A Cautionary Tale

[patty1955]

I’ve written before about having covid on our recent cruise. The TV and internet sucked but Celebrity treated us very well. However, there are a few lessons to be learned from the experience.

 

For background, my husband was diagnosed with covid on the second day of our 10 day cruise (despite 4 vaccines/boosters). He was quarantined for 5 days. I realized that I had it too the next day but didn’t feel the need to see a doctor. I self-quarantined for the same days as my husband. The first day after the quarantined ended was a sea day. We went to Medical and my husband was cleared. He was later reimbursed for the cruise for the days he was quarantined.

 

The next day we had an excursion booked in Santorini. We reported to the theater, waited for our number to be called and lined up for the tender. When they scanned my husband’s card, he was flagged as quarantined. The crewmember told us to go to medical. We found an officer who called medical and was told it was fixed. We lined up again to be scanned and, once again, were flagged as quarantined, as were the people behind us. They were just off covid quarantine too. The officer we had talked to called again and, I don’t know what she said to medical but we were cleared. When we got to the buses, ours was already gone and we were told another bus was also on the excursion and we could take it. We gave our tickets to the tour guide and climbed onto the bus. We had a great visit to Oia and headed to the Akrotiri ruins. We had just started around the ruins when I started to feel unwell. I passed out twice and had to be taken to the hospital. As we were leaving the ruins, our tour guide started arguing with my husband that were weren’t on her excursion. He tried explaining it to her and then gave up, figuring that it was her problem. By the way, the people at the hospital were great. I was there for about 4 hours, given an ECG, had a blood test and was given 2 liters of fluids and electrolytes. It turned out I was dehydrated. The total bill was $440. We didn’t report the incident to the ship since it was resolved.

 

Lesson #1 – If you think you have covid, go to medical. If I had been diagnosed, I would have been reimbursed too.

Lesson #2 – If you are quarantined, make sure that medical removes the notation on your cruise card.

Lesson #3 – If you make a change to an excursion, make sure you explain it to the tour guide when you make the change. In our case, she must have figured it out since I got a call the next day from the ship telling me that they were reimbursing us for the excursion.

 

[AmberCascades]

I'm so sorry that happened to you, but I'm glad you are both okay.  Thanks for the advice.  Covid is going to be around for a while so this is all good to know (not the part about you and your husband being sick, of course).

[mahdnc]

Glad you were ok and didn't miss the ship!

[Ex-Airbalancer]

“. I self-quarantined for the same days as my husband. “

Did you test yourself to see if you were negative on the same day as husband tested negative? 

If not how would know you where still not positive?🤔

[patty1955]

36 minutes ago, Ex-Airbalancer said:

“. I self-quarantined for the same days as my husband. “

Did you test yourself to see if you were negative on the same day as husband tested negative? 

If not how would know you where still not positive?🤔

They didn't test him to see if he was negative. They just took his temperature.

[Ex-Airbalancer]

2 hours ago, patty1955 said:

They didn't test him to see if he was negative. They just took his temperature.

Ok, that very different than a year ago 🤔

[patty1955]

22 minutes ago, Ex-Airbalancer said:

Ok, that very different than a year ago 🤔

Yeah, I was very surprised.

[1Virgo]

Glad you are ok and sorry this happened.  Yup. Covid is still out there despite many claiming over.  Covid mutates fast so our vaccines can help prevent a serious outcome, but be careful

 

Agree. Let medical know ASAP.   Surprised they relied on temperature.   But some of the kits may not pick up newer variants. 

 

Thank you for sharing

 

 

[Baynanno1]

Five days quarantine seems to be normal in most paces now, unless still symptomatic.

[lv2cruisgrl]

A group of 120 or so did a cruise this month on Equinox.  50 of them

got covid when returning home, so yes Covid still exists.  Just cruise prepared and know it can happen.   Glad it all worked out for you.

[sunonfire]

18 hours ago, patty1955 said:

They didn't test him to see if he was negative. They just took his temperature.

Did you have to pay for the Covid testing? Did you have to pay for visit at the medical center?

[patty1955]

21 minutes ago, sunonfire said:

Did you have to pay for the Covid testing? Did you have to pay for visit at the medical center?

If you have covid, you don't pay for the testing or the medication. If you don't, you pay.

[soniam]

Sounds similar to our experience last July on DCL. It was only our son who had it. Husband and I had caught it the previous month, but son didn't catch it then. We decided to all quarantine together. Luckily, DCL has an excellent library of entertainment on the TV. This was night 6 of a 9 night, so we wouldn't have been released from quarantine anyway. DCL was very nice and reimbursed all 3 of us for the missed days. Glad you are feeling better. Reminder to self and everyone, drink plenty of water.

[Shadow9612]

On 6/25/2023 at 3:03 PM, patty1955 said:

He was quarantined for 5 days.

Were you able to remain in your original stateroom during the quarantine period?  May I ask which ship?  

 

Thank you and I hope you are both feeling better.

 

[patty1955]

1 hour ago, Shadow9612 said:

Were you able to remain in your original stateroom during the quarantine period?  May I ask which ship?  

 

Thank you and I hope you are both feeling better.

 

We were on the Infinity and we stayed in the same cabin.