Season Nov ‘21- February ‘22, Cruises to South America Cancelling?

[scottjeanne]

Seaborn has cancelled all 2021-2022 Antarctic cruises on the Quest

 

[StephenNJ]

I was booked on a MSC cruise for December.  I rescheduled for this February.  I will be interested to see if it happens.

[deadzone1003]

Well, it appears that Chile has re-opened, sort of.  You have to be vaccinated and have medical insurance for covid in excess of 30K.  Most of the South American cruises require Chile and Argentina, even Uruguay can be excluded.  If any more cruises gets cancelled, I suspect it will be because they can't fill the ships with enough people to make it worth their while.  

[MkeCruzn]

We just booked the Norwegian Star for Jan. 30-Feb. 13, 2022, round trip to Buenos Aires. There's another sailing scheduled from Jan. 16-30, but that looks like the first one NCL is running in 2022. They canceled all of the earlier sailings on the Star. We pulled this in from 2023 because NCL canceled our Panama Canal sailing in January 2022. We will have to see what happens.

[travelbug11]

 Am booked on Viking's December 22nd cruise. So far so good.

 They just booked my air a couple days ago.

[scottjeanne]

We have a booked cruise on Silverseas, February 20 for 29 days-hotels and air is booked.

[deec]

what are you feeling now?  We are still keeping fingers crossed for late February on Viking.

[slewis7]

2 hours ago, deec said:

what are you feeling now?  We are still keeping fingers crossed for late February on Viking.

From going by what is being reported on the current Viking visit there, I do not feel comfortable for late February although there are other reasons we will not make it then.  
 

It seems that if current conditions were bad enough for Viking to cancel, they would do so for the next SA cruise departure which is imminent.  Since we haven’t seen anything announced yet, perhaps they intend to go forward with the season.

[scottjeanne]

Our package is still a go.  They have paid for the tickets for the flights, so we have confirmed seats.  We have to jump through hoops to  be allowed into Chile, but I have already started the process.  I am so looking forward to this.  I feel very confident in Silverseas and their protocol.  I am unsure about disembarking in Buenos Aires or Iguazu falls, but we will roll with it.