Celebrity Cruises Begins Sailing in June 2021 With Ticketed Passengers
Celebrity Cruises will be sailing in America again in June 2021. According to the cruise line, it is the first operator to operate in U.S. waters with ticketed passengers since 2020 when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a “No Sail Order” due to the deadly and devastating coronavirus pandemic.
The travel industry has slowly been getting back on its feet and the Celebrity Cruise news is the latest in a string of positive re-openings in the cruise industry.
Ticketed Passengers Will be Welcomed Back to Celebrity Cruises in June
According to an announcement from Celebrity Cruises, its luxury ship Celebrity Edge will set sail from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on June 26. The voyage will be a seven-night cruise to the Caribbean.
The CDC gave permission for Celebrity Edge to be the first ship back in the water as it met its, “all-new standards for providing a healthy cruise experience for its guests and crew,” according to an announcement.
Celebrity Cruises Sets Sail in June
At the current time the CDC is requiring cruise lines to meet a number of standards before they can begin sailing again. According to Travel and Leisure one of these mandates is that the line must show that 98% of crew members and 95% of passengers are fully vaccinated and/or complete a series of tests.
According to the company’s Healthy at Sea policy, Celebrity Cruises will require its crew to be vaccinated, as well as all guests ages 16 and older. Starting August 1, all guests who are 12 and older will be required to be vaccinated.
Passengers ages 16 and up must be fully vaccinated with all COVID-19 vaccine doses administered at least 14 days before sailing onboard Royal Caribbean.
Celebrity Cruises Will Sail in June with Ticketed Passengers
Lisa Lutoff-Perlo is Celebrity Cruises’ president and CEO and she issued a statement saying, “For the past 15 months our conversations with friends and loved ones about seeing the world have been accompanied by the phrase ‘someday.’ I’m beyond proud and excited to say that day has arrived.”
According to the announcement Celebrity Cruises also plans to bring back eight of its 15 ships in 2021.
The CDC has also approved Royal Caribbean, the sister company to Celebrity Cruises, to conduct cruises this summer. Those cruises are test sailings with volunteer passengers according to a Fox News report.
The test cruises begin on June 20 with Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas ship which is based in Miami.
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