Highpox1

Have I got the answer for you...... first I need to post a few pics. The very nice, beautiful beach picture is the one RC uses to sell the excursion. This is not Costa Maya. This is a stock photo of a beach somewhere else in the world. It is a plain and simple egregious misrepresentation to sell an excursion. The photos I am posting are the ones I took on the beach, if that is what you want to call this. Yes it was overcast, and yes there was seaweed piling up. Clearly this was never a good beach to start with. It is a run down, over used, beat up water front with a heavy influx of seaweed, so bad in fact they had to build a seaweed fence.. The breakwater is way out by a small reef, and yes you can swim out to it and see some fish. But don't get too excited on this one. Also be aware that just behind the 'beach' are about 20 hungry people trying to sell you everything they can, aggressively. Going to the bathrooms up there require this trip thru a gauntlet of high pressured vendors....

We did the eMEd tests ordered straight from eMed.com. The 6 pack was $150, cheaper than ordering the exact same tests from RC.. They worked like a charm. Logged in and the online nurses were perfect on execution of the tests. All passed, and we printed out our PDF sheets saying we passed... That being said- the check in process involved showing the nice folks at the terminal our sheets, and they checked them off when they saw the word PASSED and the date of the test. Ahh....would someone even show up to the terminal with a test that said FAILED. No, why? They wouldn't be allowed to board. Meaning that every single person there is coming in with a negative test written on a piece of paper, that someone reads. Do you know how easy it is to edit a PDF file? I can in about 1 minute. If I had just paid thousands of dollars for a cruise, and had a double bar on a test, and it showed I had Covid, and others in my party had passed ( so I had their PDF files handy), it would be extremely easy to create a new PDF for me using an Acrobat editor. Just saying... I have no idea if anyone did this, or would want to, but after our cruise (late May) all 4 of us came down with COVID 3-5 days after we got back. It wasn't bad, but we got in on the ship. So someone had it and brought it on board. Yup.