Cruise Lines Delay US Port Restart Again, Until at Least September 15th

In mid-March, the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) announced that the major cruise lines were shutting down operations from all US ports for at least 30 days in response to the coronavirus pandemic. A month later, the Center for Disease … Continue reading

CDC Modifies & Extends “No Sail Order” for All Cruise Ships

Last Thursday, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) extended its “No Sail Order” for cruise ships calling on the United States. The CDC announced that “this Order shall continue in operation until the earliest of three situations. First, the expiration … Continue reading

RCCL’s Explorer of the Seas Sets New Record for Contagion with Almost 700 Ill

It is no doubt not a record that Royal Caribbean would have aspired to. Their ship, Explorer of the Seas, on its voyage from New York harbor to the Eastern Caribbean, from January 21-29, 2014, had the largest outbreak of … Continue reading

Norovirus on RCCL Explorer of the Seas — Worse than Cannibal Rats

My next door neighbors left last Tuesday for a 10 day cruise in the Eastern Caribbean on the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line ship Explorer of the Seas.  I saw them shortly before they departed.  We were both shoveling snow from our … Continue reading