I don’t blame you. We are sailing April 3 and I’m worried myself. I think I’m going to book a stay at WDW as my backup though.I've been pretty worried about our sailing date at the end of March 2021. We booked it back in January and when all the cancellations started to happen, I kept telling myself, "You've got a year for everything going back to normal. It'll be fine!" We've still got 9 months until then. It doesn't help that I'm planning for my wedding on that cruise so I'm worried about it being cancelled.
If Fauci is right and there’s a vaccine available in early January we will be leaving January 8 2021 for our first cruise and Disney January 11 2021 for a second.
I love your optimism. However, even if a vaccine becomes available at the beginning of January, by the time they get front line workers vaccinated and doses sent to local health agencies, it could take quite a while.
Personally, I hope it’s as quick as you’re thinking. It would be great to go somewhere and have some magic!!
Is it just the CDC holding up the whole industry? I don't recall hearing about any cruises starting up in Asia or Europe. I mean, a Carnival or Royal could be doing their pacific cruises, if the only hindrance is the CDC, right?The other cruise lines have to get back to sailing late summer/early fall or they will go out of business. They do not have the other revenue streams that Disney has, so they cannot just park their ships for 6 months. If the CDC extends the no sail order again for a 3rd time, they will have to provide some kind of bailout. I'm usually not for bailouts but seems cruising is the sole industry that has been singled out by the CDC for ongoing bans and a government induced bankruptcy. You can take a 3 day trip packed in a Greyhound bus from NYC to LA with no CDC health/cleanliness regulations but you can't take a heavily health regulated 3 day trip on DCL? Doesn't seem right.
The thing bothering me with what DCL is doing is the blatant, unnecessary stringing along. DCL knows 100% whether or not their 07/31 Dream cruise is going out, regardless of what CDC says, yet they leave it up, scheduled and bookable. Why let people lose thousands $ on airfare, hotels and travel expenses when DCL knows whether or not they are going to sail and just sit on that info at their customer's expense. Honesty and transparency would go a long way here instead of just trying to keep some PIF money on the books.
There was a river cruise that sailed recently in Germany for the first time since the shut down.Is it just the CDC holding up the whole industry? I don't recall hearing about any cruises starting up in Asia or Europe. I mean, a Carnival or Royal could be doing their pacific cruises, if the only hindrance is the CDC, right?
Is it just the CDC holding up the whole industry? I don't recall hearing about any cruises starting up in Asia or Europe. I mean, a Carnival or Royal could be doing their pacific cruises, if the only hindrance is the CDC, right?