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Carmelita Brown, 77, has been painstakingly careful with her health over the past year, even after being fully vaccinated against COVID-19. “I’m older and African American, so I’m higher risk,” she says. When she recently flew from her home in Florida to Montana for her goddaughter’s wedding, she donned three masks and a face shield on the plane.
The 20-person, mostly outdoor affair was such a trouble-free experience that Brown is now itching to plan a summer trip with her kids and grandkids. Among the group vacations being discussed: a Mexican getaway; an Alaskan cruise (a do-over for a 2020 trip that was canceled); or, says Brown,“I was thinking Vancouver or Victoria, but the Canadian border is still shut.”
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The Oceania Insignia sailing in China. The cruise line said its 2023 world cruise aboard the ship is already sold out.
It is not surprising, given the uncertainty created by serial delays in cruise relaunch dates, that guests are booking their sailings further and further out as a hedge against their departure being canceled.
But even given these circumstances, ocean and river lines are seeing their booking curves move way beyond what would be expected, and they are opening their books further out than ever in response.
According to a report from Truist Securities, as of March, the cruise booking window was at a record length, with a 365-day average versus 210 days one year ago.