Celebrity Cruises & Royal Caribbean
Updated August 22, 2022
Beginning with sailings departing on September 5, 2022, Royal Caribbean is thrilled to welcome ALL GUESTS, regardless of vaccination status, on cruises from any U.S. homeport (excluding sailings visiting Bermuda or Canada).
Royal Caribbean
and Celebrity have shared vaccination and pre-cruise testing updates for
cruises departing from Los Angeles, Galveston, New Orleans, and European ports.
Please review the below carefully.
Royal
Caribbean
What You Need to Know
Eligible
Itineraries
Please note
that any itinerary not listed below will
continue to follow the published protocols, until further
notice. Please continue to reference the Healthy Cruising Hub for the
latest information.
- Cruises departing from Los Angeles,
California
- Cruises departing from Galveston,
Texas
- Cruises departing from New Orleans,
Louisiana
- Cruises departing from a European
homeport
Protocol
Updates
Effective on select
itineraries, beginning September 5, 2022
LAX & GAL Departures
- Vaccination
- We recommend that our guests be
fully vaccinated against COVID‐19, if eligible.
- While vaccination is not required,
we kindly ask that guests disclose their status during check-in to ensure
we maintain a highly vaccinated onboard population.
- IMPORTANT Sailings that visit Grand Cayman: unvaccinated guests 12 years and
older can join our sailing; however, they’ll need to stay onboard when we
arrive in Grand Cayman.
- Pre-cruise Testing
Accepted tests
are FDA‐approved PCR or antigen tests
supervised in person or supervised by a telehealth professional.
- Sailings 5 nights or less –
- Unvaccinated guests ages 2 years
and older must present a negative COVID-19 test result taken within 3
days of the sail date.
- Fully vaccinated guests do not
need to test for these sailings.
- Sailings 6 nights or more –
- All guests ages 2 years and older
must present a negative COVID-19 test result taken within 3 days of the
sail date.
New Orleans Season (November 1, 2022 – January 31, 2023)
- Vaccination
- We recommend that our guests be
fully vaccinated against COVID‐19, if eligible.
- While vaccination is not required,
we kindly ask that guests disclose their status during check-in to ensure
we maintain a highly vaccinated onboard population.
- IMPORTANT Sailings that visit Grand Cayman: unvaccinated guests 12 years and
older can join our sailing however, they’ll need to stay onboard when we
arrive in Grand Cayman.
- Pre-cruise Testing
- Testing for these sailings is
still being finalized
- We will contact booked guests and
travel partners directly with more information.
All EU departures
- Vaccination
- We recommend that our guests be
fully vaccinated and up to date against COVID‐19, if eligible.
- While vaccination is not required,
we kindly ask that guests disclose their status during check-in to ensure
we maintain a highly vaccinated onboard population.
- Guests who are 12 years and older
who are considered unvaccinated or who are not up to date with their
vaccination will require additional testing.
- Pre-cruise Testing
- Testing
will remain the same for EU departures.
- Guests
that are not “up to date” on their vaccination per EMA standards will
need to take a test onboard in order to get off the ship in Greece and
Spain
Other
Homeports & Destinations
We are working
with local governments in the Eastern Caribbean to align on vaccination
requirements for more itineraries. We want to ensure a great experience going
ashore at these ports, for guests of any vaccination status, while meeting
local health regulations. We’ll share information as it becomes available to
both you and your clients. We continue to maintain additional layers of
protection that far exceed any other vacation experience - This includes
vaccination of all crew and keeping them up to date with boosters when
eligible, routine surveillance of all crew, enhanced testing, and treatment
capabilities in our onboard medical centers, and much more.
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Effective September 5, 2022
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LAX & GAL
Sailing 5 nights or less
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LAX & GAL
Sailing 6 nights or more
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New Orleans
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Europe
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Other Homeports
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Vaccinated
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- Vaccination Recommended
- No Testing Required
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- Vaccination Recommended
- Testing Required (3 days)
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- Vaccination Recommended
- Testing To Be Determined
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Unvaccinated
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- Vaccination Recommended*
- Testing Required (3 days)
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- Vaccination Recommended*
- Testing Required (3 days)
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- Vaccination Recommended*
- Testing To Be Determined
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*Unvaccinated
guests cannot disembark in Grand Cayman
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Resources
Celebrity
What You Need to Know
- Vaccination
- Beginning
September 5th, 2022, all travelers, regardless of vaccination status, can
now cruise on the following itineraries as long as they meet any testing
requirements to board:
- All
sailings departing from the UK and Europe (with
the exception of Iceland)
- All
sailings departing from Los
Angeles
- For all
other sailings, please visit the Country
Travel Requirements page for the country of embarkation
for your sailing for more information regarding vaccination age
requirements.
- Testing
- Testing
and timing of requirements may vary by homeport country and port of
embarkation. We continually evaluate and update country travel
requirements to sail here.
Booked guests will also be advised of the latest requirements.
Resources
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