JOHN474

Just got off Reflection from repositioning cruise. They distribute the test kits where you pickup the luggage in the terminal. You can take the tests days after picking them up too. We had 2 EMED test kits. We did from hotel with high speed internet. Experience was horrible. On test had issues, We had to work with Tech support for 6 hours to get them to fix and send results. The experience was horrible. They advertised that we could take in a taxi on way to an airport. right ... I would never take one of these kits where a tech monitors you over internet. Tech leaves after watching you swab and then comes back, in theory, in 15 minutes. Our connection interrupted. If they dont verify results in 30 minutes or less, they say result invalid. I had to escalate and wait for "level 3" support to "fix".

On 4/9 Reflection Carribean cruise, ship was 50% occupied. On 4/18 Reflection repositioning cruise, ship was only 30% occupied. I was on both. 4/9 had no announced Covid infections. 4/18 cruise had about 25 announced covid infections. 1060 passengers, Captain announced last day 3% infected.

I just did this when I departed the Reflection repositioning cruise. Suggest you do NOT take a car to Rome. Takes about twice as long given the heavy traffic. Suggest you take a train. You can take 2 different types of express trains. I paid Celebrity $24 Euro PP to take me to train station given we had several suitcases. Reflection, Guest services suggested the second class train express train that cost about 10 Euro. I opted for 1st class on the the Direct Express Train. I bought the tickets at the train station. A 1st class ticket cost about 23 Euro. I chose the 730 excursion private shuttle ride and Celebrity gave me tickets for 730 bag pickup in terminal. I was way. Train station only about 1 mile from ship. I got a 915 train and was in Rome about 10:00. Highly recommend this approach. I waited about 45 minutes for the train. The 2nd class train, has 3 early trains. The train is the way to go.