Do I understand this right? We will be on an Eastern late spring, and know everything can change, but with 2 unvax kids is this currently correct?
We can only take Disney excursions, which I am fine with, but does that mean we are not allowed to walk around and shop at St Thomas/Tortola at all? Like they take you from the gangway to your transportation and bring you back to gangway and no looking/touching/breathing anything outside of your set path? Somewhat joking, but somewhat not....
So on this cruise, we booked the Island Drive and Beach Break in Tortola (TT11), and Caribbean Sea Safari, Snorkeling, and Beach Tour (ST46) On St Thomas
We met in the Theater for both excursions, and got the same schpeel as everyone about Port Excursions, Stay with your group, come back after excursion etc. or face a quarantine on board. We were escorted off the ship by Port Adventures staff and given paper wristbands to ID us as excursion guests to the operators, and handed over to them after going off the gangway. In both cases, we walked in a line to our waiting Vehicle/boat and got underway on our excursions, but there wasn't any other Disney staff with us, just the driver/tour operator employee(s). After we returned to the port, we all walked back to the ship, but there was no designated CM to meet us, guide us, so i suppose someone could have gone and explored the general port area, but not sure how they would have tracked it unless they compared times of departure and return for each KTTW card. Some in our party checked back onto the ship, then turned around and checked back off to go shopping, and we had no issues in doing that, but we didn't push the limits of what you could or couldn't do as we didn't want to risk finding out if we had to quarantine. There was no separate line to exit/enter the port area or return to the ship if you were on a port excursion or not, BUT we didnt have to wait in the virtual queue to debark to go to our excursions.
The one thing that was consistent was we were asked by Disney CM's to wear our masks outside the port area on our excursions, even when outdoors, but once we were away from the ship, it was 50/50 or so on who actually kept them on in the open air safari bus and the boats. On the beach break, it was pretty much zero mask wearing. On the St Thomas tour, the beach break was on a beach that was shared by other guests, from other cruise ships or visitors to the island, and our operator just asked us to not mingle, as Disney didn't want us to co mingle and risk any kind of exposure.
Overall it was a pretty painless experience, and aside from a few uncomfortable moments walking in a mask outdoors to a waiting boat/bus, it was all good.
