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10 hours ago, sayvan said:

You didn’t miss much with Tim not being around… his AD keeps him afloat in IMHO. 

We lost his AD too! 

12 hours ago, hcat said:

So how will he know when he can go home and by what means..?

Seems there is no plan..

Can he just rebook and go if he has a " home "test kit and tests neg???

 

Who is paying for the hotel?

Celebrity pays for hotel up to $250/day and $100/day for food. He had to do all Uber Eats. He had CVS Deliver a bunch of stuff - meds and tests. 

40 minutes ago, tinaincc said:

Wouldn’t it be easier to rent a car and drive home? 

24 hour drive and he’s not feeling well yet 😔 Just got his appetite back. 

1 hour ago, WonderMan3 said:

Sorry to hear about your situation. You say you were masked and avoided crowds but were you eating in the dining rooms and restaurants? If so were they busy as they usually are? Were servers unmasked? 

Every single crew member was masked 100% of the time. We had 1464 on board. No dining was crowded including specialties we experienced. Martini Bar and WCB were quite busy and crowded at times. Pool deck and bar pretty crowded. Solarium and Sunset Bar areas, our favorites, weren’t too crowded. 

We’ve now personally heard of 20 individuals who disembarked after testing positive. 8 of them were w my husband and taken to hotels. The rest drove home. 

I did reach someone earlier who said “the care team” would be reaching out to husband. Still waiting….

4 hours ago, tinaincc said:

What city did you disembark in?  

FLL 

40 minutes ago, betjekel said:

Sailed on the Constellation Jan 2022 with 7 other family members.  We all were triple vaxxed, wore masks, did Celebrity excursions,  basically stuck together due to the risks.  Felt fairly confident as 3 of us are healthcare workers that work with Covid positive patients and never had a positive test.  At disembarkation we needed PCR tests to go home to Canada, here is where the issues began.  Six out of eight tested positive at the port and therefore could not board a flight. We were all asymptomatic! Attempted numerous times to contact Celebrity Engagement through phone and email prior to leaving the port.  Finally  after 3 hours or more we waved down a Constellation employee who told us to find our own accommodations and keep receipts to submit.  We booked an Air B and B as we felt it was the best for our group of 6.  After 5 days we moved to a hotel as we still had another 5 days to isolate (10 days total for Canada).  We then were able to fly home.  During our isolation period we emailed and called Celebrity with poor response.  Finally got a nice person with Captain's Club that gave us the most information as to where to email receipts, to whose attention ect.  Receipts and detailed outline and description have been sent to Celebrity on Feb 18 with no response.  Last week I finally contacted Celebrity and was told it takes 3-45 business days for approval and then extra time for payment processing.  I am fairly certain we got Covid from our cabin steward-he was wonderful but disappeared at day 5, and we later found out nearly everyone that he was responsible for cabin cleaning  got covid.  I am ok with that-we took the risk-no blaming.  I am however very disappointed in Celebrity for their lack of guidance, follow up and customer service.  I am really hoping we do receive reimbursement for the 5 days otherwise it will turn out to be a very expensive vacation.  Has anyone else had to isolate and been reimbursed by Celebrity??  I cannot seem to find much on the boards.   thanks!

Literally on hold with Celebrity Engagement now that I'm home. Agree with everything you said. Dump him off at a hotel and that's it? See ya, wouldn't want to be ya?

If you're comfortable can you share the receipt info with me - ie, where to send? My email is vkelba@gmail.com  Thank you. 

3 hours ago, DaKahuna said:

 

I have no idea but agree, I hope it is just a precautionary measure.   I did not see a live thread for the current sailing so I cannot say for sure. 
 

Look at my thread. Boarded with husband, left without him. 
Wear your masks. 

6 minutes ago, cruisingator2 said:

According to the below link there is currently 64 ships either in yellow or orange as I post this. Won’t be surprised to see mask mandates make a return and I’m not posting this to start a debate. Just what is on the CDC’s website.

