What do they do with the people who test positive on the ship?

[Harrylinden]

Having a discussion about what they do when someone test positive for covid? Some say stay on ship? Others say and I read they are put off at next port and flown home? We have our first positive covid case here on the Equinox! Port today is Domanica Too!😮

Edited December 18, 2021 by Harrylinden

[Ipeeinthepools]

36 minutes ago, Harrylinden said:

Having a discussion about what they do when someone test positive for covid? Some say stay on ship? Others say and I read they are put off at next port and flown home? We have our first positive covid case here on the Equinox! Port today is Domanica Too!😮

 

I hope you're not asking these questions for a friend... 🤔

 

Reports are that anyone that tests positive is moved to a cabin near the medical center Celebrity will try to get the passengers off the ship as soon as possible and fly them home.

[Harrylinden]

20 minutes ago, Ipeeinthepools said:

 

I hope you're not asking these questions for a friend... 🤔

 

Reports are that anyone that tests positive is moved to a cabin near the medical center Celebrity will try to get the passengers off the ship as soon as possible and fly them home.

LOL, No not for me or a friend! I tried to tell this lady this morning  the exact thing you just told me and she was arguing with me about it ,they can't kick them off the ship, I said they are removed off the ship and flown home at the next port of call! So I asked on here as yuou all are smart!!

[PelicanLvr]

Does anyone know how an infected passenger is "flown home"?

 

I can't imagine any airline would accept them and what about the required negative test to enter the USA?

 

 

[teacherman]

It would appear to me that if people are "arguing", then they are too close to each other and probably sharing whatever "things" might be coming out of their mouths when they are talking.   Just saying.😇

[Babr]

14 minutes ago, PelicanLvr said:

Does anyone know how an infected passenger is "flown home"?

 

I can't imagine any airline would accept them and what about the required negative test to enter the USA?

 

 

Private charter arranged by Celebrity. Happens all too often.

[Tipsy252]

From personal experience:

First thing is to quarantine the passenger. Passenger is normally escorted in full Hazmat gear, to a cabin near Med Centre.

After that the options are: 1) that the port health authorities at the next port can insist that all positive cases are off loaded to a local hospital/isolation hotel to complete the quarantine, or until a negative test. Passengers do not normally fly to their country of residence until the quarantine is complete.  2) the passengers who are positive remain in quarantine on the ship, until the disembarkation port.

I think this depends on how far into the cruise you are and rules in the countries visited.

I was lucky, I remained in quarantine on deck 3 for the last 4 days of our 11 day cruise.

Edited December 18, 2021 by Tipsy252

[mom says]

La Lido Loca did a vlog on this very thing a day or 2 ago. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DCxZtAUUIKXs&ved=2ahUKEwi8td669e30AhUGa80KHf3oAwYQwqsBegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw17L8b-7eVBOGyLTrimGbSr

Edited December 18, 2021 by mom says

[marieps]

Very nice to see the accuracy of the answers to this topical question.  Having sailed with the announcement of a positive case on Reflection, I can second the on-board quarantine and private flight home for the infected passenger.  No disruption at all for the rest of the passengers.  Hope all is well with the man who tested positive.

[Rwb11]

1 hour ago, Tipsy252 said:

From personal experience:

First thing is to quarantine the passenger. Passenger is normally escorted in full Hazmat gear, to a cabin near Med Centre.

After that the options are: 1) that the port health authorities at the next port can insist that all positive cases are off loaded to a local hospital/isolation hotel to complete the quarantine, or until a negative test. Passengers do not normally fly to their country of residence until the quarantine is complete.  2) the passengers who are positive remain in quarantine on the ship, until the disembarkation port.

I think this depends on how far into the cruise you are and rules in the countries visited.

I was lucky, I remained in quarantine on deck 3 for the last 4 days of our 11 day cruise.

Thank you for posting your experience. I'm sorry your trip took a bad turn toward the end. Just curious, what type of cabin do they move you to when you have to quarantine? Is there a window at least? I'm claustrophobic, so I think I would go crazy in an interior cabin. I was hoping that asymptomatic passengers would be allowed to quarantine in their rooms, but I can understand why  they need to have all positive cases near the Med Centre. We are going to wear our masks and take measures to avoid crowds, but we all know there's always a chance that we will get Covid no matter how careful we are.

[Tipsy252]

I was moved to a deck 3 OV cabin. It was not all bad, I could still order meals from the MDR menu. These were delivered each morning with Breakfast. You phone up Room Service to place your order and state the time for delivery. They were pretty prompt and the meals not too bad, temp wise. You could also order wine/beer or other drinks, but do not expect coffee or tea from Al Bacio, I tried once and whatever it was that turned up did not resemble my order for Oolong tea!

My hubby was negative after being tested twice and so was allowed to stay in our cabin (balcony deck 10) and move around the ship, dine in the restaurants, etc. pretty much as normal.

