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From what I remembered reading the forum, in the early days when they needed people to get on the ship and sail so most cruiselines' air travel dept assisted with the flight change in the testing (+) disembarkation situations. Lately the trend has been that cruise lines are narrowing their assistance in every each way, so no telling by August what would be their practice in reality!

It is implied that Princess would provide the test if same day travel. Not an explicit statement - do you have confidence to take this to the bank? How hard is it for Princess to write an unambiguous statement?

Totally agreed. I was prepared that I would get COVID on the ship on each of my last 3 cruises even while I avoided elevators and crowded areas. Did not join any group excursions. I also knew that I would just drive home to isolate and had no chance to get stranded in a foreign port. Fortunately, I did not catch it. If one cannot afford to get sick by COVID because of medical conditions, it is best to stay off the ships. The risk is very different from a land based vacation.

Sorry to hear that. What you described is a very likely scenario where she might have caught it as this variant is super transmissible. Well they say that on every variant pretty much...Or you might just be the lucky one that the virus just is not able to latch onto you. A friend of mine is like that no matter where he goes and what crowd he is with, he never got symptoms...or that he is unaware of whether he was (+) or not.

I did not have Plus. I had medallion app on two phones, 1 for each guest. I purchased net on one phone 1day before embarkation and had the $5/day/device price. On the day of embarkation, I used another phone and it shows $7.5/day/device price. Both show 50% elite/platinum discount. One with preboarding discount price. Hope this helps.

Even the Princess CVP sometimes can refare but there are times that she has to rebook a new booking, wipe out all my DMY reservations. What can you do?

Yeah, agree with the sneezing part. But with coughing, not much is "norm" these days!

It isn't so difficult to wear a mask if one is coughing or sneezing, is it? Unless there is a medical reason not to...

It appears then that the transmission rate on that particular sailing is quite high (higher numbers of carriers) that the odds were stacked against you.

Just curious, did you dine indoors where physical distancing was not possible?