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5 CONFIRMED Changes To Cruising You’ll See On-Board In 2020-2021
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Jan 28, 2025
Discover the 5 confirmed changes to cruising on board and pre-boarding cruise changes that cruisers will see on board ocean and rivers cruises when they start up and resume in 2020 and into 2021. These are changes to the cruise on-board experience that have been announced by ocean and river cruise lines as they work on resuming cruises after the cruise shutdown. These are 5 actual and specific cruise changes announced and published. SUPPORT THE CHANNEL BY: Buying my Cruise T-shirts: http://bit.ly/TFTStore Other Videos in my Cruise Shutdown Series: 1: What should you do with bookings: https://youtu.be/Bp4xA21bsY4 2: Cancellations and refunds: https://youtu.be/BEadOjDRwAA 3: Cruise Lines Finances and refunds: https://youtu.be/E5Uco5H3CYU 4: When Cruising Will Really Start Up: https://youtu.be/3A4ZxXa-l8o 5: How cruising will change: : https://youtu.be/bamjq0pT8FU 6: Will people cruise again: https://youtu.be/mF_fKOmAmxg 7: Best Cruises For Return To Cruising: https://youtu.be/srqQ4upSv4k 8: Biggest Hurdles Facing Cruise Lines: https://youtu.be/45ndCQfyBUI 9: Future Cruise Credits or Cash Refunds: https://youtu.be/ZSMuslOVTYk 10: Best Way For Booking A Cruise Now https://youtu.be/UCiEhwAHxog 11: Signs Cruising Not Starting up Soon: https://youtu.be/VjGS0AQ8Al4 12: Confirmed On Board Changes: https://youtu.be/8WmVm3qmeYA
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I'm Gary beverage this is another of my
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cruising tips for travelers I want to
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talk about five major changes to
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cruising that have been confirmed and
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announced by the cruise lines not
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speculation not rumor covering things
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like will there be buffets will you have
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to wear masks what about social
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distancing and what about medical
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certificates before you board there are
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going to be some big changes which are
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going to enable social distancing I've
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taken a look at the announcement from a
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whole range of cruise lines which
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include cruise lines such as virgin
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voyages Bahamas paradise Cruise Line
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Genting which runs crystal dream cruises
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Star Cruises fatigue written and the big
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operator in Norway also looking at
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interviews with Richard fame from Royal
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Caribbean Group Arnold Donald from
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Carnival group Frank Del Rio from
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Norwegian group look at River Cruises
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like across the Europe avalon celia and
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what's really really clear is social
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distancing will happen however the way
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it will happen is by reducing capacity
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certainly at the time when cruises start
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rolling out there are going to be fewer
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passengers on board so you take for
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example the Bahamas paradise Cruise Line
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they are only going to be running at 60%
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capacity they're closing two whole
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passenger decks all the river cruise
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companies are talking about reducing
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capacity all of the major CEOs have
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spoken about sailing with fewer
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passengers on board what I had always
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thought was that was not really going to
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be possible but two things have happened
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that make me see how this is really
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going to work first of all I was on
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holiday Marika's Aida down just as the
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shutdown happened that was not sailing
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full a lot of people because have been
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canceling in the run-up to the shutdown
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with everything that was happening so
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the ship wasn't selling for I don't know
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exactly how full it was but I would say
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it's probably 60 or so percent full and
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what it really happened on that cruise
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is there was it was really really easy
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to socially distance the theater was
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never full you could always have loads
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of space around you if you went to the
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buffet there was always plenty of empty
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tables the dining room you could easily
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get a table by yourself the bars were
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never completely packed they were busy
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but never packed it was really easy when
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there were fewer passengers on board to
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actually socially distance and just
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manage it yourself I always wondered
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where the cruise lines could actually
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manage that however one of the most
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interesting things
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came out in some of the recent
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interviews is Richard Feynman's the
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Royal Caribbean group spoke about their
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big new ships they can actually break
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even with around 30 percent occupancy
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and older ships need to be at least
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fifty percent full
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so it shows of the cruise lines can go
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back cruising with fewer passengers and
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still break even and make money
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definitely you're going to see sailing
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on cruises start up fewer passengers on
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board to enable social distancing just
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to happen to give people much more space
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of course that is great news as a
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cruiser some of the cruise lines have
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also said that they will control the
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amount of people that go into different
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venues whether that's the bars the
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theatres the darlings so for example the
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Bahamas paradise Cruise Line they've
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spoken about how they are going to just
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manage the amount of people in any venue
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at any time if people aren't able to
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social distance himself there will be
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some controls and the river cruising
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companies have also spoken about that as
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well the second area which is one that
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also caused a lot of discussion amongst
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cruises is buffets there was a lot of
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confusion initially where now one of the
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Royal Caribbean cause and interviews
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they spoke about there being no buffet
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service that was later clarified and
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it's really clear that there will be no
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self-service buffets but it'd be very
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much like it is when ship is protecting
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or go to show norovirus situation again
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I saw it very clearly on Holland America
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Zeta Dan when they went into a
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completely different way of running the
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buffet so for example you couldn't serve
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yourself at all
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everything was served to you by a member
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of the crew and they were then wearing
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all sorts of equipment they had gloves
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masks aprons all that kind of stuff also
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what happened again because we had fewer
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people on board it was very easy to get
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a table and have space between you so
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the good news is if you're a buffet fan
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it'll still happen
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it'll get served to you and those of you
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have been on perhaps some of the more
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upmarket cruise lines you'll find that's
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kind of standard anyway they tend to
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serve you and sort of you being on ship
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when there's been norovirus you'll find
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that is the process it's not
