Royal Caribbean to cruise from Bahamas, require COVID-19 vaccine for passengers, crew

[Klaralven]

Royal Caribbean International and its sister cruise line, Celebrity Cruises, will require COVID-19 vaccines for all adult passengers and crew members when they start sailing cruises in the Caribbean in June.

Royal Caribbean will sail departing from Nassau, the Bahamas, starting June 12, the cruise line announced Friday.

The seven-night cruises on Adventure of the Seas will be open to adult passengers and crew members fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and passengers under 18 with a negative coronavirus test.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2021/03/19/royal-caribbean-bahamas-cruise-celebrity-cruises-covid-vaccinated-passengers/4760099001/

[Deuxcents]

1. Sign me up

As a “no thank you”.

[Phoenix61]

2. Now if it was an all inclusive resort

requiring proof of vaccination I’d be all in. No desire to get crammed onto a boat.

[liberal_mama]

3. The antivaxxers in Facebook cruising groups are really mad about this

They say they are being discriminated against! It's pretty entertaining.

[Funtatlaguy]

4. Give them their own COVID Cruise 🚢 to Death Island. Idiots.

[StarryNite]

5. Cruise them to Death Island and leave them there.

[Raftergirl]

6. If they want to cruise

then they will have to get the vax. It’s up to them.

I believe a lot of things are going to be off limits to those not vaccinated. Many airlines and countries will begin to require one be vaccinated.

Even sporting events, other entertainment events in NYS are going to require a vax or a negative test to attend. I doubt people are going to want to have a test every time they want to go to a ball game or concert. Once it enters their thick skulls they will need a vax, they will get it. They just won’t tell anyone.

https://wpdh.com/vaccinated-how-to-sign-up-for-nys-excelsior-pass-for-concerts/

[roamer65]

7. They should be rounded up and put in FEMA camps.

Seriously, this needs to be done for all sporting events, concerts, movie theaters, etc, etc.

[NYC Liberal]

13. Well, they are being discriminated against...but it's perfectly legal and justified discrimination.

Only discrimination for specific protected reasons is illegal.

They don't want the vaccine? Ok, but they don't get to put everyone else at risk.

[Dorian Gray]

15. They should start a cruise line

for only those who refuse to vaccinate! It'll be great!

[demtenjeep]

8. yes

ours was rescheduled to this year. IT just might happen



too bad my sister is gone

[winstars]

9. Aren't anti-vaxxers already printing up fake proof of vaccinations????

Thought I heard that...

[Klaralven]

11. Many states have a vaccine information database

Eventually, we will have to go to something like a blockchain technology electronic proof of vaccination.

No one is going to trust some paper card.

[winstars]

12. They will have to trust the paper card until that electronic method is invented.

The problem is the people checking if you have been vaccinated or not might not be able to access a electronic data base.

Airlines and cruise ship lines might have the computing power to actually check a persons bonafides vaccine wise but will the hostess at your restaurant have that same access?

There are apps the record your vaccination status but won't it need to be a national or international.

[Klaralven]

14. How IATA Travel Pass is using blockchain technology to keep passengers in control of their data

https://www.futuretravelexperience.com/2021/01/how-iata-travel-pass-is-using-blockchain-technology-to-keep-passengers-in-control-of-their-data/

The International Air Transport Association is working on it. I think that Singapore Airlines is in the lead.

[winstars]

16. Thanks!

[Stallion]

10. This is the Only Way the Cruise Industry Survives...

...its been mind boggling reading about free-dumb cruisers thinking they should be allowed to cruise before a vaccine program and implementation had been completed for everyone on the ship. I often go to cruisecritic.com (which is the largest cruise forum) and some of them have booked 4-5 cruises since the beginning of the pandemic and angrily criticizing the cancellation of all of them

[ironflange]

17. We have a cruise booked for a year from now

Keeping our fingers crossed.