No Cruise Illness This Time

Above, kicking back in the stateroom.

It has been since Friday that I got home from the cruise to the Bahamas.

Before going further, I will state that it was a good trip and I had a fun time. Now, since I have been home since Friday evening, I have not come down with any trip-related illnesses. This is a first for me.

I have been on three cruises and of the three, I have come down with a bug of some sort during two of them. This is not unusual as about 1,500+ people are crammed into a ship passing along germs to each other.

The cruises where I caught a bug were:

• Alaska Cruise in 2000: I came down with a 24-hour flu during the cruise.
• Key West and Cuba Cruise in 2019: I caught a cold towards the end of the cruise.

Norwegian Cruise Lines had hand sanitizers available throughout the ship and a crew member stationed at the Garden Buffet entrances with sanitizer spray bottles to spray people's hands as they entered.  

I also tried to avoid touching hand rails and other things on the ship where a bug my lurk.

Being around other people in close spaces is bound to spread germs, but I have to consider myself lucky this time as I didn't catch any.