Re: Cruise booked for 2018
Originally Posted by
SallyS
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Port excursions : But you are restricted to the ships sailing timings aren't you?
Yes of course but that's not what you said. You said there were regimented visits. Maybe I misunderstood what you meant. It's a given on a cruise that you will be visiting many places but most for only part of one day. Each port has very strict berthing schedules which cost the cruise companies many tens of thousands of pounds, even for just one day. So yes, you need to be back on board in a timely fashion so the ship can depart on time and they will rightly leave you behind if you don't play ball.
Originally Posted by
SallyS
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I think it was seeing the plates piled high that put us off
Which suggests you ate in the "smash n grab" buffets rather than having a "proper" meal in the restaurants where you are served specific meals by waiters in peace and comfort.
Worth also noting that when there is the slightest hint of Norovirus on board a cruise ship you NEVER EVER visit the buffet. That's the No1 place where the virus will be spread.
You only ever use your cabin toliet, keep hands off handrails and never directly touch lift buttons. All very simple and obvious measures but it's surprising how many uneducated people there are with hands everywhere. Those people typically get ill quickly.
Originally Posted by
SallyS
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No, I had norovirus, and it did take me several months to get over, I was very ill, hospitalised with it
OK, just seems odd. Norovirus is a gastrointestinal virus which makes you constantly throw up as well as having the runs. So are you saying you were throwing up multiple times every day for months???
Originally Posted by Realist
Norovirus can be treated quickly and easily using Grapefruit Seed Extract. I recovered from Norovirus in just 12 hours using GSE and allowing my fever to run its course.
Originally Posted by
SallyS
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errr, you think so?
Yep. As I wrote, I did it.
Ship's Doc said I'd be ill for 72 hours and I was naturally confined to cabin. Doc said I had a fever and told me to take Paracetamol to bring it down.
I knew better [research !] so I refused the Paracetamols and allowed my fever to run which is vital to combatting bugs and viruses.
Drank water with drops of GSE in it which kill the bugs in minutes.
In total I threw up only 3 times. I was clear of the symptoms after just 12 hours, eating normally again at that point.
Conventional Big Pharma mantra won't tell you about such things. They would prefer you stayed ill as long as they can string it out so you buy their products and treatments.
To be ill with the virus for months you must have had a poor immune system. I would also hazard a guess that you took something to bring down the fever, paracetamols, aspirins or something with those in. That's a fatal mistake, if you did. It means the virus is free to multiply and replicate at will resulting in them quickly over running your body to the point it can't cope. The result is long drawn out bouts of illness and fatigue.
Cruises are brilliant holidays mostly but you take the good with the bad when you are at sea. Sometimes you get good weather sometimes not, sometimes calms seas, sometimes rough. The more you cruise the more accustomed you get to these things. Overall though the best way to travel imho.