Princess Stopping Covid Testing Will Carnival Follow

[MagnoliaBlossom]

We were on a 5 day cruise on the Breeze last week sailing from Galveston and I was very surprised that I was asked for my vaccination card.  I asked the lady about the new announcement that vax was not required for this cruise and she shrugged her shoulders and asked me whether I was going to present a card or not.  

[habitatnal]

1 hour ago, MagnoliaBlossom said:

We were on a 5 day cruise on the Breeze last week sailing from Galveston and I was very surprised that I was asked for my vaccination card.  I asked the lady about the new announcement that vax was not required for this cruise and she shrugged her shoulders and asked me whether I was going to present a card or not.  

While you are no longer required to be vaccinated, you still have to show your vaccination card to be exempt from testing requirements.

[asalligo]

Really hoping Carnival drops all testing before my December cruise. 

[MagnoliaBlossom]

I may be mistaken but I thought the new policy was no testing for cruises 5 days or less.  Seems I read that somewhere.  I had my card with me so it wasn’t a problem , just thought it was unnecessary.

[habitatnal]

3 hours ago, MagnoliaBlossom said:

I may be mistaken but I thought the new policy was no testing for cruises 5 days or less.  Seems I read that somewhere.  I had my card with me so it wasn’t a problem , just thought it was unnecessary.

If you are unvaccinated you still need to test regardless of the length of the cruise.  So you either show your vaccine card to prove that you are vaccinated or if you are unvaccinated you produce a negative test result since you don’t have a vaccine card.  If you are vaccinated, they will not just believe you are vaccinated so that is why you need to show the card.

[Linguist208]

On 10/21/2022 at 9:59 AM, pirate4me2 said:

Yes, but we are discussing that Princess has dropped testing for UNVACCINATED as well

Fair enough, but that's not what the title of the post says, and it's not clear in any replies.

[habitatnal]

1 hour ago, Linguist208 said:

Fair enough, but that's not what the title of the post says, and it's not clear in any replies.

Also, because Princess has dropped all testing that means that vaccinated people no longer will have to show their vaccination card.  This will make boarding more streamlined and faster.