Quarantine policy for Covid??

[Gumbo4Life]

I will call Carnival tomorrow and post what they say as someone in my traveling party is quite anxious about this.  Does Carnival still send you to a different room to quarantine if you contract covid (interior, no windows, etc.) or will you be able to stay in your booked cabin?  I'm asking about their current policy and practice only.  Thank you! 

[firefly333]

2 hours ago, Gumbo4Life said:

I will call Carnival tomorrow and post what they say as someone in my traveling party is quite anxious about this.  Does Carnival still send you to a different room to quarantine if you contract covid (interior, no windows, etc.) or will you be able to stay in your booked cabin?  I'm asking about their current policy and practice only.  Thank you! 

Please do post. My prediction is they wouldnt have a answer and tell you it depends and not give you a written policy as I doubt it exists fleetwide. They cant give you what doesnt exist. 

 

One ship might move people to balconys on deck 2. I've heard of cove balconys being used or OVs. Prepare to get the worst type of cabin, but doesnt mean that will happen. 

 

Testing is rarely done btw unless YOU ask to be tested. There is no more testing between legs. People can bring a test from home. How would someone make them go be tested if someone chooses to isolate last couple of days of their cruise. .. so is your friend the type to ask to be tested. ..then yes he will be  oved to the isolation ward ..probably. unless it's the last night. There have been reports they got to stay the last night. It varies. There is no policy I'd bet you. ..but tell us what they say.

Edited July 27, 2022 by firefly333

[pe4all]

I have seen CCL handle this several ways on our past cruises:  moving someone to a "quarantine" section of the ship or people kept in their original cabin and food delivered to them.  We saw this with a family near our balcony cabin - they had gone to medical because 2 weren't feeling well.  At end of cruise they were "escorted" off ship into van which brought them to a hotel.  

However, my guess is that many aren't seeking medical treatment onboard due to the fact that soooo many people on our Magic Facebook page tested positive after returning home.

[Purvis1231]

We decided this year only to take five-day cruises to hopefully avoid this situation. I realize this as not guarantee but it seems a short cruise gave less chance for the virus to manifest onboard. (We actually got a mild case a month before our cruise so hopefully that protected us a little bit.) We only heard about one family who reported covid after the cruise so that was good news.

[habc]

I'm an expert, just got out! I was on the Magic last week. Felt very sleepy Saturday and woke up Sunday with aches and pains and other symptoms. I, being a responsible adult, called to get tested. A nurse came to my room and did the test, they requested I stay in the room until the results but it would be fast, within a1/2 hour.

 

It was positive.

 

I was moved to an isolation room, by men who cleared the hallways and sprayed the halls behind me. The isolation room was actually nicer than my inside stateroom, it had a window and a sofa.

 

Once in isolation they gave me a baggie of Tylenol and Nyquil. Also got a bag of snacks, chips and candy. All my meals were delivered to the room, I was told I could order from the dining room or regular room service, no charge. There's a table outside the door and room service would leave the food there. Every meal came on paper plates and the silverware was wood. You get a hazmat bag with your meal to bag the tray when done.

 

I also got free internet and a letter giving me some credit for the next cruise, approximately what I paid for the 2 days I was confined.

 

I didn't have the cheers package but it was my understanding that they would deliver drinks. If you're a smoker they ask you to please smoke in the bathroom. If a child gets sick a parent is confined with the child. 

 

Disembark after 9:30, when everyone else is gone. They bring your luggage to a staging area and all the covid group gets escorted off the ship. You're told to drive yourself home or have someone pick you up. wink, wink.

 

And that's what happens on the Magic

[Gumbo4Life]

6 hours ago, habc said:

I'm an expert, just got out! I was on the Magic last week. Felt very sleepy Saturday and woke up Sunday with aches and pains and other symptoms. I, being a responsible adult, called to get tested. A nurse came to my room and did the test, they requested I stay in the room until the results but it would be fast, within a1/2 hour.

 

It was positive.

 

 

Thank you so much for sharing your experience and I am sorry your cruise was affected but it looks like Carnival is trying to take care of those that get sick as well as protecting the other passengers.  I didn't know about future credit but that is good customer relations.  Hope you are feeling better now. 

 

Thanks everyone for your responses.  I didn't get a chance to call Carnival today but will post when I do.  Really appreciate the info! 

