Percentage of Covid Cases on Cruise Ships Currently or Odds of getting it?

[arxcards]

11 hours ago, Aus Traveller said:

Your cruise was Sydney-NZ-Sydney yet you mention that Celebrity 'sneaked us out onto the Pier by way of a crew gangway avoiding border security and quarantine'. Is that correct? That you did not go through border security and Australian quarantine?? I would not have thought that is legal. If you didn't go through Border Force and have your return into Australia officially registered, you could have problems in the future. As far as the Aust government, including Centrelink, you would still be out of the country.

Unlike the airport, there is no individual processing of passports in the cruise terminals. They just sight your passport and collect your arrivals card. Border Force process the ships passenger manifest prior to clearing the ship for disembark.

 

That then allows, depending on the ship, to usher infected passengers through the back door. Borderforce, quarantine, terminal staff and other passengers do not want to interact with the "plague", so it is all kept separate. Once out of the terminal, they are free to roam freely again.

[gbenjo]

8 hours ago, aussie57 said:

I object to the insinuation that my comments were incorrect. Sydney was our first Australian port of call on our return.

We did not put our luggage out, we were told to keep it with us. We filled out an incoming passenger card which was collected the night before disembarkation. After all other passengers had disembarked, our room steward escorted us with our luggage to the crew gangway & we were dispersed through a gate to the public concourse near the terminal. Our bags or passport were not checked & we didn't go into the terminal or past authorities. Legal or not, we did what we were told to do and all other covid positive pax & their parties did the same.

Was not saying your statement was incorrect but the inference that you were “ sneaked” onto the pier by the ship suggested to readers  that it was done to avoid Border Force and Quarantine was not true. Your cruise was an Aust. NZ.Aust cruise and as such there is no” face to face” with border force. All guests would have filled in an orange arrival card, as did you, and would be collected by ABF as you exit the luggage hall. ( yours would have been collected on board I assume ) There is no physical security check of luggage when debarking and Quarantine is really reliant on the honestly of pax anyway with their declarations. 

[OzKiwiJJ]

1 hour ago, gbenjo said:

Was not saying your statement was incorrect but the inference that you were “ sneaked” onto the pier by the ship suggested to readers  that it was done to avoid Border Force and Quarantine was not true. Your cruise was an Aust. NZ.Aust cruise and as such there is no” face to face” with border force. All guests would have filled in an orange arrival card, as did you, and would be collected by ABF as you exit the luggage hall. ( yours would have been collected on board I assume ) There is no physical security check of luggage when debarking and Quarantine is really reliant on the honestly of pax anyway with their declarations. 

It must be different if the cruise embarks in NZ - we had the "face to face" with Border Force in Hobart on Westerdam which embarked in Auckland.

[gbenjo]

13 minutes ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

It must be different if the cruise embarks in NZ - we had the "face to face" with Border Force in Hobart on Westerdam which embarked in Auckland.

It is ….cruise originated in another country - finishes in Australia it is face to face .Originates and ends in Australia  no face to face.

[OzKiwiJJ]

3 hours ago, gbenjo said:

It is ….cruise originated in another country - finishes in Australia it is face to face .Originates and ends in Australia  no face to face.

That's useful to know. Thanks, mate.

 

Anyway it was super-efficient in Hobart as people left the ship in groups, either for an excursion or whatever group they'd chosen the day before. No queues, just a smooth flow through.