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particularly alien and it really works
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just fine
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one of the big hot topics is around
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masks now as you know with masks on land
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there's lots of different advice based
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on which country you're in so are you or
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aren't you gonna have to weigh mark
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I don't talk first of all about river
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cruising because that's starting up
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pretty soon in Europe masks are a much
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bigger part of the cruise experience
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than we're going to see on ocean all of
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the river cruising companies with its
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cross Europe Avalon Celia they've all
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spoken about the role of masks in the
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customer and the crew experience so all
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customer facing crew will be wearing
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masks passive is going to be asked to
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wear masks when it's hard to socially
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distance of example the safety briefing
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or other briefings and they're going to
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be encouraged to wear masks around the
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ship and certainly on excursions
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certainly as river cruising starts up in
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Europe mask and a play a bigger role
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however an ocean increasing that seems
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to be a slightly different perspective
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partly because all the cruises aren't up
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and running and advice is changing so
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quickly what each of the Chairman and
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SEOs have said of the big companies is
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they will have to follow and will follow
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whatever the social norm and requirement
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is at the time by the time of a cruising
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and ocean cruising starts we gotta find
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masks are playing a much smaller role
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and more likely to be voluntary
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rather than required however it's all
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very well having fewer passengers on
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board more space on board being able to
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especially distance a bit more but what
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about excursions what cruise lines have
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said is there going to have fewer people
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on tour groups and on buses some have
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gone as far at for example again Bahamas
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paradis line about talking about
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actually only every 50% capacity on the
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bus as I've seen that a lot with the
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river cruising companies - they're
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talking about having fewer passengers on
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tour groups and on buses also much more
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focus on outdoor excursions and
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excursions where you can actually
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socially distance you're going to find
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fewer people in each tour group so you
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can actually spread out much more
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another really important change is
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around the whole medical screening and
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medical requirements let me talk first
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of all about one of the things that has
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changed in the run-up to the shutdown
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around February March time a regulation
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was introduced through cleared all the
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cruise lines were saying that if you
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were over 70 or you fall into a
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vulnerable category medically wise you
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had to have a signed medical certificate
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before you could go on a cruise now that
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has actually been dropped so there is no
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requirement at the moment for people
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over 70 to have a signed medical
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certificate however what we are going to
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see is
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whole of changes to the whole process of
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boarding ship and what we've seen all of
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the cruise lines that have formally
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announced so far is the following more
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and more of a move into no touch
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experiences so increased pressure
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requirements to check in on line you'll
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be given a very specific time to arrive
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for check-in so very narrow and as a
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time to try and minimize the amount of
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people congregating at any point of time
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in the actual cruise terminal there will
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be lots of sanitization there will be
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lots of use of hand gel when you check
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in the check and staff will be behind
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those sort of perspex screens also very
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importantly there will be temperature
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checking going on and if you are over a
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certain temperature then you will have a
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separate screening and be denied
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boarding there'll also be much more
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complex and detailed screening of where
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you've been situations you've been in
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countries you've travelled through
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before you're allowed aboard this is
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very similar actually to when I boarded
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that save the damn experience where we
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had fell out quite a detailed
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questionnaire around where we'd been the
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dental setup are supposed to verify that
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we had been to those countries that were
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identified or transited through those
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countries and temperature checks were
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taken lot of compulsory use of hand gel
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board in ership leaving the ship go on
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excursions before you can go into any
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restaurant it's only again as I saw in
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the center time is there had people
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stationed outside whose job it was to
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make sure that you use it so really
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strong compliance to that whole process
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your luggage will be sanitized before it
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is sent on board as well so lots of
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checking lots of pre-screen to make sure
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that when people board the ship they're
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as healthy as they possibly can be so
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that's certainly the situation at the
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moment those are the facts at the mode
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as regards screening of course onboard
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there's going to be so much more
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cleaning protocols with lifts being
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cleaned every hour public spaces being
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clean nine to ten times
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hospital-grade disinfectant detergents
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and cleaning products used just a real
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ramp up or the whole cleaning protocol
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even sort of more than it was when ships
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are trying to prevent or manage our
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brakes of norovirus those are five big
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changes to cruising that have
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being confirmed they've been announced
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by cruise lines and they're being put in
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place as cruising heads up and starts
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again there will be many more of course
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to come but those are the five big ones
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they'd be announced so far remember if
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you want to start today with everything
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that's going on get a perspective
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