No more cruise ban?

[mevelandry]

Hi!

I have just noticed a change in travel advisories regarding cruises in Canada. Does that mean there is no more cruise ban (from outside of Canada) ?

 

[bcwife76]

There is a post on "that other cruising website" and speculation is that the govt quietly removed the level 4 DO NOT CRUISE in the past few days (definitely after Nov 1) but didn't really advertise it

 

[mevelandry]

There is a post on "that other cruising website" and speculation is that the govt quietly removed the level 4 DO NOT CRUISE in the past few days (definitely after Nov 1) but didn't really advertise it

This was my interpretation. I check the travel advisories about two times a week and I just noticed the change and saw nothing about it in the media.

Anyways. Good news. It will now be easier for us to get travel insurance coverage.

 

[wdwmom3]

There is a post on "that other cruising website" and speculation is that the govt quietly removed the level 4 DO NOT CRUISE in the past few days (definitely after Nov 1) but didn't really advertise it

Didn’t they do that when they removed the general travel advisory? They just removed it but made no announcement about it?

 

[mevelandry]

Didn’t they do that when they removed the general travel advisory? They just removed it but made no announcement about it?

Yep.

 

[Starwind]

It isn't removed... it is just less prominently written.

On https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/advisories it still states "avoid all cruise ship travel outside of Canada". They have made it a bullet point now instead of its own highlighted colourful section that was easy to read and hard to miss. Now you have to "read the fine print" at the top of the page carefully to see it.

Also on https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/publications/advice-for-cruise-travellers it still states "Avoid all travel on cruise ships outside Canada due to COVID-19." On that page it is at the top and is highlighted out with its own section, bold, colours, etc.

 

[mevelandry]

It isn't removed... it is just less prominently written.

On https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/advisories it still states "avoid all cruise ship travel outside of Canada". They have made it a bullet point now instead of its own highlighted colourful section that was easy to read and hard to miss. Now you have to "read the fine print" at the top of the page carefully to see it.

Also on https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/publications/advice-for-cruise-travellers it still states "Avoid all travel on cruise ships outside Canada due to COVID-19." On that page it is at the top and is highlighted out with its own section, bold, colours, etc.

This makes it really confusing…

(I wonder if it’s possible that updates are done by different departments and that is why the information don’t match?)

 

[Starwind]

This makes it really confusing…

(I wonder if it’s possible that updates are done by different departments and that is why the information don’t match?)

I don't think it is a matter of info not matching.

The screenshot above talks about the lifting of the ban on cruise ships in Canadian waters as of Nov 1 and has a strong statement about issues one could face if one cruises. It also has a link about preparing for the 2022 cruise season, which for Canadian waters is the reality -- there are no cruise ships that meet the former cruise ship "ban" size scheduled to be even in Canadian waters until the 2022 season - lifting the ban for Nov 1 didn't suddenly mean there were some ships that could come here anytime soon.

I think it is more a matter of different pages giving different info. The screenshotted page [which is here: https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/cruise ] is intended to announce the Nov 1 lifting of the ban. It provides links to the travel alerts and advisories page [https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/advisories] which includes links to alerts for advisories for every country [needed if cruising] and includes the "avoid all" language for cruising. Personally, I think they should have a "country" advisory page for cruises, it would make it much easier and they could put curated info there !