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A Cruise Ship with Covid 19 - Who woulda thought.


https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/disaster-as-first-cruise-ships-allowed-back-into-wa/news-story/5444d9ec7c95d54339e4b47f33ffc9e0

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It is only a matter of time. Do the prospective travellers realise it is not the same as pre-Covid?

No free roaming around, no 24/7 food.



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There is a lot of people out there that just don't get it! no. I mean common sense wise.



-- Edited by Bulldozer on Tuesday 26th of April 2022 04:32:29 PM

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Gastrointestinal illnesses 

Influenza 

Legionnaires' disease 

Hepatitis A 

Tuberculosis

Ruby Princess passengers issued tuberculosis warning. Passengers on board the virus-stricken Ruby Princess cruise ship have been issued another health warning regarding tuberculosis.

A crew member who worked on the ship from the 8th to the 19th of March 2020 has been diagnosed with the disease and is currently receiving treatment at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.

 

& Covid.

 

If that doesn't get you it will probably be a spiked drink like Dianne Brimble.



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True that WAWT, those crew members should have been slowly disassembled with a small chainsaw.

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Floating claustrophobic, germ spreading platforms.
Worst of all, you're trapped, listening to other passengers life stories.
Give me the wide open spaces of caravaning anytime.

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Yet some love them. Cannot wait to get back on board and out on the ocean. Wife said "they can have them, last thing I'd want to do. Was bad enough just going to Tassie".
Guess we will never go on a sailing holiday, not that I care either.

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Yet some love them. Cannot wait to get back on board and out on the ocean. Wife said "they can have them, last thing I'd want to do. Was bad enough just going to Tassie".
Guess we will never go on a sailing holiday, not that I care either.


 I'll second the Tassie comment, unfortunately we did a day sail on the trip there.cry

It was about as exciting as watching paint dry.blankstare

Booked a cabin & took a sleeping pill on the way back, best sea voyage that we're ever likely to have.biggrin



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We have been on two cruises out of Melbourne well before covid. On the last one I was in the gents pointing Percy to the porcelain when, in a cubicle behind me, comes the sound of water flushing. The door opens and this bloke comes out and walks straight out the toilet.

What hope have you got????? Needless to say that was the last cruise for us.

 



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We did a Pacific cruise in 2004. Even then 1/2 the ship came down with some sort of sickness including me and cabin crew.

The old Pacific Sky.

When we got back to Sydney, the next departure was delayed several hours due to full cleaning.

Haven't been on any since and wont be likely to.

Dick.

 

 



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Yep caravan parks are so much more hygienic.

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The last couple of flights we took with Virgin Airlines before the pandemic were interesting.
We were waiting at the departure gate, the plane pulls in, the passengers get off, not long after we get on.
The plane is full of left over rubbish, you can still feel the body heat & odour of the previous passengers.
No more flights for us, particularly now Covid is here.

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Around the time of cruise ships and covid one of the leading health people described the cruise ships as a floating petri dish.

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Magnarc wrote:

We have been on two cruises out of Melbourne well before covid. On the last one I was in the gents pointing Percy to the porcelain when, in a cubicle behind me, comes the sound of water flushing. The door opens and this bloke comes out and walks straight out the toilet.

What hope have you got????? Needless to say that was the last cruise for us.

 


 
Nothing to do with a cruise ship so a tiny bit off topic but,

Many moons back and long before Covid was in nappies or even thought of, like about 10 years ago, I was walking toward one of the big supermarket's in my smallish home town of down town Wonthaggi S W Gippsland VIC when I noticed a, well, slightly rough looking lady coughing and sneezing into her hands then wipes the sn.t from her face with hand and THEN grabbed hold of a trolly! Yikes! I was disgusted and went in to said store bought a packet of big name disinfectant wipes, paid and went out and gave a trolly a good clean then did my shopping. I have been wiping trollies ever since. Now mostly everyone is doing it. 

Apart from 8 trips on the good ship Spirit I have never been interested in going on a cruise ship or even OS and still not. There, back on topic

 



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Whenarewethere wrote:

Gastrointestinal illnesses 

Influenza 

Legionnaires' disease 

Hepatitis A 

Tuberculosis

Ruby Princess passengers issued tuberculosis warning. Passengers on board the virus-stricken Ruby Princess cruise ship have been issued another health warning regarding tuberculosis.

A crew member who worked on the ship from the 8th to the 19th of March 2020 has been diagnosed with the disease and is currently receiving treatment at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.

 

& Covid.

 

If that doesn't get you it will probably be a spiked drink like Dianne Brimble.


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For all you naysayers about The Spirit of Tasmania, it is possible to have an enjoyable evening/night crossing. Join the littel party, quiz etc at the back of the boat, have a couple of football price drinks and join in.

Day crossing, paint dont dry on moving water, but the effect is much the same.

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The pointy end is good to!

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