Hope this puts minds at rest, although I must say this was one of the first Silhouette cruises to the Canaries in Sep 2021, so thing may have changed.

[nocl]

1 hour ago, mom says said:

La Lido Loca did a vlog on this very thing a day or 2 ago. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DCxZtAUUIKXs&ved=2ahUKEwi8td669e30AhUGa80KHf3oAwYQwqsBegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw17L8b-7eVBOGyLTrimGbSr

Of course notice that they started having symptoms, but still went  about the ship the first evening, went off ship in Aruba,  went about normal activities the second night got off ship in Curacao and normal activities the 3rd night and then did not ask to be tested but only found by the ship when they asked for over the counter meds.  Could have infected quite a few others in that period after they first started getting symptoms.

[PTC DAWG]

A plank is involved.  

[mom says]

2 hours ago, nocl said:

Of course notice that they started having symptoms, but still went  about the ship the first evening, went off ship in Aruba,  went about normal activities the second night got off ship in Curacao and normal activities the 3rd night and then did not ask to be tested but only found by the ship when they asked for over the counter meds.  Could have infected quite a few others in that period after they first started getting symptoms.

Of course.  Their actions after first experiencing symptoms were the opposite of the responsible thing to do. I simply wanted to provide a link telling of actual experiences once they were quarantined on the ship,  to answer the OPs  question.

[phoenix_dream]

7 hours ago, Tipsy252 said:

From personal experience:

First thing is to quarantine the passenger. Passenger is normally escorted in full Hazmat gear, to a cabin near Med Centre.

After that the options are: 1) that the port health authorities at the next port can insist that all positive cases are off loaded to a local hospital/isolation hotel to complete the quarantine, or until a negative test. Passengers do not normally fly to their country of residence until the quarantine is complete.  2) the passengers who are positive remain in quarantine on the ship, until the disembarkation port.

I think this depends on how far into the cruise you are and rules in the countries visited.

I was lucky, I remained in quarantine on deck 3 for the last 4 days of our 11 day cruise.

This is interesting as it conflicts with what I thought they were advertising that they were doing.  I thought they say that they will provide private transportation home for you if you are positive.  It sounds like that is not what they did for you unless I am misunderstanding.  After your 4 day quarantine, were you flown home privately?  

[phoenix_dream]

5 hours ago, Tipsy252 said:

I was moved to a deck 3 OV cabin. It was not all bad, I could still order meals from the MDR menu. These were delivered each morning with Breakfast. You phone up Room Service to place your order and state the time for delivery. They were pretty prompt and the meals not too bad, temp wise. You could also order wine/beer or other drinks, but do not expect coffee or tea from Al Bacio, I tried once and whatever it was that turned up did not resemble my order for Oolong tea!

My hubby was negative after being tested twice and so was allowed to stay in our cabin (balcony deck 10) and move around the ship, dine in the restaurants, etc. pretty much as normal.

Hope this puts minds at rest, although I must say this was one of the first Silhouette cruises to the Canaries in Sep 2021, so thing may have changed.

That's discouraging that they cannot provide you a balcony cabin.  I am somewhat claustrophobic and if I had to remain in a cabin for 4 straight days with no outside air I literally don't know how I would handle it.  I have on a couple of occasions cruised in outside cabins (and even way back when, an inside) but that was when I could leave the cabin and do lots of other things.

[Sunshine3601]

9 hours ago, Tipsy252 said:

From personal experience:

First thing is to quarantine the passenger. Passenger is normally escorted in full Hazmat gear, to a cabin near Med Centre.

After that the options are: 1) that the port health authorities at the next port can insist that all positive cases are off loaded to a local hospital/isolation hotel to complete the quarantine, or until a negative test. Passengers do not normally fly to their country of residence until the quarantine is complete.  2) the passengers who are positive remain in quarantine on the ship, until the disembarkation port.

I think this depends on how far into the cruise you are and rules in the countries visited.

I was lucky, I remained in quarantine on deck 3 for the last 4 days of our 11 day cruise.

Delete I see now you were moved to an OV. 

Better than an interior but I couldnt do that.  I would be begging to let me out with a hazmat suit in the middle of the night.  

Edited December 19, 2021 by Sunshine3601

[D C]

10 hours ago, Tipsy252 said:

From personal experience:

First thing is to quarantine the passenger. Passenger is normally escorted in full Hazmat gear, to a cabin near Med Centre.

After that the options are: 1) that the port health authorities at the next port can insist that all positive cases are off loaded to a local hospital/isolation hotel to complete the quarantine, or until a negative test. Passengers do not normally fly to their country of residence until the quarantine is complete.  2) the passengers who are positive remain in quarantine on the ship, until the disembarkation port.

I think this depends on how far into the cruise you are and rules in the countries visited.

I was lucky, I remained in quarantine on deck 3 for the last 4 days of our 11 day cruise.

Were there port stops in those 4 days where they COULD have disembarked you? 

