oxmatt

It is so confusing. Any idea what my fully vaccinated under 12s need to do (departing from Iceland to UK via Ireland)?

"All unvaccinated guests under the age of 12 will be required to bring proof of a negative NAAT test (i.e. PCR) result administered by a verified third party within three days prior to embarkation date. Failure to comply will result in denial of boarding."

"All vaccinated guests age 12 and older: must provide proof of negative NAAT test (I.e. PCR) or antigen test taken within 24 hours of embarkation. This test will be paid for and administered by Norwegian Cruise Line."

As they are neither an unvaccinated guest under the age of 12 or a vaccinated guest aged 12 or older. No mention anywhere of vaccinated under 12s.

NCL rep I spoke to said it would be the same as vaccinated guests 12 and older. However, I understand this may be interpreted differently at the pier. Easy solution would be to just get PCR for everyone but that would be very expensive if needed to be within 24 hours of departure.

16 hours ago, Nick&Simon said:

 

 

If it saves us from this abomination we will do...

 

 

 

My kids would love this. Only there are 3 of them so they'd fight over everything.

Not so much the toilet paper though but better that than the toilets get clogged.

3 minutes ago, Lolou127 said:

That’s interesting the list of upcoming cruises, it doesn’t mention the ones in September that are due to sail to various parts of Europe, Iceland and the Canaries? I wonder why? We’re booked on the Northern European capital cities cruise and payment day is fast approaching!!

That list is titled "new" itineraries. Weren't the September ones from before rather than replacing previously cancelled itineraries?

4 hours ago, delondin said:

I always worry with this kind of answer. It clearly states too early and will not be acceptable. The trouble is shoreside are not the same as head office. A few year’s ago we flew to USA to board with an esta. The checking in agent insisted on seeing an actual visa stamp in our passport. We explained that we had an esta and she was adamant she needed a stamp. Luckily another check in agent  stepped in and we were allowed to board. 

We had exactly the same!!! Practically got accused of being illegal "aliens".

On 6/13/2021 at 9:39 AM, Nick&Simon said:

That isn't what was stated when I purchased which was "all guests must be fully vaccinated". Which would not only have meant an adult only ship but a fully vaccinated ship.

I'm sure this was never the case as I think it has always been stated guests over 18 had to be fully vaccinated ever since the cruises first went on sale. I booked for my family on 8th April (the day the sailings were released) and I've just double checked the emails from Celebrity on that day announcing the cruises going on sale.

Below is copied and pasted from email from Celebrity on 8th April (so only difference is a change to the proposed testing protocol):

"We will require all guests aged 18 and over to be fully vaccinated prior to boarding. All adults will need to provide verifiable proof of vaccination on boarding day and the document must show the individual is fully vaccinated, meaning the full cycle of required doses is completed and that the final dose was received at least 14 days before sailing. Children aged 2-17 years will be required to provide a negative PCR test received no more than 72 hours prior to boarding"

I sympathise with your viewpoint though and can see why some would prefer to go on a 100% vaccinated adults only cruise which several other lines are offering. As I've mentioned in previous emails I don't think there will be many kids on board as there are more family orientated lines and I doubt that many families will be in the position of having both parents being double jabbed by then. Also as others have mentioned 3rd July is still in term time for most of UK.

I presume PCR vs Antigen is purely a question of numbers. They must be expecting a relatively low proportion of under 18s whereas if everyone else who has been vaccinated had to turn up on embarkation day and hang around somewhere before boarding whilst waiting 30 minutes for a result it would be chaos and then because of contact if anyone did test positive all of the people waiting in the same area presumably would also not be allowed to board.

We got travel agent to ask Celebrity to reprice based on the parking offer and the current price on their website (which I presume included 10% CC discounts). Not sure exactly how they worked it out but we were happy with $950 OBC as we have paid final payment (for 5 passengers across two Concierge Class rooms). TA did say initially they said no but offered this after he pushed.

12 hours ago, Wichenford Wolf said:

I’m sure there will be children on these cruises. The number on Silhouette may be limited by (a) the Celebrity trips are among the more expensive of the numerous cruise options and (b) - in the case of the earlier cruises particularly - their adult parents or guardians will have to be fully vaccinated plus two weeks, thus limiting the numbers of young “grown-ups”.

 

 

PCR and Antigen test results dependent there will be at least 3 children on the 23rd July cruise. I agree that there are unlikely to be that many young families in a position by then that both parents will be fully vaccinated - our concern is actually that there might be so few on board that the kids club is not running which would clearly be a lot less relaxing for us and others on board . In fact if that is the case (no kids club) we will probably take an FCC for another time.