中英对照：新冠疫情将对你我坐游轮带来哪些变化？

自从写了新冠疫情可能会导致航空旅行发生变化的文章以后，我的朋友要求我研究一下疫情对游轮行业的改变。

Ever since I wrote about the changes that may be applied to air travel as a result of COVID-19, my friends started asking me to research into future changes that may affect those who enjoy cruises.

我本人喜欢坐游轮，并在过去几年中多次坐游轮。我今年四月在大西洋上游荡以及与之相关的欧洲旅行都因疫情而被取消了。这些游轮公司不退款。他们给了我订船代用券，至2021年年底前有效。

I love cruises myself and have taken on many cruises over the last few years. My scheduled cruise across the Atlantic this April was cancelled along with the connecting European cruise. These cruises are non-refundable, and deferment vouchers covering the period up to the end of 2021 were issued.

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对于未来的游轮变化，我们能期望什么呢？疫情年初爆发后，出门旅行已经变得很多了。现在让我们看看专家们对未来坐游轮的预测。

What are we to expect for changes to cruises in future? Many of the changes have already started during the early part of this year before COVID-19 brought everything to a halt. Let us go through the list of items predicted by the experts working in the industry.

当你出门时，所有过程都将与坐飞机旅行的新做法相似。登机前将回答问卷，体温检查，进行唾液或血液检查，以确保你没带病毒。

Everything will be very similar to the new routines for air-travel when you start your journey. There will be questionnaires, temperature checks, and swabs or blood test to verify status of your health before boarding.

一旦上船，在人多的地方你会要求戴口罩。船上的服务人员自己会戴着口罩或防护罩，以保护自己不染上病毒，最大程度地降低将病毒传染给乘客的风险。尽管目前没有规定，但生病的乘客很可能会被隔离在自己的舱内，只有到游轮到港后才准许离开。

Once on board the ship, masking may be necessary for events when large crowds are gathering. The crew will be wearing masks and/or protective shields to keep themselves healthy and minimize the risk of infecting their clients. While there are no current medical regulations in place, sick passengers are likely to be confined to their rooms and only released when the cruise is finished.



游轮公司将投资改善船上的医疗诊所。新的医疗服务范围将包括在船上配备更多的医生，以及用于隔离病人的地方。在船上生病后可以看病会使所有乘客放心旅游。

Cruise lines will be making investments in their onboard clinics. Expanded services will include more doctors and, potentially, quarantine areas. Having a designated area where vacationers can report to can provide peace of mind to all travellers.

在未来两年内，旅客们可以接种新冠疫苗。免疫后，旅客要提供证明打疫苗的证明，它将成为出门旅行（飞行或游轮）所必需的另一重要文件。

Within the next two years, COVID-19 vaccinations will be widely available to travellers. Once immunized, a card attesting to this injection will be available and it becomes another vital piece of document necessary for travelling, whether flying or cruising.

无论你是一日游还是十日游，你被病毒感染的机会在理论上都是相等的。但是，人们更喜欢短途旅行而不是长途旅行。短途旅行将是近期的趋势。旅客将首先通过短途旅行来试探外出的风险。在旅游开放后，许多旅客都会对长期度假抱有戒心。

The chances of viral infection is statistically equal whether you are going on a one day cruise or ten. However, people are more comfortable with shorter excursions rather than long ones. Short cruises will be the trend in the near future. Travellers will test the waters by easing into shorter cruises first since they are more hesitant (initially) to commit to long vacations.


在船上大吃大喝是游轮吸引人的地方。自助餐和酒店风格的晚餐令人咽口水。游轮上所吃的食物，自己在家要每天花60至70元才能吃到。丰富的选择和众多的烹饪方式使你可以享用早餐和午餐。但这些都会改变！

One of the biggest attractions for cruises is the food. The buffet and the hotel style dinners are something to crave for. The value of food available on a cruise will be worth $60 to $70 per person per day. The enormous selections and the many cooking styles make for wonderful visits for breakfast and lunches. All of that are changing!

疫情后，你在船上将用菜单或通过手机上的应用程序定餐。我的朋友告诉我，今年早些时候，他得根据菜单来订那些自助餐里的食物，然后由服务人员送上门。皇家加勒比游轮公司已经取消了自助餐服务。

Ordering off a menu or placing your order via an app on your cell phone may be the new standard. My friends reported being served by restaurant servers after ordering buffet items from a menu earlier this year. The Cruise Lines Royal Caribbean has removed buffet from their ships already.

在较大的游轮上，提前预订晚餐和表演已经成为每日活动的一部分，且这将是常态。船上许多地方会规定保持社交距离。这意味着许多人的要求无法立即满足。这会对那些想要在特定时间观看特定表演的人造成不便。

On the bigger cruise ships, advance reservations for dinners and shows are already part of the routine. In future, this will simply be the norm. It is necessary to maintain social distancing in many areas and this means less people can be accommodated, resulting in a pain for those who want to see a specific performance on a specific night at a specific time.



送餐服务也会采用“叫门和留餐”的做法。这种非接触式的服务将用于你在自己的舱内用餐。当游轮恢复载客时，其载客容量将受到限制。这意味着每艘游轮的载客量将是疫情前的50％至60％。除非有医生的证明显示那些70岁以上的旅客适合旅行并且没有“严重的慢性病”，否则他们无资格坐游轮。

The practice of “Knock and drop” will happen to room service. This type of contactless service will be applied to the ordering of food to your room. There will be a limiting of capacity when cruise ships start sailing again. Only 50% to 60% of their previous capacities will be allowed. People over the age of 70 would not be allowed to buy a ticket unless they had a doctor's note saying they were fit to travel and did not have "a severe, chronic medical condition."

组团坐游轮的人将被视为一个“团体”，他们无需遵守社交距离的规定。因此，这些人可能会预订家庭大小的套房，以便他们可以在不担心感染的情况下享受自己的阳台。在自己的舱内，他们不必戴口罩，因此，许多人宁愿将大部分时间花在舱内。

Everyone who is boarding at the same time as a booking group will be treated as a “party” and social-distancing requirements are waived. For this reason, people are likely to book family size suites so that they can enjoy a private balcony without worrying about infection. Inside the cabin, mask wearing would be exempted and hence many people would rather spend most of their time inside.

重新开放初期，游轮数量和旅行路线将少很多。不是所有的游轮和船期都会马上恢复到疫情前的状况。船期需要一段时间才能恢复正常。

Initially, there will be far fewer cruise ship and travelling routes to choose from. Not all ships and not all time slots will return immediately. It will take time before schedules are ramped up and back to normal.

如果今后坐游轮会有啥好事的话，那就是取消旅行和退款政策将更加灵活。旅行者如果突然被诊断出带有新冠病毒，他们将不必担心退款的事。游轮公司将聘请旅行顾问为旅客介绍游轮知识。在预订过程中，他们将解释新规定，并确保游客准备好个人旅行证件。

If there is anything positive about the future of cruising, it will be that cancellation and refund policies will be more flexible. travellers don't want to be responsible for a full ticket if they are suddenly diagnosed with COVID-19. The cruise lines will hire Travel advisors to provide cruise education to travellers. During the booking process, they will explain the new guidelines and making sure clients are properly prepared with their personal travel documentation.

游轮的未来将与过去大不相同。 我会再次坐游轮吗？ 我相信我会。我还有几张游轮代用券需要兑现呢！

The future of cruising will be very different from what we are used to in the past. Will I be cruising again? You bet your boots I will. I still have a couple of deferment vouchers to cash in!