use at-home tests without proctoring.

 

That's a curious one ..... are you supposed to take a picture of your test result with your phone??? I don't think they want you bringing the physical test strip with you. Or maybe they do ...... 🤔

[bloodyen]

5 minutes ago, smokeybandit said:

And you can now use at-home tests without proctoring.

Not for cruises before September 5th smh

[georgemoe]

3 minutes ago, ramja96 said:

 

That's a curious one ..... are you supposed to take a picture of your test result with your phone??? I don't think they want you bringing the physical test strip with you. Or maybe they do ...... 🤔

Agreed this is odd. Sailing Sep 18 which includes stops in Canada so need to test. Have appointment setup with OnPoint on the 16th. I guess I can cancel that now and get a refund. How you present proof of the test should be interesting. I'll stay tuned.

[sandebeach]

9 minutes ago, ramja96 said:

 

That's a curious one ..... are you supposed to take a picture of your test result with your phone??? I don't think they want you bringing the physical test strip with you. Or maybe they do ...... 🤔

Yes, curious. Wondering about how you show proof of a negative result. 

[RandomUser123]

What great news for my Oct 29th sailing!!! I am so happy. 

[NateUpNorth]

So according to the healthy sail centre:

Unvaxxed (including minor kids) need a test within 3 days that's negative.
That test can either be brought to the port as proof OR you can take a picture of the rapid test showing negative?

I'm not gonna lie........ I'd be surprised if anyone lugs the actual test around with them.... yuck! 

[SplashOfWater]

Great news for our Sep 11th Harmony sailing!

[rrraydon]

Yay!!! Finally!

 

I can now start booking cruises with my unvaxxed granddaughter!!

[cruiselvr04]

Great news! Who hoo! 

[cruiselvr04]

4 minutes ago, sandebeach said:

Yes, curious. Wondering about how you show proof of a negative result. 

Taking a picture with your phone is what we do for work if we are positive.

[sandebeach]

1 minute ago, cruiselvr04 said:

Taking a picture with your phone is what we do for work if we are positive.

Taking a picture of the home test itself? But how does anyone know that it is really yours and not someone else's?

[georgemoe]

10 minutes ago, georgemoe said:

Agreed this is odd. Sailing Sep 18 which includes stops in Canada so need to test. Have appointment setup with OnPoint on the 16th. I guess I can cancel that now and get a refund. How you present proof of the test should be interesting. I'll stay tuned.

 

From the RCI site pertaining to my situation. We still need a supervised negative test result.

 

 

[davekathy]

11 minutes ago, georgemoe said:

Agreed this is odd. Sailing Sep 18 which includes stops in Canada so need to test. Have appointment setup with OnPoint on the 16th. I guess I can cancel that now and get a refund. How you present proof of the test should be interesting. I'll stay tuned.

I wouldn't cancel the proctored tests. Canada still requires covid testing along with  ArriveCAN.

[mjkacmom]

2 minutes ago, cruiselvr04 said:

Taking a picture with your phone is what we do for work if we are positive.

I don’t understand how this works as proof, if I test positive I can just take a picture of someone’s negative test, if I can’t cruise for any reason I can just take a picture of a positive test even if I’m negative. With all of the talk about fake vaccine cards I do not trust folks to do the right thing.