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Re: Tours Operating in 2021
I have a different opinion of NYC. I love Broadway, MOMA, The Whitney, Central Park, the restaurants, concerts, the people, the shops, the sites, the US Open, the Mets and the Yankees, the buildings, the excitement...and on and on. The city is suffering now but it will be back in all its glory. There is no other city like THE BIG APPLE!
NancyCohen
Re: July 15th Start Date
I make all of my Tauck reservations through my travel agent - she calls me when she hears the status of a trip, we discuss the options and then she calls Tauck to resolve the matter. In ten years of travel with Tauck I have never directly talked to anyone there as my agent takes care of all of that.
smarks50
Summer travel for Americans returns to European Union
When this goes into effect is yet to be determined. But at least, discussions are ongoing.
From today’s NY Times
April 25, 2021, 5:13 p.m. ET
‘BRUSSELS — American tourists who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to visit the European Union over the summer, the head of the bloc’s executive body said in an interview with The New York Times on Sunday, more than a year after shutting down nonessential travel from most countries to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
The fast pace of vaccination in the United States, and advanced talks between authorities there and the European Union over how to make vaccine certificates acceptable as proof of immunity for visitors, will enable the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, to recommend a switch in policy that could see trans-Atlantic leisure travel restored.’
NancyCohen
Re: Tauck's Updated Travel Policy (April 29, 2021)
Well wildcat, I've been amazed at the sources of "information" that others have been willing to believe despite copious evidence they're being lied to.
Claudia Sails
Re: Tauck's Updated Travel Policy (April 29, 2021)
Tauck's current policy does not require all the tour members to be fully vaccinated. This is simply insane. We certainly do not want to be in a tour bus or eat in restaurants with unvaccinated people, and run the risk of getting infected and die. It is just not worth it. Furthermore, the tour we have signed up is the 2/17/2022 New Zealand tour. In all likelihood, New Zealand will not let unvaccinated people into the country. COVID-19 testing shows a significant number of false negatives. So unless one is tested 3 times a day every day for 14 straight days, there is no guarantee (over 99% certainty) that the person is not infected. Instead of trying to appease the anti-science and anti-vaccine travelers, Tauck should take a stand on a more strict health policy to ensure the safety of all travelers. We have been loyal Tauck travelers (15 trips) over the years, but we will not join any Tauck tour unless full COVID-19 vaccination for all tour members is a requirement.
Re: Tauck management talk - return to travel
BKMD, I was also on a tour where one person was ill from the start with a cough (perhaps bronchitis) and by the end of the tour many more were ill and searching out cough syrup every place we stopped. This person kept getting on the bus and coughing on all of us for days and days without intervention from the tour directors. I think Tauck is making a mistake by not requiring proof of vaccination or negative COVID test. I don't believe it is an invasion of privacy but protection for the rest of us.
LBerger
Re: How many Tauck customers have been inoculated for Covid?
MY next door neighbor had an amazing save story.
At the time, I lived in the northern suburbs of Phila and about 10% of people in my area commuted/worked in Manhattan. It was about an hour by train (including driving to the train station). Anyway, we both had long driveways and taking out the garbage was a chore. He thought his wife had taken out the garbage the night before, but when he was leaving for work (in the WTC), he noted that she hadn't. So, he stopped to take it out. Because of that, he missed his train. That's why he's still alive. they never argued about who would take out the garbage again.
BKMD
Re: How many want to be masked up for the entire trip?
After a year of staying home having our hopes for our dreamed of tour go up and down, YES I'll wear a mask if its required. Would I enjoy the tour more without that requirement YES but I'll do what I have to do if it means not putting it off again. We don't go til the end of the summer so I am hoping vaccine rates are high and masks requirements at least reduced/eliminated when outdoors.
Claudia Sails
Re: Italy Trip Canceled for May
We’ll travel with anyone who double masks and I never have to see their nose and mouth
British
Re: How many want to be masked up for the entire trip?
I would have no problem masking up. I don't find wearing a mask to be an imposition.
MCD