[Loracpin2]

10 hours ago, Tipsy252 said:

From personal experience:

First thing is to quarantine the passenger. Passenger is normally escorted in full Hazmat gear, to a cabin near Med Centre.

After that the options are: 1) that the port health authorities at the next port can insist that all positive cases are off loaded to a local hospital/isolation hotel to complete the quarantine, or until a negative test. Passengers do not normally fly to their country of residence until the quarantine is complete.  2) the passengers who are positive remain in quarantine on the ship, until the disembarkation port.

I think this depends on how far into the cruise you are and rules in the countries visited.

I was lucky, I remained in quarantine on deck 3 for the last 4 days of our 11 day cruise.

The thought of possibly being off loaded to a local hospital on any island makes me very uneasy about taking our January sailing especially considering the current number of daily covid outbreaks whether people are vaccinated or not.   

[LGW59]

3 hours ago, phoenix_dream said:

That's discouraging that they cannot provide you a balcony cabin.  I am somewhat claustrophobic and if I had to remain in a cabin for 4 straight days with no outside air I literally don't know how I would handle it.  I have on a couple of occasions cruised in outside cabins (and even way back when, an inside) but that was when I could leave the cabin and do lots of other things.

Then why are you cruising under these potential circumstances?

[Tipsy252]

13 hours ago, phoenix_dream said:

This is interesting as it conflicts with what I thought they were advertising that they were doing.  I thought they say that they will provide private transportation home for you if you are positive.  It sounds like that is not what they did for you unless I am misunderstanding.  After your 4 day quarantine, were you flown home privately?  

No need for flight as the disembarkation was UK and that is my home country. We were parked at the port and hubby collected the car and drove to collect me from the terminal.

In answer to when I was tested. By halfway through the cruise,  I had gone ashore in 2 ports and the following day,  a sea day I developed a cough and felt tired, so stayed mostly in the cabin. While moving about the ship masks were required by all. The following morning feeling a little worse, I informed the medical team. They quickly escorted me to the Med Centre for tests ( in hazmat gear). The test came back positive and I was escorted to the quarantine cabin. All passengers and crew that required quarantine or isolation were located on that deck.

My personal experience. Cannot say what protocols may be for Caribbean sailings from US.

[finny2]

19 hours ago, Tipsy252 said:

I was moved to a deck 3 OV cabin. It was not all bad, I could still order meals from the MDR menu. These were delivered each morning with Breakfast. You phone up Room Service to place your order and state the time for delivery. They were pretty prompt and the meals not too bad, temp wise. You could also order wine/beer or other drinks, but do not expect coffee or tea from Al Bacio, I tried once and whatever it was that turned up did not resemble my order for Oolong tea!

My hubby was negative after being tested twice and so was allowed to stay in our cabin (balcony deck 10) and move around the ship, dine in the restaurants, etc. pretty much as normal.

Hope this puts minds at rest, although I must say this was one of the first Silhouette cruises to the Canaries in Sep 2021, so thing may have changed.

Was the cabin handicap accessible? I just wonder how they would handle a passenger that needs an accessible cabin for quarantine 

[Tipsy252]

12 minutes ago, finny2 said:

Was the cabin handicap accessible? I just wonder how they would handle a passenger that needs an accessible cabin for quarantine 

I did not require an accessible cabin, but looking at the deck plan for silhouette, there are 4 accessible cabins on deck 3, so that should not be an issue. All cabins on deck 3 were reserved for quarantine/isolation. Plastic covers on all the carpets for easy cleaning and disinfection, no access to general passengers and all staff servicing those rooms for meals etc. were fully suited in hazmat gear.

[llarsen]

23 hours ago, Tipsy252 said:

From personal experience:

First thing is to quarantine the passenger. Passenger is normally escorted in full Hazmat gear, to a cabin near Med Centre.

After that the options are: 1) that the port health authorities at the next port can insist that all positive cases are off loaded to a local hospital/isolation hotel to complete the quarantine, or until a negative test. Passengers do not normally fly to their country of residence until the quarantine is complete.  2) the passengers who are positive remain in quarantine on the ship, until the disembarkation port.

I think this depends on how far into the cruise you are and rules in the countries visited.

I was lucky, I remained in quarantine on deck 3 for the last 4 days of our 11 day cruise.

So sorry this happened to you, but happy you are here to share your personal experience with others. Thank you and wishing you well.

[Tipsy252]

1 hour ago, llarsen said:

So sorry this happened to you, but happy you are here to share your personal experience with others. Thank you and wishing you well.

Thank you to all for your well wishes. Luckily my infection was mild and I was not too ill, but it knocked me out for about a week. The cough lingered for a few months! It has not put us off cruising as we have 3 booked for next year! To be honest I felt safer on board than at the local supermarket or grocery store.

I wish everyone the best wishes for Christmas, stay safe and hope that the New Year sees a slow but steady recovery from the horrible virus and a re-opening of travel.