Alaska Cruise Tours why so many positive Covid?

[justafem]

I got covid AGAIN during my June Alaskan cruise.  I went to medical on June 9, because I knew there was something up and one of the people in our 'group' went into quarantine.  I was negative.  

 

I took the cruise bus to the airport, flew home and tested again and was positive.  So I exposed how many people?  

 

And that's what's happening. 

 

I'm vaxxed and boosted and have had covid a couple of times.   I'm super careful for a couple weeks before a cruise.  But, let's be completely honest here, while I'm on the cruise, I'm not.  I'm maskless, smoking, casinoing, eating, show watching and mingling.  I don't want to say that I'm over it, but I am.  

 

If covid was as bad as it started out, pre-vax, when I got it the first time.  I'd probably be more careful.  But it's not. Which is why I got the vax.  Yeah, it's a miserable sick, truthfully, 'quil covers it up enough to function.  And I'll probably get it again and again and again.  

 

I'm going to Alaska again in 2 months.  And I'll keep cruising.  

[jinpasco]

11 hours ago, pamps2801 said:

Ok, so here was our experience, in regards to taking supplements. We did a 15 day Panama Canal  cruise back in March. I did get covid when I returned home. My wife, who was taking "One Zinc" tablet a day, never got covid. Yet, we were in the same room, in the same bed. My symptoms were mild, and within a week I tested negative. We're both vaccinated and boosted. We've done 3 cruises since, and I now take the "Zinc" tablets. My wife still hasn't contracted the virus. "Zinc" tablets Boost your immune system. Are these tablets a miracle stopper ? Who knows, but I'm taking them now. Just saying.

We sail in Sept on a land first/cruisetour. Reading all these posts scares me a bit as it seems land people are testing positive so much more. Then again the longer time of land/ cruise allowed more incubation time. Who knows. I plan on doing whatever I can to lessen the possibility but in NO way think we are homefree. Is zinc part of your daily routine or did you start a few weeks before the cruise to build your system ? I just got the second booster yesterday as I fly North end of the month. I would boost going up the gangway if it worked  to keep cruising ! We do what we can but realize nothing is foolproof. We have cruises 3 times since the restart but  they have been at much reduced capacity.

I have no issue with wearing masks, washing until my skin falls off and taking supplements. I am happy to forgo the shows. Even rethinking that bus ride in Denali. I just want to live a life again.

[GottaLuvCruising]

The reports cause me concern as we fly to Seattle Thursday, then board Royal in Vancouver Saturday for our cruise-tour.  Years of planning and saving $$$$ went into this trip.  We'll be heartsick to miss any or all due to covid.  

But we're doing all we can to protect ourselves and hoping for the best.  We need this escape from reality, please, and hoping nobody gets sick.  

[PacnGoNow]

4 hours ago, justafem said:

I got covid AGAIN during my June Alaskan cruise.  I went to medical on June 9, because I knew there was something up and one of the people in our 'group' went into quarantine.  I was negative.  

 

I took the cruise bus to the airport, flew home and tested again and was positive.  So I exposed how many people?  

 

And that's what's happening. 

 

I'm vaxxed and boosted and have had covid a couple of times.   I'm super careful for a couple weeks before a cruise.  But, let's be completely honest here, while I'm on the cruise, I'm not.  I'm maskless, smoking, casinoing, eating, show watching and mingling.  I don't want to say that I'm over it, but I am.  

 

If covid was as bad as it started out, pre-vax, when I got it the first time.  I'd probably be more careful.  But it's not. Which is why I got the vax.  Yeah, it's a miserable sick, truthfully, 'quil covers it up enough to function.  And I'll probably get it again and again and again.  

 

I'm going to Alaska again in 2 months.  And I'll keep cruising.  

Did you mask up on your way home, if you flew, knowing you didn’t feel well?

[caribill]

8 hours ago, justafem said:

I'm vaxxed and boosted and have had covid a couple of times.   I'm super careful for a couple weeks before a cruise.  But, let's be completely honest here, while I'm on the cruise, I'm not.  I'm maskless, smoking, casinoing, eating, show watching and mingling.  I don't want to say that I'm over it, but I am.  

 

Yeah, it's a miserable sick, truthfully, 'quil covers it up enough to function.  And I'll probably get it again and again and again. 

 

And by going maskless when it is appropriate to wear one, you are willing to share with others that "miserable sick" experience.

[Sunwanabe]

8 hours ago, justafem said:

I got covid AGAIN during my June Alaskan cruise.  I went to medical on June 9, because I knew there was something up and one of the people in our 'group' went into quarantine.  I was negative.  

 

I took the cruise bus to the airport, flew home and tested again and was positive.  So I exposed how many people?  

 

And that's what's happening. 

 

I'm vaxxed and boosted and have had covid a couple of times.   I'm super careful for a couple weeks before a cruise.  But, let's be completely honest here, while I'm on the cruise, I'm not.  I'm maskless, smoking, casinoing, eating, show watching and mingling.  I don't want to say that I'm over it, but I am.  

