Rare Ombud Posted September 10, 2020 #26 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) 38 minutes ago, brisalta said: What is snow? I think that's like the stuff that fell on our cars today only water and cold. Plus it gets deep. Like a few inches Edited September 10, 2020 by Ombud Typo 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darienill Posted September 10, 2020 #27 Share Posted September 10, 2020 42 minutes ago, brisalta said: What is snow? Snow? let me answer that. Snow is the reason for the cruisen season. to be poetic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DUCHESSRN Posted September 10, 2020 #28 Share Posted September 10, 2020 2 hours ago, cruzsnooze said: I'm booked on the Royal Princess Dec 19 2020 which I'm thinking isn't going to happen. I hope I get a nice double deposit FCC if they cancel before I do. The policy as it stands now is 60 days prior to cruise final payment and FCC credits if cancelling 30 days out. I will wait and see and let them cancel first. I'll just keep piling the FCC's higher and deeper! We are also on that sailing , we keep hoping and would be happy to stay on board all cruise . Princess upgraded us to an aft balcony which would be a real treat for Christmas . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNJCruisers Posted September 10, 2020 #29 Share Posted September 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Ombud said: I think that's like the stuff that fell on our cars today only water and cold. Plus it gets deep. Like a few inches Deep is not a few inches. Deep is a few feet. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Ombud Posted September 10, 2020 #30 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) We do have snow once in a while. Almost an inch once a few years back @cruzsnooze on the Sky cruise that was just canceled I got 100-200 OBC if rebooking by October. I've also received 15 OBC for a cancelation. So the days of dbl FCC may be coming to an end Edited September 10, 2020 by Ombud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brisalta Posted September 10, 2020 #31 Share Posted September 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Ombud said: I think that's like the stuff that fell on our cars today only water and cold. Plus it gets deep. Like a few inches Seems you are describing the ash that made day become night and the sky bromine colored. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brisalta Posted September 10, 2020 #32 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, darienill said: Snow? let me answer that. Snow is the reason for the cruisen season. to be poetic. What is a season? We do not have that here. It is always warm, or warmer or hot depending on the day. Edited September 10, 2020 by brisalta 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Ombud Posted September 10, 2020 #33 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) Move 20 miles east and you'll have them. Summers to 100° and winters all the way down to 40° at night in winter (maybe a few 30s° middle of night in January). 60° difference depending on time of year. SF only has a 20-30° spread in the avenues Edited September 10, 2020 by Ombud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brisalta Posted September 10, 2020 #34 Share Posted September 10, 2020 2 minutes ago, Ombud said: Move 20 miles east and you'll have them. Summers to 100° and winters all the way down to 40° at night in winter (maybe a few 30s° middle of night in January). 60° difference depending on time of year. SF only has a 20-30° spread in the avenues It was over 120 in the tri valley area the other day. All the ash blowing down from Oregon and Mendocino has drastically lowered the temperatures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Ombud Posted September 10, 2020 #35 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) Seriously?!? Heard it got that bad in LA but that's LA. It was 112° in Clayton. Thought I'd die. But just 80° today But I digress Turns out the Sky has new itineraries to replace cancelations so I'm back to "only the magic 8 ball knows if February cruises are good to go" Edited September 10, 2020 by Ombud 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jondfk Posted September 10, 2020 #36 Share Posted September 10, 2020 We're booked on a Panama Canal full crossing in January, I think there's 0% chance this will happen. Why? - I very much doubt such open jaw cruises will be amongst the first to sail. - I very much doubt the handful of Caribbean and central American countries will have opened to large cruise ships by then (personally I wouldn't mind a no ports cruise, but I think I'm in the minority on this point). - I can't see the U.S. opening for transit of foreign crew by year end which is what would be required to onboard staff / quarantine prior to our voyage. Still, we've not cancelled and are holding plane tickets to get to Florida. I'm not so much expecting a "sweetener" from Princess when they cancel as holding onto the booking as a show of support. Actually, I put the probability of our July Alaska cruise at something just above 50%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare CineGraphic Posted September 10, 2020 #37 Share Posted September 10, 2020 10 hours ago, HappyInVan said: Only one FCC with MSC. I'm not confident that I'll ever see the money again. You have a better chance of seeing your money from MSC than any other line. They are family owned, and the freight-end of the business makes them plenty of money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squire5000 