Cruise Day # 6 and COVID

[johnjen]

Heres what I don't know, help me out.

Let's say youre booked in a nice jr suite. All goes well. Then you find out your cabin attendant has covid. Do they force you to take a covid test?

#2. You test positive during the cruise. They isolate you in an inside cabin. Do they comp you for time missed in the suite that you paid for?

[slidergirl]

3 hours ago, emdia43 said:

Have they tried Tessilon Perles? 
 

I've had them off and on for years when I get bronchitis.  Totally useless on me.  The only thing that works is hydrocodone and we do that as a last resort.  

[sfaaa]

5 hours ago, CruiszBug said:

Just got off the Wonder TA followed by first Alaska Cruise of the season on Ovation. Things that made me cringe:

1) The number of people that coughed outright without covering or protecting their mouth/nose. (One guy standing at the DL Espresso machine facing me sneezed!)

2) Saw someone touch their face then grab the end of the cappuccino machine that dispenses the coffee to raise/lower the spigot. (If I hadn't seen it I wouldn't have thought twice about getting my coffee, but it made me think about others...)

3) Saw someone with their finger stuck inside their ear (itch?) in line for the DL continental breakfast, who reached out and grabbed a pastry with that same hand...

4) The number of people that tried to squeeze into the elevators when they were already shoulder to shoulder.. 

Welcome back to the old normal before COVID. Saw some of the same behaviors on my April cruise. Simply disgusting.

[Jasukkie]

15 hours ago, ReneeFLL said:

Jimbo, you do realize that people catch covid in other places and not just on ships? Why are you always telling people they should spend their money elsewhere? I’m sure they already know this. They are here because they like cruising, but it sounds like you don’t. 🤔

 

How can a test be faked? Not that I would want to, but just curious. I had taken a home test on a cruise recently and the test said to insert the swab until the lid touched your noise. The swab was attached to a lid that screwed into a jar. It was terrible. Now I know what all the people were complaining about when they were saying they were brain ticklers. They weren’t kidding. Do they fake it by not putting the swab far enough in the nose?
 

 

 

Anyone can create a document saying anything. Plenty of people have posted screenshots of their results. Just a little digital manipulation and voila, you are negative. Also not hard to manipulate the self swabbing process on a proctored test. 

[Gracie115]

12 hours ago, johnjen said:

Heres what I don't know, help me out.

Let's say youre booked in a nice jr suite. All goes well. Then you find out your cabin attendant has covid. Do they force you to take a covid test?

#2. You test positive during the cruise. They isolate you in an inside cabin. Do they comp you for time missed in the suite that you paid for?

 

Yes, they reimburse you for the days missed in your original room.  If it is just you, you will be reimbursed, if your partner/friend/cabinmate also tests positive then too will be reimbursed.  That's my understanding.  Now whether or not they actually refund $$ or give you FCC is anyone's guess...I've heard/read both ways.

 

[ace2542]

On 5/26/2022 at 8:28 AM, ReneeFLL said:

Jimbo, you do realize that people catch covid in other places and not just on ships? Why are you always telling people they should spend their money elsewhere? I’m sure they already know this. They are here because they like cruising, but it sounds like you don’t. 🤔

 

How can a test be faked? Not that I would want to, but just curious. I had taken a home test on a cruise recently and the test said to insert the swab until the lid touched your noise. The swab was attached to a lid that screwed into a jar. It was terrible. Now I know what all the people were complaining about when they were saying they were brain ticklers. They weren’t kidding. Do they fake it by not putting the swab far enough in the nose?
 

 

 

Lemon or Orange juice apparently. But that is a for a fake positive result. You could always bribe the testing guy or just fake up a false test result on the internet.

[hal2008]

On 5/24/2022 at 9:04 PM, matj2000 said:

 

 

I would have more excitment staying home

 

Then doing a trip like this person wants to

 

Glad to know about your personal feeling about this.

 

Each has our own risk/reward  criteria 

 

That person was actually willing to take risk by going to theater and dinning indoors.

 

A lot of us cruise for  many different points of enjoyment.   For some an hour or two of indoor dinning was pain even before covid. Some felt same about those theater shows or bar scene or pools.  

 

So why cruise?

 

Actually, all those things (theaters, casino, pool, bars, fine dinning) can also be done landside 

 

Standing on top deck or front deck or back deck  with great expanse of water in utter peace - can't get that landside.

 

Last Fall was amazingly wonderful time to enjoy traditional cruising.

 

Much smaller occupancy, both staff and pax behaving responsibly, no kids running around, no rowdy bar patrons and with tight sensible protocols risk of getting covid far less than a landside resort.

 

Guess that ship has now sailed....

[sgmn]

1 hour ago, hal2008 said:

 

Last Fall was amazingly wonderful time to enjoy traditional cruising.

 

Much smaller occupancy, both staff and pax behaving responsibly, no kids running around, no rowdy bar patrons and with tight sensible protocols risk of getting covid far less than a landside resort.

 

Guess that ship has now sailed....

I agree that cruising with reduced capacity and with the indoor mask mandates helped reduce the spread of covid. But I think another big game changer is Omicron. This wasn't around last Summer/Autumn.

It's extremely easy to catch and difficult  to avoid.

A lot of people who caught it on these boards have said they were careful, masked indoors and avoided crowded lifts etc

Unfortunately the best protection seems to be if you have caught the current variant in the last few months. There are not many cases of a person who has caught the same variant twice within a few months 

Edited May 28, 2022 by sgmn

[hal2008]

8 minutes ago, sgmn said:

I agree that cruising with reduced capacity and with the indoor mask mandates helped reduce the spread of covid. But I think another big game changer is Omicron. This wasn't around last Summer/Autumn.

It's extremely easy to catch and difficult  to avoid.

A lot of people who caught it on these boards have said they were careful, masked indoors and avoided crowded lifts etc

Unfortunately the best protection seems to be if you have caught the current variant in the last few months. There are not many cases of a person who has caught the same variant twice within a few months 

 

You are so correct 

Never thought of getting latest variant of covid in comfort of your home a blessing.  But it is compared to getting it on ship or worse after cruise when still in foreign country