Oh dear

[IanT]

From todays Sun:-
UP to 400 passengers, including Brits, were last night trapped in their cabins on a luxury cruise ship after it was hit by a vomiting bug.

Officials at Shanghai in China told stunned travellers aboard the plagued Diamond Princess that they must spend 48 hours in quarantine.


Health and safety bosses were on the verge of forbidding the £250million liner, one of the world’s largest, from even docking.

But they eventually decided to let 2,000 healthy passengers ashore.


However, other people, including 13 crew members, were holed up in their rooms to prevent the highly contagious norovirus spreading.


The bug hit the ship on Sunday evening as it sailed from Japan.

The tourists, including hundreds of Brits, each paid out around £4,000 for the three-week voyage to Beijing.


John Lloyd, 69, from Stevenage, Herts, spoke to The Sun from his cabin as the liner moored at Shanghai.

He said: “We’re quarantined until 7.30am tomorrow, cooped up here with this virus. It has been hellish.

“It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime.”

Michelle Eist’s parents, angina-sufferer Adrian and Rosemary Fowler, of Margate, Kent, were also quarantined.

She said: “I am worried about what this virus will do to my father’s health.

“He is very poorly at the moment.


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“The trip cost a lot and we’d have hoped for better treatment.”


The liner is owned by Princess Cruises, part of the group which also owns P&O cruises.


A spokesman said: “We have taken measures to stop the spread of illness, including asking passengers who are unwell to isolate themselves.”


c.spratt@the-sun.co.uk

[sparkieplug24]

load of fuss about nothing as usual. trapped in their cabins typical gutter press tactics what did they do lock them in from the outsideroflmao.

However passengers with this virus shouldnt be walking around the ship anyway thats how this thing spreads person to person contact with healthy and infected people.

You know that we hear a lot about this on cruise ships but its just as rife in hotels the difference is that hotels dont need to report it cruise ships do under maritime laws surprisesmi

[danthebiscuitman]

"Hoped for better treatment" What do they expect? I think that being confined to cabin makes sense, and it's one of those things. If she was fine she would expect everybody else to be confined to stop her contracting it! I bet she would have moaned if they weren't and she was fine! As they say you can't please all the people all the time!

On our last cruise, we met a passenger who was bragging that he had been confined to cabin but left every day to get lunch and dinner. Well the look i gave him think summed it up! People like that literally "make me sick!" We got up and left but that didn't stop him trying to tell us he was going to try and sue P&O for a ruined holiday as we tried to leave!

[sparkieplug24]

"Hoped for better treatment" What do they expect? I think that being confined to cabin makes sense, and it's one of those things. If she was fine she would expect everybody else to be confined to stop her contracting it! I bet she would have moaned if they weren't and she was fine! As they say you can't please all the people all the time!

On our last cruise, we met a passenger who was bragging that he had been confined to cabin but left every day to get lunch and dinner. Well the look i gave him think summed it up! People like that literally "make me sick!" We got up and left but that didn't stop him trying to tell us he was going to try and sue P&O for a ruined holiday as we tried to leave!


Wonder many will try and sue now because they got sicktut.

I can hear the tills at the lawyers offices pinging as a type this tut

[wakelover]

If people followed ship rules re cleanliness (and I include 'crew' in that statement) then half of these outbreaks wouldnt happen tut

It never fails to amaze me even how many ladies don't wash their hands after using the ladies loo. Furthermore those who take food from buffets with their hands... I do think children should also be supervised at buffets as they are often not aware that they should use the tongs etc....

[wakelover]

On P&O Ventura I asked where the hand santiser was for the main dining room - 'we dont have one' was the reply. tut

[yorkshirephil]

Yep..its that time of year again. Can't beat a good dose of winter vomitting bug, detox and weight loss in one go.sticksms

[nanny]

We were on the Oceana a few years ago when the Norovirus hit.
Some passengers were unwell for the best part of 2 weeks couldn't seem to shake it off.
Hubby and I both went down with it but fortunately it only lasted 48 hrs. On one occassion whilst I was in the bathroom and hubby in bed a knock came on the door 2 men came into our room dressed in the white overalls - sprayed the room and left. I knew nothing until i reappeared from the bathroom - thought hubby was joking at first whistlesm
UNCLEAN - UNCLEAN - BRING OUT YOUR DEAD whistlesm whistlesm Pam

[timespliters]

Yep..its that time of year again. Can't beat a good dose of winter vomitting bug, detox and weight loss in one go.sticksms
Glad you look on the bright side giggle

[sparkieplug24]

If people followed ship rules re cleanliness (and I include 'crew' in that statement) then half of these outbreaks wouldnt happen tut

It never fails to amaze me even how many ladies don't wash their hands after using the ladies loo. Furthermore those who take food from buffets with their hands... I do think children should also be supervised at buffets as they are often not aware that they should use the tongs etc....

I have a big thing about this buffet thing and if I ever when get anything from the buffet I accidently touch something with my hands I aways take it even if I didnt want it. Why should someone have to eat something that I touch.

On the last cruise on the oceana they had a kids tea for the 12 and under where adults are supposed to accompany the kids to dinner it amazes me the number of kids of around 6 and 7 unaccompanied at this buffet. One night a young child a few people in front of us in the queue almost got burnt trying to reach the chips that where at the back of the buffet hot plate (thing for keeping the food hot think its called that) if hadnt been for the intervention by a passing staff member (think he was chef or other kitchen staff not a waiter) the child would have been burned. He then helped the other 6 people in the queue in front of us all of whom where young unaccompanied children to get theirs oldest was about 9. My question here is this who would the parents blame if a child got burnt???? Also the number of kids who picked things up and put them back.

I was also at the buffet one lunch when a woman in front of me was getting herself some chips and dropped some of them on to the counter she then proceeded to pick them up and put them back in the dish. My niece turned to her and said thats disgusting you should have seen the look the woman gave her. But my niece being my niece stood her ground and said well it is isnt Donna and I said yes it is your quite right blushredsm

[danthebiscuitman]

It's not just the touching of food, but the people who don't have the manners to turn away and sneeze or cough. Sneezing and coughing over food is far worse and more likely to spread infectious germs.

I wouldn't say this is limited to cruising, it's just as bad at places like Pizza hut, Toby carvery, salad bars and don't even get me started on the peanuts some pubs still insist on putting out!!!!

The glass canopies around self service aren't there for decoration, they are actually sneeze gaurds, but they aren't that effective.

[nanny]

(I wouldn't say this is limited to cruising, it's just as bad at places like Pizza hut, Toby carvery, salad bars and don't even get me started on the peanuts some pubs still insist on putting out!!!!)


Yes I agree and on a training course on one occassion we were told that men were the worst offenders for not washing their hands after using the loo, and just remember it wasn't me who said that!


As for the Oceana outbreak I complained to a member of staff about letting people fill up their water bottles from the taps in the buffet area - ponting out to the staff member that these people probably were not going to put the water into a glass to drink it - eventually the buffet area was closed down for meals on this cruise.

[moonflower]

I picked up the norovirus when I visted a friend in hospital. This bug can stike anywhere, but the press just love it when it is on a cruise ship

[wakelover]

I must admit moonflower they do love to tell the world... it is annoying though when you see folks handling food or coming out of the loo not having washed their hands... makes me cross huffs