 

 https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/cruise/cruise-ship-color-status.html?fbclid=IwAR0VNswEGP_2PiCPBDowbS64fAk-h7n7IDdDAT_s3MzlGDE4PBxEgNLC2DE

 

To the OP, so sorry that you and your husband are having to deal with this. Hopefully he gets well quickly and you can get him home. Good luck. 

Thank you. It’s so not a big deal to wear a mask. It’s just…politics. Ya I said it. Some of the older folks who were onboard, I’m worried about them. 

55 minutes ago, Jim_Iain said:

 

We are boarding Silhouette on April 8 for a B3B and definitely will be wearing masks.    I've been criticized here for my view but wear our masks all the time at home but in our community I would say 90% of the people I see are still wearing masks. 

 

 

Our town wears masks too. I kind of dig the anonymity. 
 

Husband still hasn’t heard abythung from Celebrity “Shore Concierge.”  What the ….

10 minutes ago, Jim_Iain said:

@DaKahuna is currently live posting from Silhouette.   Embarkation was delayed at least 1 hour for deep cleaning.

I just posted on her thread to wear masks and take precautions. It’s not the ship. It’s the preppie 😔 At an early show the CD said something about no masks and some ppl stood up whooping.  And then we never saw Tim again 😔 literally had third string CD but did get to see Bennet more 🥰

Please wear your masks onboard and on excursions. See my post from the prior cruise. Left my husband behind to quarantine  and reports of many infected. That’s why they’re extra sanitizing. 
We wore our masks a LOT. Take as many precautions as you can. You don’t want to go through what we are going through. 
Safe travels. 

1 minute ago, Honolulu Blue said:

@sakigemcam:  I'm sorry this happened to you and your husband.  Not your fault, but I am distressed by the increasing amount of quarantine/isolation stories I'm hearing both here and on the Princess board.  Could this be the beginning of the long-feared spike in cases?  I don't know.  But I have a cruise (not on Celebrity) in 3 1/2 weeks and it's something to think about.

 

I wish you the best in the next part of your adventure.

Thank you. If it were up to me I think the lines should institute the mask mandate again. Silent Disco indoors is a perfect example. They later moved it outdoors but how many ppl got sick from that one night?

So he finally got off and there were 8 ppl waiting w him. Driver had no idea what was happening. He’s finally at hotel which was maybe not the best choice. No room service so he will have to do Uber eats of DoorDash. 
 

To make matters worse, my flight is delayed bc they had to remove someone. Don’t know why. And the woman in my husbands seat berated me, saying the cdc website says I shouldn’t be onboard. I said I’ll listen yo the cruise line and the airline before her. Meanwhile she was with a group where 5 were sick but driving home. Didn’t really need her commentary. 

4 minutes ago, peanut head said:

So sorry to hear about this ending to a wonderful vacation.  Speedy recovery to your husband and all the best to you.

Thank you. CC-ers are the best. 

I’m glad you’re on the mend. Mask up when you can next time. 

27 minutes ago, CHEZMARYLOU said:

We disembarked on March 18. The Retreat Manager said there were about 20 positive cases (1%) towards the end of the cruise.  I started feeling sick on Tuesday and tested positive. My husband is also positive.  I felt like I had a very bad cold and strep throat. Started feeling better yesterday. We never got off the ship but did not mask up either.

1 hour ago, helen haywood said:

Yikes!  So sorry this happened to you both!  Extremely alarming to hear Celebrity has “run out” of their normal hotel space!!  Is this with crew that are quarantining prior to starting service or are there a lot of covid cases we aren’t hearing about?

There were quarantining crew onboard when we boarded. Every day the captain said “a few more mild or asymptomatic cases.” Still under the 1%. Then a few days in he said “over the 1%.” And then I stopped listening bc the “ding dong” gave me anxiety 😟 

37 minutes ago, 39august said:

Sounds like a very bad ending to a good cruise. Which hotel, please, and I assume Celebrity is paying for hotel and meals?  And how long is the quarantine? Any help with changing his flight to get home? So sorry you both had to go through this.

