Cruising choices with an active Pandemic

Le Lapérouse is off Noumea/Le Soléal is off Tahiti

It appears that both ships have been in a lo-Covid area and could make a case as "clean".
Crew rotation will be expensive with inbound quarantine , but it may be doable

The Ponant email is aspirational , but at least it is a green shoot in a very bare paddock….

By comparison Silver Muse is in the med and Silver Explorer has passed through the Panama Canal bound for Tenerife.
Neither of these ships appears headed for au waters anytime soon.
 
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p--and--t said:
Non-aussie ships not allowed to enter Aussie waters before September 17th. Then they got to get here, replenish etc. So doubt any cruises before 20th.
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Hopefully they will have to do 14 days quarantine in Aussie waters before clearing health tests then replenishing etc. So perhaps no cruises before October.
 
14 days quarantine in Aussie waters before clearing health tests

This seems a somewhat unfair deal for ships that are self evidently clean.
Othoh , from an Au-Fed perspective , why would they trust anything any cruise line tells them ?
As they sow so shall they reap .

I note that almost all ships currently planning au seasons are coming via highly active environments.
Silver explorer's current Itinerary reads like an 8 year old kids Christmas wish list..
 
This is quite a visually "lush" article, nothing new but worth a read.

The US was highly reactive at this point in time ; now that Covid is endemic I suspect that future reactions will be muted.
One can almost hear the dismissive spin from the petri dish marketers..
Oh yeah.. the ships have got Covid.. just like everyone else..it's no big deal.



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My husband got a short note from a Scottish gentleman we met on the QM2 in March. He said that the ship took 30 days to return to Southampton from Fremantle via South Africa with no port days. And he arrived to Scottish quarantine.
 
sinophile888 said:
My husband got a short note from a Scottish gentleman we met on the QM2 in March. He said that the ship took 30 days to return to Southampton from Fremantle via South Africa with no port days. And he arrived to Scottish quarantine.
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I'm curious to know how the ship changed their usual method of operation during the return trip? I'm thinking the Tuxes would have stayed buried in the closet?
 
It only applies to foreign-flagged cruise ships. So presumably you can register a cruise ship in Australia and it should be OK. Or to be on the safe side register it in Queensland given the way Queensland has treated the border issue.
 
No the current period ends on 17/8 but read on and it says this-
This direction applies from the time of publication until the end of the declared public health emergency, unless it is revoked or replaced.
 
Perhaps they have had some private enquiries from the likes of Princess et al, and decided to spell it all out in public.
The "public" (who also vote) may be quite twitchy about Petri dishes in their ports.
For the immediate future, EVERYTHING the Qld government does will be designed to secure votes.
 
tgh said:
Perhaps they have had some private enquiries from the likes of Princess et al, and decided to spell it all out in public.
The "public" (who also vote) may be quite twitchy about Petri dishes in their ports.
For the immediate future, EVERYTHING the Qld government does will be designed to secure votes.
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Elections get in the way of everything right now. Thank god there isn't a Federal one due.
 
drron said:
No the current period ends on 17/8 but read on and it says this-
This direction applies from the time of publication until the end of the declared public health emergency, unless it is revoked or replaced.
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Yes, and the declared public health emergency currently ends 17 August.
 

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