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Nukesailor

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    Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
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  1. Good point. I see the Princess policy is to issue a refund for the day(s). I'll have to check into it. Thanks. Art
  2. You laugh (and it is funny), but on a past cruise I have seen crew wearing hazmat suits enter a cabin just down the hall from us. Noro. An eye-opener.
  3. This is my second bout with Covid. Minor cough with this one, major cough with previous. Also body ache, headache, etc. Yes, there are people who cough for other reasons, such as smoker's cough, and some with Covid who are asymptomatic. In this case, we could hear both occupants of the adjacent cabin coughing. Didn't start until a few days out. In the cabin on the other side was a completely different, loud cough that sounded more serious than Covid. This version of Covid (Omicron, I believe) also can include gastrointestinal issues, as I can attest to. Pretty nasty.
  4. By the way, I think there was way more Covid on board than was officially recognized. We could hear the people in the cabins on both sides of us hacking away. The official isolation requirement, we were told, was 4 days; however, we only had to isolate 1 day because of when I tested positive. Good thing we had a balcony; I can't image how it would be isolated in an inside cabin. They also billed me $38 for a Covid test they never administered. I could challenge it or collect from our insurance, but it's not worth it. Feeling much better today, probably because we are up to date on vaccinations. We drove to/from the cruise, so it wasn't too hard to get home. No idea the difficulty for any who had to fly out. Art
  5. I didn't feel the need for any additional medication at the time and didn't ask about Paxlovid. However, the medical office did ask if I needed any medication, so I assume they would have some.
  6. One thing I forgot to mention was that included in the COVID debarking (sounds like something a dog does) information was the interesting item that, if a passenger had reserved a transfer to the airport through Princess, it would be canceled and alternate arrangements must be made by the passenger. Compensation would require submitting a claim with the travel insurance. Yes, we wore masks during this. Escorts had bottles of sanitizer to spray anything we touched. Wonder what kind of cleaning our cabin got.
  7. Just off the Ruby Princess Dec. 30, 2023 - Jan. 9 2024 Half-Panama Canal out of Ft. Lauderdale. Came down with Covid on Day 8; self-tested positive. Isolated in cabin Day 9 after reporting the Covid to the Guest Relations Desk. Got a call back from their medical asking questions about severity, symptoms, etc. Was told to isolate in our cabin (both of us). Looks like there was a lot of Covid on the ship; nobody would give me a straight answer about this. Some interesting observations: Because we were isolated, room service meals included anything from the dining room menus (not that I really felt like eating), not just the usual limited room service menu. And it was complimentary. I didn't see anyone checking to see if we remained in the cabin, then, again, with the medallion, they know where you are. For disembarkation, we were placed in a separate group of other Covid sickies and were to be off the ship at 7:30AM. The night before, one of the Guest Relations people came around to photograph our passports - per arrangements with Customs & Immigration, we were to bypass customs to avoid crowds. Also, they were giving out special instructions & luggage tags, Red #1, for this; she had quite a stack of these. At 7:30AM, they came to our cabin and escorted us to the conference room near the Princess Theater. A number of other Covid passengers also showed up. We were then escorted to the crew gangway on Deck 4. This led immediately to the dock at a gate near where the shuttle busses parked. We were then escorted across the dock to the gate and allowed to leave. I noticed a stack of red-tagged luggage there (we were walk-off). That was it. No customs or passport check. Should have worn our masks more. Very few were. Art
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