Positive Covid Test whilst on RC!

[AustinCruise]

And Royal has stated up front that they will, for now, cover all costs of quarantine. 
 

it’s a calculated risk.

[Calgary3]

I sure hope you and your family are still doing okay.  I got covid in Las Vegas but didn't test positive until a few days after I returned home.  So much better to be in your own house rather than a hotel - and a pretty awful one at that.  Has your food situation improved any?  When is escape day?

 

Thank you so much for posting about this - lots of people wonder what would happen and now we know - at least in Spain on Royal.

[Rangers1982]

1 hour ago, Calgary3 said:

I sure hope you and your family are still doing okay.  I got covid in Las Vegas but didn't test positive until a few days after I returned home.  So much better to be in your own house rather than a hotel - and a pretty awful one at that.  Has your food situation improved any?  When is escape day?

 

Thank you so much for posting about this - lots of people wonder what would happen and now we know - at least in Spain on Royal.

Thanks all ok. I think the Delta variant takes 5 days from you actually catching it for symptoms to show and for a test to return a positive. So unfortunately as we found out that embarkation test isn’t your golden ticket. I think what will emerge over the coming months and related this week real world household data in the U.K. shows that Delta is equally transmissible in both vaccinated and non vaccinated. But vaccines work really well against severe disease.

 

The food has improved as RC uploaded cash to Uber eats however Uber eats here in Spain is limited, each order takes 2 hours and we haven’t had one correct order, it’s all rather shoddy. We’ve had bags left here there and everywhere so so frustrating. 
 

Escape day hopefully very soon, I will post an update and a few tips on what to do if this happens to anyone else. 

[sgmn]

9 hours ago, Rangers1982 said:

 

Escape day hopefully very soon, I will post an update and a few tips on what to do if this happens to anyone else. 

Thank you for keeping us updated . 

The end is in sight,  4 days to go ?

Looking forward to hearing about your tips. This could happen to anyone  holidaying abroad. 

We haven't travel abroad since Dec 2019 and living in the Northern hemisphere with a long cold winter ahead and after a fairly cool rainy summer we are desperate for some hot sunshine 

Edited November 6, 2021 by sgmn

[Maitaivegas]

It sounds like RC booked the cheapest accommodations for them.

South Korea- if you stay in the country run one which is the cheapest. You get dried ramen and other convince store foods.

Even the nicer hotels don’t give you a choice of food or when it will be delivered to you.

I read about one blogger stayed in a room with no bed in South Korea.

 

So it sounds like she has a normal quarantine hotel, any nicer and that would be big $$ and probably needed to be pre booked.

 

Get better, sorry trip was cut short .

[steamboats]

2 hours ago, Maitaivegas said:

It sounds like RC booked the cheapest accommodations for them.

 

The Spanish Health authorties have designated quarantine hotels. It´s nothing you or the cruise line can book. They tell you were to go.

 

steamboats

[bigeck]

2 hours ago, steamboats said:

 

The Spanish Health authorties have designated quarantine hotels. It´s nothing you or the cruise line can book. They tell you were to go.

 

steamboats

Its the same in UK

[Rangers1982]

4 hours ago, steamboats said:

 

The Spanish Health authorties have designated quarantine hotels. It´s nothing you or the cruise line can book. They tell you were to go.

 

steamboats

correct all outside the hands of RC but they’re paying the bill. 

[Rangers1982]

2 hours ago, bigeck said:

Its the same in UK

Apparently the U.K. will check if you have any allergies, do daily health checks and escorted exercise. The exercise is the big one unfair to keep my boy confined to a room for 11 days after two negative tests and no symptoms. A bit of fresh air and a walk would be wonderful. 

[sgmn]

3 hours ago, bigeck said:

Its the same in UK

I'm sure my DILs mother when she came back from Kenya could choose and book one of the designated covid hotels near LHR. Think she choose the Radisson Edwardian. All things considered she had an OK experience. She had two escorted walks a day 

Edited November 6, 2021 by sgmn

[gumshoe958]

12 minutes ago, sgmn said:

I'm sure my DILs mother when she came back from Kenya could choose and book one of the designated covid hotels near LHR. Think she choose the Radisson Edwardian. All things considered she had an OK experience. She had two escorted walks a day 

 

In theory you could not choose your hotel - you were allocated one during the online booking process.

 

In practice you could keep doing dummy bookings until you got allocated a hotel you were happy with.

