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    The Wish is about to be official!

    We’ve been in The Azores for the past 10 days. As we were packing up our hotel room to leave today, a large cruise ship sailed past. My son insisted it was a Disney ship. I said no way! He got his binoculars, and sure enough…it was the Wish. We chased it into port and got some great pictures...
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    Y’all will appreciate this

    Few more pics. We were close enough that my phone picked up DCL WiFi!
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    Y’all will appreciate this

    We are checking out of our hotel in The Azores, and guess what just floated right past our hotel room? The Disney Wish on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic! She was just delivered to DCL a few days ago...
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    Japan June 2022

    This line alone is both hilarious and sad... "Assuming the program goes as planned, this would imply a total of about five tourists from the U.S. will be allowed to visit in the coming month on a carefully choreographed and restricted tour that would be the envy of North Korean guides."
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    Japan June 2022

    Yes, just one island. When I booked, it wasn't clear that travel between islands was fully open. I also didn't want to have to worry about alternate hotel accommodations (I LOVE the hotel we booked!)
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    Japan June 2022

    Yes, I did! Flying out of JFK and home through Boston. Was able to cancel ABD in time to get decent airfare. We will have 11 days on Sao Miguel, assuming no issues with our flights. We are so excited!
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    Airfare thru ABD or not

    The benefit to booking through ABD is (was?) that, if you do and ABD cancels (which has happened a lot lately), you get a full refund of your airfare. At least that was the policy before Covid. I think I've seen some posters here say that they only got credits for airfare purchases, even...
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    Vaccination Update from ABD

    I got mine on the 22nd, so 6 days from when ABD agreed to the refund.
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    Vaccination Update from ABD

    I did not purchase any insurance. That’s how little confidence I had in this trip. They should refund it, but I wonder if they only will if ABD cancels.
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    Vaccination Update from ABD

    My June trip wasn’t cancelled by ABD. I asked to cancel and get my deposit back, and ABD agreed. I thought I clarified that in a previous post, but I’ve been posting in a few different threads. However, someone in another thread said the mid-May trip to Japan has been cancelled. We were...
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    Japan June 2022

    We were on the June 4 trip. Just to clarify, I asked to cancel, and ABD allowed it and agreed to refund my deposit. But what you posted about the May trip tells me that they are expecting to officially cancel our trip, too. Our PIF date was the first week of April. Those two weeks may not mean...
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    Current Cancellation Timing

    I have no idea. I did not disclose our vaccination status to her. I only said that Japan doesn't even have a vaccine requirement for tourists at the moment, and I was concerned that, even if they do open in time for our trip, we may not have time to comply with whatever their requirement is...
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    Current Cancellation Timing

    I was just able to cancel my early June trip to Japan. ABD confirmed that I WILL be getting a full refund of my deposit. This was triggered by the vaccine mandate email that ABD sent out yesterday. If you want/need to cancel a trip, I would advise calling your TA or ABD and talking with them.
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    Vaccination Update from ABD

    Thanks to this thread, I asked my TA to clarify the cancellation policy with ABD. Our early June trip to Japan has been cancelled, and I will be getting a full refund of my deposit. Confirmed by ABD. For anyone still in a situation like mine, just call ABD or your travel agent and ask!
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    Japan June 2022

    Thanks to the other thread where people said they were offered cancellations with a refund of the deposit after the vaccine mandate email was pushed out by ABD yesterday, I contacted my TA. My trip has been cancelled, and I will be given a full refund of the deposit. It's been confirmed. For...
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    Vaccination Update from ABD

    I sent an email to my TA, and she is looking into it. Given that Japan isn't even open, who knows what their vaccination policy will even be (or if we can meet it). That alone should be grounds for allowing cancellations with a refund of the deposit.
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    Japan June 2022

    This issue I have is, Japan has been closed for two years. I would like to see some documentation that ABD is providing the product I was sold before I cough up $17k. Pre-pandemic this wasn't really an issue because substitutions were readily available. Who knows what's going to be...
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    Japan June 2022

    The more I think about this, the more adamant I am that ABD should provide a CONFIRMED itinerary to guests when final payment is due. If they cannot provide that, then you should be allowed to cancel and receive your deposit back. The fact that they want $17k from me but can't even provide...
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    Vaccination Update from ABD

    Ok, I'm confused. I received the same email. It does not say anything about being able to cancel, and my TA did not mention cancellation when she forwarded the email to me (I received it from ABD and from her). Should I be contacting her about cancelling Japan? I have not received any other...
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    Japan June 2022

    This is my biggest complaint. Our backup plan is a trip to the Azores. I have a refundable hotel room booked, but I still need to buy plane tickets and book a rental car. I just can't bring myself to do that without an official cancellation of the Japan trip because the dates would overlap...
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