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2 hours ago, rols said:

Current thinking over on the Seabourn and Coronavirus thread is you'll likely be fine as you'll be embarking not disembarking. So as long as you fulfil the requirements to enter Sri Lanka by air, and fulfil whatever Seabourn's requirements are for embarking the ship, your cruise will start from there. 

Encore however, which just had its entire South East Asia itinerary in April replaced with Darwin to Columbo is likely going to have to alter it again because if things don't change, nobody is going to be able to get off in Columbo. 

 

Of course Sri Lanka just randomly banning cruise ships, most of which have already been re-routed to avoid anywhere even tangentially connected to the virus, whilst still accepting flights from mainland China is completely stupid. It also shows no matter how the lines plan, events can overtake you and countries can act completely arbitrarily. I think Seabourn would have been better off sticking to Singapore myself but I'm biased. 

 

Thanks rols. I think you’re right about embarking from Colombo. Although the (new) first port of call is Hambantota in Sri Lanka so I presume that will be canned. I also agree that with the benefit of hindsight, they should have stayed with the original itinerary and embarked from SIN. Oh well!! 

Posted a few minutes ago by a good friend of mine who is on Azamara heading towards Sri Lanka. Quote “Captain has just announced that Sri Lanka is refusing entry to all crew and passengers from all ships. We can refuel and restock (essentials like food and drink) but we will miss our 2 day Sri Lanka adventure”. 

We are on Ovation departing Colombo 14th March. I have no idea what is going to happen but it’s not looking good. 

I just got a notification on ShipTracker that it has left Singapore.