[bigeck]

9 hours ago, sgmn said:

I'm sure my DILs mother when she came back from Kenya could choose and book one of the designated covid hotels near LHR. Think she choose the Radisson Edwardian. All things considered she had an OK experience. She had two escorted walks a day 

I was on Jewel in Cyprus recently. My booking at the Crown Plaza at Manchester Airport was cancelled as it was becoming a quarantine hotel. As I said when quoting Steamboats, these have nothing to do with Rcg. 

Poor stuff from the Spanish Authority's that peoples well being comes 2nd to profit.   

[Rangers1982]

 

Some of you may have followed my previous posts reference what happens if you test positive on a cruise ship, my 11 year old daughter tested positive less that 48 hours after embarkation on the 26th October and it’s been a bit of an eye opener for frequent cruisers like ourselves on what happens next, I’ve learnt a few things which I thought I would share, which may help others prepare for future cruises. 

Here are my top 10 thoughts and tips.

1. The embarkation test - potentially isn’t your golden ticket. We’ve probably all been there now, taking the test at port getting your negative test and the euphoria of you’re good to go. Well we had had that feeling too but within 48 hours later disaster. The Delta variant has roughly a 5 day incubation period where you have no symptoms and will show a negative test, so we were doomed and didn’t even know it.
2. Pre cruise - given the information above, before our next cruise I will be more cautious the week before, do I need to go to the pub, catch that tube, attend that meeting etc etc I will try, where possible to limit potential exposure to Covid. 
3. Pre cruise test - whilst in isolation I read a story of an American family who flew into Barcelona and a family member tested positive at embarkation and how devastating it was. We brought our own tests and carried them out at the hotel in the morning so we were fairly confident we wouldn’t get turned away at port, a difficult sight seeing the ship and being turned away. Always try to stay one step ahead if you can. 
4. I’m vaccinated so I’m ok theory - yes my daughter was unvaccinated and I had lots of replies on various posts, that’s why I only travel with …..(add your own favourite cruise line) but I’ve done some research on this theory and the delta variant seems highly transmissible between fully vaccinated people too. Cruise ships operating out of America in the last 4 months have returned 1,305 onboard cases of covid the overwhelming number was in fully vaccinated passengers. So yes we all have our favourite cruise line but none of them are immune from covid. 
5. Onboard close contacts - this was the worst and extremely sad, my daughter made two friends they hung out by the pool and grabbed something to eat. Once my daughter tested positive they were deemed close contacts and had to isolate too! So worth baring in mind that even if no one in your party has tested posts for covid but your social interactions might have implications for your cruise. 
6. Plan for the worst - this is the big one! You may remember in one of my posts I mentioned a German gentleman who was on an Aida ship, he entered an 11 day quarantine with just a cell phone. Imagine that! you have a bed, a TV in a language you don’t understand and your mobile nothing else for 11 days. So I would recommend taking a device like a tablet or laptop, music, kindle anything to keep you occupied. Think to yourself what would you need/want to help you get through. (Better to have it with you and not need it, than need it and not have it) also download Uber eats before you go just in case it’s needed. 
7. Budget for the worst - We was extremely lucky that Royal Caribbean have an amazing cruise with confidence programme that literally paid for everything, they also had amazing customer service. Most cruise lines don’t have this and would recommend travel insurance but even if you have insurance, you may need to pay out up front to extend your trip should you catch Covid-19. You’ll likely have to pay for food and a quarantine hotel on the spot as your insurer will likely only pay you back after the event. If your insurance doesn’t cover you for quarantining abroad, you’ll need a spare sum of money to cover the cost of the extended stay. I calculated our costs which were paid for by RC as around €7,000 but it was probably more. 
8. Quarantine hotels - likely to be awful (ours was appalling) face facts nice hotels don’t want Covid patients in their rooms, so that leaves the hotels that no wants to stay in. The customer service was non existent, when inquired or asked for anything the phone was put down on me, you had no choice of meals if you didn’t like it tough, have allergy tough! A bag of food cooked maybe days before was slopped into a cardboard box and dumped outside your door three times a day. Hence my above comments about Uber eats, although that had its only challenges I don’t think I had one order correct, orders just left in random places all very frustrating. If you know you’re going to leave a cruise ship for a quarantine hotel take as much food supplies from the ship that you can fit in your luggage from, soda, crisps,even salt and pepper you might be grateful for it later. 
9. Your day in quarantine - try and give it some structure, try and piece together a timeline of what you’re doing and when, it certainly helped us. Shower time, meal times, reading times, yoga, music whatever it maybe. 
10. Stay in contact - make sure you have some contact with family and friends, it’s very glum being confined to a room for days, I was quarantined with my 7 year old son so we had each other but most people in the hotel were on their own which must of been extremely difficult. 

