According to the newspaper, the lines of passengers at the cruise terminal stretched hundred of mete

The Voyager of the Seas has returned to Australia today after a 18 night cruise. Like the previous cruise, this cruise aboard the Voyager travel from hawaii to fiji ended with the cruise ship arriving in port with what appears to be hundreds of cruise passengers infected with norovirus.
We are beginning to receive emails from passengers who were sickened during the cruise (see comments below) and observed many incidences we saw of poor food handling and personal hygiene practices of both crew members and passengers.
A newspaper in Australia has an article about the problem facing passengers: Gastro Outbreak Hits Voyager of the Seas Passengers in Sydney Harbour . The article states that the boarding of the mega liner Voyager of the Seas was thrown into chaos today following an outbreak of a gastrointestinal illness thought travel from hawaii to fiji to be noro virus. travel from hawaii to fiji The article mentions that, according to Royal Caribbean, around travel from hawaii to fiji 135 passengers already aboard the ship were struck by the illness but disembarked in Sydney.
According to the newspaper, the lines of passengers at the cruise terminal stretched hundred of meters as frustrated cruisers were left waiting for hours under the sun - many unaware of the cause of the delay. The passengers were required to complete detailed medical travel from hawaii to fiji forms before they board, but quite frankly it should be the cruise line completing forms detailing the sickness of the cruise ship.
Many passengers were upset that the cruise line kept them in the dark. Some others were handed at the port an information sheet in which Royal Caribbean said those ill had been limited to ''a small percentage of guests.''
What is missing from the newspaper article is the fact that there was a massive outbreak of norovirus on this cruise ship during the prior cruise. No newspapers in Australia travel from hawaii to fiji reported on the disease outbreak and the cruise line kept mum too. You can read about the prior cruise and the problem with norovirus in our article: Norovirus Outbreak on Royal Caribbean's V oyager of the Seas ?
In hindsight if we had been made fully aware through official channels that there was an outbreak on the ship, we would have probably gone home as the last thing I needed was to catch a bout of Norovirus. There needs to be a lot more honesty and openness in this industry, as too many people are vulnerable and gullible when it comes to trusting these big cruise companies travel from hawaii to fiji who profess to have our best interests at heart. Never again RCCL!
November 24, 2012 Update : New Zealand newspaper picks up the story: Sickness Stalks Luxury Superliner As usual, no one in the media raises the issue of the cause of the outbreak. Contaminated food or water? Sick crew members? Or infected passengers coming travel from hawaii to fiji aboard?
My wife and I have just returned from 18 nights on Voyager of the Seas departing from Fremantle Nov 5th as both a 60th birthday celebration and to recuperate after recent surgery. travel from hawaii to fiji We met passengers coming off the ship who said that they and many passengers had been sick with Norovirus. travel from hawaii to fiji We were allowed to board about an hour after scheduled timing, but not able to go to our cabins for another three hours. The cabin stewards later admitted that they were sanitising the cabins but there was no offical comment at that stage. During the cruise staff sprayed door handles travel from hawaii to fiji and hand rails regularly. For the first four or five days they served travel from hawaii to fiji the meals in the buffet and then for the last two days as they were obviously losing the battle with the virus invasion. Despite the constant reminders to wash our hands lots of people got sick. Reportedly 150 cabins were quarantined but there was never any official travel from hawaii to fiji declaration that there was a real issue. At one stage my wife and I had to help an elderly gentleman who was obviously suffering from the virus find his way back to the sick bay - having been sent back to his cabin the day before travel from hawaii to fiji and who at the time was disoriented and lost, at the wrong end of the ship to where the only lift which accessed the medical centre was. My wife suffered from eye irritation for the whole trip, which flared after each spraying session and we believe it was linked to whatever it was they were using. We survived the trip despite this and the many incidences we saw of poor food handling and personal hygiene practices of both crew members and passengers. In hindsight if we had been made fully aware through official channels that there was an outbreak on the ship, we would have probably gone home as the last thing I needed was to catch a bout of Norovirus. There needs to be a lot more honesty travel from hawaii to fiji and openness in this industry, as too many people are vulnerable and gullible when it comes to trusting these big cruise companies who profess to have our best interests at heart. Never again RCCL!
