P&O cruise deferred from last year. P&O will not now accept unvaccinated passengers. Refund? 17 January 2022 at 9:21PM in Coronavirus travel help & info 21 replies 1.4K views

coffee_cake

mattyprice4004 said:

coffee_cake said:

We're in the same position (just awaiting email confirmation that our cruise is affected).  Are you still more than 91 days away from the cruise date?  If so you should be able to get a refund minus deposit.  Or FCC to move it to next year, hoping that at some point these pointless restrictions will be dropped.

Do you have enough time before the trip to get vaccinated? That’s probably the easiest way around it 

I'd rather never travel outside the UK for the rest of my life then have the current offering of "vaccines"

Butts

coffee_cake said:

mattyprice4004 said:

coffee_cake said:

We're in the same position (just awaiting email confirmation that our cruise is affected).  Are you still more than 91 days away from the cruise date?  If so you should be able to get a refund minus deposit.  Or FCC to move it to next year, hoping that at some point these pointless restrictions will be dropped.

Do you have enough time before the trip to get vaccinated? That’s probably the easiest way around it 

I'd rather never travel outside the UK for the rest of my life then have the current offering of "vaccines"

Looks like your wish will come true then, at least in the near future, may cost you a pretty penny.

GingerTim

Butts said:

coffee_cake said:

mattyprice4004 said:

coffee_cake said:

We're in the same position (just awaiting email confirmation that our cruise is affected).  Are you still more than 91 days away from the cruise date?  If so you should be able to get a refund minus deposit.  Or FCC to move it to next year, hoping that at some point these pointless restrictions will be dropped.

Do you have enough time before the trip to get vaccinated? That’s probably the easiest way around it 

I'd rather never travel outside the UK for the rest of my life then have the current offering of "vaccines"

Looks like your wish will come true then, at least in the near future, may cost you a pretty penny.

Quite, vaccination requirements for entry won't be going away for a few years.

cx6

Emotion aside - I think travel will for some forseeable future require either vaccination or quarantine for a number of days (probably both on arrival at the destination and return to the UK)

I would expect the number of quarantine days to reduce so maybe only 7 or even 5.

Just factor this in to your travel plans. As far as insurance is concerned I would not expect policies to offer Covid insurance to unvaccinated passengers - well, not at an affordable premium anyway. You can always travel uninsured but then of course you bear the risk.

superbigal

coffee_cake said:

mattyprice4004 said:

coffee_cake said:

We're in the same position (just awaiting email confirmation that our cruise is affected).  Are you still more than 91 days away from the cruise date?  If so you should be able to get a refund minus deposit.  Or FCC to move it to next year, hoping that at some point these pointless restrictions will be dropped.

Do you have enough time before the trip to get vaccinated? That’s probably the easiest way around it 

I'd rather never travel outside the UK for the rest of my life then have the current offering of "vaccines"

Tinfoil Hat would set of the Security anyway.

rigolith

coffee_cake said:

mattyprice4004 said:

coffee_cake said:

We're in the same position (just awaiting email confirmation that our cruise is affected).  Are you still more than 91 days away from the cruise date?  If so you should be able to get a refund minus deposit.  Or FCC to move it to next year, hoping that at some point these pointless restrictions will be dropped.

Do you have enough time before the trip to get vaccinated? That’s probably the easiest way around it 

I'd rather never travel outside the UK for the rest of my life then have the current offering of "vaccines"

I'd rather you didn't too. Don't want to get COVID on my holiday.

MalMonroe

coffee_cake said:

mattyprice4004 said:

coffee_cake said:

We're in the same position (just awaiting email confirmation that our cruise is affected).  Are you still more than 91 days away from the cruise date?  If so you should be able to get a refund minus deposit.  Or FCC to move it to next year, hoping that at some point these pointless restrictions will be dropped.

Do you have enough time before the trip to get vaccinated? That’s probably the easiest way around it 

I'd rather never travel outside the UK for the rest of my life then have the current offering of "vaccines"

It's 'than', not 'then'.

You obviously have no understanding whatsoever of the pandemic. Coronavirus is going to be with us all, universally, for a while yet, even though our government thinks it's fine to lift restrictions as from next week. They don't care whether we, the great unwashed public, live or die.   

You are perfectly entitled to do exactly as you wish but not when it comes to mixing with those of us who have been triple vaccinated. Your beliefs are your beliefs. But the rest of us would prefer not to be in close proximity. There are fewer places where you are in closer proximity than on a cruise.   

Those people who are making every effort to avoid being struck down or passing on the virus should not have to be exposed to people who don't want to have any of the current 'vaccines'.  

The restrictions are far from pointless* and it's doubtful that for cruise ships they will be dropped next year if people are still dying as they are now.  If they are, good luck to you but if they're not, you won't be going anywhere. Again.

*You probably won't be interested but there are some statistics from the WHO here - https://covid19.who.int/

Chris_English

coffee_cake said:

mattyprice4004 said:

coffee_cake said:

We're in the same position (just awaiting email confirmation that our cruise is affected).  Are you still more than 91 days away from the cruise date?  If so you should be able to get a refund minus deposit.  Or FCC to move it to next year, hoping that at some point these pointless restrictions will be dropped.

Do you have enough time before the trip to get vaccinated? That’s probably the easiest way around it 

I'd rather never travel outside the UK for the rest of my life then have the current offering of "vaccines"

Why the quotation marks around vaccines?

To answer your original question, I can’t see that you’ll have a right to a refund, as the trip is still available, you’re just choosing to be difficult about meeting the requirements.

Keep_pedalling

coffee_cake said:

mattyprice4004 said:

coffee_cake said:

We're in the same position (just awaiting email confirmation that our cruise is affected).  Are you still more than 91 days away from the cruise date?  If so you should be able to get a refund minus deposit.  Or FCC to move it to next year, hoping that at some point these pointless restrictions will be dropped.

Do you have enough time before the trip to get vaccinated? That’s probably the easiest way around it 

I'd rather never travel outside the UK for the rest of my life then have the current offering of "vaccines"

It is your choice to ignore facts and believe conspiracy theories, but those sort of choices come with consequences and I am sure the passengers you would have been sharing with are glad you are being kept off the ship. 

soolin

coffee_cake said:

mattyprice4004 said:

coffee_cake said:

We're in the same position (just awaiting email confirmation that our cruise is affected).  Are you still more than 91 days away from the cruise date?  If so you should be able to get a refund minus deposit.  Or FCC to move it to next year, hoping that at some point these pointless restrictions will be dropped.

Do you have enough time before the trip to get vaccinated? That’s probably the easiest way around it 

I'd rather never travel outside the UK for the rest of my life then have the current offering of "vaccines"

Following several conspiracy groups suggests that a lot of tinfoil hat conspiracists don’t travel anyway, so it makes no difference to them if they announce they won’t travel rather than be vaccinated. They have always stayed at home in the dark on the internet all day and will continue to do so .