 

If covid was as bad as it started out, pre-vax, when I got it the first time.  I'd probably be more careful.  But it's not. Which is why I got the vax.  Yeah, it's a miserable sick, truthfully, 'quil covers it up enough to function.  And I'll probably get it again and again and again.  

 

I'm going to Alaska again in 2 months.  And I'll keep cruising.  

The vast majority of passengers haven't got covid or are A sym. Despite best intentions of being cautious there is still a slight chance. Not stopping folks from returning to cruise. Some have been on a few covid era cruises and have upcoming trips and are willing to take the risk.     

[Itchy&Scratchy]

On 7/2/2022 at 11:55 PM, zentraveler said:

Helpful; were you masking in crowded places? Was anyone else? What did you mean by the bolded edits above if you don't mind me asking?

we were on an RCI cruise first week of June. We masked the entire time when indoors, except for our cabin and while eating in MDR/buffet. The moment we got up from the table - we masked. It doesn't help, though, if you are in the 1% who masks - we got covid on that cruise. There was no social distancing of any kind and nobody else wore masks.

[Riley_Mon]

every time we ate in the MDR, we were challenged to be social distanced. Private table didn't matter, they would sit us arms length from other people. We didn't make a big deal about it, however we stopped after the second time. Crown Grill and Sabatinis wasn't an issue, at least for us.

 

The buffett was pretty easy because of the other buffet areas that aren't serving,. You could sit there and they still had wait staff serving you.

[broker1217]

1 hour ago, Keksie said:

Even with all those measures those are the people posting about getting covid.  

The whole point is that most people are not following the measures Princess calls for.

Therefore, they are choosing to ruin it for those of us who signed up for Princess knowing masks were required.

 

And anyone who has not yet cruised---just know that the majority of people are not going to mask and they will possibly infect you. So have a plan in the event you get sick.

My take away from my experience is that Princess is not for us---majority of pax don't mask and don't care who they cough on. They are inconsiderate. That's not the demographic for us.

 

[Riley_Mon]

2 hours ago, broker1217 said:

The whole point is that most people are not following the measures Princess calls for.

Therefore, they are choosing to ruin it for those of us who signed up for Princess knowing masks were required.

 

And anyone who has not yet cruised---just know that the majority of people are not going to mask and they will possibly infect you. So have a plan in the event you get sick.

My take away from my experience is that Princess is not for us---majority of pax don't mask and don't care who they cough on. They are inconsiderate. That's not the demographic for us.

 

 not sure you'll find a large cruise ship that has many people that are

[broker1217]

2 hours ago, Riley_Mon said:

 not sure you'll find a large cruise ship that has many people that are

To clarify---we will stick with smaller ships going forward.

Better chance in our experience with folks who will be more considerate and less crowded.

[PrincessLuver]

5 hours ago, broker1217 said:

The whole point is that most people are not following the measures Princess calls for.

Therefore, they are choosing to ruin it for those of us who signed up for Princess knowing masks were required.

 

And anyone who has not yet cruised---just know that the majority of people are not going to mask and they will possibly infect you. So have a plan in the event you get sick.

My take away from my experience is that Princess is not for us---majority of pax don't mask and don't care who they cough on. They are inconsiderate. That's not the demographic for us.

 

 

Agree totally and on the cruises we have been on this year we enjoyed the ones that Princess had strict protocols in place and they enforced them.  On the TA we were on Princess had very few required protocols and by the time we got to South Hampton the ship was like a plague ship with many cases of Covid and lots of people quarantined to their cabins.  Even when sitting on the balcony you could hear some people coughing their lungs out as they were isolated in their cabins.  

 

The reality is that Covid is continually mutating and creating new variants and the predictions are that there will be a big surge again with the recent variants.  And even though some are mild others could come along that could be even more severe.  

 

Because of this we are canceling most of our bookings with Princess for the unseen future.  They know what works and what does not and they are not willing to make the hard choices anymore and just are encouraging infections amongst their passengers by their lack of safe practices.

[pamps2801]

12 hours ago, jinpasco said:

We sail in Sept on a land first/cruisetour. Reading all these posts scares me a bit as it seems land people are testing positive so much more. Then again the longer time of land/ cruise allowed more incubation time. Who knows. I plan on doing whatever I can to lessen the possibility but in NO way think we are homefree. Is zinc part of your daily routine or did you start a few weeks before the cruise to build your system ? I just got the second booster yesterday as I fly North end of the month. I would boost going up the gangway if it worked  to keep cruising ! We do what we can but realize nothing is foolproof. We have cruises 3 times since the restart but  they have been at much reduced capacity.

I have no issue with wearing masks, washing until my skin falls off and taking supplements. I am happy to forgo the shows. Even rethinking that bus ride in Denali. I just want to live a life again.

A week before a cruise, I now start the Zinc tablets.

