Well, there's no longer any need to worry about whether they'll let us onto the March 2022 cruise even though we're not from NSW, as P&O has had to "further extend their pause in cruise operations" and so that cruise is also gone.
P&O and Carnival are still offering cruises from April 2022 onwards, but I'm not sure if I can bring myself to book another cruise just to watch it get cancelled. I keep my documents about holidays in separate folders on my computer, and there are now 17 folders that are flagged as cancelled due to COVID19, and almost all of them were cruises. Of course we wouldn't have gone on that many cruises - I was just re-booking a new one as each cruise was cancelled - but it is still getting a bit sad!
Our next booked cruise starts on 4 October 2022 - but there's no guarantee that it will happen either, since it's to New Zealand and there's talk that NZ may not completely open up to tourists until 2023.
Like most people who work where I do, I'm not allowed to work from 24 December to 3 January, so I was hoping to just get away for a day or two during that break. But even if it was permitted, I can't risk visiting Dad until I have my booster shot, and that can't happen until the middle of January - when I'll be competing with all the 5-11 year olds who become eligible from 10 January. And, even though we're not officially banned from traveling to Sydney (which we were for a while) even going there for a couple of days is a bit of a risk given the number of cases they're getting. I know everyone from Canberra goes to the coast over Christmas but it doesn't appeal to me, and in the other directions it's all very very hot this time of year. So, it seems I'm stuck in Canberra for just a bit longer........
