On the fence about June Mediterranean cruise. Anyone else???

[mimmiepnp]

We have cruised DCL during these recent Covid times. Didn’t mind the masks or the restrictions. It was glorious and will be doing it again. Felt safer on ship then anywhere else lately but if we were denied boarding I could have rented a car and drove 18 hours home.
Not so easy when in Rome (for either pre-boarding swab or the pre-flight home swab) and that is why we are on the fence. I still recall the stress of the 30 minute wait at the terminal to see if you passed go.…..

 

[Disneypeach]

Yup, me too. I’m supposed to be on the Magic’s 9 day Greece cruise but if we can’t do ports I don’t want to spend all that money for sea days only.

 

[soniam]

That is a tough one. Quarantining in a hotel in Europe instead of just going home doesn't sound fun. We have been wanting to go to Japan this summer. If they even let us in, then I am a bit reluctant due to potential positive testing. However, last summer was really good, until it wasn't. Hoping this summer is more like last instead of like right now. Good luck with your decision.

 

[mullysisters]

Us too. We have a cruise, our first ever, in April. It requires us to fly to Anaheim(to visit you know where) then train to San Diego. We are Canadian and are advised not to 1. Travel 2. Cruise. We are 3x vaxxed.
Omicron is so pandemic my feeling with a health background type is that in time everyone will test positive whether you are symptomatic or not.
If we go to DL before our trip what are the odds we will test positive at the embarkation. Option 2 is to fly directly from Toronto to San Diego and avoid DW (heart is breaking) spend a day or two in SD and hope we are not exposed. Option 3 is to postpone to Sept and fly to Vancouver, test negative, cruise- Yay! Then roll the dice on SD and still go to DL at the end of the trip. Try to fly home Covid negative but now dont really care except for farm sitter having to stay longer. We talk about it endlessly but cant decide.

 

[emilymad]

We are considering a land trip instead since you test before you fly. Between the pre-board testing and being limited to ship's excursions it isn't seeming too fun even if a lot can change before now and then.

 

[MomOTwins]

One of my biggest disappointments of the pandemic has been when my husband and I sat down and talked about it and realized we were probably not going to be able to internationally in 2022. He's a substitute teacher and is currently subbing for a teacher who got stuck overseas over the holiday break and can't get back until who knows when. Needless to say her employer is not thrilled with her for being so irresponsible given the current teacher shortage. My employer would be even more unforgiving. 2022 was, in our mind, supposed to be the year that everything went back to normal--now that's looking like 2023 (or maybe never, ugh). Maybe there is still a chance for it to turn around, so we are waiting to officially cancel our August Alaska cruise until the 60 day mark. If I were retired, I might not mind it, but there's really just no way I can responsibly jeopardize my job like that. We won't be leaving the US until we no longer need a test to get back. It makes me so sad.

 

[Geomom]

We already switched our 8 nt Greek isles to a 7nt Western Caribbean and a week at Disney after... nowhere near the same type of vacation, but far less stressful right now...and we've only done Wonder in Alaska and Magic in Baltic Sea, so this will be a new ship and itinerary for us...and first time with a veranda!

 

[KGmomoftwins]

I feel your pain we are supposed to do Alaska. I don’t think I could in good conscious put my young children through the possibilities of not getting on the ship or having to quarantine in a strange place in Canada. Especially since embarkation is on their 10 birthday. We are end of august and I will make the decision end of may. The sad thing is I have the old OBB attached to this cruise and it expires end of September

 

[bcwife76]

We already cancelled our Northern Europe cruise (again, sigh) and moved all our $$ including an old OBB to an end of July Alaska cruise. We live just outside of Vancouver so no flights and being Canadian, we don't have the trepidations that other travelers do re: sailing from Canada. Hoping it's still a go. We just cancelled our spring break trip to Cancun so we don't have another vacation booked until this cruise in July.

 

[WDW Lover]

I have been seeing A LOT of reports of people on cruise ships with COVID and what they are going through. The latest one I have been watching on Tik Tok is a family that have 2 small children and are on a Royal Caribbean cruise. Like the first day they came down with COVID. They can't leave their room onboard. They keep trying to call to get water and can't get through on the ship for hours! The latest video had the father speaking with a nurse about not having anything to drink... and it had been 2 hours and nobody brought them anything. The nurse basically said "sorry, there are people far worse than you on board". The dad said "how many" and didn't get a response. He said he understood, but he really, really needed water for his family. She said she would see what they could do. They are delivered food in the morning for the entire day. They go through that with the kids by like lunch time and then keep trying to get people to bring them things to eat and drink and can't even get through to anyone - the phone just does like a busy signal. Anyway, with things like that happening, it isn't worth it right now to take a chance and end up in that sort of a situation!!!!

