Now Princess Cruises Changes Covid Guidelines

[gordylad]

Starting Sept. 6, vaccinated guests sailing on voyages of less than 16 days will no longer have to test before boarding and only need to upload proof of vaccination while getting OceanReady. Unvaccinated guests, or those who do not provide proof of vaccination, on those itineraries will self-test within three days of sailing and upload proof of a negative test before boarding.   

 

These new guidelines apply to itineraries from all departure ports except where government regulations and protocols may vary like Canada, Greece and Australia.

[sunonfire]

Here’s a link.  Carnival Cruise has the new changes.

 

https://www.carnivalcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/princess-cruises-removes-vaccine-requirement-most-voyages

[cangelmd]

Those guidelines make more sense from an infection control point of view than Celebrity’s do.

[gordylad]

cut and paste and a tweak by celebrity is all it will take...........

[WestLakeGirl]

Canada needs to change for us to be test-free

[deliver42]

CCL has the best protocols starting September 5th. It's time for the Royal group to get with the program, or really start losing customers to Princess from Celebrity and Carnival from Royal.

[Virginia100]

What’s the matter RCI and Celebrity? What are they waiting for? Last to change ?

looking at a Princess cruise now.

Edited August 13, 2022 by Virginia100

[MixerDave]

4 hours ago, Virginia100 said:

What’s the matter RCI and Celebrity? What are they waiting for? Last to change ?

looking at a Princess cruise now.

We just returned from a 12 day Princess cruise - our second - also our LAST.  We are back with Celebrity!

 

[davekathy]

4 hours ago, Virginia100 said:

What’s the matter RCI and Celebrity? What are they waiting for? Last to change ?

looking at a Princess cruise now.

What's wrong with Canada?!!

[peanutter]

I assume/hope RCI is monitoring the industry (and this board) and will follow suit.  Please, okay, "pretty please" drop the pre-cruise testing mandate!  I'm okay with vaccinations but the testing just makes no sense at all.  

[rj59]

They'll change, it's like a high school dance, everybody was waiting to take the first step. Celebrity/Royal took the first step, but now that Princess has gone for 7-night cruises, Celebrity will follow suit, since Royal will have to compete with Carnival. I also like the idea of simply accepting a home test for the unvaxxed, especially with Walgreen's no longer offering free tests and the online tests such a hassle, with mistakes, stress, cost, and test expiration dates. If people are scared, vulnerable, then they can continue to mask and distance, but it's really long past time to keep testing kids at the pier or requiring expensive PCR tests. It will also be nice to get on the ship finally with just the app and passports, instead of pulling out papers.