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no ports. Would you book one? What would it take to get you to book one? And what would you do on board?

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mr cruisub's tv we've created a couple of cruises with no ports in our last few travel experiences

haven't we we did and some of those were by choice and some of those were made by other people, right?

Well, I mean, we weren't.

We didn't plan to get off, but we couldn't have even if we wanted to.

Right, exactly.

So people are facing this conundrum for a variety of reasons.

Maybe you are traveling with someone unvaccinated and you don't

want to go on bubble tours, which are actually quite rare these days unless you're cruising with

carnival or you have kids under 12. Or maybe you have had a cruise where the ports have just started to

dwindle back. They've been slowly changed or canceled. And it's something that

people are really talking about right now. Would you even want to go on a cruise with no ports?

What would that look like? Well, maybe you should explain why the ports are dwindling.

I think it really, yeah, it depends on the situation. So what's happening is that based on test

positivity rates in certain areas in the Caribbean and Mexico,

there's ports that are either denying entry to cruise ships, delaying it, adding contingencies,

such as you must test 2,500 people before they get off the ship types of contingencies.

And so in some cases, it has been, people's cruises have been changed remarkably, whereas

pre-COVID, you know, port changes would definitely happen. They were not uncommon at all, but to have

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