Norovirus

[Teacher42]

Dear Chen,  First I bow to your expertise on this issue. But no matter how much one sanitizes something, just one affected passenger walks out of his or her cabin tracking the infection once again. The passengers all exit the ship and the properly trained crew go at it. I am sure (hope) they are all trained, like boat drill (women and children first).

[BEENSAILING]

2 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

Some on board are still not satisfied. 

Biker - since you are on board what  are people wanting????

[Biker19]

2 minutes ago, BEENSAILING said:

Biker - since you are on board what  are people wanting????

Their “proper” vacation - probably newbies. 

[The Fun Researcher]

I heard they are temporarily renaming the ship to the “Oash*t of the Seas”

 

Dan

[BEENSAILING]

2 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

Their “proper” vacation - probably newbies. 

Biker - have u heard staff members call it Norovirus...or is it possible food poisoning?

[Biker19]

1 minute ago, BEENSAILING said:

Biker - have u heard staff members call it Norovirus...or is it possible food poisoning?

Not sure they care what it is- don’t really talk to them about it. 

[Teacher42]

Dear Bike, We were on a Pacquet cruise, when we were given a check for all our money back including our business class air roundtrip  to Beijing, due to a refueling accident in Tsingtao and the ship could not continue. They flew us all to Hong Kong and in our hotel the American President of Pacquet, Mr. Iverson, flew in to give us our refund checks. One 'gentleman 'in front of us said to him it was not enough. Mr. Iverson took out his own wallet and gave this 'gentleman' $200 than make a 'scene'.  All the rest of us were satisfied with our instant refund. We all felt we hit the lottery. They also gave us one voucher per passenger for a 50% off future cruise. That was 2 future cruises for us at 1/2 off.  Their will always be someone out there where it will never be enough. God bless them!

[jodrealtor]

18 hours ago, Gershep said:

A friend of mine is boarding this Sunday she is freaking out. I don't blame her.

We just got off Oasis on January 6th.  No reported Noro on our New Years Cruise.

[evelyn51]

On 1/9/2019 at 5:50 PM, PCWalton1 said:

We use this. Not sure if it helps but we have not had noro

https://www.zylast.com/

 

Thanks, where can this product be purchased? 

[chengkp75]

1 hour ago, evelyn51 said:

Thanks, where can this product be purchased? 

Note my response to this post, where the FDA is seeking a permanent injunction against zylast for unfounded claims of effectiveness in their advertising, and are seeking to stop sales of the product.  Though in Canada, that would have no effect, sorry.

Edited January 10, 2019 by chengkp75

[mtsublueraider]

34 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

Their “proper” vacation - probably newbies. 

 

We are not newbies and can honestly say while I’m happy with what RCL has done with the situation... and I have no doubt they mean well with their offer... that I’d have almost rather had a voucher for a 7 night cruise or the choice of a refund. Only reason I say that is that we got such a great deal on this trip with the kids sail free promotion that my refunded fare won’t pay for another cruise like we were supposed to have. Bratty? Maybe. But I can see the point. 

 

And yes my two kids were throwing up at 5am this morning , but everyone has been incredible. 

Edited January 10, 2019 by mtsublueraider
Addition

[evelyn51]

6 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

Note my response to this post, where the FDA is seeking a permanent injunction against zylast for unfounded claims of effectiveness in their advertising, and are seeking to stop sales of the product.  Though in Canada, that would have no effect, sorry.

Thanks.

[boscobeans]

40 minutes ago, Teacher42 said:

Dear Chen,  First I bow to your expertise on this issue. But no matter how much one sanitizes something, just one affected passenger walks out of his or her cabin tracking the infection once again. The passengers all exit the ship and the properly trained crew go at it. I am sure (hope) they are all trained, like boat drill (women and children first).

 

I would venture to say that most ships have crews and officers who have been through this type of situation many rimes. It has been a topic of discussion on CC from the days we first joined...

[boscobeans]

22 minutes ago, evelyn51 said:

Thanks, where can this product be purchased? 

It has been shown to kill a NORO virus surrogate, NOT Human fecal borne Noro Virus..

[Milwaukee Eight]

55 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

Some on board are still not satisfied. 

Just what are they expecting?

[Biker19]

1 minute ago, Milwaukee Eight said:

Just what are they expecting?

See a few posts above. 

[John&LaLa]

2 hours ago, itsmeagain said:

John,  Did they say how they were going to handle the people with free cruises from the Casino offers?  Do they give you money or pay it back to the source that paid it?

 

Hopefully you don’t catch it.

 

 

Based on our OBC of $164, I'm estimating we will get around $1,050.  Now I did prepay tips and we did skip Cozumel and could not get off in Jamaica, so that may get figured in as well

[A&L_Ont]

1 hour ago, Teacher42 said:

Dear All, From reading the letter sent to all the passengers RCI/RCCL has 'stepped up to the plate' and is doing the right thing by its passengers.  I take back everything negative I assumed of this cruise line, in their prior treatment of me in regard to booking penalties. They deserve kudos for their monetary reimbursement of their passengers. The decision to return early to give them time to sanitize the ship is also very commendable, giving future passengers the confidence to sail with them.

 

Teacher42, after your prior negative experience, this is nice to see that your faith has been restored. 

[Etta1213]

I wonder if somebody in medical analyzes a patient specimen under a microscope, or performs some other lab test, before  pronouncing the illness as Noro virus??

[xpcdoojk]

1 hour ago, Biker19 said:

Some on board are still not satisfied. 

 

 

Ha!  Shocking.  NOT!

 

jc

[John&LaLa]

2 hours ago, brillohead said:

 

 

Must be Karma that they did not play Wash Your Hands at muster

[Cindy]

1 hour ago, Biker19 said:

Some on board are still not satisfied. 

 

That’s kind of sad, but really not surprising. I can understand being disappointed about a botched vacation, especially for infrequent travelers, but I really question what else they think Royal Caribbean should do. It’s very generous compensation, and unfortunately RCI can’t hit reset for this sailing or this group of passengers.

[otterden]

2 hours ago, Biker19 said:

Some on board are still not satisfied. 

Those are the same that wouldn’t have been satisfied regardless of how this was handled....

[voyager70]

31 minutes ago, xpcdoojk said:

 

 

Ha!  Shocking.  NOT!

 

jc

 

I know, right?  Sucks to be on that cruise but what more do they want.

 

[John&LaLa]

3 hours ago, Bubbis3 said:

John,

 

how are are they handling the casino?  Is it open and everyone is wiping down every slot after every use and they’re washing all the chips? I’d think there would be too much of a financial impact to shut that down.  Even though you’d think that’s the one venue where germ spreading would be more rampant.  I’m on Oasis in 4 weeks.

 

Bob (the other Bob)

 

Casino up and running fine.  I did see a lady freak out at the cage because som et one stood to close to her