#COVID ON CRUISE SHIPS 2022 SERIES#

Holland America Line celebrated a special occasion on July 24, namely the first anniversary of the return to cruising and hitting more than 240 cruises over the past year.

#COVID ON CRUISE SHIPS 2022 SERIES#

Norwegian Prima will sail from New York City, Miami, and Port Canaveral during her stay in the United States.įrom December 2023, Norwegian Prima will be based in Galveston, Texas, sailing on a series of 7-night Caribbean cruises to Harvest Caye, Belize Cozumel, Mexico and Roatan, Honduras.

The vessel will sail from Southampton to New York City on September 23, and will arrive in New York City on October 5. Earlier this year, Norwegian Cruise Line announced the original inaugural voyage had to be canceled and pushed back later in the summer due to supply chain challenges.Īt 142,500 gross tons, with space for 3,215 guests, the ship is not the largest in the Norwegian Cruise Line fleet however, it is still packed with exciting and innovative features that puts Norwegian Prima in a league of its own.ĭebuting this August, Norwegian Prima will be the first major cruise ship christened in Iceland, commencing her eight-day inaugural voyage in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik on August 27, 2022, sailing to Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Īfter her inaugural voyage, Norwegian Prima will sail from Amsterdam on September 3 kicking off a series of 8-day voyages to Copenhagen. Norwegian Prima Deliveryĭuring a ceremony at the shipyard in Marghera, Italy, Fincantieri officially handed over Norwegian Prima, the first of six Prima-class ships, to Norwegian Cruise Line. The reason for the changes is due to The International Maritime Organization recently sharing new speed regulations that the cruise line must keep to and this will impact those ship deployments. Meanwhile, Voyager of the Seas will be redeployed to Galveston, Texas in May 2023. Voyager of the Seas was to have been sailing from Fort Lauderdale and Port Canaveral in the fall of 2023, but those cruises have now been assigned to Adventure of the Seas. At that time, Enchantment of the Seas will return from Europe to take over the ship’s previously scheduled Caribbean itineraries departing from Tampa, Florida for fall 2023. Green means 'no reported cases of COVID-19 or COVID-19-like illness' while red means 'reported cases of COVID-19 are at or above the threshold for CDC investigation' and 'additional public health measures are in place.'Ĭruise lines and ships that are marked as gray have 'opted out of CDC’s COVID-19 Program for Cruise Ships' and the 'CDC has not reviewed or confirmed the cruise ship’s health and safety protocols.Photo Credit: StudioPortoSabbia / Shutterstockīrilliance of the Seas will instead be offering Alaska sailings from Vancouver for the 2023 summer season, before moving to Australia in October. The CDC has a Cruise Ship Status Dashboard on its website that reports COVID-19 infection rates and vaccination status for each cruise line and respective ship, which are assigned a 'ship color status' that indicates health risk levels in green, yellow, orange, red and gray. Guidance is 'subject to change without notice,' Royal Caribbean warns in the fine print of its online newsroom. The cruise line noted that current health and safety protocols and guest conduct rules vary by ship and destination due to differing regional travel restrictions.

When the ship returns to the U.S., it will call Cape Canaveral home and will complete year-round trips in the Caribbean, Royal Caribbean wrote in a recent press release.

Additional Caribbean destinations it will travel to include Roatan, Honduras and Cozumel and Costa Maya, Mexico.Ĭome summertime, Wonder of the Seas will be redirected to the Western Mediterranean, where it will sail to Naples and Florence, Italy Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca, Spain and Provence, France. The cruise line plans to sail the ship throughout the Eastern and Western Caribbean until April 2022.

Covid on cruise ships 2022