5 days, and JetBlue said we just need to call them and change his flight. But how do we know for sure he will have 2 meg tests by then? He has heard nothing from his “Celebrity shoreside concierge.” 

28 minutes ago, chemmo said:

So sorry for you both…

 

Such a pity, sincere best wishes to your husband for a speedy recovery. 

Thank you. 

35 minutes ago, 39august said:

meals

35 minutes ago, 39august said:

Sounds like a very bad ending to a good cruise. Which hotel, please, and I assume Celebrity is paying for hotel and meals?  And how long is the quarantine? Any help with changing his flight to get home? So sorry you both had to go through this.

Celebrity pays $250/night for hotel plus $100 for meals. From my phone I booked him

a Marriott (looking at tiny pics) which turned out to be in an office park. He told the desk he was there to quarantine and they proceeded to tell him where breakfast was served. And there’s no room service. 

Our last cruise was March 2020, her last time out before shutdown. We had to return to port twice, missed a port and had an abbreviated visit to one. Celebrity was gracious with refunds and credits. 
We were beyond excited for this 2022 trip. Triple vaxxed, masked, stayed away from crowds. Crew and ship were wonderful. 
We did 3 ship excursions and 2 on own. Masked. Beach, beach and beach with one exception. 
Most passengers were unmasked, including the indoor Silent Disco and in elevators. They moved the disco to outdoors later in the trip. 
Early in we lost  CD Tim and then AD Gigi. 

Yesterday morning husband started to feel blah and by afternoon we were in cabin. He had a fever. I had brought antigen tests and he tested positive. Doctor came up, took info, did a PCR. It was an hour wait for results which were +. 
I was feeling fine. We were sad. We wanted to enjoy our last day and see our new friends and wonderful MDR team that evening. Instead we were in the cabin waiting for results (they also gave me an antigen which was through an app that was really confusing and I work w software all the time). I was neg. 

More waiting till he got moved. I was starving (husband was nauseous), and it was almost impossible to get to room service. No answer on phone, or busy. Finally did and food came up fast though it was the strangest Turkey club I’ve ever seen. Onions, no bacon, weird. 

Finally 3 hazmat suited crew came up to move him, and one was spraying the hallway in my husbands wake. It was so sad. 

I was told up go to deck 5 to disembark early as we had an early flight. John the hotel manager brought me to front of line. My SeaPass card pinged that I needed to go to Deck 2. Got to deck 2 and someone said I needed to go to deck 3. Deck 3 said I had to go to deck 5. By now I was in tears from guilt leaving him (I have to be home for work - and our cat) and total stress. Finally I was escorted off by a crew member and left in the terminal on my own. 

Husband will be at a hotel that we chose bc ship ran out of their normal hotel space. He’s still waiting in his cabin. They said he would have a “concierge” during his quarantine. We don’t know much more. All the docs we got were for mid-cruise situations. I guess we will get a refund for the final day. 

I hope he has a balcony at the hotel. Was hard to tell on app w lousy wifi. 
 

Wear your masks. I’m waiting to board our flight. 

What would be so hard for X to create more value with the tiers? I'm in Marketing and can think of 100 low-cost ideas. I don't know why I keep gathering points when they've devalued so much but I can't stop myself!

2 hours ago, RickT said:

I think they also keep the prices high to limit capacity. Even though there are lots of cabins showing as available the price has actually gone up in the past 2 weeks.  
 

By my unscientific count 45% of cabins are still available meaning the other 55% are either sold or otherwise blocked.  

Wondering how your unscientific count determined those percentages? I just see cabins as either available or not - how can you know which are blocked and which are sold? Thank you!

Thank you!

Hi there - I believe I read about one of the last few nights of each cruise being some kind of fun "extravaganza" in the buffet. Can anyone advise please?

Thank you!