TheJamesGang

Yeah, we were on the Encore.

No, Panama Canal departed Miami on 4/15.

Yeah, the medical center is not equipped to handle anything except maybe a cut or sprained ankle. I never imagined with so many people, particularly older people with possible conditions, that the ship's medical center would be so lacking. They told me when I was there that I was the only patient in there....but when my husband came down just an hour later he said the place was packed. NCL is hiding what's really happening with COVID on the ships. There were 2 nights that I thought I heard vacuuming happening in the hallway around 1-2am. It turns out, that's the chemical sprayer they use when they take someone out of the room with COVID. It's exactly what they did to me. Sprayed everywhere I went. That said, I know for a fact that 2 sets of our neighbors on deck 10 were removed from their rooms. I don't know where they went, but they didn't return to the room before I was taken off the ship on April 30th. The worst part was being told that COVID was the reason I had unholy abdominal pain and couldn't walk. They just think every symptom is COVID related and then send you to quarantine. I asked my doctor when I returned to the US and she said there is no way that kind of pain and symptoms would ever be COVID. This was such an awful/traumatic experience that I don't know if we will cruise again, which is a pity because we really, really enjoy it. Please be safe!

Thank you!!!! I know for a fact there were many cases on deck 10 where our room was. I kept being woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of a vacuum cleaner. I was asking my husband why on earth they would vacuum at 2am! What I later found out was once they remove someone from their room for Covid, they spray this machine that sounds like a vacuum in all the places they take that person. When they came for me in the hazmat suits and wheelchair, they did it to us. Sprayed where we went including the elevator.

My husband and I just returned from a sailing on the Encore. We both tested positive for Covid after 2 years of being beyond careful. We even masked on the ship. The cruise was 15 days and after day 5, there were tons of people coughing, sneezing, etc....all over the ship. NCL will keep that very quiet. I should also note that the medical center cannot deal with any kind of outbreak, illness, or even small emergencies. It's a step above going to the nurses office in high school. I originally went to the medical center with severe abdominal pain and vomiting. After they tested me and found I was positive for Covid, they told me all my symptoms and pain were due to Covid and to go back to my room and quarantine, which we did. About 8 hours later I could no longer walk, sit or stand as the pain had become intolerable. My husband called the medical center and they came in hazmat suites with a wheel chair and took me back down to the medical center. Took my vitals, etc...then gave me an IV...which was put in wrong....they didn't get it into the vein, just under my skin so the fluid built up in my arm for a few hours causing my right arm to swell massively. The pain continued. They have no capability to do any kind of scan or ultrasound. They originally wanted me to stay on board and get off in LA as planned, then head to the hospital. My husband and I knew something was really wrong and not Covid related. After my husband repeatedly insisted, they let us get off the ship in Cabo and I was taken to the hospital there. Once I reached the hospital and they took out the IV line from the ship, the fluid starting squirting out of my elbow where the line had been inserted. The doctors there did a CT scan and discovered my appendix had ruptured. The infection had spread thru my abdomen (peritonitis) and caused my kidneys to go into failure. I went into surgery that day. I spent 5 days in the ICU at the hospital in Cabo where I received the most incredible medical care I could have ever hoped for. We are home now and very grateful for the care I receive in Cabo. Had I taken the advice of NCL and stayed on the ship for 2 more days, the odds are that I would have went into septic shock and died. The point I'm trying to make is please know that if something does go wrong, the ship's medical center is not equipped to handle it.