Quote Originally Posted by CTslotters View Post
We had a great time, we left on Feb 29th and the week of March 2nd is when everything really started to explode on the virus front in the US. We had our updates with the news stories in the WSJ, but we didn't have internet on the ship and limited tv channels anyways (not that we watched much since we tend to completely unplug on vacation). Docking on March 8th and turning on our phones and catching up was eerie. It's like we came back to another world - which in a way, we did. If our sailing was a week later, I'm not sure we would have been so eager to travel.
We got off the Carnival Panorama the same time you got off your ship except our ship's disembarkation was held at the Long Beach port for one additional night before anyone got off as one passenger was Covid 19 tested and the 4000 of us had to wait for the results. Thank god the passenger was negative but it was nerve wracking for all of us. The three Mexican ports (Cabo, PV and Mazatlan) we travelled to that week were already out of face masks and hand sanitizer. Needless to say it was chaos for the 4000 embarking passengers since they could not get on the ship since we could not get off it. I have no idea were 1500+ hotel rooms were found to put these 1000's of waiting passengers. This was a true nightmare.