 

[MomOTwins]

I have been seeing A LOT of reports of people on cruise ships with COVID and what they are going through. The latest one I have been watching on Tik Tok is a family that have 2 small children and are on a Royal Caribbean cruise. Like the first day they came down with COVID. They can't leave their room onboard. They keep trying to call to get water and can't get through on the ship for hours! The latest video had the father speaking with a nurse about not having anything to drink... and it had been 2 hours and nobody brought them anything. The nurse basically said "sorry, there are people far worse than you on board". The dad said "how many" and didn't get a response. He said he understood, but he really, really needed water for his family. She said she would see what they could do. They are delivered food in the morning for the entire day. They go through that with the kids by like lunch time and then keep trying to get people to bring them things to eat and drink and can't even get through to anyone - the phone just does like a busy signal. Anyway, with things like that happening, it isn't worth it right now to take a chance and end up in that sort of a situation!!!!

Is the tap water not safe to drink on Royal or something? I always drink the tap water on DCL.

 

[mimmiepnp]

Just wondering what everyone’s thoughts are as I think this post got lost down the line. Still on the fence…..

 

[anricat]

There's another thread similar to this one about summer Europe cruises and I think most people feel very similarly that spending that much time on a transatlantic flight only to then test positive at the port isn't worth the risk. We were booked on a Greek cruise (third time - sigh) but ultimately decided it's way too much money to spend on flights, hotels, and such to quarantine in Europe.

Here's the other thread on this topic if you want to read a little more discussion: https://www.disboards.com/threads/dcl-europe-summer-2022-approaching-what-are-you-doing.3862188/

We're booked on the Fantasy 9 night southern instead. Actually, we booked both that and Greece opening day with these very thoughts. We were hopeful that the world would be more normal by then, but I think Omicron threw everyone for a loop. Things were looking so much more promising back then.

 

[PirateFrank]

I’m on the 12 night med cruise…and I’m most likely going to cancel.

way too much money spent on round trip trans-Atlantic flights, lodging/food in Rome….to risk an asymptomatic positive at the port. I might have been ok with risking a cruise out of Florida, because I can find my way home in the event of a positive in my party. But quarantining in Italy while the cruise I’ve been planning for 3 damn years sails without me? Then to struggling to find last minute flights home after I cancel my Barcelona flights.

theres way too potential for too much too go wrong. The smartest thing to do is wait this out a few more years until the testing, the masks and all of the Covid protocols are gone.

 

[carolsherman]

We are booked on the Greece 9 day and Transatlantic to NY I am nervous about both but definately at this point not cancelling

 

[Lola Granola]

I’m in a cruise group for one of the Greek cruises and people are slowly dropping out.

 

[carolsherman]

I notice quite a few have dropped out of the greece one hopefully its still a go by June (fingers crossed)

 

[ladyofthetramp]

About to cancel my Greece cruise. The first two times DCL cancelled for me. If they are going, with the current protocols in different countries, testing to get back home-we are out-strike 3. Way to many points where this trip could go sideways. I don't want to be denied at the port due to an asymptomatic positive. I don't want to be quarantined in a cabin. I don't want to miss ports I have waited 3 years to see because the ship may be denied access. It doesn't make much sense. I have a club level trip booked at the Polynesian instead. I can test here before I go, travel, relax and enjoy my vacation without too much worry-hopefully. That is what a vacation is supposed to be. I desperately want to visit Italy and Greece, but unless there is a miracle, it won't be on a cruise with DCL this year.

 

[kps7795]

Is the tap water not safe to drink on Royal or something? I always drink the tap water on DCL.

If he did that, then he couldn't make a TikTok video.

 

[DisneyDad64]

We cancelled our 9 night Greece trip. We didn't want to risk of being prevented from getting to the ship or off the ship in ports. I am Greek and was looking forward to it. We took the money that we would have spent and are doing several Caribbean/Bahama cruises. We live in Florida so that makes it cheaper.