Cunard New Restrictions

[kitty9]

If you are using supplemental oxygen or are undergoing kidney dialysis will no longer be welcomed on any Cunard ship.  This information is from Cruise Weekly, a daily publication out of Australia.  Personally, I don’t see how those two things are a part of the CDC’s rules for resuming cruises. 

[1025cruise]

My uneducated guess? If the ship is quarantined for any reason you would be unable to resupply and they don't want to take any chances.

[SargassoPirate]

On 12/17/2020 at 7:12 PM, 1025cruise said:

My uneducated guess? If the ship is quarantined for any reason you would be unable to resupply and they don't want to take any chances.

 

I'll see your uneducated guess and raise you another uneducated guess.  I've been wondering to myself and She Who Must Be Obeyed how many things the cruise lines will cut back on "because of Covid" in 2021 when cruising resumes but then those things never return?

 

 

[Etta1213]

On 12/20/2020 at 6:14 AM, SargassoPirate said:

 

I'll see your uneducated guess and raise you another uneducated guess.  I've been wondering to myself and She Who Must Be Obeyed how many things the cruise lines will cut back on "because of Covid" in 2021 when cruising resumes but then those things never return?

 

 

Very perceptive of you. I hope we are all pleasantly surprised but am at times discouraged.

[raindropsalways]

Being a user of oxygen, I fully understand. Those of us with “lung” issues are also on the top of the list of being susceptible to getting the virus. That plus the fact that many of us cruisers are seniors, who are on the top of the list of being susceptible, that would be rather risky. And that does not even including those of us with high blood pressure. Looking on the positive side, those of us with type O blood are less apt to get the virus.

 

Falling into all the above categories, I'm in no hurry to get out into the world just yet. After I receive the vaccinations for this virus, I will have my doctor include that notation in my travel letter and then head out on the high seas.

 

Personally, I have not read anything regarding kidney dialysis. Regardless, I would assume there is reason to be concerned. The restrictions are for our benefit also.

 

And yes, I am looking at booking a cruise in late 2021.

[Hlitner]

I think a big problem with Dialysis is that most ships do not have dialysis facilities.  We know a couple of dialysis folks who cruised several times a year but always made prior arrangements so they could get their dialysis treatments at various ports.  There used to be the Dialysis at Sea option but they were expensive and only were on a few cruises.  If a ship needs to be quarantined or gets turned away at some ports because they get a COVID case aboard, a dialysis patient becomes a serious emergency.

 

Hank

[tiggis]

On 12/26/2020 at 8:39 PM, Hlitner said:

I think a big problem with Dialysis is that most ships do not have dialysis facilities.  We know a couple of dialysis folks who cruised several times a year but always made prior arrangements so they could get their dialysis treatments at various ports.  There used to be the Dialysis at Sea option but they were expensive and only were on a few cruises.  If a ship needs to be quarantined or gets turned away at some ports because they get a COVID case aboard, a dialysis patient becomes a serious emergency.

 

Hank

There are two forms of dialysis - haemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD).  It's true that most ships do not have HD facilities, which in most cases require specialised staff and equipment, but in our experience many cruise lines - hitherto at least - have allowed PD, which is administered by the patient in their cabin using supplies brought on board or delivered by a medical company. When my OH was using PD we travelled a number of times on Cunard, without problem, but I can see that current circumstances may make cruise lines nervous about having such passengers on board. It will be interesting to see whether those ships that offer HD (and Dialysis at Sea is by no means the only provider) continue to do so when cruising restarts.

[carol louise]

By the time my late husband needed supplemental oxygen due to his emphysema, he was also using inhalers containing steroids to help him breathe. Steroids depress the immune system and so he would have been particularly vulnerable to this highly contagious virus.