Posted on 12/26/2021 9:04:59 AM PST by Capt. Tom
An undisclosed number of passengers tested positive for COVID-19 during a Christmas cruise, curtailing the cruise’s scheduled stops.
Take a cruise during a pandemic at your peril.
One Carnival Freedom passenger, Ashley Peterson, shared a letter from the captain offering a $100 gift voucher, apologizing for cutting two of the three stops, and assuring passengers that all protocols were being followed to keep them safe.
“People have spent thousands of dollars on this cruise and picked this cruise for the ports,” she tweeted “Now on an 8-day cruise we will have only gone to one place on a delayed schedule. They think $100 per room is enough compensation?”
Carnival Freedom, which is carrying 2,497 passengers and 1,112 crew members, was due to dock in Miami on Sunday after the eight-day cruise. Passengers were required to be vaccinated and test negative for COVID-19 before departure.
The captain’s letter read in part: “The rapid spread of the Omicron variant impacts how destinations are responding to even a small number of cases,” adding, “We know these unexpected changes are disappointing.”
‘People have spent thousands of dollars on this cruise and picked this cruise for the ports.’
Royal Caribbean said all passengers were required to be vaccinated and have negative COVID-19 tests. Those who tested positive were quarantined; their close contacts were also quarantined and monitored for 24 hours prior to testing.
Carnival Freedom did not immediately respond to comment regarding the number of people who tested positive for COVID-19 or the compensation offered by the company. Royal Caribbean was not immediately available for comment.
Travel on cruise ships is particularly popular among families and the elderly, and the risk of contagion is relatively high on a ship. Younger children with strong immune systems have the lowest fatality and hospitalization rates from COVID-19.
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The press will be there Today, to interview the passengers and come out with some more horror stories. Stay tuned.-Tom
ps As an unvaccinated deplorable, fortunately I am not allowed onboard. - Tom
The sheeple thought if they obeyed all the rules and got their vaxxes and their Covid tests, all would be well.
They now have learned that lesson the hard way.
Never obey.
Never submit.
They will never stop if you do.
This willbe the first of many anti cruise articles we will be seeing later today and next week as the cruise lines return to Florida TODAY.-Tom
Just think of the catastrophe had they been UNvaxxed and UNboostered. I dare not consider the horror show.
Travelling is a risky proposition these days.
“... As an unvaccinated deplorable...” Not to mention selfish and not as smart as brandon thought you were and you want folks grandparents to die. You unpatriotic leper you. Oh, we are in the club as well. :-}
I only go on cruises for reading books, walking the desks and having good food and drink. I rarely venture into the ports
I never understood the attraction of being a ship with 4,000 people anyway. The Norovirus stories sounded worse than the COVID.
I have some leftist acquaintance who have FINALLY asked the question - "we were promised herd immunity, I got vaccinated, we had delta variant, so I got boosted - no we are still locked-down. Where does it all end????"
” “Now on an 8-day cruise we will have only gone to one place on a delayed schedule.”
Reporter should get her facts straight.
We had an Alaskan cruise booked for last May for our 25th anniversary. Canceled because of Covid hysteria. The cruise line gave us the option of a refund or future cruise credit. We took the refund. There’s no telling how long it will be before we want to step foot on a cruise ship again because we refuse to get the “vax.” Who knows if we’d end up trapped on a ship like these people, all because of this nonsense.
Exactly. You couldn't pay me enough to do that. Give me the wilderness and a tall mountain.
LOL! “Suddenly we realized we had been played for fools and had wasted our money. Are we ever mad!”
“Exactly. You couldn’t pay me enough to do that. Give me the wi”lderness and a tall mountain.
And/or a canyon with a river or small stream. Or a hike or 4WD in the desert, or in a rainforest.
It sounds like they are almost ready to take the red pill—they found a glitch in the leftist matrix.
This Forum has a Chronic Cruiser who could be bought off with a front-row table at an Ethel Merman mock-up and a bag of pork rinds.
It figures she'd be on Twitter. Did anyone tweet back to the moron, explaining how idiotic it is to book a vacation on a floating petri-dish in this obvious era of unpredictable shutdowns and restrictions?
“This Forum has a Chronic Cruiser who could be bought off with a front-row table at an Ethel Merman mock-up and a bag of pork rinds.”
LOL. You should be a writer.
I have never been on a cruise, but I would do the same as you: good books & food!
Not Just being trapped on a cruise ship, how about the cruisers who have gone to foreign countries and tested positive? Some of those countries can tie you up for weeks. -Tom
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