Carnival to announce Sept and Oct sailings tomorrow (7/13)

[tmack8983]

It seems like carnival is waiting for the july 18th date to pass, where as the cdc will no longer be in charge of making decisions for the cruise lines in florida , i could be wrong, but i don't think  it's a coincidence that there holding off there announcements for sept and oct cruises until next week, if i was a guessing man, i'm gonna predict that they lower the 95 percent vaccinated policy to 80 percent, so more people with children can be exempted, especially since they announced that all unvaccinated people over the age of 12 will have to have travel insurance, i think families will book with more confidence, knowing there's a higher percentage that there child or children will be exempted 

[K&RCurt]

Just got off the phone with Carnival and was finally able to move out our final payments a week to get past the announcement.

 

Now I am just hoping for great news from this announcement!

[ProgRockCruiser]

21 hours ago, K&RCurt said:

Just got off the phone with Carnival and was finally able to move out our final payments a week to get past the announcement.

 

Now I am just hoping for great news from this announcement!

Yay!  Glad that worked out for you.

 

With the recent court-ruling staying the injunction and allowing the CDC CSO "rules" to stay in place, I bet Carnival now feels far more comfortable making announcements about Sept and Oct - basically, more of the same in terms of 95% vax, mask requirements (or lack thereof), kids activities/clubs, etc, I suspect.

[K&RCurt]

6 minutes ago, ProgRockCruiser said:

Yay!  Glad that worked out for you.

 

With the recent court-ruling staying the injunction and allowing the CDC CSO "rules" to stay in place, I bet Carnival now feels far more comfortable making announcements about Sept and Oct - basically, more of the same in terms of 95% vax, mask requirements (or lack thereof), kids activities/clubs, etc, I suspect.

I suspect you are correct.

 

I am also wondering if Carnival changes out the Pride for the Legend as the Legend starts cruises from Baltimore at the end of October and I don't think it has anything going on before that.  I may be mistaken but I think it would be a 1:1 switch out with cabins also.

[stellarose]

at this point CCL might as well just say for the rest of 21' - 95% vax.

[pogoism9]

2 minutes ago, K&RCurt said:

I suspect you are correct.

 

I am also wondering if Carnival changes out the Pride for the Legend as the Legend starts cruises from Baltimore at the end of October and I don't think it has anything going on before that.  I may be mistaken but I think it would be a 1:1 switch out with cabins also.

 

I'm pretty sure the Legend doesn't come to town until mid November. First sailing on the site that shows up is 11/21. It's currently en route for dry dock to get it's Mardi Gras makeover, so it's possible all that could be done by Sept if they were to pull the trigger. The room situation would be 1:1 as they are effectively the same ship

[TNcruising02]

21 minutes ago, ProgRockCruiser said:

Yay!  Glad that worked out for you.

 

With the recent court-ruling staying the injunction and allowing the CDC CSO "rules" to stay in place, I bet Carnival now feels far more comfortable making announcements about Sept and Oct - basically, more of the same in terms of 95% vax, mask requirements (or lack thereof), kids activities/clubs, etc, I suspect.

Right.  They know they can't let a lot of kids travel unless they do test cruises.  I don't know if some of the cruises they already did would qualify.  If not, then families are almost out of luck for cruising for awhile unless they get an exemption.

[BroadwayGirl]

1 hour ago, K&RCurt said:

I suspect you are correct.

 

I am also wondering if Carnival changes out the Pride for the Legend as the Legend starts cruises from Baltimore at the end of October and I don't think it has anything going on before that.  I may be mistaken but I think it would be a 1:1 switch out with cabins also.

I put this hypothesis out there too.  It wouldn't surprise me at all. 

[davy jones]

1 hour ago, K&RCurt said:

I suspect you are correct.

 

I am also wondering if Carnival changes out the Pride for the Legend as the Legend starts cruises from Baltimore at the end of October and I don't think it has anything going on before that.  I may be mistaken but I think it would be a 1:1 switch out with cabins also.

I just want to know if the Pride is going to sail in October and what the vax requirements will be.  However, substituting the Legend fresh out of dry dock works for me.  One can only hope.

[BroadwayGirl]

9 minutes ago, davy jones said:

I just want to know if the Pride is going to sail in October and what the vax requirements will be.  However, substituting the Legend fresh out of dry dock works for me.  One can only hope.

I'm going to gather with the CDC being given a stay of the CSO, we're looking at a 95/5 situation still.  I'm sailing in Oct as well. Bubble tours have started showing up for my November stop in Nassau 

[Mallow]

I am still hoping Pride does come to Baltimore so the repo cruise will happen to Tampa 😄

[tcrutchf]

3 hours ago, BroadwayGirl said:

I'm going to gather with the CDC being given a stay of the CSO, we're looking at a 95/5 situation still.  I'm sailing in Oct as well. Bubble tours have started showing up for my November stop in Nassau 

How can you tell they are bubble tours? My September 18 Mardi Gras sailing doesn't seem to have any that are bubble tours, at least any that I can tell.

[BroadwayGirl]

7 minutes ago, tcrutchf said:

How can you tell they are bubble tours? My September 18 Mardi Gras sailing doesn't seem to have any that are bubble tours, at least any that I can tell.

Title of the excursion says bubble tour in it. 

[tcrutchf]

4 minutes ago, BroadwayGirl said:

Title of the excursion says bubble tour in it. 

Thanks! I figured that, but thought I might be missing something.

[Tom-n-Cheryl]

21 minutes ago, BroadwayGirl said:

Title of the excursion says bubble tour in it. 

 

Are those noticably pricier, or in line with other tours?

 

Tom

[BroadwayGirl]

Just now, Tom-n-Cheryl said:

 

Are those noticably pricier, or in line with other tours?

 

Tom

Seemed right in line for excursions. I know I saw some for blue lagoon and pricing didn’t look any different for bubble beach day

[tkportersat]

On 7/15/2021 at 3:16 PM, PaperSniper4 said:

Let's hope we both are going to be pleasantly pleased in a month or so! I've got a shortie out of NOLA in December. We are retired, so if it doesn't go no problem, other that being disappointed, as we have two cruises scheduled in 2022. But, dangit, I really would like to feel a shp under my feet again, it has been since November 2019!

 

Doug

I really hope you are able to go!  

[lobster1313]

We went on 2 bubble tours. The tours were both enjoyable and priced the same as regular tours. There were 2 options per port the first was a beach or water excursion and the other was an animal adventure with some sightseeing.

[Scurvy Seadog]

On 7/17/2021 at 6:57 PM, tmack8983 said:

It seems like carnival is waiting for the july 18th date to pass, where as the cdc will no longer be in charge of making decisions for the cruise lines in florida , i could be wrong, but i don't think  it's a coincidence that there holding off there announcements for sept and oct cruises until next week, if i was a guessing man, i'm gonna predict that they lower the 95 percent vaccinated policy to 80 percent, so more people with children can be exempted, especially since they announced that all unvaccinated people over the age of 12 will have to have travel insurance, i think families will book with more confidence, knowing there's a higher percentage that there child or children will be exempted 

Well that post didn’t age well.

[cruisernh]

On 7/19/2021 at 11:10 AM, Mallow said:

I am still hoping Pride does come to Baltimore so the repo cruise will happen to Tampa 😄

Me too as we have back to backs in December for the Pride out of Tamps