[Honolulu Blue]

12 hours ago, habc said:

I'm an expert, just got out! I was on the Magic last week. Felt very sleepy Saturday and woke up Sunday with aches and pains and other symptoms. I, being a responsible adult, called to get tested. A nurse came to my room and did the test, they requested I stay in the room until the results but it would be fast, within a1/2 hour.

 

It was positive.

 

I was moved to an isolation room, by men who cleared the hallways and sprayed the halls behind me. The isolation room was actually nicer than my inside stateroom, it had a window and a sofa.

Thanks for sharing.  I'm sorry you had to experience this.  Your experience was better than some that I had heard about on other cruise lines.  My eyebrows are raised at the offer of just FCC for your days in isolation.  It seems that elsewhere at other times you'd get a full refund for those days.

 

Anyway, I'm glad you survived and get well soon.  🙏

[Bevv]

13 hours ago, habc said:

Disembark after 9:30, when everyone else is gone. They bring your luggage to a staging area and all the covid group gets escorted off the ship. You're told to drive yourself home or have someone pick you up. wink, wink.

 

And that's what happens on the Magic

Thanks for your first hand experience.  Hope your recovery goes well. 

From watching the Galveston webcam, the disembarkation process for the Vista is different.  The covid positive passengers disembark first ... so around 7am ...  using the gangway on deck one...and are directed from the ship and through the area that porters handle luggage. The Staff does bring out the luggage on luggage carts.

[pe4all]

13 hours ago, habc said:

 

 

Disembark after 9:30, when everyone else is gone. They bring your luggage to a staging area and all the covid group gets escorted off the ship. You're told to drive yourself home or have someone pick you up. wink, wink.

 

And that's what happens on the Magic

Just out of curiosity - how many others were escorted off the ship?  We debarked Magic on 7/6 and once home the reports of not feeling well and testing positive began literally the same day from our FB group, and grew each and every day after.   CCL knows how people were getting to and from the NY port as it is in the online docs we all have to fill out before embarking.  I gather - living in NY - you had an easy way to get home, (we parked at the port)  but hopefully others who were positive and had to fly wore masks so they didn't spread covid in airport or on the plane!

[Bevv]

Just now, pe4all said:

Just out of curiosity - how many others were escorted off the ship?  We debarked Magic on 7/6 and once home the reports of not feeling well and testing positive began literally the same day from our FB group, and grew each and every day after.   CCL knows how people were getting to and from the NY port as it is in the online docs we all have to fill out before embarking.  I gather - living in NY - you had an easy way to get home, (we parked at the port)  but hopefully others who were positive and had to fly wore masks so they didn't spread covid in airport or on the plane!

The highest I saw a few weeks ago was 45, last time I watched it was 24 when I stopped counting,

[pe4all]

1 hour ago, Bevv said:

The highest I saw a few weeks ago was 45, last time I watched it was 24 when I stopped counting,

Wow.  I have no idea how many were led off ship in NY for our sailing, but I know at least 50 tested positive in days after. 

[habc]

I counted 20 in the staging area. I spoke to another person who was in isolation and she thought there were more, so I could be wrong.

 

Honestly, I believe there were a lot of sick people who just didn't report it. I get that you planned the vacation for a long time and spent money and took vacation days from your job. It is a risk. Personally, I wouldn't want to get anyone else sick so my first thought was to get tested, and I felt bad enough that all I wanted to do was sleep.

 

Carnival can't control what you do after you get off the ship. You're supposed to isolate, it's your personal responsibility NOT to fly. Many do. They suggest you check into a hotel to finish isolation. I didn't, here's where I risked it. I took the train home, double masked. It was off peak and almost empty but I did go and I feel bad about it.

Edited July 28, 2022 by habc
Adding: I have stayed home since returning. I will test again on Friday and if I'm good I'll wear a mask for at least a week if I leave my house

[febtober]

@habcyou must have gotten one of the last rooms.  I was on that same sailing and on Monday (second to last day) three of my party tested positive.  I was down in the medical bay with them and the doctor commented, "Oh, I see you have two staterooms, that's good because we're out of isolation rooms."  So the positive people stayed in one room and the negative people were able to stay in another.

