Cruising in the age of COVID

Lucette Moramarco

Associate Editor

While we had taken the Alaska cruise back in June 2007, this wasn’t a repeat trip. Besides getting to go to Skagway instead of Sitka again because of the stormy weather, COVID restrictions caused several changes. First, instead of the usual evacuation drill before departing Seattle, we watched a safety video on the television in our room, then went to our muster station to check in as directed, without our life jackets.

There was no movie theater to go to on the ship and no stage shows either. The ship’s library was a quarter of the size as on our previous cr...