 

We finally made it home yesterday, RC were brilliant they arranged and paid for our flights and transfers all at short notice. There customer care team were superb, worth noting being any American company that’s where the HQ and care team are based so unlikely you will get help actually on the ground once you’ve left the ship. 

 

We’re not put off cruising we have more booked, I think we’re bruised but not broken. I did have several comments saying that’s why you shouldn’t cruise but the alternative is to do nothing, hide behind the sofa, that’s not how I want to live life. 

 

We have no regrets on asking to be tested on the morning of the 26th October it would’ve only delayed the inevitable, potentially put other passengers at risk and extended our return home date even further.

 

Please don’t let this put you off, I’m sure it’s well under 1% of all cruise passengers who find themselves in this position but someone will always have to make that number up. So best to plan just in case. 

 

 

[Sunshine3601]

Thank you for this information.

Very happy to hear you and your family are back home.  Hopefully a nice home cooked meal and good nights rest in your own bed will make for an even better day tomorrow🤩

[Lv2sail_18]

Thank you so much for sharing your experience and lessons learned. It really helps to know what might happen and how to mitigate some of the risks.  All the best to you and your family!

[cruisequeen4ever]

Thank you, OP, for sharing your experience and tips. We all still have to be careful with these variants, vax or not, so it is wise to self-quarantine prior to vacation. I’m so glad you’re home now and wish you the best in your future travels! 

[Steve&Teri]

Thank you for sharing your experience. So glad that you all home safely.  

[Calgary3]

Thank you so much for all the updates.  Like the above well wishers, I too, am happy you are home and can get some decent food.  Kudos to Royal for seeing your family through this.  🙂

[Tippyton]

2 hours ago, Rangers1982 said:

 

Some of you may have followed my previous posts reference what happens if you test positive on a cruise ship, my 11 year old daughter tested positive less that 48 hours after embarkation on the 26th October and it’s been a bit of an eye opener for frequent cruisers like ourselves on what happens next, I’ve learnt a few things which I thought I would share, which may help others prepare for future cruises. 

Here are my top 10 thoughts and tips.

1. The embarkation test - potentially isn’t your golden ticket. We’ve probably all been there now, taking the test at port getting your negative test and the euphoria of you’re good to go. Well we had had that feeling too but within 48 hours later disaster. The Delta variant has roughly a 5 day incubation period where you have no symptoms and will show a negative test, so we were doomed and didn’t even know it.
2. Pre cruise - given the information above, before our next cruise I will be more cautious the week before, do I need to go to the pub, catch that tube, attend that meeting etc etc I will try, where possible to limit potential exposure to Covid. 
3. Pre cruise test - whilst in isolation I read a story of an American family who flew into Barcelona and a family member tested positive at embarkation and how devastating it was. We brought our own tests and carried them out at the hotel in the morning so we were fairly confident we wouldn’t get turned away at port, a difficult sight seeing the ship and being turned away. Always try to stay one step ahead if you can. 
4. I’m vaccinated so I’m ok theory - yes my daughter was unvaccinated and I had lots of replies on various posts, that’s why I only travel with …..(add your own favourite cruise line) but I’ve done some research on this theory and the delta variant seems highly transmissible between fully vaccinated people too. Cruise ships operating out of America in the last 4 months have returned 1,305 onboard cases of covid the overwhelming number was in fully vaccinated passengers. So yes we all have our favourite cruise line but none of them are immune from covid. 
5. Onboard close contacts - this was the worst and extremely sad, my daughter made two friends they hung out by the pool and grabbed something to eat. Once my daughter tested positive they were deemed close contacts and had to isolate too! So worth baring in mind that even if no one in your party has tested posts for covid but your social interactions might have implications for your cruise. 
6. Plan for the worst - this is the big one! You may remember in one of my posts I mentioned a German gentleman who was on an Aida ship, he entered an 11 day quarantine with just a cell phone. Imagine that! you have a bed, a TV in a language you don’t understand and your mobile nothing else for 11 days. So I would recommend taking a device like a tablet or laptop, music, kindle anything to keep you occupied. Think to yourself what would you need/want to help you get through. (Better to have it with you and not need it, than need it and not have it) also download Uber eats before you go just in case it’s needed. 
7. Budget for the worst - We was extremely lucky that Royal Caribbean have an amazing cruise with confidence programme that literally paid for everything, they also had amazing customer service. Most cruise lines don’t have this and would recommend travel insurance but even if you have insurance, you may need to pay out up front to extend your trip should you catch Covid-19. You’ll likely have to pay for food and a quarantine hotel on the spot as your insurer will likely only pay you back after the event. If your insurance doesn’t cover you for quarantining abroad, you’ll need a spare sum of money to cover the cost of the extended stay. I calculated our costs which were paid for by RC as around €7,000 but it was probably more. 
8. Quarantine hotels - likely to be awful (ours was appalling) face facts nice hotels don’t want Covid patients in their rooms, so that leaves the hotels that no wants to stay in. The customer service was non existent, when inquired or asked for anything the phone was put down on me, you had no choice of meals if you didn’t like it tough, have allergy tough! A bag of food cooked maybe days before was slopped into a cardboard box and dumped outside your door three times a day. Hence my above comments about Uber eats, although that had its only challenges I don’t think I had one order correct, orders just left in random places all very frustrating. If you know you’re going to leave a cruise ship for a quarantine hotel take as much food supplies from the ship that you can fit in your luggage from, soda, crisps,even salt and pepper you might be grateful for it later. 
9. Your day in quarantine - try and give it some structure, try and piece together a timeline of what you’re doing and when, it certainly helped us. Shower time, meal times, reading times, yoga, music whatever it maybe. 
10. Stay in contact - make sure you have some contact with family and friends, it’s very glum being confined to a room for days, I was quarantined with my 7 year old son so we had each other but most people in the hotel were on their own which must of been extremely difficult. 

