Cruise News

Silversea Cruises announced more flexible booking policies.
 
Carnival Cruise Line details how it plans to help it's travel partners.
 
Windstar announces further suspensions.
 
The MSC Magnifica the last major ship at sea with passengers has returned home.
 
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Norwegian Cruise Line has modified its Free at Sea promotion.
 
Disney Cruise Line extends its cruise suspensions.
 
Viking has started taking bookings for its new Mississippi river cruises
 
Antigua commences construction on a new cruise pier.
 
Royal Caribbean discloses 2019 executive pay.
 
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Princess Cruise lines the Enchanted Princess delivery has been delayed.
 
Norwegian Cruise Line has rebranded its Mini-Suites as Club Balcony Suites.
 
Royal Caribbean has announced layoffs in relation to its US-based workforce.
 
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The CDC has announced an extension to its No Sail Order for all ships docking or departing from US ports.
 
There are still approximately 80,000 crew onboard over 100 ships anchored or near ports around the world.
 
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Some of the new policies currently in place required temperature checks as well as signed letters from your doctors certifying you are fit to cruise.
 
Would you be willing to take these extra steps for your vacation? Do you think it is fair?
 
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CDC Releases new guidelines for cruise ship travelers.

These new recommendations include healthy guests disembarking should get home as quickly and safely as possible and self-quarantine for 14 days.

Cruises lines much get travelers directly to their homes via charters or private transport, commercial and public means may not be used.

If you are showing symptoms do not travel with other people who are not showing symptoms. Cruise lines are responsible for anything showing symptoms including those that need medical care and should arrange medical transport.

Cruise lines must disclose all suspected cases with local health and port authorities.

Genting cruises have announced comprehensive new health guidelines for their cruises. These include mandatory temperature screening for preboarding.

Higher frequency cleanings, proof of doctors' certificate of fitness for travel if over 70 years of age.

Rooms will be disinfected twice per day, public areas on average every 2 hours.

100% fresh external filtered air will be supplied to all cabins and public areas and filters cleaned regularly.

Disney extends cruise suspensions through April 28th.

Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has taken an 8.2% stake in Carnival and is now the third-largest shareholder. This will hopefully also give them access to resources if additional investment is needed for a prolonged return to cruising.

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Missing being on a cruise? Major and specialty lines have published virtual cruise content to help you get your fix.

Viking Cruises has launched viking.tv which includes specialty programming as well as live guest lecturers every weekday.
https://viking.tv/

Crystal Cruises offers crystal@home offering a virtual voyage.
http://www.crystalcruises.com/crystalathome

Lindblad Expeditions is offering a virtual expedition cruise.
https://www.expeditions.com/destinations/virtual/

Hurtigruten is offering a minute by a minute coastal cruise that runs for 6 days captured by 11 cameras which set the record for the longest live tv documentary.
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/hurtigruten-minutt-for-minutt/2011/DVFJ67000111/avspiller

Holland America has launched HAL@Home which is offering some of their cooking demonstrations and will be expanded to include other Holland America features.
https://youtu.be/FUAuiXMyZXg

Royal Caribbean is offering a Virtual of the Seas cruise with daily cruise compasses.
https://www.facebook.com/cruisedirectorabehughes/

Finally, Carnival is providing a virtual Caribbean cruise captured in 360-degree video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDfsFuDuHds

Australia has launched a form criminal probe into the Ruby Princess unloading in Sydney without being forthcoming if it knew it's passengers were sick.

Bahamas Paradise states an optimistically worded start date of May 6th vs wording it as suspended until May 6th.

The Coral Princess has been cleared to dock in Miami. They will be allowed to disembark only for scheduled flights which included charters flights back to their home countries.

Royal Caribbean will be using its ships the Spectrum, Ovation, Radiance, Voyager as well as the Celebrity Solstice to provide transportation for the crew to their home countries.

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It is currently taking upwards of 60 days to receive a cruise refund in the current climate, in some cases up to 90 days.

When most people booked their cruise the original time frame was 5-10 days.

Since the suspension of the cruising industry, this has been updated to reflect their current policies of 60-90 days.

This can have a hardship on people now being affected by a changing economy that are in need of cash to pay their bills and provide for their households.

Why are refunds taking so long and is there anything you can do about it.

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Princess Cruise Lines Coral Princess which is on her way to Ft. Lauderdale and estimated to arrive on April 4th has now confirmed at least 12 positive cases on board.

Holland Americas Zaandam and Rotterdam were permitted to dock at Port Everglades. Any crew of guests showing symptoms will need to stay onboard while at the port. Only critically ill guests and crew will be taken to hospitals. Carnival which is the parent company for Holland America will cover all expenses.

Fred Olsen cruise lines have donated a container of fruit and vegetables to local charities in Barbados. The container was originally destined for their ship the Braemar who never arrived at the port due to the port stop being canceled.

Richard Fain Chairman and CEO of Royal Caribbean has announced he will forego his base salary until September 30, 2020. As well other executives have agreed to a 25% reduction in their salaries.

Genting cruises extend their cruise as you wish program though March 31st, 2021. Similar to other cruise with confidence programs this allows you to change or cancel your sailing up to 48 hours before your cruise and receive future cruise credit.

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Oasis of the Seas crew tests Positive now at least 51 up from 14. approx 1500 crew members left.

Coast Guard directs cruise ships to remain at sea indefinitely with a statement that medevac patients are no longer being accepted. This directly affects the stranded Zaandam and Rotterdam.

Australia demands ships off its coast to leave its waters.

Carnival, as it stands, is burning 1 billion in cash per month. They will be issuing an additional 62 million shares of common stock at $8.00 per share to hopefully raise $500 million. They have also suspended their stock dividend.

Carnival currently has all cruises suspended through May 11, with the following exceptions.

San Francisco all 2020 sailings
All Alaska sailing through June 30th
All Carnival Radiance sailings through Nov 1
All Carnival Legend sailings through October 30th.

In a little stranger and somewhat concerning news, the cruise ship Resolute which is flagged in Portugal and usually focuses on Antarctic cruises was sailing in international waters in the Caribbean sea on it's way to curacao. When a Venezuelan navy vessel demanded it follows the vessel to Puerto Moreno.

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