Sensitive question. Anyone come back from WDW and was sick?

[Shellyred8]

DH got sick at WDW at the end of January 2020. He was so sick we thought he had the flu (even though he had a flu shot). Got tested for flu and it was negative. He was in bed for two weeks straight - fever, chills, body aches, the works. I made him sleep in the spare bedroom the entire time. No one else got it in the house. Now we wonder if he could have had Covid...

We had the same thing happen!!! DH got sick when we got home. He didn't get tested for the flu, but in hind site, the symptoms he had and the length and severity of his illness made us wonder if he caught Covid back then.

We've been to WDW 3 times post-covid and we have not gotten sick. TBH, I actually felt pretty good each time we got back. Pre-covid, I would always come home feeling run down and wiped out. Sometimes I would catch some sort of a cold or something like that. But the post-covid trips have been a bit more relaxed, so I'm not wearing myself down as much.

 

[tlovesdis]

I was there in November and didn't get sick. Going again in April!

 

[Bruggok]

My family went last Christmas for a week. We felt fine while at WDW. Once back we all were exhausted and had cold symptoms, but no covid19 symptoms. This happened after each of 3 yearly trips. A week after returning from WDW, my wife swab/PCR tested negative for covid19.

 

[JFox]

In all seriousness, this is the first year I haven't gotten sick. I swear the key is not to touch ANYTHING. We are just back from a January trip and I kept my hands to myself.

2018 - got the flu 1 week prior to our trip. We were getting married at the Poly
2019 - got the flu on the trip. Landed at home and went straight to urgent care. The flight was dreadful
2020 - my husband tested positive for the flu on day 2 and then me on day 3. It came on suddenly and we were down. Spent most of our vacation in our Poly resort room surviving off room service. Kudos to the staff for the attention and transfers to/from urgent care. Felt better by the time we left.

 

[tbssenterprises]

Thank you all for your replies. Hubby has had his first shot....now waiting for the second. Me, I'm not eligible yet......

 

[TinkSassy]

We were there in early December and had come down with sore throats while there. We tested negative on returning home per state regulations, so it was likely the AC at night drying our throats, which we aren’t used to (AC that is).

Wearing your mask for 8+ hours a day will cause a sore throat too. It can just be a side effect of that.

 

[Catvondita]

Thank you all for your replies. Hubby has had his first shot....now waiting for the second. Me, I'm not eligible yet......

I know this feeling. My husband got fully vaccinated as he works in a hospital. Now I'm waiting until I can get my full round so we can go. We have a trip we keep pushing back and its in May. I'm really hoping I can get it in time to justify going lol

 

[ldo]

years ago, I got bad bronchitis/pneumonia after a day at DL. Dr. said, maybe DL, but just as likely the 5 hour cross-county flight/airport.

 

[Flynnismine]

Are you eligible to get the vaccine yet? not sure what age bracket you fall into or if your state has a tiered system set up based on age to receive the vaccine. I was just there Christmas week with my DD(11) and neither of us ended up getting sick. We fly down on a completely full SW flight, there was a gentleman sitting in the seat right next to me on the isle seat while I was in the middle and DD by the window. We took Disney transportation the entire time we were on property, ate most of our meals inside without issue, went to all 4 parks and rode almost every ride in each park. The only sketchy thing I saw was big crowds that had packed together outside the entrances to IASM and PP one day. I always felt like there was plenty of social distancing and excellent mask use by everyone and the CM's were on it. TBH, had one of us come down with Covid, I wouldn't have blamed Disney at all. There were so many possible places for transmission from the time we pulled out of our driveway to head to the airport until we returned back home. It's such a personal choice and definitely not one to be taken lightly, only you can make the right decision for yourself and your family.

 

[Evita_W]

Honestly for us it isn't a Disney trip until someone in our party has visited first aid at least once....and that is pre-covid.....lol

We are going in Feb, so I can let you know after that, but honestly I doubt any of us will catch anything major, we just take common sense precautions and with reduced capacity keeping distance from others should be easier.

 

[Wendysofftoneverland]

We had the same thing happen!!! DH got sick when we got home. He didn't get tested for the flu, but in hind site, the symptoms he had and the length and severity of his illness made us wonder if he caught Covid back then.

We've been to WDW 3 times post-covid and we have not gotten sick. TBH, I actually felt pretty good each time we got back. Pre-covid, I would always come home feeling run down and wiped out. Sometimes I would catch some sort of a cold or something like that. But the post-covid trips have been a bit more relaxed, so I'm not wearing myself down as much.

January 2020 my kid got sick as soon as we got home. He tested positive for influenza B though. November 2020 we all came home healthy. Maybe it was the masks, or maybe it was RV camping instead of staying in a hotel, or some combination of factors.

