Has anyone ever gotten sick on a Disney Cruise?

[Chemist]

What vacations have my children NOT gotten sick on, that's the actual question.

To quite 3-year old child, "Me Goopy Eye". Yes, he did have pink-eye after dinner.
Went to med center, they opened up especially for us! Doctor charmed the pants off said 3 year old, who also had tonsillitis in addition to his pink-eye. Left with antibiotics.

The plan the following morning was for the kids to go to the club and DH and I to do an excursion on our own. We could have cancelled ONE excursion without penalty (for THAT parent to stay with sick kid). Instead I took older child on excursion and dear husband stayed back with goopy eye kid.

Oh, and our stateroom host did an excellent job changing all our linens on practically an hourly basis.

 

[MamaMermaid]

We've gotten the sniffles before but never anything crazy. My mom did get COVID one year but I'm a school teacher and tend to be exposed (and expose my family...) constantly sooo we've had COVID quite a few times.

 

[CamColt]

34 Disney cruises, 39 cruises overall. I've come home with Covid (very mild) 3 times (twice Disney but I think once was from the hacker next to me at the airport), and I'm just off the Dream with a deep cough. I think I have a pretty good track record.

 

[Disneyworldlocal]

I got sick the last night of my first cruise. . Now I don’t touch anything mayo based on Castway. Side eye you- potato salad.

Fine for the 5 other cruises that followed.

They do give out hand wipes entering the dining rooms, hand washing stations in the buffet. The Wish class ships, the CM serves the food at buffet instead of doing yourself.So more hygiene steps then you see at WDW.

OH boy this happened to me on the last night of our first 7 night cruise. I ate potato salad
At CC. Never again

 

[tikisunset77]

I am learning a lot from this thread as I think this is my worst fear. No potato salad at the beach!! Usually we always end up with someone sick on a disney trip about 1-3 days in so I have started bringing several things with us. A huge bag of OTC meds and vitamins. We vaccinate for flu and covid every fall but norovirus and the cold ugh not to mention food poisoning are the worst IMO. I bring sinusalia homeopathic tabs for sinus infections (some essential oils for rubbing on my face) , migraine eye mask and pain relievers, thera flu day and night TABLETS not the tea or powder (yuck!) it was the only thing that stopped my cough when I had pneumonia even over doc RX it is the best!! I won't bore you with the whole list here but for our first cruise I did buy some spray from amazon that actually kills viruses which alcohol based hand sanitizers and wipes do not! It is hypochlorus acid (not as bad as it sounds) and they have a surface cleaner bottle and small hand spray bottles. I sprayed the entire cruise cabin with the cleaner when we got in and then the bathroom every other day. We used these religiously. Also washing our hands everytime we got back to our cabin. I was the drill sergeant but nobody got sick the whole three weeks we were down there or on the cruise!! So I count us lucky so far.

 

[Joanna71985]

I got sun poisoning in 2019. Made for a very long evening on Pirate Night

 

[hardcorestitch]

I got sun poisoning in 2019. Made for a very long evening on Pirate Night

Did you still have the courage to revel in the onboard fireworks?

 

[eyemomfl]

We were on the Fantasy in March of 2020, the last cruise before they shut down for a long while. Amazingly, no one in my family got sick. I did notice that they seemed to be cleaning more than usual and had us all at separate tables. All the passengers were in an ignorant bliss from what was happening on the main land until they made an announcement and started serving us a Cabana's. I remember when I had some cell service at a port my husband at home told me to turn on the news. I watched as that ship in San Francisco was quarantined off the coast. Disney sure did usher us off that ship quickly when we got back. No stop in customs. I was so thankful for how clean Disney was.

 

[holula]

I’ve had sniffles several times, however I tend to get these if I’m in a lot of AC (I live in the UK and we don’t have the same level of AC here!)

I’ve had COVID once, didn’t feel bad until the day I got off the ship and didn’t test for a couple of days after as it just felt like dizziness at that point.

My last cruise I had d&v on the last evening of the cruise and went to the medical centre. Whatever they gave me made me feel vaguely human again. No cost since it was d&v.

Think I’ve done ok in 25 cruises on DCL and 7 on other lines.

 

[NAB]

You know when there is a lot of people sick on the ship. They serve you soda, they serve everything at the buffet and have everyone out wiping down the stair and door handles.

My adult son was sick 2 years ago on a Christmas cruise . Throw up so hard he broke blood vessels around his eyes. They gave him a shot free so he could feel better to fly home. No way he could they got a hotel room and flew the next day. They also told him to wait in his cabin until the very end so he didn’t affect other people. Plus he needed to stay by a rest room. They have a protocol for cleaning the cabin. The house keeping steward told us they aren’t allowed to go in that room.

His wife didn’t get it she was in the same cabin, we didn’t either out of 5 of us.

 

[Joanna71985]

Did you still have the courage to revel in the onboard fireworks?

Nope. I didn't even make it through dinner (I had early seating). Luckily I was eating in Enchanted Garden, so I was close to my room on the second deck

 

[juxtapose]

My daughter got a flu like virus on our cruise in November. We are pretty sure we know the exact kid that gave it to her, a baby was super sick and sat right next to and coughed in my daughter's face in the lounge at the port. It was our first time sailing concierge and the Treasure and that made it pretty hard to justify that cost when she ate nothing for 3-4 days.

