Scout16

I can understand your point, but most of these problems exist throughout the industry both on ships and on land. I would list the following; the need to step up into the bathroom (I guess this is due to the need for space for the pipes, but it is easy to miss the step in the middle of the night), the seating is too low except for the dining areas (I find it difficult to get u from a seat where my knees at an angle greater that ninety degrees).

From my experience in June, I believe the wrist band is used to allow people to skip the need for any further Covid processing especially if you are on from a prior leg of the cruise. I do not remember any gold stickers but that may be used to direct those people to visit their muster station. When I arrived in Barcelona to board the Voyager, I was the only passenger in the terminal due to problems with the airline and my luggage so I cannot comment on how long the processing took.

I have never had any problems yet even though I now make up separate bags for each day AM and PM due to the number and size of the medicine bottles. The only problem we ever had was over ten years ago when my wife found that her pain medicine bottle was open with most of the pills gone after going through a security check point where they hand checked her purse and we did not discover this until hours after the checkpoint.

You need to check with the representative at the hotel, many times we were required to confirm that our bags were present before boarding the bus. One time the bag had not been collected yet and the had to send someone to go get it. I am not sure if I have ever been where the bags were shipped separately from the bus, but once the ba was identified it went to the ship and our room with no further contact from us.