Got cruise questions???

I think it would depend on where it goes. Hopefully it wouldn't be full, a lot would be very uncomfortable.

What % of capacity will ships sail at ? With new CDC mask rules will ships be at 100% or 60% ?

The legal issues are too important for other cruisers to answer. It would be wiser for you to call the cruise line directly and get the answer in writing. Don’t just get someone saying “I think so”.

Will the ships have sanitizers available throughout the various areas of the ship? Other than the buffet and the MDR. Will they have buffet or is it gone?

Yeah, that's been a wildcard in the whole resumption of service saga. It's probably one of the main reasons CCL and RCL don't want to make vaccines mandatory. That would automatically take a big percentage of their bookings off the table.

The good news is CDC guidance has been relaxing (albeit ever so slowly). Hopefully there will be some "favorable" guidance on that issue shortly.

My big question is kids under 12..a lot of families take their children. I know Carnival and Royal are the lines who have the most kids on them. A lot of folks have had their family vacations planned for a while and those plans include the kiddos.

Well it looks like the updated "guidance" puts my mask question to rest. It appears some common sense is starting to come out of the CDC.

Sounds like the issue will be more "relaxed". I no longer have visions of a cabin steward running full gallop down a hall and tackling me before I reach the elevators because he saw I wasn't wearing a face mask, even though he or she, I, and almost everyone else on board will all have been vaccinated.

can people with the refugee ( Venezuelans) can do cruises??? and what option we have

I would think that the decision to cancel is going to depend entirely on how you feel. Most of the cruise lines offer a decent cancellation policy at this time so if in doubt you can take advantage of that. However if you feel confident you can make final payment when it is due and if the cruise line cancels then they will either refund the money entirely or if they decide to hold it as a future cruise credit they will usually add an additional 10 - 25 % to it as compensation. The down side of this being that they hold your money while you wait for cruising to resume. If you have flights involved then it gets a bit more complicated. Long and short ... weigh the options and how you feel and then decide.

Whole load of "what-ifs" re those masks eh AB?? OGW? so...the chances of YOU folks forgetting your masks is absolutely NIL...and I have to believe they'll provide for that onboard...and as for eating, we've been out and about for a few months now.dinners, movies, stores...the usual....less and less places are even bothering to monitor much less enforce those shrinking mask mandates...and once we're seated, off comes the masks, and we've been out enough to notice..we're taking off for a few days to a well known town that recently dropped their mask mandates in their entirety...and we're not in the least bit worried...if we were, we wouldn't go....and MOST IMPORTANTLY, lets not forget those "limited occupancy" rules for cruising......I've been asking what exactly that means...no clue...you know most MDRs have tables close enough to each other you might as well be in a party of 8 whether you know them or not...even the two-tops aren't exactly "isolated".....