While the global pandemic from COVID-19 remains, and the cruise industry is shut down in the U.S., Royal Caribbean is moving forward with Israel’s success in vaccinating more than half of its population and plans to sail its newest ship from there beginning in May.
Israel recently began what it calls its Green Passport program, which lets those who have been vaccinated get access to things like hotels, gyms, theaters and concerts. Now that program will extend to planned round-trip sailings from Haifa, Israel to ports of call in Greece and Cyprus.
Israel has made recent travel agreements with those two countries. So now the ship, which can hold more than 4,200 passengers at double capacity, will make 3- to 7-night sailings visiting places like Rhodes, Santorini, Mykonos and Athens, Greece plus Limassol, Cyprus.
