Oceania Insignia in San Diego Harbor

There have been many strategies to deal with the COVID 19 pandemic and we have chosen to get into a bubble of 370 vaccinated people and 400 vaccinated crew and sail around Oceania in the Pacific Ocean on the Insignia. It’s a R class ship with a length of 592′, draft of 19.52,′ beam of 84′, crew of 400 and full capacity of 698 passengers. It’s a bit scary given all that is going on but for the first ten or so days of our 72 days it's adjusting and feeling comfortable. Our ship mates are very compliant with the total masking rules, the social distancing and hand washing requirements as is the crew.

Oceania Chefs Cooking Demonstration

We leave from the port of Long Beach and have an immediate change in itinerary and go to San Diego for 2 days before sailing 5 days to Hawaii. We get to do a city and harbor tour of San Diego as we have never seen it before this way. We are off and it’s a good amount of time to settle in and establish a ship board routine. We had no idea how much stress we brought to the trip and the uncertainty of trip or flight cancellation, positive COVID test, etc. By the time we reached Honolulu we were relaxed and ready to see some new places.

View of Downtown San Diego From Our Deck