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We were on a Celebrity Med cruise in 2012 and a Princess Baltic cruise in 2016. Prior to 2012 we had cruised on Holland and Norwegian. The first day of the Celebrity Cruise, the food knocked my shoes off. However after that, the food was indistinguishable from all other cruise lines I had previously used. In general I find cruise food good but not great; I have cruised on Crystal and Paul Gauguin since that Princess 2016 cruise and did find that their food was a notch better-say very good, but still not great. For what it’s worth I have heard Regent is great-but have not tried it. As it is, with “good” food that is way too plentiful, I eat way too much. I’d hate to see how much weight I would gain if I thought the food was great 😄 So I am happy to go on Princess, Celebrity, Holland, and NCL and will go based on itinerary and price. So far, I’ve avoided Carnival and Royal Caribbean, as well as Silversea and Viking…but for differing reasons.

If you have had covid within 90 days you will not get it again and not spread it, which is why CDC does not recommend retest. It is extremely, extremely rare to get Covid with 6 months of a prior infection. Hence CDC -you do not need to take the antigen test either. Zip. Zero. Nada. But at 3 months and 1 day you should, as you could be one of those rare outliers.

So sad your mom is sick. Sadly, you can test negative and still spread. In fact first day or so of symptoms (and they are usually mild) you usually test negative. And likely that day before when you are asymptomatic and minding your own business without any idea of having the virus, you are already spreading-and of course you would test negative. Very tricky.