What it’s like Cruising During Another Pandemic Spike

Well, here we are again, another spike in this never-ending pandemic. Omicron has caused issues in multiple areas of travel, but no one has gotten as much heat as the cruise industry. Right before the new year the CDC released a statement that no one, even fully vaccinated and boosted individuals should cruise, citing an increase in transmissibility of the omicron variant as well as every cruise line having positive cases on board. This news came on the same day I arrived back in Miami from a post-Christmas cruise.