The Castaway Cay lifeguard might be a glimmer of hope for the Caribbean cruises but Alaska isn’t going to happen this year.I see this morning Disney has posted jobs on it's site for the cruise line one of them being a lifeguard at Castaway Cay! Also I stalk the port adventures pages mostly for Alaska (since I'm booked for August for that) and I notice several new excursions that have been added that have no been listed before. Why go through that effort to add things like if it's not going to happen. One can hope and wish right...
I suppose that goes for the Canada cruise out of NYC as well.
yes you are correct but Canada cruise out of nyc is later in the year I give it a 25 percent chance.
Most likely except that there is a slim chance that by the time of the fall Canada cruises that there will be adequate vaccine distribution.
Don’t forget all arrivals have to quarantine for two weeks too and no one is being allowed in for strictly tourist reasons.
Yes and I’m aware of the Canadian restrictions and realize it is probably not going to happen this year. Just wish they would announce it already. I booked opening day with a placeholder that expires this August and am really hoping I can just move the reservation to 2022 using that discount. Then I can go ahead and book something else for this summer as like many others who skipped their summer 2020 vacations I need something anything to get away a disconnect this summer.
Yea. Disney has for whatever reason been very slow to officially cancel sailings that we’re definitely not happening such as Hawaii and Alaska last year and the EBPC in the fall when the Wonder had already gone back east without passengers. I couldn’t tell you why that is.
it isn't just Disney. No cruise lines as far as I'm aware have cancelled their Alaska cruises. There is a push by a lot of the ports up there to try and get Canada to agree for cruising to resume due to the money they are loosing and the fact that a later 2021 start would mean they miss out on another full season. Whether this works or not is unclear but this is the reason most if not all cruise lines are still selling Alaska cruises as no one can be 100% sure what will happen with this move. Most of the Alaska ports have very little income options without tourism and unlike a lot of the Caribbean areas its more difficult to get to these any way but by cruise ship.
Yep I think early March we will know one way or another. Its just a waiting game really at the moment.
This is slightly misleading. What they've said is that they expect to have innoculated every Canadian adult who wants a vaccine by the end of September. So yes, some "average people" may not be vaccinated until September, but if things go as planned, the rollout for the non-priority population is expected to start by early summer. More to the point, the vulnerable populations who are driving the very large majority of hospitalizations and deaths will have been vaccinated well in advance of the summer cruise season.
It’s quite clear actually. There is no appetite at either the provincial or federal level to even reopen the border and remove the quarantine requirement let alone reopen ports to cruise ships.
there's been plenty of appetite from the Canadian federal government to allow international flights coming into Canada unabated since March 2020. Hundreds of flights from the US, China, UK, Europe, every day. The negative Covid results requirement is just going into effect today...
