LogFAQs > #975002877

Arcanine2009 posted...

I'm going on a cruise in two weeks.

Wash your hands a lot. Cruises are known to harbor illnesses. Especially Norovirus.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Imodium or Pepto-Bismol or generic.
Those boats tend to get utterly infested with norovirus.

Maybe I'm biased because I just got back from one and had the most fun on a vactation in my entire life, but I think the risk is overblown. Cruise ships *have* to report any kind of outbreak, then it makes the headline news for some reason. If a resort/school/workplace anywhere else in the world has norovirus, it often goes unreported or no one cares.

The stigma is bad enough that all the cruise ship companies have tons of sanitary procedures. The buffet line on my ship had a mandatory hand washing station you had to pass through, complete with a silly "enforcer" staff member who dressed up in crazy costumes and sang weird songs about hand washing.