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I will get this vaccine in my eyeball if it allows me to cruise again. So will my family. And we live in the south, not the northeast or west coast. So not everyone who doesn’t live in those  oddly specific regions isn’t stupid. 🙄

Haha I’m totally fine with this. Looks like cruises won’t be full of non compliant people and that’s totally ok with me. 

Australia Great Barrier Reef in July. This was supposed to be a South Pacific itinerary, but I just checked, and our whole itinerary has been changed. I wanted GBR anyway, so I’m thrilled with the change. Still not holding my breath we will actually be going on this cruise however. 

Splendor June 28, 2021. Our 27th anniversary, July 2 and my dh’s 48th birthday the day after. 

13 hours ago, MMDown Under said:

Is your booking refundable or transferable?

I am disappointed that the cruise lines are taking bookings for these cruises knowing there is no guarantee they will sail.  

Good idea not to book air fare until you know Australia has opened its border to international visitors (US in particular).

It was only 100pp deposit, so we aren’t out too much money. But it’s neither refundable or transferable, so we will just wait and let Carnival cancel to be refunded. Which hopefully will be before final payment is due. LoL 

11 hours ago, By The Bay said:

Sorry to be a wet blanket. I am only reporting what our PM was quoted as saying the other day. 😒

 

"Scott Morrison has confirmed Australia will move “very cautiously” to reopen quarantine-free travel with a “handful” of countries, raising the prospect Europe and the United States will be excluded until 2022 unless a Covid vaccine is available."

 

Fall article here.

Boo that makes me sad. We lost 3 Mexican cruises and one British Isles cruise this year already. LoL luckily it was a $100pp deposit, so we aren’t gambling with as much money this time. I definitely don’t blame Australia. I’m wary of Americans right now and I live here. 

Hopefully Americans will be allowed in on June 27. LoL just booked Splendor for a Premiere Cruise interior spa cabin for 1400 USD with 1,000 AUD OBC and free drinks in the casino. We will definitely be waiting on airfare however. Flying from Atlanta Georgia, so that’s a big commitment. 

We just booked on Splendor for 10 days at end of June/first of July. I am crossing everything I have that we can cruise. First time in Australia and it’s our anniversary. 

6 hours ago, RS182 said:

This cut off would make sense.  We booked an August 15th sailing out of Galveston on Tuesday.  When I was booking it there were plenty of room options available.  That evening in a Facebook group for that particular sailing people were reporting that this particular sailing must be sold out because someone's friend that was trying to book couldn't find the sailing and someone else had called and booked, they were only able to get on because someone cancelled.  I couldn't imagine that all of the options I had seen earlier in the day had filled up.  It makes sense now that they may have reached a cut off mark and took all options down.

 

No official information, just an anecdotal observation.

We are on this sailing as well and I hope you are right! I would love an uncrowded ship. 

On 6/8/2020 at 4:10 PM, TNcruising02 said:

Good luck!!  You never know unless you ask.

 She was able to move both cabins to Deck 8 right beside each other for $34 each. Way better than what we had. 

Yes, no, no, no

On 6/6/2020 at 10:38 AM, TNcruising02 said:

I wonder if they will let you upgrade both cabins with that offer if you call.

I sent an email to my TA and she’s going to check for us. This is the first time we’ve used a TA, and she has helped us so much. We’ve rescheduled 3 times 😂

We’ve gotten Upsell for our two cabins on the Vista 8/15. I haven’t taken it yet. We have 2 cabins close together on deck 6 near the front, and the Upsell are for deck 8 and deck 11. I’d rather keep our cabins together so I probably won’t take it. It was $34 each cabin. 

Room service is our wake up call on port days. And a hangover helper on sea days. 

Bring back corned beef hash for breakfast please. I miss it on the buffet, and the stuff in the DR has onions and peppers. 

Ours was paid in full, and we’ve transferred twice with no extra money needed. 

Free laundry is my favorite Platinum perk.  Dh will turn Platinum on our next cruise, so twice as much laundry done will be great. 

15 hours ago, nini said:

Very well could be. Fall begins Sept. 22

We are still booked for Sept. 13 for British Isles...

getting more doubtful each day. 
 

we were on this cruise also. We got a letter last night that it’s been canceled. 

 

On the Elation, get the cabins on the new deck. The Grand deck maybe? Awesome cabin, there’s even a couch. 

Having to prebook shows in order to get a decent seat is one of the big reasons I won’t sail RCCL. 

1 hour ago, Denverdonkeys said:

You would be the first person I have heard of price drop OBC carrying over to your new booking.

 

Are you sure it wasnt that your FCC was not more than your new cruise fare cost, so they gave you on OBC so you didnt lose it? I think I had read on the original fine print, that was limited to $500, plus a lot of bookings right now have an additional $50 or $100 with the booking price.

My TA handled everything, but we only went from 2 interior cabins on an 8 day southern Caribbean, to 2 OV cabins on a 7 day Western Caribbean. That’s a pretty big difference in price if that were the case. 

8 minutes ago, junglecat said:

I'd like to know how you all have obtained so much OBC.  We only have $200 on our September 12th sailing.  It was given to us only because we carry a Carnival Mastercard.  It's my understanding we will also get another $50 if we keep the sailing.  This is a short 5 day out of New Orleans to celebrate our DD's one year wedding anniversary.  Am I missing out on something on getting those large OBC's?

Thanks all, stay healthy

Our original cruise was canceled, so rebooked and got the $600 per cabin OBC, and we already had a lot from price drops, which was carried over to our new bookings. So we ended up with over $1,100 OBC per cabin. 

We rebooked for June 7 with our TA. This is literally the first time we have used one, and I’m so happy we did. My friend didn’t and she was on hold for over 2 hours then finally got disconnected. I just told mine what we wanted and she’s taking care of everything. I hope they are able to resume by June, but if not, I’ll start worrying about our September cruise to the British Isles with Princess. I’m optimistically hopeful right now. It’s all we have to look forward too. 

On 3/4/2020 at 9:21 PM, PrincessArlena'sDad said:

That could be a decrease in expected port fees

True. This would be for 2 cabins tho. I would think they would do separate transactions since we have 2 booking numbers. 

18 minutes ago, AmBear said:

As of this morning, 6 cases confirmed in Ireland, 90 confirmed in UK.

Whatever you decide, best of health to you/yours!

Well crap. Thanks for the info. Same to you!