Saga Cruises has now the first cruise line to demand passengers get vaccinated against COVID-19 ahead of boarding, as a part of a raft of the latest safety measures.
The over-50s only cruise line is mandating that passengers have the vaccine 14 days earlier than departure.
Saga will even carry out pre-departure testing for all passengers, minimize its capacity on each of its ships and improve its cleaning regime onboard.
It is also pushing its restart date additional out – to May 4 – to permit passengers to get vaccinated in time for their cruise.
“The health and safety of our clients have all the time been our primary priority at Saga, so we have now taken the choice to require everybody traveling with us to be absolutely vaccinated against COVID-19. Our clients need the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others traveling with them shall be vaccinated too,” a spokesman stated. “To allow our clients time to get vaccinated, we’re transferring the restart date for our travel businesses to May. Our new vaccination policy might be along with the detailed preparations we have now already put in place for when cruises and different holidays restart.”
Most different cruise lines have launched detailed health and safety improvements onboard, however, Saga is the first one that has insisted on a vaccine ahead of travel.
Different health enhancements include:
- Social distancing which feels subtle onboard our spacious ships
- Extra enhancements to our state-of-the-art air conditioning, which already offers 100% fresh air in all public areas and cabins
- Improved and expanded medical services with a new devoted isolation area
- Double medical team