 

While they instructed the positive people to isolate, they also said, "But nobody is tracking you or anything", although I personally wouldn't mind if they did.  If you were just told you're Covid positive and 15 minutes later you're swiping up at the casino, there should be some repercussions.  

 

The positive people were also given free room service and the little bag of snacks.  We had a letter from guest services giving us an FCC of $98 which was what they calculated for the pro-rated portion of the time lost.

 

They came and got us a bit after 9am the next day to disembark.  I also counted around 25ish people down there on deck zero.  I don't know how many were actually positive though - the two negative members of my party were also down there since we were leaving as one group.  I also don't know if that was the only covid group on the ship, or if there were multiple ones taken off at different times.

Edited July 28, 2022 by febtober

[iria64]

My parents just back from a 10 day on the Pride.  The couple they were with did not feel good on the first day out.  They tested positive for Covid.  They spent the next 8 days in quarantine... inside cabin.. food was brought to them... they could not leave the room.  They finally let them out on the last sea day.

[pe4all]

10 minutes ago, iria64 said:

My parents just back from a 10 day on the Pride.  The couple they were with did not feel good on the first day out.  They tested positive for Covid.  They spent the next 8 days in quarantine... inside cabin.. food was brought to them... they could not leave the room.  They finally let them out on the last sea day.

All of which shows that pre-cruise testing really does nothing anymore. 

[MissKIA]

43 minutes ago, iria64 said:

My parents just back from a 10 day on the Pride.  The couple they were with did not feel good on the first day out.  They tested positive for Covid.  They spent the next 8 days in quarantine... inside cabin.. food was brought to them... they could not leave the room.  They finally let them out on the last sea day.

 

Was that their own inside cabin or did they get sent to a different cabin?

[iria64]

21 minutes ago, pe4all said:

All of which shows that pre-cruise testing really does nothing anymore. 

Yes and no... this was a B2B and they were quarantined on the 2nd leg.  I don't know if they had to test at some point during the first leg.  Testing may not be useless but it is close to it.  The biggest reason is that many (most?) people are traveling a decent distance to get to the port and quite a few of them are flying.  So, you test 3 days out.  2 days out you are doing last minute errands for the trip.  The day before you fly in, stay at a local hotel, eat out at a local restaurant, maybe see some sites.   There is plenty of opportunity for exposure from the time you test until the time you board the ship.

[iria64]

Just now, MissKIA said:

 

Was that their own inside cabin or did they get sent to a different cabin?

They were sent to a different cabin.  There were 8 or 9 cabins in the quarantined area with somebody stationed there so ensure you could not leave the room.

 

[ldubs]

33 minutes ago, pe4all said:

All of which shows that pre-cruise testing really does nothing anymore. 

 

I see several similar comments.   Not being 100% effective is not the same as "nothing". The tests catch those who are positive at the time of the test.  Being exposed and becoming positive after the test is not going to be captured of course.  I would be curious to know how many test positive two/three days before and must skip the cruise.   I'm not sure that is captured anywhere.  At least I don't recall seeing it.  

[mz-s]

Isolating people on day 4 of a 5 day cruise is like having a no-peeing section of the pool but only after 3PM when the pool closes at 6. Doesn't do much good.

[pe4all]

42 minutes ago, ldubs said:

 I would be curious to know how many test positive two/three days before and must skip the cruise.   I'm not sure that is captured anywhere.  At least I don't recall seeing it.  

Another statistic we will never know, though would love to.  I do know 2 families dropped out of our Magic cruise due to positive tests that they posted on fb.

[ldubs]

38 minutes ago, mz-s said:

Isolating people on day 4 of a 5 day cruise is like having a no-peeing section of the pool but only after 3PM when the pool closes at 6. Doesn't do much good.

 

 

?? Prevents further exposure on days 6 thru 14.    Yes, it has already happened but still can be mitigated.   

[ldubs]

7 hours ago, mz-s said:

Isolating people on day 4 of a 5 day cruise is like having a no-peeing section of the pool but only after 3PM when the pool closes at 6. Doesn't do much good.

 

6 hours ago, ldubs said:

 

 

?? Prevents further exposure on days 6 thru 14.    Yes, it has already happened but still can be mitigated.   

 

I misread your post when I originally replied -- sorry about that.  But still, reducing exposure on board by even one day might  have some benefits.   It would be my luck to be the one that gets it on day 5.