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35 minutes ago, Paulchili said:

I suspect that it will be cancelled as per Trump's announcement of halting all Carnival, RCL & NCL cruises for 30 days..

All sailings halted for 30 days.

https://www.seabourn.com/en_US/news/press-release/2020-press-releases/seabourn-to-pause-global-cruise-operations-for-30-days.html

It's happened - All sailings cancelled for the next 30 days - 

https://www.seabourn.com/en_US/news/press-release/2020-press-releases/seabourn-to-pause-global-cruise-operations-for-30-days.html

7 minutes ago, wingit said:

 we were also planning on leaving tues.

I guess we'll have to wait until a future date to take a cruise... I was looking forward to our 42 night trip on the Ovation - Then quickly substituted with the 38 night on the Sojourn. Looks like it will be a staycation instead... Guess I should have been trying to stock up on groceries and toilet paper like the rest of the world. Time to cancel our flights...

Further clarification to my last post. I now believe that Seabourn is about to cancel all sailings until 4/13 like most other cruise lines. This is my personal opinion and is not a fact at this point, but based upon sailings now being removed from their booking engine - I believe they are in the process of setting up for this announcement (like many other cruise brands so far). 

If you try booking any sailing from their website in this next 30 day window you get an error.

27 minutes ago, wingit said:

where did you see this?

In their travel agent booking portal it all shows wait-listed. Yesterday there were 70+ cabins available on the 3/22 sailing. If you try to book via their normal website it also gives an error... I gave them a call and they verified that all three sailings until 4/13 showed wait-listed. My gut check is 95% sure that we're going to get a cancellation notice. I'm just hoping it's sooner than later as we're still booked to fly out on Tuesday. 

The Sojourn's sailings on 3/22, 4/3, and 4/6 are all now blocked from booking. We booked the Sojourn 3/22 sailing after having our 3/14 sailing on the Ovation cancelled. I'm guessing with all three of these sailings, that a cancellation notice is likely for our 3/22 sailing on the Sojourn. I did check their other ships which were still open to booking, so I think this is a Sojourn only issue at this point.

Voyage cancelled on Ovation 3/14.

They just emailed the cancellation a few minutes ago... full refund + 25% FCC 

Voyage cancelled on 3/14.

They just emailed the cancellation... 

I also called Seabourn and was told that it's still proceeding as planned. When I inquired about Dubai's port closure, she noted "how do they know the port will still be closed as it's 22 days after sailing".  This is my first Seabourn cruise. I had talked my parents into joining us, but since my father is on Oxygen (and with the CDC's recommendation), they made the decision to cancel yesterday. 

Okay Seabourn - I'm packed and ready to leave my house in less than 13 hours to begin our series of 4 flights to get to Colombo. I'm going if you're going! Please don't let me down and cancel once I begin my travels. 

2 hours ago, rols said:

According to this site https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/ China is level 4 and Italy level 3. I don't know whether cruise lines start acting at level 3 or level 4. At this point in the cycle, when countries are trying to contain the infection, as we've seen in Asia ships are less affected by what the State Department says than ports proactively banning cruise liners from docking. 

I don't know if anyone is going to 'be next', at this point just about everybody is 'next'. 

It's worth noting - that both countries have level 4 advisories as of today for certain parts (Daegu in South Korea and Lobardy & Veneto in Italy) - This obviously affects Venice, but they don't even want cruise ships on a good day! There are further details within each advisory page.

59 minutes ago, rols said:

There's no prohibition currently on anyone having travelled in Singapore going anywhere in the world (apart from Sarawak)

Actually, as of yesterday, Israel has banned all non-Israeli travelers who have been in Singapore in the last 14 days (in addition to Thailand, China, Hong Kong and Macau). Plus I believe Papua New Guinea and North Korea also have similar bans, but I've never met crew from these countries...