 

We finally made it home yesterday, RC were brilliant they arranged and paid for our flights and transfers all at short notice. There customer care team were superb, worth noting being any American company that’s where the HQ and care team are based so unlikely you will get help actually on the ground once you’ve left the ship. 

 

We’re not put off cruising we have more booked, I think we’re bruised but not broken. I did have several comments saying that’s why you shouldn’t cruise but the alternative is to do nothing, hide behind the sofa, that’s not how I want to live life. 

 

We have no regrets on asking to be tested on the morning of the 26th October it would’ve only delayed the inevitable, potentially put other passengers at risk and extended our return home date even further.

 

Please don’t let this put you off, I’m sure it’s well under 1% of all cruise passengers who find themselves in this position but someone will always have to make that number up. So best to plan just in case. 

 

 

I'm going to play Eeyore now.  Most of us can't afford - time or otherwise, a 3 week vacation, with at  most one of the three weeks being an actual vacation, and the balance being some version of Club Gulag.  I appreciate your between-the-eyes reality check.  We're in no mood to go through all of that - not worth it, which is why we're forgoing cruises until the madness passes.  Thank you for painting a realistic picture.

[texmex.ferr]

@Rangers1982thank you for your resume of what happened on you trip.    I'm sorry to hear your daughter became ill, but I'm hoping she is now feeling better, since you are now back home in the UK, and hope you enjoy your future cruises you have booked.

 

We sailed on Jewel in October, and we booked in at the beginning of August, I then tried to stay away from circumstances which may have led to us being in contact with anyone who may have had Covid.   I'm fortunate, I can do this.     I also packed enough medication for us to last for 3 weeks, just in case we did happen to test positive once on the ship.

 

We had a great trip, met up with cruising friends, we hadn't seen for a few years onboard, and are ready to do it all again.     

 

[Coconut Crew]

5 hours ago, Rangers1982 said:

 

Some of you may have followed my previous posts reference what happens if you test positive on a cruise ship, my 11 year old daughter tested positive less that 48 hours after embarkation on the 26th October and it’s been a bit of an eye opener for frequent cruisers like ourselves on what happens next, I’ve learnt a few things which I thought I would share, which may help others prepare for future cruises. 

Here are my top 10 thoughts and tips.

