Australian Departures - Vaccination Requirements 2, 3 or 4 shots = fully vaccinated?

[TwoWestAussies]

Just read Royal Caribbean's Healthy Sale Protocols for Australian Cruises which are due to start soon, they do not specify what they consider to be fully vaccinated, is this 2 shots or 2 + 1 booster or 2 boosters?

Also, for anyone who is leaving on the first cruises departing from Sydney, have you been advised if face masks will be required indoors or are they optional, as stated on the Healthy Sale Protocols?

Thank You

[The_Big_M]

Cruises operating in Australia do so under the common Australian guidelines, which are based on two doses (generally) being fully vaccinated. RCL do state this effectively in their wording when they state "To be considered fully vaccinated guests should be vaccinated with a recognized vaccine and dosage as specified by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). "

 

If you refer to the TGA assessments, you'll see that fully vaccinated refers to two vaccinations (not boosters) for the commonly used Australian vaccines.

 

They do this so that if the Australian guidelines change, they refer to the current advice rather than needing to update their site as well.

 

Regarding masks, as the sailings are still a while off and restrictions have still been changing frequently, they would be waiting until much closer to finalise what the requirements are. Hence the optional wording as they would prefer things to go that way rather than lock things as they are right now, which does require masks onboard indoors.

[Chiliburn]

15 hours ago, TwoWestAussies said:

Just read Royal Caribbean's Healthy Sale Protocols for Australian Cruises which are due to start soon, they do not specify what they consider to be fully vaccinated, is this 2 shots or 2 + 1 booster or 2 boosters?

Also, for anyone who is leaving on the first cruises departing from Sydney, have you been advised if face masks will be required indoors or are they optional, as stated on the Healthy Sale Protocols?

Thank You

I went on a P&O cruise a couple of months ago, which left sydney.
N.S.W health sets the rules not the cruise line.

So with this cruise, they really didn’t care and I would say RC will be the same.

You had to declare you where vaccinated and you haven’t had Covid or symptoms in the last week.

All they wanted to see at check-in was photo I.D and most important a credit card.

You were supposed to do a self administered RAT and have your vaccination certificate,which I did. 
But they just didn’t care, they weren’t interested.