Nothing, so far, beyond the general opportunity to rebook a future cruise with 100% credit and 15 months to rebook. That email arrived on March 15th. No official cancellation of the cruise (yet) and no extra incentive to change the booking. I feel like we’re playing a game of chicken. For the April 29th Vancouver to Honolulu cruise (which we have booked), we’re now in the 50% refund period if we cancel versus taking a 100% refund if
DCL cancels. After 30 days out (29 to 14 days) the refund drops to 25% for about two weeks, then to 0. We have no intention to cruise anytime this year, so we’re waiting on DCL to cancel so we can request our full refund.
We’ll lose our airfare and the prepaid, non-refundable DVC points rental for the planned Aulani stay post-cruise as well, since our travel insurance has an epidemic/pandemic exclusion. These total about 2/3rds of the cost of the cruise booking, so there’s still a substantial financial impact even if we get 100% back from DCL. Our flights on United were booked as early as possible and we’d have to use any credits from those within 12 months of the original booking date. That barely gets us into June, so no real likelihood. Waiting to see if United cancels those as well, but so far only being offered no change fees for rebookings. Right now the flights from O’Hare to Vancouver and from Honolulu to O’Hare are still flying. I don’t know if there are many passengers aboard, but United appears to be maintaining a small number of these flights despite significant reductions in other routes.