Due to the nature of travel by sea and the ports visited, the availability of medical care may be limited or delayed and emergency medical care and evacuation may not be available from every destination to which the ship sails. You are required to advise Oceania in writing, at or prior to the time a cruise is booked if you require the use of a wheelchair, other special equipment or a service animal.
Guests acknowledge and understand that certain international safety requirements, shipbuilding standards, and/or applicable regulations involving design, construction or operation of the ship may restrict access to facilities or activities for persons with mobility, communication or other impairments or special needs. Electric scooters or electric wheelchairs may be used on board, subject to certain size and safety limitations.
Some ports of call are anchorage ports and physical conditions may preclude you from going ashore. Decisions made by the Master of the ship in such circumstances will be binding in all instances. If you are a guest with Special Needs, you must bring and be responsible for all necessary items related to your condition. If any such - 5 - condition arises after the cruise is booked, you are required to advise Oceania in writing immediately.
Any guest who requires oxygen canisters or oxygen concentrators must independently make all the necessary arrangements, including procuring and moving any oxygen containers while on board. Please be advised that liquid oxygen is not permitted on board the ship. Failure to obtain a certificate of fitness when required as described above, or your attempt to bring on the ship equipment not permitted on board may result in denial of embarkation and forfeiture of the applicable Cruise Fare and/or CruiseTour Fare.
Physician Consultation Recommended and Acknowledgement of Health Risks
You are encouraged to discuss the advisability of travel with your physician and to review the websites of the U.S. centers for disease control and prevention ("CDC") or other relevant government agencies for updated information. You acknowledge, understand and accept that while aboard the vessel, in terminals and boarding areas, or during activities ashore and/ or while traveling to or from the vessel, you or other guests may be exposed to communicable illnesses, including but not limited to COVID-19 and its variants, influenza, colds, norovirus, and potentially newer diseases not yet known. You further understand and accept that the risk of exposures to these communicable illnesses and others is inherent in most activities where people interact or share common facilities, are beyond Oceania's control, and cannot be eliminated under any circumstances. You knowingly and voluntarily accept these risks as part of this ticket contract, including the risk of serious illness or death arising from such exposures, and/or all related damages, loss, costs and expenses of any nature whatsoever.
Right to Refuse Booking or Passage, to Disembark or Quarantine
You warrant that you and all other guests traveling with you are physically, emotionally and otherwise fit to undertake the cruise or CruiseTour; that you and they have received all medical inoculations necessary; that you and they will at all times comply with the ship's rules and regulations and orders and directions of the ship's Master, officers and medical staff, and that your conduct will not impair the safety of the ship or jeopardize or inconvenience yourself or other guests. Oceania may refuse to embark, or may disembark, confine to a stateroom, quarantine or limit the activities during the cruise at any time or at any port of any guest who may be suffering from contagious or infectious disease or whose presence, or that of any accompanying child or travelling companion, in the opinion of the Carrier, the Master, or any doctor, may be detrimental to the comfort, enjoyment or safety of other persons, or who, in the Carrier's or Master's opinion, might create a risk of harm to any other person, or who may be excluded from landing at the destination by immigration or other governmental authorities. In such cases, the guest shall not be entitled to any refund of the cruise Fare or CruiseTour Fare or any payment, compensation or credit, except as required by law or otherwise provided herein.
You acknowledge that Oceania's COVID-19 Policies and Procedures, when in effect, may or will include (but are not be limited to): (1) completion of an accurate, truthful and complete health questionnaire in a form and containing any health or travel-related questions as determined by Oceania in Oceania's sole discretion based on advice from cognizant government or health authorities or medical experts for each passenger prior to boarding; (2) pre-embarkation and/or periodic testing and temperature checks of each guest followed by a period of isolation until test results are available; (3) modified capacity rules for activities (including but not limited to restaurants, gyms, and entertainment events onboard and for shore excursions) which may limit or eliminate the ability of any guest to participate in particular activities; (4) mandatory use by each guest of face coverings in most locations outside of the guest's cabin while onboard, during embarkation, disembarkation and shore excursions; (5) mandatory social distancing and/or cohorting of guests at any/all times while on board and during embarkation, disembarkation, and shore excursions; (6) additional restrictions during shore excursions depending on local conditions, including but not limited to denial of disembarkation at destinations unless participating in only Carrier-approved shore excursions; (7) mandatory hand-sanitizing by guest upon entry or exit of any public areas; (8) confinement of guests to cabins, quarantine or emergency disembarkation of guests if, in Oceania's sole discretion, such steps are necessary to prevent or slow the spread of COVID-19; (9) the required completion by guest in a timely manner of any written authorizations or consent forms required for Oceania to carry out Oceania's COVID-19 Policies and Procedures (including but not limited to medical information, medical privacy, or personal data privacy consent forms), and; (10) other policies and procedures deemed by Oceania in Oceania's sole discretion to be necessary to reduce the risk of spread of COVID-19.
Consequences of Noncompliance With COVID-19 Policies and Procedures
Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, any noncompliance by you or members of your travelling party with Carrier's COVID-19 Policies and Procedures (when in effect), local port/country regulations (when in effect), shall be grounds for refusal to board, refusal to re-board after going ashore, quarantine onboard the Vessel, disembarkation, reporting to governmental or health authorities, or other steps deemed necessary in Oceania's sole discretion under the circumstances to protect the health and well-being of others. Under these circumstances, you shall not be entitled to a refund or compensation of any kind. You will be responsible for all related costs and fines, including without limitation travel expenses and for proper travel documentation for any port, or for departure from or arrival to the U.S. or your country or state of residence.
Known or Suspected COVID-19 Case Before Boarding
You agree that if at any time within 14 days prior to scheduled embarkation, you test positive for COVID-19, exhibit signs or symptoms of COVID-19, have had close contact with a person confirmed or suspected as having COVID-19, or Oceania otherwise determines in Oceania's sole discretion that you are unfit to board because of any communicable illness, Oceania will deny you boarding.
Known or Suspected COVID-19 Case After Boarding
You further understand and agree that if, after boarding, and even if you have fully complied with all COVID-19 Policies and Procedures, you test positive for COVID-19 or exhibits signs or symptoms of COVID-19, Oceania may disembark, refuse re-boarding after a shore excursion, or quarantine you as well as members of your travelling party, or take other steps which Oceania determines, in Oceania's sole discretion, are necessary under the circumstances to protect the health and well-being of others.