 

[JFox]

We had the same thing happen!!! DH got sick when we got home. He didn't get tested for the flu, but in hind site, the symptoms he had and the length and severity of his illness made us wonder if he caught Covid back then.

March/April 2020 we thought the same thing about getting the flu January 2020. We both had our flu shots. Could it have been Covid? The symptoms were the worst flu ever; coughing, shortness of breath, exhaustion and it came on so sudden. The morning I started feeling bad I was fine but then by the afternoon I was out. We will never know. It was so early. At that time it was still 3 months before quarantine. I wished there was some way we could had access to the samples taken at urgent care but who would have known what was coming.

When we talk about this trip we consider it a success because on Day 1 we were able to ride RoR before locking ourselves up in our Poly room.

 

[confetti]

DH got sick at WDW at the end of January 2020. He was so sick we thought he had the flu (even though he had a flu shot). Got tested for flu and it was negative. He was in bed for two weeks straight - fever, chills, body aches, the works. I made him sleep in the spare bedroom the entire time. No one else got it in the house. Now we wonder if he could have had Covid...

We went late Jan/early Feb 2020 and I started getting sick on our last day. Thought maybe a cold but it quickly turned into the worst illness I've ever had. Horrific cough, body aches, congestion, etc. We all got flu shots in October but I know that's not 100%. I went to the doc but they just said "sinus infection" and gave me some antibiotics. It took at least a month before I felt normal. We wondered if it was Covid, I gave blood in July and antibodies were negative but that might just be because it had been too long. We'll never know if it really was Covid. No way to know if I picked up something on the plane (we had two legs of the flight, coming from the west coast) or in the parks. Even so, our trip was so amazing even though I brought home that bug.

 

[Dakota731]

Twice over the years - not with covid but with the flu! And I know I caught it traveling since both times I got it on the seventh day, and the flu doesn’t take longer than that to catch. It’s a chance you take when traveling, being run down and exposed to people from all over the world.

 

[GatorChris]

Went to Universal and Hollywood Studios for a week in October. It's the first Disney trip my family has ever taken where someone didn't come home with some kind of illness: respiratory or gastro. I think the fact we're all wearing masks, staying away when someone is sick, and the massive amount of sanitizer in use made that trip the cleanest, safest, and healthiest we've ever done.

 

[wp4lf189]

Been there 3 times since re-opening, no one on any of trips have gotten sick...masked up, washed hands, use hand sanitizer and was smart about crowds. Going again in 25 days, will do the same and will be vaccinated. Ironically, DW always seemed to catch something prior to Covid...go figure!

 

[SeanWM48]

just got back yesterday. girlfriend and i are fine (so far....)

if i get sick i will honestly blame it on the airplane. Disney was tremendous and so were the guests around us. i was very impressed and my lady even more than i was. she is super conscious of the virus and social distancing and was pretty comfortable all week.

the plane - frontier airlines to be exact - was nowhere near as policed regarding people following the mask rules. it also had zero social distancing going on. full house. was pretty disappointed, if for no other reason than my partner being very uncomfortable

 

[jsmla]

Since the reopening I’ve been in July, September, Thanksgiving, early December and right now.

In addition to Disney’s precautions (masks, and social distancing) I take a few extra:
-I drive rather than fly
-No inside dining
-No shows
-With a couple of exceptions I avoid longer indoor attractions and queues. I make sure I’m one of the first in the park when riding “exceptions” like Peter Pan and Soarin’.
-I have a N95 mask that I wear on the indoor attractions and the bus.
-I’m only in the parks for a couple of hours in the morning and leave when it gets busy. I’ll head out again for the last few hours in the evening.

So far (fingers crossed) I haven’t caught so much as a common cold.

 

[Heather07438]

Back in Feb 2020 we booked a Jan 8-16th, 2021 DVC stay. Have been back home for 14 days now and all 3 of us have not gotten sick from the trip. So far no covid for us, hope that holds until vaccination. We chose to keep our trip even knowing we were up against what probably would be the height of 'dark days' and that held true. The US hit 2 peaks: 300k cases departure day and over 4k deaths the day we returned.

Flying and ADRs felt the most vulnerable but honestly both ended up being fine with much less close interaction than normal. Round trip NY to MCO, we all slept for most of the flights. Both airports had plenty of wide open space to stay away from people. We had 3 ADRs inside and beside our server, the next closest people were at least 10ft away. These were our biggest rolls of the dice but seemed like less rolls with current protocols helping to spread people out.

As much as the shorter park hours annoys some of us lol, it isn't a bad thing as far as health is concerned. I think the reason WDW trips had a history of sickness is in big part to running ourselves ragged. The slower pace helps thwart exhaustion and guests might actually be getting more than 6hrs of sleep every night.

 

[kdonnel]

Somewhere between zero and hundreds of thousands have returned from WDW with Covid and have killed between zero and thousands of innocents as a result.

No one knows where the numbers fall on those scales.