rere101399
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I wanted to post some feedback on our experience so far with the under 12 year old covid testing with the updated protocols and offerings, which now include the NAAT IDNOW test at Walgreens.
Our sail date is Monday 10/11. We initially planned to only do the Inspire home tests and drop them off at the UPS store. However, when I ordered the Inspire tests on Safe Passage, after I paid a message appeared that said if there was a Sunday in our 3 day window that we should consider dropping off the test at the Inspire on site or using a 3rd party test provider with a rapid pcr.
We panicked a little because we had already ordered it and didn’t know that a Sunday being in our 3 day window would possibly change their ability to turnaround our test results.
We decided to also schedule a backup test and possibly consider dropping off the Inspire test at MCO instead of UPS (we’re in the Orlando area so it’s a drive but not impossible).
I was in a cruise group for some sailings ahead of ours and saw that people were frequently reporting delayed cvs results, so we decided to take advantage of the newly accepted Walgreens IDNOW test instead.
They only schedule tests two days in advance, and their booking window for appointments opens at midnight as an FYI. So on Tuesday night this week (well Wednesday morning at midnight technically) I logged into Walgreens and easily scheduled two IDNOW appointments for my kids for this morning (Friday).
This morning we arrived for the appointments, the kids self administered the tests in the car and we were driving away in less than five minutes. We drove directly to MCO where we planned to drop off our Inspire at home test kits. By the time we arrived at MCO, we had already received emails from Walgreens with negative test results (less than 40 minutes)
.
Since we had already paid for and administered the Inspire tests, we went ahead and dropped them off anyway.
For anyone who is curious about the on-site testing center at MCO, it was a breeze! We dropped off the test kit with no waiting and were told we would have results by tomorrow at the latest. At 10:20 am there was absolutely no one else in the test area (they open at 10).
We sail again in December and my plan is to not order the Inspire kits. I will stay awake til midnight two days before our 3 day window opens to book a Walgreens IDNOW test asap, and I will plan to go to the on-site Inspire test center at MCO if there’s any issues or we need a backup/re-do.
UPDATE:
Less than two hours after uploading our NAAT results from Walgreens to Safe Passage, we got the Clear to Arrive for both kids from Safe Passage.
Our sail date is Monday 10/11. We initially planned to only do the Inspire home tests and drop them off at the UPS store. However, when I ordered the Inspire tests on Safe Passage, after I paid a message appeared that said if there was a Sunday in our 3 day window that we should consider dropping off the test at the Inspire on site or using a 3rd party test provider with a rapid pcr.
We panicked a little because we had already ordered it and didn’t know that a Sunday being in our 3 day window would possibly change their ability to turnaround our test results.
We decided to also schedule a backup test and possibly consider dropping off the Inspire test at MCO instead of UPS (we’re in the Orlando area so it’s a drive but not impossible).
I was in a cruise group for some sailings ahead of ours and saw that people were frequently reporting delayed cvs results, so we decided to take advantage of the newly accepted Walgreens IDNOW test instead.
They only schedule tests two days in advance, and their booking window for appointments opens at midnight as an FYI. So on Tuesday night this week (well Wednesday morning at midnight technically) I logged into Walgreens and easily scheduled two IDNOW appointments for my kids for this morning (Friday).
This morning we arrived for the appointments, the kids self administered the tests in the car and we were driving away in less than five minutes. We drove directly to MCO where we planned to drop off our Inspire at home test kits. By the time we arrived at MCO, we had already received emails from Walgreens with negative test results (less than 40 minutes)
.Since we had already paid for and administered the Inspire tests, we went ahead and dropped them off anyway.
For anyone who is curious about the on-site testing center at MCO, it was a breeze! We dropped off the test kit with no waiting and were told we would have results by tomorrow at the latest. At 10:20 am there was absolutely no one else in the test area (they open at 10).
We sail again in December and my plan is to not order the Inspire kits. I will stay awake til midnight two days before our 3 day window opens to book a Walgreens IDNOW test asap, and I will plan to go to the on-site Inspire test center at MCO if there’s any issues or we need a backup/re-do.
UPDATE:
Less than two hours after uploading our NAAT results from Walgreens to Safe Passage, we got the Clear to Arrive for both kids from Safe Passage.
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