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These quotes are from the same source - Cruise Critic.

The Caribbean would get particularly confusing if ships changed to local time at each port of call. Even though time zones are fairly straightforward, the waters get a bit muddied when it comes to daylight saving time. Most Caribbean cruise ports do not set clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall, but a few do. Because of that, some Caribbean itineraries would cause passengers to reset their watches back and forth several times during a short cruise. Many ships in the Caribbean simply advise passengers to stay on cruise ship time when going ashore. That is not usually the case elsewhere around the globe.

Driest martini known!

I am confident that the positivity rate on ships is lower than many places on land.

I don't know that HAL has much in the way of perks until you reach that 4*, but at least you know enough to stay with the Carnival family.

There are a number of Windjammer ships. For example, https://www.islandwindjammers.com/ Started in 2009, Island Windjammers was founded by a group of former passengers of Windjammer Barefoot Cruises who were dedicated to bringing tall ship cruising back to the Caribbean.The line offers six night cruises aboard its two ships, the 12-passenger Diamant and the 26-passenger Vela.

9 out of 10 sea turtles say BS.

I seriously doubt the government asked them to remove. I agree and a little surprised the government doesn't require warning labels on cruises, as if the people who need them are capable of reading. There should, however, also be penalties for people who knowingly get on cruise ships when sick or have reason to believe they are sick.

Actually the CDC has released such information in the past, but feel free to waste time and money. Posting was likely a copyright violation.

A number of decades ago I was on a transatlantic cruise that adjusted clocks 15 minutes every 4 hours.

You can change the setting so phones don't.

If not for the old school pictures and flashbacks...

Yes, but both can be spread by reckless behavior, including unprotected partying.

Some people respect the virus and fellow passengers and try not to spread it around like an STD.

You have to remember, despite what some say, that the pandemic is still with us.

I don't even remember the 70s

Generally to drop bags off, but not always. A steward on one of my cruises wasn't thrilled that I was dropping off, but didn't tell me I couldn't. I went back around 1 to check on the cabin and the door was closed, but no key to be found. I did find the steward and he said he didn't put the keys out until all of his rooms were ready. Lesson learned.

Just used some Carnival cards. Not all cruise cards are the same. I also bought one for Celebrity and lucky it was only one. The T&C for the Celebrity cards indicate a max of $500 per person or $1000/cabin, new bookings, and I believe they indicated you can't use on the ship against your account. The Carnival cards don't have those restrictions.

You can prove people who test positive at the port or 2-3 days before aren't going cruising and aren't going to be shedding virus everywhere. More and more people are doing at home tests and in general not reporting to anyone, especially if not returning from a cruise and a member of a roll call group.

Call Carnival.

The point of the pre-test is to try to keep some covid off of the ships. It works as intended. Enough people contract covid cruising as it is. I know I don't want cruising shutdown again. Some people object to pre-cruise testing, but I haven't seen any complain about testing after the cruise if they (or spouse) have any concerns. So testing clearly isn't an issue.

Pure speculation since we don't have the numbers, however unlike anywhere else, vaccinations and testing are part of cruising and staff are masked and tested regularly. Anywhere else there are too many covid deaths daily, compared with approximately 0 on cruise ships. Cruise ships are required by law to report all illnesses to the CDC who does occasionally release numbers, but not ship specific numbers for covid.

No, and it seems many people don't test until after the cruise, so it is likely there are a lot more cases on ships than even the cruise lines know about.

That is my understanding, too.