No, but I am hoping to spend the summer in Scotland in 2022 so my fingers are crossed for international travel, but a cruise is a bridge too far for me.
Post by thelurkylulu on Apr 20, 2021 12:14:26 GMT -5
Cruising is one thing I honestly miss a lot about pre-pandemic life, so I vote yes (depending on the state of things at the time and if my money was fully refundable). I would also not want to be on one of the first cruises that sails.
I am interested to see what cruising looks like post COVID. I can’t imagine buffets will be a thing. Idk how disembarkation at ports would work (large crowds gathered in tight spaces), how would a muster drill work? Are the pool chairs going to be socially distanced because no one is going to want to wear a mask by the pool.
Honestly it's going to be a long time before I'm going to be comfortable on a cruise ship. We just don't know what the next few years will hold, and all the terrible stories from the start of this would have me unwilling to step foot on one for quite a while.
No, but cruising isn't my thing, so it's probably easy for me to say no (like, I've gone on a cruise before, but it's not my preferred way to travel). I am hoping to visit Hawaii or Canada next summer, though.
Post by penguingrrl on Apr 20, 2021 12:21:58 GMT -5
I wouldn’t, but I’ve never been on a cruise because they’ve never really appealed to me. I would be comfortable planning travel, even air travel by then. But cruises have always seemed uniquely vulnerable to virus transmission, even pre covid.
I wasn't into the idea pre-covid and literally can't imagine a world where I would ever be comfortable cruising in my life. I am planning to return to traveling/air travel once I am fully vaxxed but cruise is a hard no for me.
I bet I’ll get flamed here, but I have one scheduled for November 2021. I can cancel up til June, but I’m still optimistic. They are requiring vaccination, no exceptions (no even kids). I try not to think about it too much.
edit, this is a cruise with some friends, and most of our group are MDs, including one infectious disease specialist. I’m kinda looking to them, and they are still planning on it.
Would I do it? Nope. Mainly because it is an international cruise and I'm not as confident that things will be better globally by then. But I seem to be on the pessimistic/overly cautious side of things these days. I like to be pleasantly surprised instead of disappointed.
I bet I’ll get flamed here, but I have one scheduled for November 2021. I can cancel up til June, but I’m still optimistic. They are requiring vaccination, no exceptions (no even kids). I try not to think about it too much.
edit, this is a cruise with some friends, and most of our group are MDs, including one infectious disease specialist. I’m kinda looking to them, and they are still planning on it.
I hope you get to go and hope you have a blast. No flames from me. I'm hoping to travel overseas ASAP and look forward to the time when (not *if*) I can fly without a mask. Meaning, life is back to normal!
I probably would not for next summer. I do hope in another few years it will be a possibility again. It is one of my preferred way to vacation because I am lazy.
We are already booked on a very small cruise for the Galapagos in Summer of 2022. I would not be surprised if, given the destination, vaccines are required for all but we will see.
I REALLY hope so. We have a cruise booked for our family, plus MIL & BIL, the first week of August. We went on a cruise in 2019 with the kids and it is one of my and their favorite memories to date. So far I’ve only had to pay the deposit and don’t pay the rest until next April so I feel pretty confident that we will know by then and if I lose the deposit it isn’t the worst thing in the world.
Post by goldengirlz on Apr 20, 2021 13:11:28 GMT -5
I was never a cruise person, but one of the things that terrified me last spring was that people were just left STRANDED on these ships while international authorities tried to figure out how to let them safely disembark. Meanwhile, the virus ran rampant.
Also, even once guests returned home, many cruise industry workers (as many as 100,000) spent MONTHS on ships trying to get home and felt completely abandoned by their employers.
Plus, the vaccine rollout is going much more slowly in Europe — though perhaps things will speed up sooner than later.
The sum of all of that is basically a hard nope for me right now, both for public health reasons and because it’s not an industry I feel good about supporting.
We went to Greece for our honeymoon and I would much rather stay on a few islands! The food is so good! And so many little restaurants and areas to explore. We only did Santorini and Naxos but would have done Crete if we could have fit it in.
We aren't really cruise people before the pandemic, and definitely not ones now. Theoretically, it should be fine I think. I would book the flight, but not the cruise. I imagine there are other ways to see Greece. For example, are there flights between some of the preferred destinations? Then you could probably wait until a few months out to decide on the cruise portion of the trip.
