There are already a couple of threads out there about whether folks would be willing to cruise if masks were required, and whether vaccines will be mandated to cruise.
My question is this: for those in favor of mandated masks and/or vaccines, is there ANY condition that you would NOT meet in order to be able to cruise again?
Sure... a lot more money.
Let me throw out some examples, just to get the ball rolling:
1. One way halls/stairs on the ships
2. Designated hours that you can use your balcony (to prevent people on their balconies on either side of you, above or below you)
3. Mandatory vitamin D/zinc supplements
4. BMI limits
5. Elevator use by exception only, with sign up times, etc.
6. Quarantine times before and after embarkation
7. No daily cabin cleaning/turn down service
8. Sign-up times for shuffleboard, miniature golf, ping pong, or basketballs
9. No one on upper decks during breezy conditions, since germs could carry further, faster
10. Confinement to quarters during certain times of day
11. No childrens' clubs
12. Two meals per day, to accommodate more distanced dining with an option for an additional charge room service for a third meal
13. Lottery system for shows and movies with a guarantee of one show per passenger
1. Don't care, we do this at my work already (though its still only essential people in the building - I only go in once or twice a week to do some hands on stuff and then get out as quickly as possible).
2. Given that they are outside, with partitions, I doubt this would ever happen. At that point they would simply not book people next to each other as there is no way to enforce this. I'd still go, but maybe wouldn't bother with a balcony depending on how it's done.
3. Not gonna happen. Good luck enforcing it as it is invisible. (I wouldn't care as I already take vitamin D regularly, even in the summer, and highly recommend it if you don't live in a year round sunny area. Even better than caffeine.)
4. Laughable. They'd never fill a ship. Still don't care, you have to abide by weight limits for some things already (helicopters, ziplines, etc).
5. Don't care, but again not going to happen. Masks would be on inside in public areas which is fine. My guess is they will clean them more often, and they will have to limit the number of people at a given time and have lines to use them. Our post office for instance only allows 5 people inside at a time, and my office elevators are one or two at a time. We already deal with this.
6. It'd work for me just fine, as I work remote most of the time anyway. I'd tell my work I couldn't go in for X number of days and a coworker would pick up the slack. We already lean on each other like this as needed - they owe me at this point.
7. That's fine, we don't care about service on land and if the towels dried quicker/we didn't get in the ocean and take extra showers almost every day we wouldn't need it at sea either.
8. We already rarely do this. If anything we'd maybe use it more as someone is always enjoying it when we'd like to.
9. This is against every current recommendation.
10. This would only be done in an outbreak. If they did randomly say ahead of time here are the hours you are stuck in your room then it would depend on when and how long. Overnight everyone is asleep to do deep cleaning? Fine. Four hours every day in the middle of the day? Nah. More likely they would close off certain areas to everyone instead of locking us in our rooms like they do when they are painting or doing dangerous maintenance.
11. We don't have kids.
12. This sounds like what they already do... you get two meals a day, and can pay for a third room service meal if you want (or grab food elsewhere). Included food at (almost) all hours of the day is a cornerstone of cruising. This would be one of the very last things they would do, and I cant think of a single reason they'd take away a meal and make it paid only due to covid. Its either safe to eat a third meal or isn't and it greatly benefits them to provide included food of some sort to a truly captive audience. People WOULD bring their own food aboard and make a mess with it.
13. Tokyo Resort does this for some of their shows, with some standby seating available as well. I still go there so.. sure.
This thread is certainly a downer. I can come up with lots of things they COULD do, but none of this seems very likely. It'd be nice if we could just wait and see what they say instead of letting our negative thoughts get the better of us needlessly.