If you are a lover of cruise travel, this is the best opportunity of your life. The cruise company Royal Caribbean International (United States) is looking for volunteers to travel for free to CocoCay (Bahamas). This in order to test the security protocols for the prevention of Covid-19.
A few days ago, the American cruise company based in Miami made public the invitation to those who intend to undergo constant tests and security protocols to prevent coronavirus during cruise trips, as required by the Center for Control and Disease Prevention of the United States (CDC) and thus start operations without risk of contagion.
It should be remembered that this body lifted the ban on embarking on passenger trips on November 1.
“We are committed to taking the time to do things right. This includes training our crew in new health and safety protocols and conducting a series of test trips to put those protocols to the test in real world conditions, ”stated Vicky Freed, Vice President of Royal Caribbean, in an interview with Travel + Leisure. .
How to volunteer to travel for free?
To participate and be one of the volunteers of the project called “Volunteers to the Sea”, it is necessary to complete a form specifying personal data and add how many people will accompany you on the trip. If you want more information you can enter the LINK of Facebook. If you don’t have to think about it anymore, register on the web by entering the following LINK.
Destinations
An inaugural trip to CocoCay, the company’s private island in the Bahamas, is scheduled for 2021, which cost 225 million dollars and has water slides, gigantic swimming pools and a circuit to fly from a helium balloon, among other things. .
You should know that if you want to be part of this journey, you will be constantly subjected to coronavirus tests, since the objective of these simulated trips is to measure their ability to mitigate the risk of transmission of COVID-19 on ships.
Additionally, ship workers will need to take the COVID-19 test in their home countries before arriving at the destination where they will embark. Once at the destination, they will have to carry out a mandatory seven-day quarantine, repeat the test and, if it is negative again, only there will they be able to embark, according to Infobae on its website.
Among the protocols that the companies presented to the CDC, the inclusion of more doctors on board stands out, in case a COVID-19 outbreak occurs; passengers must present a negative result made between 5 days and 24 hours before boarding; and both employees and passengers will have their temperature taken daily.
It should be noted that at the beginning of the pandemic, the tourism sector, especially the cruise sector, experienced an extreme situation. Many passengers who were on board were stranded without being able to disembark in the countries due to the risk of contagion from Covid-19.
