Cruiz'nBaers Posted August 19, 2021 #1 Share Posted August 19, 2021 (edited) Thinking about a cruise to the Caribbean in October, was wondering at what capacity the ships are sailing. Are they sailing at full or reduced capacity? Edited August 19, 2021 by Cruiz'nBaers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir PMP Posted August 19, 2021 #2 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Probably around 80%.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavArch64 Posted August 19, 2021 #3 Share Posted August 19, 2021 The Nieuw Amsterdam sailed on July 31 with 1588 guests of 2106 nominal capacity - 75%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Gail & Marty sailing away Posted August 19, 2021 #4 Share Posted August 19, 2021 In 60 days who knows. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkNC Posted August 19, 2021 #5 Share Posted August 19, 2021 3 hours ago, Cruiz'nBaers said: Thinking about a cruise to the Caribbean in October, was wondering at what capacity the ships are sailing. Are they sailing at full or reduced capacity? The Eurodam was going to sail at 100% capacity on August 15th, I don’t think they did as it doesn’t appear those cruises are selling very well. There are rooms available in the future sailings in every category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjcox9 Posted August 19, 2021 #6 Share Posted August 19, 2021 32 minutes ago, KirkNC said: The Eurodam was going to sail at 100% capacity on August 15th, I don’t think they did as it doesn’t appear those cruises are selling very well. There are rooms available in the future sailings in every category. Reported by Seth, the HAL ambassador that the passenger count was around 800. We have friends onboard, but they have not confirmed the actual number, just that there is a lot of space available! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhsocal Posted August 19, 2021 #7 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Cooper posted for his August Alaska cruise--80 percent. If covid conditions improve, suspect this percentage will be higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Mary229 Posted August 19, 2021 #8 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Reading the article posted in this thread https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2797194-restart-plans-for-holland-america-cruise-industry-news-81921/ It is HAL's intention to sail at 100% capacity. Markets will determine if that happens but that is their intention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkNC Posted August 19, 2021 #9 Share Posted August 19, 2021 1 hour ago, tjcox9 said: Reported by Seth, the HAL ambassador that the passenger count was around 800. We have friends onboard, but they have not confirmed the actual number, just that there is a lot of space available! I suspected it was well short of full, thanks for the report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruiz'nBaers Posted August 19, 2021 Author #10 Share Posted August 19, 2021 I understand that by October things can change either direction, just trying to make a decision based on the information currently available. Thanks to those who took the time to answer. Linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartgrove Posted August 20, 2021 #11 Share Posted August 20, 2021 I think that the percentage of passengers onboard will vary as more sailings are conducted. It will depend on if any passenger tests positive aboard. For example, we sailed on the fourth weekly cruise that Viking scheduled for their startup cruises in Iceland. Their ships have a capacity of 930. The first weekly cruise sailed with around 400 passengers, second cruise around 600, third cruise around 700, and our cruise had 860 passengers. But the third cruise (the one before ours) had a passenger test positive with the daily PCR tests that are conducted onboard. Police were sent after excursion buses, ports were closed to them, and the cruise returned early. It appears that the current sailings are at less capacity than our cruise perhaps to lower the chance of positive tests. Most of those infected are testing positive on day 3 or 4 so might indicate exposre during the flight, etc. But a subsquent cruise had a passenger test positive and was contact traced to an excursion bus. All passengers of the bus were quarantined even though testing negative. 26 of those passengers were given the option of leaving the ship and flew back to the US the next day. Now future passengers are cancelling excursions or even the cruise as well. It is still not over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjcox9 Posted August 20, 2021 #12 Share Posted August 20, 2021 18 hours ago, KirkNC said: I suspected it was well short of full, thanks for the report. Heard from our friends who are onboard and they confirmed the 800 number with 400 US and the rest other...............NO Canadians and I'm sure there are no Aussies either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkNC Posted August 20, 2021 #13 Share Posted August 20, 2021 (edited) 44 minutes ago, tjcox9 said: Heard from our friends who are onboard and they confirmed the 800 number with 400 US and the rest other...............NO Canadians and I'm sure there are no Aussies either. No Kiwi’s either I am sure. So 1/2 American and probably most of the rest European. Edited August 20, 2021 by KirkNC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickadee910 Posted August 20, 2021 #14 Share Posted August 20, 2021 The amount of passengers starting in Greece might have todo with the number of us moved from our Italy cruise to Barcelona. Gives me hope that we will be cruising since the Eurodam has started it’s season. See some of you October 30th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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