So what do YOU do if you get sick the night before you fly to WDW?

[bicker]

 

[Mermaid02]

Depends on what you mean by "sick".

 

[swald91]

Our last trip my daughter kept saying she was sick to her stomach & felt like she was going to vomit-so we brought empty bags with us just in case...didn't need them on the plane. She did get sick later that night-did her business in the garbage can in the room-cleaned herself up & back to bed. If any family member is to be sick-it's her. She does what she needs to do without complaining & pulls herself together...now if it was my son.....the entire trip would have to be cancelled if he even had a slight cramp!!!

 

[golfgal]

I used to joke with our pediatrician that every time we booked a vacation I should just call her office and reserve an appointment time the day before the trip because someone ALWAYS got sick.

 

[MIGrandma]

Depends on what you call "sick." If it's just a sore throat/cold I will drug up and go. If it's the flu with vomiting/diahrrea and fever I would postpone the trip (that's what trip insurance is for).

 

[PattnFmly]

Luckily we've only gotten colds just before vacation. Nothing yucky. We just load up on decongestants and take it slow a couple days. Hope I never have to worry about it!

 

[bicker]

Depends on what you call "sick." If it's just a sore throat/cold I will drug up and go. If it's the flu with vomiting/diahrrea and fever I would postpone the trip (that's what trip insurance is for).

Interesting. Luckily, in this case, it's just a sore throat and some chest congestion, but in the latter case, how would you handle the fact that there are 7 other people on the reservation?

 

[golfgal]

Interesting. Luckily, in this case, it's just a sore throat and some chest congestion, but in the latter case, how would you handle the fact that there are 7 other people on the reservation?

Trip insurance will reimburse the one person that doesn't go.

 

[bicker]

Only for the airline ticket, though. Since the other seven people would still be going, there isn't any compensation coming from trip insurance for the hotel, the half-used annual pass, the pre-paid restaurant reservations, nor for the Tables In Wonderland card in the sick person's name. Trip Insurance is good stuff, but not a pancea.

I'm curious, though: Are you saying that you feel it is always best to skip a vacation trip if you have a sore throat?

(Of course, this is all academic: Often the sick person doesn't get a say in whether s/he goes or not. Such things are often decided by spousal edict. )

 

[golfgal]

Only for the airline ticket, though. Since the other seven people would still be going, there isn't any compensation coming from trip insurance for the hotel, the half-used annual pass, the pre-paid restaurant reservations, nor for the Tables In Wonderland card in the sick person's name. Trip Insurance is good stuff, but not a pancea.

I'm curious, though: Are you saying that you feel it is always best to skip a vacation trip if you have a sore throat?

(Of course, this is all academic: Often the sick person doesn't get a say in whether s/he goes or not. Such things are often decided by spousal edict. )

I wouldn't skip a trip for what is likely a cold. I WOULD call my dr, explain what is going on and ask for an antibiotic just in case or at least schedule an appointment.

It depends on what you bought when you got the trip insurance if they would cover all of those things or not. You can buy trip insurance that covered everything-it's expensive though.

Sorry, but my spouse would not be making the decision if I went on a vacation or not. He doesn't know how I feel and with my spouse he would be adding up the $$$ we spent for me not to go .

 

[marypoppinswannabe]

3 weeks before I went to WDW the last time, I got a cold and couldn't shake it. I was back in the dr's office the day before I left because I was so congested still. No fever, but got some medicine I could use right before I flew, so that my ears wouldn't hurt as bad. I also got some antibiotics just in case...

If I was running a fever 99.5 or greater, I would cancel the trip. If there were multiple people in my party, I would not expect them to cancel the trip.

 

[bicker]

I wouldn't skip a trip for what is likely a cold. I WOULD call my dr, explain what is going on and ask for an antibiotic just in case or at least schedule an appointment.

That was my initial instinct as well, but of course, the recording says to call back on Monday.

It depends on what you bought when you got the trip insurance if they would cover all of those things or not. You can buy trip insurance that covered everything-it's expensive though.

I've never seen any travel insurance that covers any part of a hotel charge to compensate for only seven people instead of eight; a half-used annual pass; or for a half-used Tables In Wonderland card in the sick person's name. You may be right about the pre-paid restaurant reservation, though.

Sorry, but my spouse would not be making the decision if I went on a vacation or not.

You live a charmed life.

He doesn't know how I feel and with my spouse he would be adding up the $$$ we spent for me not to go .

Yeah, in this case, spousal edict would stem from her weighing my medically-oriented discomfiture against her having to go and host my brothers and his in-laws.

 

[JessicaR]

I would head to a walk-in today, get a throat culture, and get a script for an antibiotic just in case. Lots of strep around here now.

 

[Pakey]

My answer might have been different a few years ago but after our experience last year, my answer would be to call in the trip insurance and cancel if it's anything more than a cold because I don't have the right to fly and pass my bug onto fellow travelers.

We come from the left coast with a long flight from LAX to MCO. Last year, 11 of us boarded that plane, along with a mother with some pretty sick children (you could look at them and tell they were sick). One of the kids was vomiting before the plane ever left LAX. But she took them; didn't want to ruin their Disney vacation. Unfortunately, she ruined ours because the 4 in our group sitting closest to them came down with it the next day and they spent the first 3 days of our vacation in their hotel room and the next 5 days participating minimally in our days due to their weakened condition.

 

[LunchladyDoris]

Curse.

 

[brockash]

I'd take an awful lot for me to not go on a scheduled WDW trip. I think I'd have to be pretty close to dying. You should see the medicine bag I bring with us when we go to WDW. I have every over the counter med. you could think of, and the sad part is that most of it's for my DH, who doesn't like WDw nearly as much as the rest of us, and will whine a lot more than my kiddos when he's sick.

 

[Nancyg56]

I would head to a walk in clinic and see what was wrong. I would not cancel for a cold but I sure would like to know what I had and if I could get an antibiotic that would kick it. Some of them can make you feel better in less than 24 hours and can contain it so that no one else gets infected.

Good Luck!

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

i got a sinus infection the one year just before we left for Florida. i just took some antihistamienes....aside from feeling a bit foggy in the head, i was ok.

my DBIL got really sick the day before he and his wife went on vacation, he was in the hospital and everything, he got released maybe 5 hours before their plane took off. he just slept the first day and he was fine afterwards.

DH told me about one time when he was younger he got the flu while on vacation with his parents and brother and instead of having one of the parents stay with him at the hotel room, his dad just carried him around to all of the places they visited(they went to Washington so they visisted museums and places like that).

 

[Disney Doll]

Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sore throat, cold, earache...the "usual" sicknesses that will be over in a day or two....I'd be sucking it up and going.

Something worse would get handled on a case by case basis depending on the severity.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

I woke up the morning of our trip with a sore throat which usually means I have a cold coming on. I brought some tea bags and asked for a cup of hot water on the plane. I also bought some Nyquil at the airport in case I needed it that night. I was fully excepting to spend the first week with a bad cold but it never really materialized. I took the Nyquil anyway the first night because we needed to get to sleep and we were still on West Coast time!