1. The embarkation test - potentially isn’t your golden ticket. We’ve probably all been there now, taking the test at port getting your negative test and the euphoria of you’re good to go. Well we had had that feeling too but within 48 hours later disaster. The Delta variant has roughly a 5 day incubation period where you have no symptoms and will show a negative test, so we were doomed and didn’t even know it.
2. Pre cruise - given the information above, before our next cruise I will be more cautious the week before, do I need to go to the pub, catch that tube, attend that meeting etc etc I will try, where possible to limit potential exposure to Covid. 
3. Pre cruise test - whilst in isolation I read a story of an American family who flew into Barcelona and a family member tested positive at embarkation and how devastating it was. We brought our own tests and carried them out at the hotel in the morning so we were fairly confident we wouldn’t get turned away at port, a difficult sight seeing the ship and being turned away. Always try to stay one step ahead if you can. 
4. I’m vaccinated so I’m ok theory - yes my daughter was unvaccinated and I had lots of replies on various posts, that’s why I only travel with …..(add your own favourite cruise line) but I’ve done some research on this theory and the delta variant seems highly transmissible between fully vaccinated people too. Cruise ships operating out of America in the last 4 months have returned 1,305 onboard cases of covid the overwhelming number was in fully vaccinated passengers. So yes we all have our favourite cruise line but none of them are immune from covid. 
5. Onboard close contacts - this was the worst and extremely sad, my daughter made two friends they hung out by the pool and grabbed something to eat. Once my daughter tested positive they were deemed close contacts and had to isolate too! So worth baring in mind that even if no one in your party has tested posts for covid but your social interactions might have implications for your cruise. 
6. Plan for the worst - this is the big one! You may remember in one of my posts I mentioned a German gentleman who was on an Aida ship, he entered an 11 day quarantine with just a cell phone. Imagine that! you have a bed, a TV in a language you don’t understand and your mobile nothing else for 11 days. So I would recommend taking a device like a tablet or laptop, music, kindle anything to keep you occupied. Think to yourself what would you need/want to help you get through. (Better to have it with you and not need it, than need it and not have it) also download Uber eats before you go just in case it’s needed. 
7. Budget for the worst - We was extremely lucky that Royal Caribbean have an amazing cruise with confidence programme that literally paid for everything, they also had amazing customer service. Most cruise lines don’t have this and would recommend travel insurance but even if you have insurance, you may need to pay out up front to extend your trip should you catch Covid-19. You’ll likely have to pay for food and a quarantine hotel on the spot as your insurer will likely only pay you back after the event. If your insurance doesn’t cover you for quarantining abroad, you’ll need a spare sum of money to cover the cost of the extended stay. I calculated our costs which were paid for by RC as around €7,000 but it was probably more. 
8. Quarantine hotels - likely to be awful (ours was appalling) face facts nice hotels don’t want Covid patients in their rooms, so that leaves the hotels that no wants to stay in. The customer service was non existent, when inquired or asked for anything the phone was put down on me, you had no choice of meals if you didn’t like it tough, have allergy tough! A bag of food cooked maybe days before was slopped into a cardboard box and dumped outside your door three times a day. Hence my above comments about Uber eats, although that had its only challenges I don’t think I had one order correct, orders just left in random places all very frustrating. If you know you’re going to leave a cruise ship for a quarantine hotel take as much food supplies from the ship that you can fit in your luggage from, soda, crisps,even salt and pepper you might be grateful for it later. 
9. Your day in quarantine - try and give it some structure, try and piece together a timeline of what you’re doing and when, it certainly helped us. Shower time, meal times, reading times, yoga, music whatever it maybe. 
10. Stay in contact - make sure you have some contact with family and friends, it’s very glum being confined to a room for days, I was quarantined with my 7 year old son so we had each other but most people in the hotel were on their own which must of been extremely difficult. 

 

We finally made it home yesterday, RC were brilliant they arranged and paid for our flights and transfers all at short notice. There customer care team were superb, worth noting being any American company that’s where the HQ and care team are based so unlikely you will get help actually on the ground once you’ve left the ship. 

 

We’re not put off cruising we have more booked, I think we’re bruised but not broken. I did have several comments saying that’s why you shouldn’t cruise but the alternative is to do nothing, hide behind the sofa, that’s not how I want to live life. 

 

We have no regrets on asking to be tested on the morning of the 26th October it would’ve only delayed the inevitable, potentially put other passengers at risk and extended our return home date even further.

 

Please don’t let this put you off, I’m sure it’s well under 1% of all cruise passengers who find themselves in this position but someone will always have to make that number up. So best to plan just in case. 

