Following within the footsteps of Royal Caribbean Worldwide and Superstar Cruises, as of as we speak Carnival Cruise Line has dropped its masking requirement for crew members.
The cruise line’s model ambassador John Heald is presently crusing Carnival Ecstasy‘s ultimate visitor cruise, and indicated in a Fb publish that crew members on that ship now not must put on a masks. “I see a number of the crew are unhappy (particularly now as they’re masks much less) as a result of this ship has been their residence for a lot of contracts,” he stated. “And the friends, properly, some have advised me how a lot they’ll miss the ship by way of floods of tears.”
Company aboard Carnival Delight in Europe and on Carnival Panorama out on the west coast have additionally reported that their cruise administrators made an announcement indicating the change this morning.
For friends, Carnival Cruise Line dropped the masking requirement again in March.
Although their masking requirement is over, crew members are nonetheless required to be vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19 except they’ve a medical or spiritual exemption. The vaccination mandate was dropped for friends in September, however unvaccinated friends do nonetheless have to current a unfavorable check consequence to sail.
The one place on board the place masks proceed to be required? The medical heart. Carnival continues to be offering free masks for friends of their staterooms, ought to they want to use them at any level all through the crusing.
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