Silhouette 3.18-28. Boarded with my husband, disembarked without him.

[sakigemcam]

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. 

 

 

[helen haywood]

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?

[39august]

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.

[chemmo]

So sorry for you both…

 

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

[CHEZMARYLOU]

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.

[sakigemcam]

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. 

[sakigemcam]

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. 

[sakigemcam]

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.” 

[peanut head]

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

[sakigemcam]

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 😟 

[sakigemcam]

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.

[sakigemcam]

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

[sakigemcam]

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. 

[Honolulu Blue]

@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.

[sakigemcam]

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. 

[sakigemcam]

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?

[blackshirt]

Apparently the Silhouette is currently on the CDC’s list of cruise ships under investigation. I sure hope whatever is going on is corrected by the time we sail on her in June.

[Jim_Iain]

@sakigemcam So sorry to hear of such a disappointing end of your wonderful cruise.   Our thoughts are with you and your husband and hoping for his rapid recovery. 

[Jim_Iain]

19 minutes ago, blackshirt said:

Apparently the Silhouette is currently on the CDC’s list of cruise ships under investigation. I sure hope whatever is going on is corrected by the time we sail on her in June.

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

[nunuc2000]

@sakigemcam Oh my goodness that sounds like a terrible way to end the cruise... and not a very encouraging process through Celebrity.

 

I sincerely hope your husband recovers quickly and the rest of the issues wrap up smoothly for you. 

[Chriskoo]

I'm so sorry you're going though this. How stressful! 

 

Very discouraging that there was not more help with the hotel arrangements. 

[sakigemcam]

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 🥰

[CHEZMARYLOU]

Hope your husband's case is mild and he gets to fly home soon. Being stuck in a hotel alone and without room service sounds awful.

[Jim_Iain]

7 minutes ago, sakigemcam said:

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 🥰

 

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. 

 

 

[jwlane]

1 hour ago, sakigemcam said:

how do we know for sure he will have 2 meg tests by then? 

CDC guidelines do not require any negative tests to end isolation.  5 days isolation, then 5 days masked to avoid possible spread of lingering infection-ness (is that a word?).