[catgirl411]

Scheduled for a cruise tour on Aug 20 (cruise followed by land tour). We are currently sitting here at home with Covid despite being triple vaxxed. After successfully dodging Covid until now (including a cruise back in late January), we have it now after my husband attended his first in person meeting/conference since Feb 2020. And I was also exposed to it the week before at my first in person meetings …but I dodged it then.  What that taught us is that it is still everywhere and you can’t be too careful. While our symptoms aren’t too awful, I don’t want to3xperience this again.

[Riley_Mon]

I have a group training event going on at work. 50 people coming into the office every day, sharing car rides, going out to dinner.

 

We're averaging 4 covid positives a week since the second week. The training has been going on for 4 weeks now.

 

I don't know what being careful is to be honest in this environment. We are following CDC guidelines as required by our HR department and an almost 10% infection rate is ridiculous, IMO.

[zentraveler]

3 minutes ago, Riley_Mon said:

I have a group training event going on at work. 50 people coming into the office every day, sharing car rides, going out to dinner.

 

We're averaging 4 covid positives a week since the second week. The training has been going on for 4 weeks now.

 

I don't know what being careful is to be honest in this environment. We are following CDC guidelines as required by our HR department and an almost 10% infection rate is ridiculous, IMO.

The real problems, although not the only ones, are the places where there a lot of people and they take their masks off, i.e. to eat. Indoor restaurants, weddings etc. Hard to avoid at many events and on cruises where the dining rooms are often full and no one can eat with a mask on. And room service and outdoor dining are the main options (which on our upcoming Alaska cruise is not very appealing).

[Eaglecw]

Just off the Discovery Princess on Sunday. On Saturday morning I didn't feel very well, running nose, a bit of a cough. By mid day I really felt bad so I tested myself with one of the kits I bought onboard. Sure enough, I tested positive, my wife tested negative. I stayed in the cabin the rest of the cruise. My wife went up to the buffet to get me something to eat, room service didn't work on the medallion ap or the TV, neither did trying to call room service. We've had all of our COVID shots and boosters and take all the recommend vitamins to help prevent COVID. Today I feel really bad, can't smell or taste anything, weak, and have brain fog. 

[sunsetme]

1 minute ago, Eaglecw said:

Just off the Discovery Princess on Sunday. On Saturday morning I didn't feel very well, running nose, a bit of a cough. By mid day I really felt bad so I tested myself with one of the kits I bought onboard. Sure enough, I tested positive, my wife tested negative. I stayed in the cabin the rest of the cruise. My wife went up to the buffet to get me something to eat, room service didn't work on the medallion ap or the TV, neither did trying to call room service. We've had all of our COVID shots and boosters and take all the recommend vitamins to help prevent COVID. Today I feel really bad, can't smell or taste anything, weak, and have brain fog. 

sorry for your troubles, hope the wife stays healthy

[PacnGoNow]

1 hour ago, Eaglecw said:

Just off the Discovery Princess on Sunday. On Saturday morning I didn't feel very well, running nose, a bit of a cough. By mid day I really felt bad so I tested myself with one of the kits I bought onboard. Sure enough, I tested positive, my wife tested negative. I stayed in the cabin the rest of the cruise. My wife went up to the buffet to get me something to eat, room service didn't work on the medallion ap or the TV, neither did trying to call room service. We've had all of our COVID shots and boosters and take all the recommend vitamins to help prevent COVID. Today I feel really bad, can't smell or taste anything, weak, and have brain fog. 

Are you home, so you can call the Dr?

Maybe Paxlovid?

Hope your better soon.

[hapster85]

No idea how other groups have faired, but there were 27 of us from the June 26th KB6 tour, that took the covid bus to Anchorage on Friday. More than half the group. No idea how many were actually positive. I was. Wife was not. Heard some others say they had similar results; one positive, one not.

[toofewcruises]

On 7/3/2022 at 1:56 PM, broker1217 said:

Could not agree more! 

We took a gamble and we lost. We honestly did not expect that so many people would be maskless on Princess. Lesson learned.

 

Problem is that this is happening everywhere!  Unfortunately, people don't want to mask and some don't want to wear a mask and get vaccinated.  I don't think this situation is unique to Princess.  Hopefully, a smaller and more upscale cruise line/ship will help in that regard... maybe.  But you will pay a lot more for your cruises, which is something most people cannot afford to do.

[toofewcruises]

On 7/5/2022 at 4:44 PM, PacnGoNow said:

Are you home, so you can call the Dr?

Maybe Paxlovid?

Hope your better soon.

I don't believe vitamins have any effect on Covid...

[toofewcruises]

On 7/4/2022 at 5:10 PM, pamps2801 said:

A week before a cruise, I now start the Zinc tablets.

That might help with colds, but certainly not with Covid...

[PacnGoNow]

Just now, toofewcruises said:

I don't believe vitamins have any effect on Covid...

That’s not a vitamin.  It’s an anti viral, a RX. 
Hope you’re better soon.

[toofewcruises]

6 minutes ago, PacnGoNow said:

That’s not a vitamin.  It’s an anti viral, a RX. 
Hope you’re better soon.

Zinc? Zinc is an anti-viral?  I can buy zinc over the counter...