Bahamas Vaccine Requirements

[Texas Momma]

The Bahamas just updated their website. It used to say that cruise visitors age 12 and up were required to be vaccinated, and now it says age 2 and up. Is this new information correct?

 

[Texas Momma]

Go to bahamas.com and look at the travel updates for cruise passengers.

 

[lanejudy]

oh boy...DCL will have fun with this: (click on Cruise Passengers from the link below)

Please note: All cruise ship passengers ages 2 and older must be fully vaccinated to enter a port in The Bahamas, including a cruise line’s private island. Any person who is ineligible for the COVID-19 vaccination due to medical contraindications is exempt from this requirement.

 

[Maggie'sMom]

This is a surprise. With so many places loosening their requirements, it's a surprise that the Bahamas are going the opposite direction.

 

[nancipants]

oh boy...DCL will have fun with this: (click on Cruise Passengers from the link below)

Please note: All cruise ship passengers ages 2 and older must be fully vaccinated to enter a port in The Bahamas, including a cruise line’s private island. Any person who is ineligible for the COVID-19 vaccination due to medical contraindications is exempt from this requirement.

Right? They literally just changed the requirements. Wonder what all the other cruise lines will do as well.

 

[lanejudy]

Right? They literally just changed the requirements. Wonder what all the other cruise lines will do as well.

And it doesn't mention a date when this takes effect...?

 

[CampbellzSoup]

Would this include castaway cay if otherwise no loss

 

[Cruising Girl]

This is right below that same message----seems like double speak!!

• Effective 19 June 2022, all unvaccinated travellers ages 2 and older will be required to obtain a negative COVID-19 test — either a negative RT-PCR test or a Rapid Antigen test — taken no more than three days (72 hours) prior to travel and present the negative test results at check-in before travel to The Bahamas.

 

[Kwami]

Would this include castaway cay if otherwise no loss

Yes. It specifically mentions private islands.

 

[lanejudy]

This is right below that same message----seems like double speak!!

• Effective 19 June 2022, all unvaccinated travellers ages 2 and older will be required to obtain a negative COVID-19 test — either a negative RT-PCR test or a Rapid Antigen test — taken no more than three days (72 hours) prior to travel and present the negative test results at check-in before travel to The Bahamas.

They allow for a medical exemption.

 

[Kwami]

They allow for a medical exemption.

It might also be a distinction between "allowed to sail to the Bahamas" and "allowed to get off the ship at a Bahamian port".

 

[lowlight]

I’m thinking this is a typo or an older version of the website was made live, doesn’t make much sense otherwise.

 

[Texas Momma]

I'm wondering it it's a typo because it's always said "12" and now suddenly it says "2" without saying anywhere that their policy has changed. Also, on Monday I read an article that said the Bahamas is going to loosen vaccination restrictions soon (if that article was correct).

 

[ladyofthetramp]

Yikes! Need to wait and see how this plays out! Hopefully just an error.

 

[Maggie'sMom]

I'm wondering it it's a typo because it's always said "12" and now suddenly it says "2" without saying anywhere that their policy has changed. Also, on Monday I read an article that said the Bahamas is going to loosen vaccination restrictions soon (if that article was correct).

I too think it might be a typo.

 

[lanejudy]

For what it's worth...I found a chat on the website. The representative says the website is not correct about ages 2+ needing vaccine. Hopefully they get it corrected soon.

 

[Texas Momma]

Now under “Cruise Passengers” on the Bahamas website, it says “The entry requirements for cruise passengers have changed recently.” When I look under that, I no longer see anything about vaccination being required (it used to say required for 12 & up). It just says that vaccinated cruise passengers do not have to test, but that unvaccinated passengers do have to test.

 

[ofcabbagesandkings]

It would be so great to know if they've changed the requirements including Castaway Cay. Considering booking a VGT discount on the Dream for the holidays but one member of my family is not vaccinated and she doesn't have a medical exemption, she's happy to test but doesn't want to get the jab.

 

[Texas Momma]

It would be so great to know if they've changed the requirements including Castaway Cay. Considering booking a VGT discount on the Dream for the holidays but one member of my family is not vaccinated and she doesn't have a medical exemption, she's happy to test but doesn't want to get the jab.

It looks like the Bahamas (which includes Castaway Cay) now says okay if you’re not vaccinated, but Disney still requires that 12&up be vaccinated for now.