7 day sailings question upon start up

[Snowwhyt]

I know test cruises come first. And shorter cruises will appear safer from Covid spread. How many days/weeks/months do you feel it will be until a 7 day cruise will follow the shorter 3-5 day cruises? Do you feel a 7 day cruise would be shortened to a 5 day cruise if it would help get a ships in the water?
I have thought about the shorter cruise option for a while as helpful/required to keep Covid numbers down. But now the concept is a little more pressing in my mind since I have a 7 day cruise just a few weeks off the current restart date. Singapore Royal Caribbean ship rolls out today I believe, with its first 7 day on April 17th.

 

[koala1966]

I thought the ruling by the CDC to keep cruises under 7 days was thru 11.1.21?

 

[Snowwhyt]

I thought the ruling by the CDC to keep cruises under 7 days was thru 11.1.21?

If that’s true wouldn’t my 7 day Fantasy leaving Aug 28th be canceled? I still owe like $500 as per a few weeks ago when I added insurance and tips. I thought it was a larger number like 8 or 9 day cruises?

 

[HiStitch626]

The current conditional sail order does limit cruises, but that can change and I assume Disney is either hopeful they can do a 7 night in August and is waiting to cancel until they are sure.

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

 

[otten]

I thought the ruling by the CDC to keep cruises under 7 days was thru 11.1.21?

I know test cruises come first. And shorter cruises will appear safer from Covid spread. How many days/weeks/months do you feel it will be until a 7 day cruise will follow the shorter 3-5 day cruises? Do you feel a 7 day cruise would be shortened to a 5 day cruise if it would help get a ships in the water?
I have thought about the shorter cruise option for a while as helpful/required to keep Covid numbers down. But now the concept is a little more pressing in my mind since I have a 7 day cruise just a few weeks off the current restart date. Singapore Royal Caribbean ship rolls out today I believe, with its first 7 day on April 17th.

I don’t believe there is a restriction on cruises being 7 nights. The restriction is that they can’t have cruises that are more than 7 nights which is why cruises longer than that were removed from the website.

It is possible that lines will decide to start with 3-4 night cruises first but there is no regulation requiring that currently.

 

[HiStitch626]

The language from the CDC is in days, not nights. I do not know if they would consider a 7-night cruise to be 8 days.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I thought the ruling by the CDC to keep cruises under 7 days was thru 11.1.21?

The order says "7 days and longer" cruises are not allowed. And this is the issue with cruising, as most cruises are sold as XX nights. 7 days, in vacation travel talk, typically means 8 days, 7 nights.

 

[Intr3pid]

Pretty sure that the cruise industry has understood the 7-night cruises to be within the allowed sailing length. That's why the cruises are still being marketed.

A day would be defined as 24 hours, so the time from embarkation to debarkation has to be less than 7 such instances of 24 hours.
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From the CSO: "Cruise ship means any commercial, non-cargo, passenger-carrying vessel operating in U.S. waters with the capacity to carry 250 or more individuals (passengers and crew) with an itinerary anticipating an overnight stay onboard or a twenty-four (24) hour stay onboard for either passengers or crew."

 

[Saratoga75]

Pretty sure that the cruise industry has understood the 7-night cruises to be within the allowed sailing length. That's why the cruises are still being marketed.

A day would be defined as 24 hours, so the time from embarkation to debarkation has to be less than 7 such instances of 24 hours.
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From the CSO: "Cruise ship means any commercial, non-cargo, passenger-carrying vessel operating in U.S. waters with the capacity to carry 250 or more individuals (passengers and crew) with an itinerary anticipating an overnight stay onboard or a twenty-four (24) hour stay onboard for either passengers or crew."

I agree with you Intr3pid. I think one thing that reaffirms this understanding is when DCL cancelled cruises longer then 7 nights back in December. The 13 EBTA in May, 9 night Alaskan in June, and 8 night Southern Caribbean in July. I was booked on the 8 night Eastern Caribbean in October that cruise unlike the others was not officially cancelled, but pulled from the website.