Yes, I would as long as you are all vaccinated. As long as Greece is open and cruise is happening. Most companies are doing fully refundable at this point.
I have one booked for Nov. that was cancelled last year, we just carried over deposit to same cruise this year. I am slightly hopeful. WE are both vaccinated and waiting to see what cruise line does.
I pay a lot of attention to what is going on with the virus and the vaccine in the rest of the world. I think if you are in the US, it's very easy to assume that everyone else is in the same spot we are, and that is absolutely not the case.
6-9 months ago, I was very optimistic that by this point we would be seeing an improvement and things would start to open more travel and tourism wise worldwide by the summer. Things really do not seem to be going the way it was expected. The US is way, way more vaccinated than anyone else. There are still countries that don't have ANY vaccine AT ALL.
I actually expect the Tokyo Olympics (that was postponed from last summer), that's supposed to start in less than 3 months, to get cancelled outright. And possibly the Winter Olympics next February.
If you were asking about something domestic, it would be different, but the virus is not yet being effectively fought in the rest of the world. With so much uncertainty, I would not go.
I was never a cruise person, but one of the things that terrified me last spring was that people were just left STRANDED on these ships while international authorities tried to figure out how to let them safely disembark. Meanwhile, the virus ran rampant.
Also, even once guests returned home, many cruise industry workers (as many as 100,000) spent MONTHS on ships trying to get home and felt completely abandoned by their employers.
Plus, the vaccine rollout is going much more slowly in Europe — though perhaps things will speed up sooner than later.
The sum of all of that is basically a hard nope for me right now, both for public health reasons and because it’s not an industry I feel good about supporting.
Exactly this, except that I have taken two long cruises in recent years. I don't LOVE them but before this I probably would have taken a shorter one sometime again. Now I don't know when I'll be comfortable with *waves hands* any of it.
I'm scheduled for a River Cruise in France this coming September and am holding out hope that it doesn't get cancelled, so yes, yes I would cruise in 2022.
Yes. In fact, we have a cruise leaving out of Athen in November of this year. Whether or not vaccination will be mandatory on this line is questionable, but we will be vaccinated. I hope the cruise goes off. This cruise should have gone off last November.
Yes, I would as long as you are all vaccinated. As long as Greece is open and cruise is happening. Most companies are doing fully refundable at this point.
I have one booked for Nov. that was cancelled last year, we just carried over deposit to same cruise this year. I am slightly hopeful. WE are both vaccinated and waiting to see what cruise line does.
There is a grooup of 20 of us scheduled for a cruise in Oct. I'm hoping and praying that it gets cancelled so I can get a full refund because I can't go no matter what because of the mask situation.
Yes, I would as long as you are all vaccinated. As long as Greece is open and cruise is happening. Most companies are doing fully refundable at this point.
I have one booked for Nov. that was cancelled last year, we just carried over deposit to same cruise this year. I am slightly hopeful. WE are both vaccinated and waiting to see what cruise line does.
There is a grooup of 20 of us scheduled for a cruise in Oct. I'm hoping and praying that it gets cancelled so I can get a full refund because I can't go no matter what because of the mask situation.
The “no, but I would never cruise” responses are cracking me up.
The minute I saw the thread title I knew that was how this thread would go. I feel like 50% of the world loves cruising and thinks it's a great way to travel and the other 50% think people who cruise are disgusting cesspools of grossness. LOL
FWIW, I enjoy a good cruise and while I don't personally plan to cruise in 2022, I don't think it's the worst idea ever. I might look for a smaller cruise versus one of the mega ships.
I don't know. I am not really a cruise person either (not against it and have enjoyed them in the past, but I like to have more control over my pace and budget than a cruise allows). I do think there is a big difference between a huge cruiseline like Carnival or Royal Caribbean and between some of the smaller European river cruise lines. I am not an expert but my understanding is that some of those smaller ships will be like 100-200 people instead of several thousand. I might be willing to do a smaller one like that next summer, assuming it can be refunded if it ends up being inadvisable.
I haven't gotten as far as planning anything for 2022 yet, but I am hopeful that we will be able to more or less travel as normal by that summer. Perhaps there will still be some limits on capacity and mask wearing, but a full 2 years into this thing I think most places will be open and if everyone traveling is vaccinated, I can't see why I would not want to do things. Life is short and going 3 summers without travel is a huge amount of time to lose out on.