The fallout from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s cruise line guidance has led to another cruise line canceling more voyages with Carnival Cruise Line taking June sailings off the board.
The line made the announcement Tuesday along with a similar announcement from Disney Cruise Line in the wake of the CDC’s updated details to its ongoing conditional sail order that remains in effect until Nov. 1, 2021. The CDC gave lines instructions on moving forward on the initial steps of a 74-point plan to return to business from U.S. ports, but held off detailing when cruise lines could perform the simulated voyages with volunteer passengers, a required step before any ship gets the OK to sail with paying customers.
The CDC also stopped short of requiring vaccinations for cruises in order to sail, but Norwegian Cruise Line on Monday announced its intentions to do just that for it and its sister brands Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises, in a letter to the CDC that asked that it remove the conditional sail order for its brands by July.
