It could be. It also could have changed since I looked into it. I was traveling to Maryland in February when travel restrictions were in effect there. DH and I didn't become eligible for our vaccines in SC until March, and I was worried that we would be in violation by flying into DC and staying at a MD hotel. As it turned out, the restrictions were lifted days before our trip, so I saved $300.
They just won’t guarantee the results in a certain time frame. If you want it guaranteed back in 24 to 48 hours you have to pay.
Could be different state rules. My state is still requiring all COVID-19 testing be covered 100% with no OOP. I don't think I could find an in-state test that would allow me to pay. However, I know that my brother in a different state paid for at least 2 or 3 tests last spring when he didn't have symptoms.
That is opposite what the cm told me. No surprise there. We decided on just the 4 day and WDW anyway. Now just waiting for some WDW room discounts please.
From DCL's perspective, they are doing that with the onboard restrictions rather than embarkation restrictions.
From what I've seen, DCL is not necessarily making this demographic happy. Families of young kids aren't directly precluded from cruising, but DCL isn't making it easy either. Maybe I missed something, but I don't see mention of adding more family friendly activities. A lot of things are not available or limited -- things that are generally important to these families: no nursery, no character meet & greets, no deck parties, no sports deck, virtual queue for the family pools, reservations required at the Club/Lab, limited time allowed at the Club/Lab. These are all things that usually help make DCL family friendly and they are currently missing with no promise of alternate activities. Many families are not happy and cancelling their planned cruises (or intend to cancel if things don't change).
My understanding is that for international visitors they aren’t accepting mixed doses and Astra Zeneca isn’t accepted at all.
So to cruise with DCL out of a US port, that means many Canadians are SOL right now. Glad we aren't sailing til August 2022 and that it's in Europe (where AZ and mixing and matching have been going on). *edit to add: it doesn't actually say which vaccines DCL says are ok, unless I missed it somewhere (but read it pretty thoroughly I think)*
Mixing and matching has been going on in Canada as my son who lives in Vancouver told me, but it hasn’t actually been going on in the uk unless you received your first AZ and you were under 40 and they then decided to only offer it to the over 40’s so for a second dose I believe that you were given a choice to have AZ or switch to a mix and match. As far as I’m aware AZ so far isn’t a recognised acceptable vaccine for the USA as it was never granted its emergency license. I believe that this is still being worked through right now.
The CDC considers people who received the two doses of the AZ vaccine as fully vaccinated. They’re just currently not recognizing mixing AZ with mRNA vaccines like Pfizer or Moderna.
We live in Vancouver as well, small world lol Both my husband and I got AZ with Moderna as our second dose. Of all the people we know who got AZ as their first shot (which is a lot) only one couple decided to get AZ as their second, everyone else mixed like us. We're really hoping that this gets sorted asap but I am glad we don't have one booked now for a year (was thinking of booking March 2022 but booked Aulani instead).