Posted September 10, 2020 #38 Share Posted September 10, 2020 20 hours ago, skynight said: We cancelled our February 2021 cruises. Even if they sail I don't believe it will be the cruise experience we enjoy. We booked February 2022 in hopes we can go. 2021 will be a gap year for us. Same here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmjc2 Posted September 11, 2020 #39 Share Posted September 11, 2020 We have booked Feb 8 th short cruise that has one day in Nassau ( will not get off) and two days at the private island. Great way to get back on the ocean but will it sail? We sure hope so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voljeep Posted September 11, 2020 #40 Share Posted September 11, 2020 11 minutes ago, gmjc2 said: We have booked Feb 8 th short cruise that has one day in Nassau ( will not get off) and two days at the private island. Great way to get back on the ocean but will it sail? We sure hope so! which cruise line ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iancal Posted September 11, 2020 #41 Share Posted September 11, 2020 (edited) Two questions really. Will there be cruises? If there are cruises would we go? Our answer would be probably not to the first and definitely not to the second question. Edited September 11, 2020 by iancal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmjc2 Posted September 11, 2020 #42 Share Posted September 11, 2020 1 hour ago, voljeep said: which cruise line ? RCCL------from Port Canaveral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNJCruisers Posted September 11, 2020 #43 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Here is a link to an article from 9/10 that has Carnival possibly starting up in November from Miami and Port Canaveral with 6 ships. https://cruiseradio.net/these-five-carnival-ships-are-scheduled-for-november-cruises/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cruiseandblog%2FhXuX+(Cruise+Radio) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmjc2 Posted September 11, 2020 #44 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Incidentally--We took the cruise line insurance. Normally we go with Allianz but as this does not involve any flights or stop overs we thought the cruise line insurance might hold up for a short simple cruise. Allianz and probably all others are raising the prices and getting very tough on what they cover. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky TGO Posted September 12, 2020 #45 Share Posted September 12, 2020 I just asked my friend the Swami and he said the best way to know is Flip a coin heads yes tails no 😳 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caribill Posted September 12, 2020 #46 Share Posted September 12, 2020 So far the major cruise lines that have restarted in Europe were with newly designed itineraries on a few ships. But Princess still hopes to restart in December with multiple ships with the original itineraries. If Princess does actually restart in December it will be interesting to see if it will be with the original itineraries or not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joepeka Posted September 12, 2020 #47 Share Posted September 12, 2020 (edited) On 9/10/2020 at 4:40 AM, jondfk said: We're booked on a Panama Canal full crossing in January, I think there's 0% chance this will happen. Why? - I very much doubt such open jaw cruises will be amongst the first to sail. - I very much doubt the handful of Caribbean and central American countries will have opened to large cruise ships by then (personally I wouldn't mind a no ports cruise, but I think I'm in the minority on this point). - I can't see the U.S. opening for transit of foreign crew by year end which is what would be required to onboard staff / quarantine prior to our voyage. Still, we've not cancelled and are holding plane tickets to get to Florida. I'm not so much expecting a "sweetener" from Princess when they cancel as holding onto the booking as a show of support. Actually, I put the probability of our July Alaska cruise at something just above 50%. We're currently booked on the Royal repo from LA to Vancouver in early May for it's Alaska season. I think I'm with you on the 50% chance of that cruise happening, especially if it appears that Canada will still have the 14 day quarantine/isolation requirement for in-coming travelers. Edited September 12, 2020 by joepeka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memoak Posted September 12, 2020 #48 Share Posted September 12, 2020 We have a Hawaii cruise scheduled for April. I give that about a 2% chance of happening. We also have 14 day cruise in Alaska for late August early September. That I have a 90% chance. We need to have a vaccine and then get it distributed to the whole country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmjc2 Posted September 20, 2020 #49 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Read that New Zealand is considering keeping their borders closed all through 2021!!! What will that do to their tourist economy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abercrombie2019 Posted September 20, 2020 #50 Share Posted September 20, 2020 28 minutes ago, gmjc2 said: Read that New Zealand is considering keeping their borders closed all through 2021!!! What will that do to their tourist economy! They are probably more concerned about what an out of control pandemic could do to their public healthcare system. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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