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So sorry this happened to you. There needs to be a better plan for those in quarantine . I hope you feed back to head office in MIA your direct experiences

You need to test one day before. Which in our case is a Sunday, not easy to do in Rome on Sunday !

At least normally with room service you get proper cutlery and plates and it's not a 24/7 experience with no other access to other foods/drinks On the celebrity board there is one thread from a poster on a transatlantic who's husband has been in quarantine since 30Apr, still showing positive yesterday and they will not test again until the 11th. Believe they are suite pax and she says he can only get room service menu

I think there needs to be more care for pax stuck in a room 24/7 . I've heard some pax are only allowed room service menu. There should be a dedicated team looking after these folk, and a proper thought through process about their 'sentence'. For instance: There should be a kettle with tea/coffee making provisions in each quarantine cabin Proper plates, glasses and cutlery with a pack to clean them yourself, available in your room so you don't have to eat off paper plates and with plastic cutlery. I will definitely be thinking about what to take on board in case this happens to me and have some back up plans. On a long cruise you could be incarcerated for 5 days or more

How long was your cruise ? Seems to me short, less than 7 days, cruises are the way to go. So many stories of people testing positive once home

So sorry to hear he can only eat from the room service menu. On top of everything else it's awful to have the same limited food choice day after day. I'm sure i read other ships allowed their quarantined pax food from the dinning rooms. They seem to be falling down on their duty of care I hope he is OK and is able to rejoin you soon.

Enjoy your 24 hours in Barcelona and safe travels home. I've enjoyed reading your blog 😊

So I know this is Royal Caribbean site but Celebrity is really annoying me. Tried numerous times to call them and no answer. Yesterday was on the phone for 1 and half hours before I gave up. My agent tried for over 3 hours and no answer. This is the Captain's Club uk number but think it just feeds into the world wide call centre They dont answer emails either. So frustrating. What do you do when you have a problem which isn't fixable on the website ? Sorry about the rant but they market themselves as a luxury cruise line and you can't even speak to them, let alone sort out the problem

I have never been called for jury service. Not sure if there's an age limit here

Love Bar Harbor and Halifax. We've been on two cruises there, once from Boston and once from New York. Some of Gary's old school friends live near Halifax and it was great meeting up with them again. Very easy to hire a car in Halifax port

@groryjm any chance you can ask guest services or your concierge what the expected total on board is for the next sailing leaving the 7th? It's now showing sold out on line but that may be because its two days before departure. You're coming back to glorious weather, predicted to reach 25c by next week in the South

From tomorrow it's going to be glorious in the South of UK, going up to 25c by mid week🌞

Diesel is even more, I've seen it for over £1.80 a litre, but a lot of our petrol and diesel is tax

Lots of talk about mainland Europe where some countries are heavily dependant on Russian oil and gas stopping it by end of year. They have to get it from somewhere so prices for all increase I guess

On Celebrity it's mandatory to have a test at the pier (at a cost) if you have not had the booster or two initial jabs within 270 days. You also have to have multiple tests (at a cost) on board There is no Celebrity provision for testing at Italian home ports if you are 'up to date', I.e. have been boostered and/or had the initial two jabs within 270 days. No further tests required for the cruise, but it means you have to source your own pre departure test one day before.

You can pre register for Rome airport on arrival. Tests are €20 https://www.adr.it/web/aeroporti-di-roma-en/covid-19 https://www.adr.it/form-preaccettazione

Oooh, good idea, hadn't thought of that

Thanks for the link, very interesting. I agree that Celebrity may of jumped the gun and put the wrong info up on their site

I'm sure last summer some cruise lines were offering free tests on departure in Europe. They could start early, say 0700 for those staying near the port

No I'm retired. I wanted to go to a party so I was testing every day from day 5 to 9. The party was on day 10. As I was still positive I didn't go and stopped testing at day 9 as you needed two clear days testing . Next time I tested was to fly a month later, I was negative then.

If its Celebrity's policy, then why aren't they mandating it everywhere in Europe. Especially UK where covid levels are high on Silhouette. I think it's Italian government rule, though it may be that Celebrity misinterpreted the rules last week

I was still testing positive on day 9, not sure if I was still contagious but this was Feb when the advice was five days and two negative tests or 10 days. Now it's highly suggested you quarantine, not mandatory

Thanks, I guess at the moment there are a lot of airlines flying to USA from LHR, but if they lift restrictions I guess it will be the final nail for testing at the Airport Spent 20 years working at LGW, I have a special place in my heart for it, though it has massively changed since I worked there

Was there a queue? When I flew from T3 in March there seemed to be long lines outside the covid testing facility on the forecourt

If everyone is now flying with covid then many people will be boarding cruise ships with negative tests but with covid brewing in their system, having caught it on the plane and will be sick and quarantined on board