Princess Cruises Unveil New Health Protocols

Princess Cruises is rolling out a few new health practices for its ships, the first in a progression of new rules it hopes to roll out when cruises get back to normal post COVID-19.

Among the more crucial factors are potential fines or prosecution for any individual who presents a false pre-boarding health questionnaire.

These protocols are intended to be equally thorough and compliant and are assertively acclimating to amendments as they take place.

Princess cruises are working meticulously with public health officials, which comprising the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), in addition to the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), to outline and set up best practices to safeguard the wellbeing of guests and crew.

The new set of regulations are divvied into before your cruise, embarkation and onboard. Several guidelines are an extension of the practices implemented in late February and early March.

So, what should you expect?

Before You Cruise

Princess Cruises will build its surveillance of COVID-19 outbreaks and will make the suitable amendments to itineraries to areas that are affected.

Princess Cruises will likewise keep up its policy of declining the boarding to booked passengers who meet an range of measures comprising any individual who has been in contact with an alleged or confirmed case with COVID-19; anybody experiencing a fever or flu like symptoms before they embark; and anybody with serious chronic health conditions.

Guests and crew members who full under these criteria’s will be not able to cruise, with booked passengers obtaining a future cruise credit or full refund.

Embarkation

On embarkation day, cruisers will be thoroughly screened, beginning with compulsory temperature checks of all guests and crew. Cruisers who present with a fever or flu like signs will be refused boarding, paying little heed to their latest travel history. All cruisers who are denied boarding because of sickness will be given a full future cruise credit or refund.

Cruisers will likewise be obliged to complete another health declaration before boarding explicitly intended to screen for COVID-19. During the cruise, anybody found to have falsely answered will be disembarked at the following port of call. Moreover, any individual who does not divulge signs of sickness may face prosecution.

Cruise Terminals will likewise experience elevated sanitation on embarkation and disembarkation days. Procedures will incorporate meticulous cleaning of all surfaces that have may been touch prior and after each cruising, just as misting every terminal before embarkation and debarkation.

Hand sanitisers will be placed throughout the terminal, and all passengers with pre-cruise transfers will be provided hand sanitiser before boarding buses and transfer shuttles from airports and hotels to the cruise terminal. All buses and shuttles will be sanitised prior to anyone getting onboard.

Each terminal will have hand sanitisers place throughout, and all passengers with transfers will be given hand sanitiser before boarding there means of transport and transfer shuttles from airports and lodgings to the cruise terminal. All forms of transport will be disinfected before anybody gets onboard.

 

Onboard

Food Service

Where conceivable, food service will be by crew members, with crew keeping an eye on all food stations, the buffet and ice cream machines. If this is not possible due to design limitations – a number of Princess buffets on new or refurbished ships have serving islands to diminish traffic, making crew service unconceivable - devoted staff will be presented to care for these stations and guarantee they are cleaned and decontaminated consistently.

In any self-service zones that remain, serving utensils will be restored on a regular basis.

Crew members will likewise be positioned at all hand-washing sinks and additionally at hand sanitisation dispensers at the doorway to all dining areas to remind guests to wash their hands before entering.

Sanitation and Cleaning

Princess has set up extra sanitation and cleaning measures for the entire fleet including:

• Frequent sanitation of tables, seats, menus and surfaces in eateries and bars prior to and following service hours
• Regular open deck sanitation of all outdoor furniture, mini-golf and sports gear and equipment
• Additional cleaning of all surfaces frequently touched by guests in all public areas and lounges, restaurants, lobbies, corridors, elevators, handrails, public phones, counters, public displays, medical centers, gangways, casino chips, games, slot machines, fitness machines, children’s toys and security screening equipment
• Stateroom surfaces including fixtures will be cleaned twice a day with specific regard for door handles, bathrooms and surfaces that are regularly touched
• During cases that guests or crew show flulike symptoms, their staterooms will get a more comprehensive cleaning
• Additional hand sanitizers will be placed in areas where there is higher traffic by guests and crew
• The temperature in all washers and dryers will be increased for extra sanitation of washed items, including bedding, tablecloths, towels and napkins
• Guest laundromats will likewise be set to the greatest washer/dryer temperature settings
• More frequent cleaning and sanitation of public toilets
• All public lounges and restroom doors will be propped open to minimize entryway handling
• Increased number of hand sanitizer dispensers during tendering

Crew Training

Princess will likewise be expanding its crew training to strengthen continuous hand-washing and to urge crew to refrain from hand contact with guests. Crew will likewise be urged to report guests who present indications of illness (coughing, sneezing, runny nose, and so forth.).

There will likewise be an expanded inventory of personal protection equipment available throughout the fleet, and on certain voyages, guests facing crew might be required to wear masks.

Medical Evaluations

All crew who display signs of extreme respiratory illness will be required to visit the medical center onboard for a complimentary clinical consult; guests are ” strongly urged” to do the same.

Princess will give a medical screening and, when fitting, test for COVID-19 for any individual who shows signs of flu, respiratory distress or fever.