Fredric22

Hopefully MSC gets a clue this week and reverses their testing policy for short cruises.

I literally have no idea what MSC is thinking.... wouldn't surprise me if they reverse this next week but who knows. The August 29th date is completely arbitrary.

This is absolutely ridiculous! Carnival just changed their policy today and confirmed no testing required after August 8th. So why is MSC now waiting until August 28th? Ugh.

As many of us knew (except 1 person) the rules changed because they didn't make sense. Carnival either misunderstood the Bahamian requirements or something else was happening behind the scenes. However, as predicted Carnival has now fallen in line with all of the other cruise lines. Have a good evening everyone!

LOL... citing what other cruise lines are doing is not "false rumors".... You can't make this stuff up! I feel like whoever this person is is just trying to get a rise out of people. Whoever you are, you are very good at what you do!!

For the 10th time, Virgin and Margaritaville have already been sailing to the Bahamas with untested guests for over a week now and will continue to do so this weekend without any changes.

Exactly! Carnival is the only line requiring testing for the Bahamas and is blaming it on them. As I've said before this makes no sense because Virgin, Margaritaville, MSC, and now Royal are continuing with no pre-test for The Bahamas.

This would be true however other cruise lines are not requiring testing.... so something else is up.

Virgin just made an update last night. What government guidance are you referring to?

Carnival just updated their policy and re-affirmed that all cruise passengers will be required to test before entering the Bahamas (vaxxed or unvaxxed) due to the local rules. So... either Virgin is right or Carnival is right... not sure how both can be following the correct rules.

HA! How ridiculous!! What the heck is going on at Carnival!?

OK it looks like Virgin might actually provide some clues here. Originally Virgin's updated policy was that no testing was required at all for vaxxed or unvaxxed. However, this update was made late last night: https://www.virginvoyages.com/voyage-well#general-information It looks like unvaxxed are now required to test within 24 hours of departure. This is indeed a big change. It is possible the Bahamas was not happy with the possibility of having unvaxxed guests come to their island without testing so they made some changes. Hopefully this is a compromise and Carnival follows (the compromise being that unvaxxed are required to test within 24 hours vs. 2 or 3 days, etc.). What isn't clear though is why Carnival is saying that vaxxed guests are also required to test. That part is still a mystery..... unless perhaps Carnival is planning to sail with significant amount of unvaxxed and Bahamas isn't comfortable with that?

Ugh.... this is getting ridiculous! Carnival also announced yesterday testing is required for all cruises going to the Bahamas....

Great...?? I'm not sure if you think you're actually contributing to this conversation or not but regardless I wish you the best of times on your future cruises!

Sorry you haven't been keeping up with the latest news. I can see how it can be confusing!