Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Real Caribbean cruising.

I'm here I'm Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 429.

Getting a negative COVID test before your cruise is something everyone's got to do right now.

And I think the easiest way to do it is one of the at-home tests.

Today, I wanted to walk you through what to expect if you want to try the at-home test that you can use for Royal Caribbean up next.

I think one of the biggest struggles for a lot of folks right now is how to get their negative COVID test before their cruise,

especially if you haven't done it before because there's a lot of different options for where you can get it.

Now, if you're not aware, Royal Caribbean does require, as of right now anyway, and this could change going forward.

But as of right now, you need to get a negative COVID test two or three days before your cruise.

If you're a vaccinated adult or really any vaccinated anybody above the age of 12, then you need to get a COVID test up to two days before your cruise. You can get your test two days before, even on the day of your cruise, but two days before

your cruise.

If you have someone in your group that is unvaccinated, that's a kid under 12, they can get

their tests up to three days before the cruise, and that allows for either a PCR or an antigen

test.

And, you know, there's a lot of choices where you can get your test result on.

Depends on where you live and some options available to you.

Certainly pharmacies are a very popular option like CVS or Walgreens or Rite Aid.

And the reason why these are popular is because it's very easy to schedule or it can be easy to schedule appointments ahead of time.

There's also other places like urgent care locations, your own doctor's office. There can be federally staffed testing sites in where you live. It's kind of a,

depends on where you live is basically the answer to your question. But something that's really come up

recently that has, I think, made it a whole lot easier are the at-home test. So Royal Caribbean

allows one particular at-home test to be allowable, permissible, at-home test. So real Caribbean allows one particular at-home test to be allowable, permissible, as a

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