I used to work on ships before. it was RCCL,so I know how things go on a ship. For us,one of the most important thing is to be safe(from the virus) If the guests would take our advise about washing hands,ssanitising it,would help a lot. In my six years of living on ships,I got Norovirus ONCE!!! Why?? Because I DO wash my hands...not because of others,because of MY SELF! Lot of other people should do the same. How many times I got this stupid excuse of mostly elderly people: "I WASHED MY HANDS WHEN I GOT ONBOARD...well,it was hours after bording. Dear future guests,USE those sanetizing machines. They're not there for fun!!!!!!
I worked over 16 years in Royal Caribbean and at all time we followed a very strict travel from hawaii to fiji sanitaizing sistem ,cleaning the ships at all time and giving all the facilities to all passengers to help themselves to avoid any kind of contagion or outbreaks but there is a huge amount of people they donÃÆ'‚´t follow those directions,I saw so many disgusting behavior coming from many persons from almost all over the world the most common going to toilette and NOT WASHING HANDS,many people refusing the use of hand sanitizers at the entrance of every food venue,people claning handnails with the fork at the table,many people looks like in the morning they go straight to dining room for breakfast without taking any shower smelling,stinking,being rude,some mothers (MANY)throw the baby food right on the tablecloth or high chair table without using plates travel from hawaii to fiji and this is just the tip of the iceberg without mentioning that many people donÃÆ'‚´t go onboard to enjoy the ports of call they just go to eat,carring food all over the ship at all time and of course not following travel from hawaii to fiji higienic pratices however any one wit a little common sense could tell that taking a cruise is very dangerous if you donÃÆ'‚´t keep an eye in all those points,a cruise ship is a confined space carring people from many differents places and very diverse ways of life so donÃÆ'‚´t put all the blame in the cruise ship ,me as a crew member I never been sick but I saw many passengers sick with G.I. and most of the passengers are also very abusive to the employees and I am sure they donÃÆ'‚´t talk to people on land either be taxi drivres,bank cashiers,supermarkets travel from hawaii to fiji ar any other like they talk to employees onboard,so my best advice is stay safe at home .
i am working in RCCL .i will say just one thing.royal caribbean travel from hawaii to fiji is so strict about cleaning.we cant finish our job and go to our cabins and rest.why there must be sanitizing aswell...if there is virus or no.so please nobody can tell me royal caribbean doesnt care about people.royal caribbean is the company that can fire all command of chain (captain,staff captain,f&b manager,hotel director) because of their cleaning policy. (it happened before that's why i know.so please..be respectful litte bit.my message goes to the people who goes to cruise eat like piggies and doesnt even wash hands.
travel from hawaii to fiji I have just come back from cruise(rhapsody of seas) 3 nov. There was a outbreak on board. Some stupid man came on board sick, 800 peopleended up sick. I have to say the crew NEVER stopped leaning and sanitizing. They were marvelous.
It was horrendous and I will never travel on such a large ship again. On boarding it was 9pm before we got towels or toilet paper in our cabin due to the whole ship being sanatised.The staff worked until all hours trying to rid the ship of the virus. There were no coffee facilities in the cabins due to the kettles being taken away due to the sanatisation and they then appeared in our cabins after 11 days at sea. i am not surprised that the Norovirus kept re-occurring. I personally witnessed in the dining room plates with food remnants taken to the service area and scrapped into a bin by a waiter who had no gloves on who then went on to serve at a table and he didn't wash his hands which is unacceptable. Waiters should wear gloves when clearing plates and wash hands before serving again. We also did see people avoiding the hand sanatising machines. Also people did fill up their water bottles travel from hawaii to fiji in the Cafe Promenade when staff wern't looking giving rise to cross contamination. There are several areas that need looking at to keep this virus at bay..another example is that there were no hand santisers at the lifts which surely is a must as everyone uses the lifts. I also saw a waiter sneeze several times into the cloth he used for his tray. Apparently some people were emailed the night before the cruise travel from hawaii to fiji to give them a chance to cancel because of the Norovirus..we didn't receive an email and for those that did the night before was a disgrace travel from hawaii to fiji given RCCL knew the virus was on board at least a week beforehand. I would never had taken the cruise travel from hawaii to fiji if I had known about the virus. I won't be travelling with RCCL again.
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