Author: Eliza

Many cruise lines have been exceptionally lenient with cancellation and refund policies since sailing restarted while strict pandemic protocols were still in effect. Disney Cruise Line is now tightening their policies, however, with a shorter refund window and requiring tests for guests to take advantage of the policy.

Shorter Window for Last-Minute Cancellations

All major cruise lines have had temporary policies in place for guests who may test positive for COVID-19 shortly before their sailing date, when they may be ill or infectious to others during their cruise.

Disney Cruise Line’s policy has been that guests who test positive within 14 days of embarkation would be able to use the “Temporary Flexible Refund Policy” to “receive a refund in their original form of payment without Disney-imposed cancellation fees.”

Guests also have the option to “apply their cruise fare toward a future sail date” if applicable. Now, that policy has quietly

Royal Caribbean Group has reached 30 years of its Save the Waves initiative this month, as its first environmental initiative and the foundation for the cruise company’s decarbonization strategy, Destination Net Zero.

Since 1992, Save the Waves has helped the company achieve critical milestones over the past three decades, as the group became the first cruise company to be ISO 14001 for Environmental Management Certified.

30 Years of Save the Waves

Royal Caribbean Group is celebrating 30 years of its first environmental initiative, Save the Waves, during the month of November 2022. The program has assisted the company in achieving waste management and reduction over the past three decades, such as installing advanced wastewater purification systems across 88% of its fleet that treats wastewater.

Save the Waves has created several frameworks for the group that owns three successful cruise brands, Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises, and has