Thread: Can pregnant women cruise?

Does anybody know the rules on this and which line has which rules?

Traveling by cruise ship when pregnant

Royal Caribbean................Notes: Cruise lines have rules regarding accepting passengers in the later stages of pregnancy. Please check if you will be six months or later in a pregnancy.

Also if you have to fly to the port the airlines and/or your doctor may have something to say about it also if you are later in your pregnancy.

Carnival does not allow women in their third trimester to cruise...so 27 weeks and on...

Princess will refuse to embark any female passenger who will enter the third trimester of pregnancy by the end of the cruise. (Section 4 , Princess Passage Contract).

Mrs. Factor and Red Sonja cruised while pregnant.

As stated before, women can not have entered their 3rd trimester before or during the cruise.

From RCI:

What is Royal Caribbean's policy on cruising while pregnant?
If pregnant guests have entered or will be entering their 27th week before or during the cruise, they will be unable to travel.

A physician's Fit to Travel note stating that they are in good health, not a high risk pregnancy, and not entering the 27th week is required.

From the Princess website:

We have recently reviewed our pregnancy policy in light of current medical research on gestation risks and infant mortality outside of specialised neonatal intensive care units. As a result, effective immediately (Nov 6, 2006) we will no longer be permitting passengers who will have entered the 24th week of pregnancy by the last day of the cruise to travel with us.

From the Carnival website:

Passengers who will enter their third trimester(twenty seventh week) of pregnancy by the time of the voyage and infants less than four months old shall not be permitted to board the vessel.