Cruise and Covid

Fleurpepper

I think so- but check with them. In the meantime, can you video yourselves with date, taking a home test, and then the result. Make sure you have something with date on it, phone or computer, next to the test, and show the room too.

This is similar to the "monitored" at home tests. BUT I think you need them to be verified by the supervisor on skype/teams or whatever they use.
If you are certain you are positive I'd do one of these anyway as you will at least have the test date on the formal certificate they supply. That should mean you have the necessary evidence to claim for covid.

We went on a cruise earlier this year, with info that all passengers would be tested daily.
Had to have a PCR negative test before flying out.
I tested positive on first day aboard and were isolated in our cabin, then whisked off to an hotel at the cruise company’s expense, where we had to isolate till we were both negative.
I was disappointed at the time, but it was a responsible attitude from the cruise line.

I’m going on MSC cruise on 10 September. Currently require a negative covid test but TA said many of the cruise lines have dropped this requirement.

I had a conversation with somebody last week, a complete stranger who just happened to be sitting next to me in the dentist waiting room. She told me that she and her partner were allowed on a cruise recently although she had Covid and her partner developed it a few days later. She said they were asked to take a lower deck cabin but refused and also that they asked for a single table at meals as they didn’t want to infect other people. At the time I thought I had misheard her and perhaps she developed Covid during the cruise but when I thought about it she definitely had tested positive before boarding. I would rather not name the cruise company she went with but it was one of the larger ones.

It’s quite disgraceful. When you go on a cruise you are always asked if you’ve had sickness/diarrhoea before you board and are not allowed to board if you have had it. But apparently it’s okay to board whilst actually suffering from Covid. It’s madness.

They swipe your credit card as you board seems that they should also swipe a negative test. Seems irresponsible to me. My friend has been ill for 10 days with Covid and although now negative still feels ill. Imagine being stuck on board feeling this unwell or being infected on board and having to travel. All mainly avoidable.

The description ‘a floating Petri dish’ springs to mind.

We have both had covid, I was pretty much like everyone else - just a nasty flu-like cold which lasted about 10 days and left me feeling exhausted.
However my super-fit husband was totally felled, could hardly breath and took to his bed. After a fortnight of this I phoned his surgery and the doc actually did a home visit and gave him antibiotics for fluid on a lung.
That was nine weeks ago and he is still breathless and can hardly walk down the garden, he is very depressed and a nightmare to live with if I'm honest.
That cruise line should be named and shamed. Covid is a very nasty disease and some people do actually still DIE from it.
They should demand a clean test from everyone on boarding that ship.

Germanshepherdsmum

You really should name the cruise line. They are endangering the lives of vulnerable passengers. A lot of frail and elderly people go on cruises - please consider that.

This, totally.

Not reporting the Cruise Company, in such circumstances, is bordering on criminal. How will you feel if you read the ship had a massive Covid outbreak and people got seriously sick and some died.

www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19978542.saga-spirit-adventure-dock-southampton-covid-outbreak/

remember that one

Why the OP refuses to name the company is beyond my understanding. By doing so she could save lives. Why the reluctance?

I can't understand why the OP won't name them either, and I am astonished, I was under the impression that cruise lines required a negative test before you could board.

NCL confirmed today that no covid test results are required, when boarding from Barcelona. Covid passes are required. Additionally Ryanair flights don't require any test results (or masks). Other cruise lines are available!

I think the cruise line should be named. I woukd not want to travel along side anyone with Covid, who would?, I've not heard of any cruise line that would find this acceotable. I would question the advise given. Something not not right about it.

Thinking about it...everyone boarding that cruise, knows that they have not had to provide a negative test, so they are all fully aware of the risks they are taking and are making their own informed decision as to whether it is safe to do so. I have tested postitive again today and will not be going. Getting a refund for my flight, overnight hotel and cruise will be interesting.

Just so so wrong. Why would you not wish to name and shame them?

Read my post from 23.37 last night.

Lynker

NCL confirmed today that no covid test results are required, when boarding from Barcelona. Covid passes are required. Additionally Ryanair flights don't require any test results (or masks). Other cruise lines are available!

NCL is your cruise company?

Cross post

Just wanted to add that on Sunday, we had a flight from Portugal to the UK, and we were the only two individuals wearing masks in the airport and on the aircraft (including crew members). We also received Covid.wordle today

Sorry to hear that Jules.

NCL is Norwegian Cruise Line

Now I am more convinced than ever that I really don't want to go on a cruise.

We flew to the Netherlands recently and both picked up Covid having avoided it up until then.

Having had it, I cannot imagine feeling that poorly while confined to a cabin that has cost a fortune - not the experience anyone pays for and certainly not the relaxing holiday I see advertised on the TV!

Hope you feel better soon.

But then again lixy, if no one is checking, guests on a cruise who have Covid could just be walking around the ship with other passengers.

Ghastly thought.