I've just caught up with the news that the Quantum of the Seas, the ship we had booked for our cruise, arrived in Brisbane from Honolulu on November 27th with about 200 passengers on board with Covid. If we had decided to go ahead with our holiday, we would have been joining the ship on that same day it arrived. We seemed to have had a lucky escape.
And it's not the only one. The cruise lines, of course, are playing down the issue saying that the protocols they have in place will protect the passengers but we have experience of what really happens in these situations. They've always had a requirement that passengers have to use a hand sanitiser before going into the dining rooms but there's always a handful of people who absolutely refuse to comply, and they get away with it. I like to think they are Americans claiming their constitutional right to free-dumb, but they might just be Australian bogans who don't know any better.
Over the years, and a number of cruises, we learnt to avoid the buffets and have our meals served to us on a plate straight from the kitchen. At least we had a chance, then, that they would be unsullied by careless passers-by.
Looking back, we were pretty optimistic that everything would be fine and the cruise would be a delight but it was not to be.
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