 

[tvguy]

There was a Norovirus outbreak on the Magic the week we cruised. We did not get sick fortunately, but they did have crew serving all the food in the buffet, and escalated cleaning process were apparent.

 

[bayri]

On our third cruise in April 2024, I unfortunately got norovirus about midway through our 7-night. We had gotten off at port to walk around for a bit, came back and ate at Cabanas, and about an hour later I was trapped in the bathroom holding the little trash can as well... My husband called guest services after almost an hour in there, and they coordinated to let us enter the med bay while still docked (it had been closed otherwise at that time for some reason if I remember correctly?). Based on my symptoms they concluded it was noro and thankfully I got two shots (one for nausea, forgot the other), imodium, and the appt free of charge I had to fill out everything and everywhere I had eaten the last few days (thankfully I had been taking photos for calorie tracking purposes at the time). I'm not really sure where I caught it -- but Cabanas is the obvious default. And the poor nurse took my trash can to clean it... I'm sure she's more used to it than the stateroom host would have been, but I still felt bad... But better than messing up the bathroom floor!

Then I had to quarantine in the room for 24 hours. My husband still felt fine a few hours after that, so I made him go have fun without me since there were a few things he wanted to do that evening. He fussed a bit but eventually went -- and then came back with a list of trivia questions and answers, and quizzed me after he got back since he knows I enjoy the trivia sessions. Guest services kept calling and checking in every few hours in the evening and the next morning.

They also asked if we wanted anything from the MDR sent up (incl my husband since he said he'd stay with me), and somehow my husband persuaded them to bring two truffle purseittes despite it not being our Animator's Palate night (literally my favorite dish on the DCL). Note that while we asked guest services to tell dining that we would not be able to make dinner, and them saying they will, the next night our dining team had asked us where we were... Apparently guest services will NOT communicate with dining, which was unfortunate. I felt slightly guild tripped about it but I am also a more anxious person in general so...

I felt better by the morning, but kept in the room until about when we first called guest services the day before. We let them know about that as well.

So this next cruise I will be washing my hands and using hand sanitizer constantly and using clorox wipes everywhere. So definitely bring some imodium!! But otherwise, for other types of illnesses, definitely bring a little bit of everything common just in case. Disney likely won't comp much else. But the level of care I did receive outside of the comp was nice, so I'm sure it's ramped up even more for all the littles.

EDIT: I was also super bummed because the quarantine overlapped an excursion I really wanted to do (salsa & salsa in Cabo)

 

[hardcorestitch]

On our third cruise in April 2024, I unfortunately got norovirus about midway through our 7-night. We had gotten off at port to walk around for a bit, came back and ate at Cabanas, and about an hour later I was trapped in the bathroom holding the little trash can as well... My husband called guest services after almost an hour in there, and they coordinated to let us enter the med bay while still docked (it had been closed otherwise at that time for some reason if I remember correctly?). Based on my symptoms they concluded it was noro and thankfully I got two shots (one for nausea, forgot the other), imodium, and the appt free of charge I had to fill out everything and everywhere I had eaten the last few days (thankfully I had been taking photos for calorie tracking purposes at the time). I'm not really sure where I caught it -- but Cabanas is the obvious default. And the poor nurse took my trash can to clean it... I'm sure she's more used to it than the stateroom host would have been, but I still felt bad... But better than messing up the bathroom floor!

Then I had to quarantine in the room for 24 hours. My husband still felt fine a few hours after that, so I made him go have fun without me since there were a few things he wanted to do that evening. He fussed a bit but eventually went -- and then came back with a list of trivia questions and answers, and quizzed me after he got back since he knows I enjoy the trivia sessions. Guest services kept calling and checking in every few hours in the evening and the next morning.

They also asked if we wanted anything from the MDR sent up (incl my husband since he said he'd stay with me), and somehow my husband persuaded them to bring two truffle purseittes despite it not being our Animator's Palate night (literally my favorite dish on the DCL). Note that while we asked guest services to tell dining that we would not be able to make dinner, and them saying they will, the next night our dining team had asked us where we were... Apparently guest services will NOT communicate with dining, which was unfortunate. I felt slightly guild tripped about it but I am also a more anxious person in general so...

I felt better by the morning, but kept in the room until about when we first called guest services the day before. We let them know about that as well.

So this next cruise I will be washing my hands and using hand sanitizer constantly and using clorox wipes everywhere. So definitely bring some imodium!! But otherwise, for other types of illnesses, definitely bring a little bit of everything common just in case. Disney likely won't comp much else. But the level of care I did receive outside of the comp was nice, so I'm sure it's ramped up even more for all the littles.

Did you have Animator’s Palate twice on your rotational dining?

 

[bayri]

Did you have Animator’s Palate twice on your rotational dining?

Since it was a 7 day, yes I'm pretty sure we did! Looking back at my photos, our dining for that night had been Tiana's since that's the dish my husband got brought up.