If you test positive at port...

[KashasMom]

Just read about the 2/2 Wonder cruise where 250 people out of 1,000 were not allowed to board. What happens to those people? Obviously the health department is notified. So I assume they can't fly and shouldn't be renting a car to drive home (even if a possibility) since they'd be in contact with a lot of people while staying in a hotel, eating, etc. So do they get a hotel near the port and stay there - for how long? Have they lessened quarantine time from 10 days?

 

[ThinkTink1]

I have never tested positive at port for my last 5 cruises since Aug BUT I told my BF last month that I did not want to go all the way to the port and test positive there and he took a Covid test the day before and sure enough POSITIVE We of course called to reschedule right away…lesson learned to test the day before so I don’t have to cry being that close to boarding and not being able to… it was a tough week knowing we should’ve been sailing and we weren’t… crazy part is I knew 2 other couples on the same sailing and out of the 3 couples 2 couples had someone test postive… luckily we weren’t planning on traveling together and we weren’t attached to each other’s reissues… there are a couple of feeds recently that people discussed their experience but I think you wait in another tent and they put you in a bus and transport you back to where you came from…

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I have never tested positive at port for my last 5 cruises since Aug BUT I told my BF last month that I did not want to go all the way to the port and test positive there and he took a Covid test the day before and sure enough POSITIVE We of course called to reschedule right away…lesson learned to test the day before so I don’t have to cry being that close to boarding and not being able to… it was a tough week knowing we should’ve been sailing and we weren’t… crazy part is I knew 2 other couples on the same sailing and out of the 3 couples 2 couples had someone test postive… luckily we weren’t planning on traveling together and we weren’t attached to each other’s reissues… there are a couple of feeds recently that people discussed their experience but I think you wait in another tent and they put you in a bus and transport you back to where you came from…

It's my understanding they transport you to either a hotel or airport, whichever you arrange to do.

 

[ThinkTink1]

It's my understanding they transport you to either a hotel or airport, whichever you arrange to do.

That good to know! I live right outside Disney so I’d be having to drive my sad butt home

 

[KashasMom]

It's my understanding they transport you to either a hotel or airport, whichever you arrange to do.

I just find this crazy! So people can actually get on a plane having COVID? I'm going to see if I can find some of the threads where people discussed what they did.

That good to know! I live right outside Disney so I’d be having to drive my sad butt home

And what about those who flew to the port?

 

[ThinkTink1]

It sounds like you either go back to the airport to fly home or if you want to stay on at Disney you can arrange for a room…

 

[dcassetta]

I'm going to see if I can find some of the threads where people discussed what they did.

(9) We Tested Positive For Covid at the Port and Here's What Happened | The DIS Disney Discussion Forums - DISboards.com

 

[princessmommyx3]

I just find this crazy! So people can actually get on a plane having COVID? I'm going to see if I can find some of the threads where people discussed what they did.




And what about those who flew to the port?

In the reports I read about being taken to the airport, it was to rent a car to drive home, not fly.

 

[Alaska777]

I’m not saying it’s right, but of course you can fly home. People are doing this every day. There is no testing for domestic flights.

 

[cmarsh31]

And what about those who flew to the port?

So, if you are about to embark on a 7-night cruise (obviously not true for shorter ones...), your flight is 7+ days from embarkation. Current quarantine protocol is 5 days - so I'm figuring if it was us (I'm in the 90 day recovery but my DH & kids didn't get it when I did), we'd hunker down, and then fly home as planned.

 

[mmouse37]

I’m not saying it’s right, but of course you can fly home. People are doing this every day. There is no testing for domestic flights.

Correct but on United (not sure about other airlines) you have to answer questions while checking in about Covid and if you have recently tested positive or near someone who tested positive. I am sure some people lie but they do ask.

MJ

 

[Timandalicia]

Just read about the 2/2 Wonder cruise where 250 people out of 1,000 were not allowed to board. What happens to those people? Obviously the health department is notified. So I assume they can't fly and shouldn't be renting a car to drive home (even if a possibility) since they'd be in contact with a lot of people while staying in a hotel, eating, etc. So do they get a hotel near the port and stay there - for how long? Have they lessened quarantine time from 10 days?

I believe they go straight to the parks.

 

[lanejudy]

DCL will offer transportation back to Orlando, either MCO or a hotel. What folks do from there is up to them. The health department is not involved nor does DCL dictate a quarantine period. Some posters have reported driving home, some get a hotel room or rent a house, either in the Orlando area or some head to a beach destination.

 

[soniam]

Airlines are also not notified, according to an airline employee that posted on one of the threads. You are basically on your own except for transport back to where you choose in Orlando.

 

[Lillebelle]

Just read about the 2/2 Wonder cruise where 250 people out of 1,000 were not allowed to board. What happens to those people? Obviously the health department is notified. So I assume they can't fly and shouldn't be renting a car to drive home (even if a possibility) since they'd be in contact with a lot of people while staying in a hotel, eating, etc. So do they get a hotel near the port and stay there - for how long? Have they lessened quarantine time from 10 days?

I would be careful with this data point - we were on the 2/2 Wonder sailing and were told 750 expected on board by our embarkation lunch server when we got on, which made me think that number was already settled prior to boarding beginning. I'd believe that 250 people cancelled in the days leading up to the sailing due to testing positive or having covid exposure before traveling, but I don't think that 250 people walked away from the port that day with positive covid tests in their party.

 

[Sakura1017]

I thought originally you couldn't fly as well if you tested positive until after the 5 days of quarantine are up. I guess it's gonna be based on the honor system.

I'm curious where you got the source that 250 people were turned away as well.

 

[KashasMom]

I thought originally you couldn't fly as well if you tested positive until after the 5 days of quarantine are up. I guess it's gonna be based on the honor system.

I'm curious where you got the source that 250 people were turned away as well.

This is the thread - https://www.disboards.com/threads/just-of-the-2-2-22-wonder-questions.3870681/#post-63750562

 

[KashasMom]

I would be careful with this data point - we were on the 2/2 Wonder sailing and were told 750 expected on board by our embarkation lunch server when we got on, which made me think that number was already settled prior to boarding beginning. I'd believe that 250 people cancelled in the days leading up to the sailing due to testing positive or having covid exposure before traveling, but I don't think that 250 people walked away from the port that day with positive covid tests in their party.

This is the thread - https://www.disboards.com/threads/just-of-the-2-2-22-wonder-questions.3870681/#post-63750562.

From the thread -
- Had a little over 1,000 reserved, but only about 750 made it on board after COVID screening
- It was 250 people who had someone in their party that tested positive. So, that could be 15 or 50 families/staterooms, not necessarily 250 positive tests.

Based on the above comments, it didn't sound as if people had canceled before the cruise.

 

[dreynolds1982]

That 250 number does sound very high. Like others have noted though it just has to be one person in your party that tests positive. Hard to imagine there are that many people with asymptomatic cases though, which makes you wonder how many people are coming to the ports knowingly sick (showing symptoms) or knowingly exposed.

 

[anricat]

Correct but on United (not sure about other airlines) you have to answer questions while checking in about Covid and if you have recently tested positive or near someone who tested positive. I am sure some people lie but they do ask.

MJ

What's funny is I originally questioned why people even ask this because it seemed silly and obvious, but I work in a medical clinic and we go through a song and dance 24 hours prior to everyone's appointments where we ask them about new/unexplained symptoms/close contact and you would be shocked at the number of people who were still planning to come to their non-sick visits with symptoms, close contact, positive test, etc. But they don't say anything until specifically asked!