Last year I was on a cruise with my husband. We both caught covid just 2 days before the end of the trip. We had to stay in our cabin which was OK because the ship was at sea heading back to Southampton. We had a really lovely stateroom with a walk in wardrobe, a large balcony and lots of space.
To help them we agreed to move to another cabin for the last night so ours could be sanitised ready for new passengers the next day. Once we were in the much smaller quarantine cabin ( there was a whole corridor of them, all occupied ) it felt like we were being punished for daring to be ill. We asked for a bottle of water 3 or 4 times but none came. The next morning they got our breakfast order wrong so there wasn't much I wanted to eat. We had to wait to leave the ship until staff collected us long after all the other passengers had gone. They wore white coveralls, masks and face shields which is fair enough but there was someone walking behind us spraying the air. I felt totally humiliated and as another passenger said...well, that was the walk of shame.
The thing that made my day was when we collected our car keys I was feeling very upset about it all and mentioned the lack of water to the woman in the car park office. Bless her heart she offered to give us some bottles of water from her supply. I declined because we'd found a water fountain and filled our bottles but she made me feel human again.
17-Sep-2023 11:21:42
