Any reports of Covid on the Pride in Europe?

[SVBing]

Anyone sailing the Pride in Europe aware of any Covid cases?

[vp1]

Typing this from a hotel room in Barcelona where I'm unexpectedly adding days (number to be determined....) to my vacation.  Was on the Pride for 26 days (from Tampa, 16 day transatlantic cruise, then back-to-back in Barcelona for 10 more days in Europe...).  About 8 hours before our final docking in Barcelona I started to feel a little warm... 😞  We docked Thursday (5/19) stayed one night in Barcelona, flight home was Friday evening.  We had scheduled our COVID tests at the airport a few hours before the flight as Spain requires a negative test to be with 24 hours of flying to leave the country.  I had taken a home test (we brought several with us) on Friday morning at the hotel in Barcelona as I was pretty sure that I'd be positive and wanted to plan for that.  Sure enough, tested positive on the home test and again at the airport; my wife tested negative and she flew back alone.  I had mostly cold-like symptoms and an occasional low-grade fever.

Absolutely ZERO support or assistance with a positive test result from either the test center or the airline check-in desk; you're simply denied boarding and you're on your own until you can test negative and then book a new flight...[FYI - a last-minute hotel room in Barcelona for an open-ended number of days is not cheap; our choice not to buy COVID insurance and I fully accept that risk, but the uncertainty of the stay and the lack of info is frustrating. I booked 5 nights that morning, but that may be optimistic...]  Curiously, there were crew members from the Pride that had been quite visible during the start of our vacation that "disappeared" for a number of days and then showed up again (entertainers, etc.) - no mention / explanation of this at all by the ship staff...  One of the musical "trios" became a "duet" for most of  one week...  Anyway it's still a risk of traveling - even for people with 3 shots and a negative test when they get on the ship (for this trip they even tested everyone for COVID at the pier in Tampa immediately before the initial boarding...)  More of an adventure than I was looking for; long answer to your short question, but I doubt that this experience is unique to the Pride...

[maryann2]

I am sorry that you tested positive.  Hope you feel better soon and that you are able to get home again.

I was also on the Pride TA and actually was shocked to see so many crowded into elevators and the shows and casino not wearing masks.

I tested positive the Tuesday after l arrived home and think I most likely picked it up on the journey home. Five hour layover in Heathrow where so many people were coughing and no masks. 

I had a very mild case and fully recovered but only tested negative yesterday, so eleven days after first testing positive.

[Lane Hog]

3 hours ago, vp1 said:

Absolutely ZERO support or assistance with a positive test result from either the test center or the airline check-in desk; you're simply denied boarding and you're on your own until you can test negative and then book a new flight...

 

Was there any commitment from either to assist you?...  you weren't in their care at the time you tested positive. Not sure I'd expect the airline to feel any obligation to assist me beyond rebooking.

[kwokpot]

I've been on since May 19th and haven't heard anything.Although I maskup when amoung people most don't, I would say only 20% of the current passengers do. Today is an exception since we are in Greece and there are signs all over the ship saying Greece is requiring passengers to mask up on the ship.

[kdr69]

18 hours ago, maryann2 said:

I am sorry that you tested positive.  Hope you feel better soon and that you are able to get home again.

I was also on the Pride TA and actually was shocked to see so many crowded into elevators and the shows and casino not wearing masks.

I tested positive the Tuesday after l arrived home and think I most likely picked it up on the journey home. Five hour layover in Heathrow where so many people were coughing and no masks. 

I had a very mild case and fully recovered but only tested negative yesterday, so eleven days after first testing positive.

glad that your ok.

[Hoosierpop]

I would assume there is Covid in every cruise ship. Of all the cruises, doing one where I’d have to fly back to the USA is out for me. Covid is here to stay so until policies catch up with the science that it’s here to stay, just not worth getting stuck somewhere. 
 

Caribbean works just fine. Not because there’s no Covid, but because it’s  not going to strand us somewhere. 

[let's go cruising]

We will be on the Pride in a few weeks. We are very concerned about the possibility of getting Covid and not being able to return to the US. We are vaxed/2x boosted and insured. We will be wearing our masks in the airport/plane. HOWEVER we would really like to minimize our risks when eating. We've never been on the Pride, so we don't know if there are places we could take our buffet food besides our cabin. Also, could we take our food from the MDR to go?