Wise to book cruises for 2022?

Oh yes you can get insurance, but, each to her own, a sentiment more people on gransnet might follow.

Those of you who have already booked have managed to get insurance then? Won't it be invalidated by the FCO advice not to go on a cruise?

Just cancel, you’ve got nothing to lose.
It’s fun planning, holidays are important to us. Also, get a suite...more room!?

If you cancel usually you do lose money aquagran. What the cruise companies are doing at the moment is selling cruises (at low prices) for dates that there is no possibility of them ever happening. You get a voucher when the cruise is cancelled by which time they have your money to help them survive.
If the company folds you will get nothing.

ABTA protected.

EkwaNimitee spot on.

Didn’t lose money, or get vouchers last year.

I'm with Maddyone love cruising, been to places I never thought I would as I won't fly anywhere. However it will sadly be a long time before I book another cruise.

We have a Canada cruise booked for October this year. We booked it in January 2020, before most of us were even aware of covid.

In October 2020 I was diagnosed with bowel cancer, I've had surgery and I'm about to start chemo.

Part of me would still love to go, but the other part is scared. I'm kinda hoping the cruise company cancels and we can have the deposit back. ?

We have been on a number of cruises and had a river cruise cancelled last summer. However, the only holidays we will be booking for a long while will be self-catering holidays to places where we can avoid crowds. Wouldn't even be happy going to a hotel until we can enjoy the experience.

I cruise every winter but would not consider at this moment of time. I go to meet and mix with others. Also, I do not want to go on fix excursions. I don't want to wear a face covering, sit on my own at dinner, or socially distance. Until everything is back to normal, there is no way I would consider cruising.

Have to support dogsmother, we did a Baltic Cruise for our 40th Wedding Anniversary, actually sailing out of Southampton on the exact date/time. Fantastic holiday and the long weekend in St. Petersburg, plus the wonderful fjord/river run up to Stockholm are sights I will never forget.m

grannyqueenie

Santana re proof of vaccination, my daughter had hers yesterday. She was given a little card with date of follow up injection. The nurses advised her to keep it and also take a photo of it as proof of vaccination in case she needed it to fly etc.

What a good idea about photographing the card. Shall do that after I've had my shot which is TOMORROW. I never thought I'd be THIS excited!

I'm with EkwaNimitee and Esspee. Have enjoyed cruises in the past, and luckily got my money back for holidays booked for last year; but re. booking again, who wants the hassle in these uncertain times? Agree too that cruise ships can be a petri dish for viruses.

Some of my friends who chose to put off their bookings until this year or next still can't plan to go to the places they want to visit - and, if they cancel now, they will lose their deposits. In some cases, this will be a lot of money.

I was looking forward myself to those holidays I booked. I had previously had my share of responsibility and worry re family ill health (not Covid). This limited where I could go; what I could do; and with whom, for several years. Don't need any more disappointments, thank you!

After I'm vaccinated, when it's considered safe, and it is clear other countries are happy to have me visiting them, I'll be off. Until then - only after it's allowed of course - I'll be finding interesting places to visit in the UK.

Nothing on earth would get me on a cruise. Apart from the fact that I have been advised that it might trigger a problem for me with vertigo that my brain won't switch off again, all those people in close confines with all their bugs...no thanks! We came back from Norway on a ship when I was younger and just about everybody except from my Grandad were violently seasick. The whole ship was absolutely disgusting with the toilets virtually overflowing with vomit. Sitting next to my mother and sister was a delight too. They had gone up on the deck to get fresh air and my sister had heaved into the wind. ?. All their clean clothes were locked in the car deck.
Nope, I wouldn't be booking a cruise in 2022.

Willow 73
quote 'Obviously I was wrong' ????In what way ?

EllanVallin they have got booked up very quickly...in the past. We went on a Panama Canal Transit cruise for our Ruby Wedding anniversary (a bucket list item!) and even though we booked it 2 years before many of the medium priced rooms were already booked. So if you wait you may not get on the cruise you want
Plus age and health a factor too of course!

I love cruising. The Baltic one was our best ever. Our Alaska cruise was cancelled last year and our deposit is still with the company. We plan to use it when it's safe to do so.

In a similar vein:. I'm not sure whether to have sausages for dinner this evening or spaghetti Bolognese. What are other gransnetter's thoughts?

I wouldn’t book a cruise under any circumstances. To my mind, cruises are just floating holiday camps with thousands of people. No thank you.

Shortlegs

In a similar vein:. I'm not sure whether to have sausages for dinner this evening or spaghetti Bolognese. What are other gransnetter's thoughts?

Spaghetti, I think. ??

I've never fancied a cruise because (a) one of my fears is of deep black water as mentioned in the other thread, but also (b) everyone I know who has been on one has caught Norovirus which seems to go round these huge cruise ships like the plague.

Now, with Covid, which I think will be with us in one form or another for a long time, it seems a disaster waiting to happen.

People who write off cruises as 'holiday camps' have obviously never been on one. There are as many types of cruise ship as there are other forms of holiday. Our last cruise was on a beautiful, quiet, tastefully decorated ship with limited numbers of passengers. No noisy 'entertainment', casinos, pubs etc just a few interesting speakers. Beautiful food and as much or as little company as anyone could want. You pays your money and takes your pick.

Cruises are always *floating petri dishes " I would wait.

No. Cruises are disastrous for the environment. Completely irresponsible. So is flying. Don’t do it.