 

 

I’m so sorry to hear what your family went through and know how relieved you must be to be back home.  I tested positive for Covid at the end of July (my husband was positive the next day).  It was craziness and our vacation ended that day and our whole party of 11 was quarantined for the last two days of the cruise.  It sucks all around but we knew the Covid risks going into it.  We too will not stop cruising and are now loyal to Royal.  Generally we jump around cruise lines but the response Royal gave was superior to any other cruise line out there.  Yes, I felt like I was a leading role in a contagion movie whilst being followed through closed crew corridors with people in hazmat suits spraying disinfectant behind me.  But Royal took great care of us while quarantining in our rooms, got us (me and the 2 kids) a limo, private jet with a nurse, and private auto transport home from the airport in the US.  Then did the same for my husband the next day.  We were in the Bahamas so they flew us to our home state in the US and didn’t have to quarantine at a hotel.  We did have travel insurance but everything was covered by Royal and didn’t need to submit a claim. Our travel insurance was shocked at how much Royal covered and said they were NOT hearing similar stories.  Royal did also credit us money for our unused drink package and a daily rate while in quarantine which was nice.  I agree it is important for people to know what could happen if this happened to them.  Especially knowing that it is treated differently in different countries.  I hope your daughter is doing well and that you all stay healthy. By the way, I purposely created a different account to post my Covid story because I knew there would be judgemental comments made.  Until you have experienced this you really don’t understand.  Having your room swarmed with doctors, crew, security, infection control crew, guest relations….forms, calls, taken to the medical center for testing, waiting for info, passports taken immediately, not able to be with other family members….oh and adding in that you or a family member has Covid and just being scared about how that will play out.  It is stressful and overwhelming not having control of how you will respond.  So for the comments where people questioned your side or if your experience was true…just brush it off and know that so many other people are learning from your experience.  

[perfect match]

@Rangers1982, thank you very much for sharing your experience. It’s really helpful to know what to expect if Covid should strike you or your family while on a cruise. While we all hope it will never happen to us, as a compulsive planner, I like to be prepared. You had some very practical suggestions that I will definitely keep in mind.

 

I’m glad to hear that you’re finally home, that your daughter is doing better, and that no one else in your family seems to have gotten sick. I’m also glad to hear how well Royal has treated you. I hope that all of your future sailings are problem free, and you and your family can enjoy cruising again. 
 

Thank you very much for all the information you have shared with us.

[kernow]

Thank you very much for starting this thread and telling us about your experience. While we all know in the back of our mind that this could happen, I think most of us have not really thought about it in detail and you have helped us prepare if the worst should happen. 

 

You seem to have handled it all with a great attitude, so glad to hear you are now home and back to normal.

 

Happy cruising.

[mel76]

Thank You for sharing your experiance and glad that you at home now.

We suposed to be on the same cruise, but I had to cancel it ...

I was wondering, did they make second test also after first was positive? (to eliminate false-postive)

And were you wearing mask on the time you were in quarantine with Covid-positive child?

Our next cruise is planed to Feb'22 and it makes me think, are we ready for this without we all are fully vaccinated.

[emeraldcity]

I have high compliments for your positive attitude through this stressful experience. I am also heartened to hear how well Royal handled it. I've read every post to try and keep myself informed of how to best handle this if I find myself in this situation and I realize that I failed to take into account the need to pack extra medications in case I get quarantined.

 

I just returned yesterday from an NCL Breakaway cruise to Bermuda and it's astonishing to me that we had someone test positive on the second day of the cruise. Keep in mind that NCL only allows vaccinated passengers to sail ... and Bermuda requires that you have to take a PCR test 4 days before sailing. The results need to be uploaded to the Bermuda website 3 days before sailing, whereby they issue a travel authorization. On embarkation day, you need that authorization document to gain entrance to the pier testing facility, where there is an antigen test and a PCR test administered. You then wait in a designated area until your number appears on the screen and an email is sent that you can proceed to the tables where a wristband is slapped on your wrist. That wristband gives you the right to walk down to the next pier and gain admittance to the security area prior to check-in. From arrival at the pier to boarding you could expect a three-hour process. Despite all that, a teen tested positive on day 2 and the family (and several other families of "close contacts") were quarantined in an area of balcony cabins for the duration of the cruise. It's blows me away that 6 days after their original negative test they became symptomatic ... and that the tests at the pier didn't detect it either.

 

For me, the takeaway is that I will take my precautions, make sure I have good insurance, prepare for the worst with plenty to do in quarantine and enough meds to last it out, and go ahead and live my life. I had a wonderful time on that cruise and look forward to December when I expect to have a wonderful time of the Allure.

 

And to the OP, I hope your daughter will have no lingering effects. And I would love to bump into you on a future cruise. I love hanging out with upbeat people.