Royal Caribbean International Odyssey of the Seas, Dec. 18 sailing Royal Caribbean International’s Odyssey of the Seas will not visit Curacao or Aruba as planned. The decision was made together with the islands out of an abundance of caution due to the current trend of COVID-19 cases in the destinations’ communities as well as crew and guests testing positive on board — 55 crew members and guests, representing 1.1% of the onboard community. The cruise sailed with 95% of the onboard community fully vaccinated. All of whom tested positive are fully vaccinated and mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic. We continue to monitor their health. Close contacts were also identified and placed in quarantine to be monitored for 24 hours prior to testing. We are sailing with a layered set of health and safety measures in place to make our cruises the safest vacations possible. Examples of these are pre-cruise testing for all guests and weekly testing of all crew members, required vaccinations for all crew and all guests age 12 and older, enhanced cleaning and sanitization standards, expanded expert medical care, 100% fresh, filtered air, and our enhanced face mask policy. BACKGROUND Our teams, including our Chief Medical Officer, review our protocols on an ongoing basis with public health experts, the medical teams on board, local health authorities and governments to make adjustments based on the scientific facts presented. The world continues to navigate the ever-evolving COVID-19 pandemic, and we continue to adapt our protocols in order to protect our guests, our crew and the places we visit. Odyssey is currently on an 8-night Caribbean sailing that departed on Dec. 18.