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Good thread; cute title. More of a General Travel topic, yet will probly help more here. The only time I have been ill on a trip was a flu relapse on a cramped Blackbeards, not only ruining the trip but no resources available at sea and no help from the crew. If one had to get sick, Coz would be a nice place for it - but I'd rather avoid it still.
AI buffets are indeed worrisome. The last time I stayed at one, I needed something, could not find a waiter anywhere, so went back into the kitchen. No cooking. It all all been delivered from another location, leaving me to wonder about the handling? The next day, I tried to eat at the outdoor lunch buffet still wearing my dive skin - but the lukewarm food had flies walking on it. The drunks were eating it, but I couldn't. I marched over to the restaurant still wearing my dive skin, sit down at an outdoor table, and they waited on me ok. I escaped that place a couple days later and swore to never repeat a Coz AI! I've done one since in Roatan but no problems, altho I avoid salads.
I have no concerns about the Coz restaurants, their ice, etc, altho again I avoid salads. The hotels I've stayed since the AI escape have all supplied filtered RO water in room pitchers, but I like to make full pots of coffee in room and mix kool-aid or crystal lite for my own jugs so I just grab a 5 gallon bottle of RO water to take to the room, or tip a porter to bring me one. Tilt to pour works ok.
I don't like the idea of taking Pepto as a preventative, but maybe some actually need to. I do take a few boxes in my bag just in case, whether I go to a country south of the Rio Grande, to another state, over even within Texas. Food mistakes happen anywhere, but I never eat anything cooked at a US convenience store. :shocked2:
On physician made a good case for a 5 year typhus vaccine, but I didn't. I just stick to the safer choices as I travel.
Hydrating early and often is important to traveling and to diving both, so I work at it - not until I arrive unfortunately as I hate airplane lavatories and looking for airport heads, but once at the hotel - aggressively!
And I test every tank I breath to rule that out.
AI buffets are indeed worrisome. The last time I stayed at one, I needed something, could not find a waiter anywhere, so went back into the kitchen. No cooking. It all all been delivered from another location, leaving me to wonder about the handling? The next day, I tried to eat at the outdoor lunch buffet still wearing my dive skin - but the lukewarm food had flies walking on it. The drunks were eating it, but I couldn't. I marched over to the restaurant still wearing my dive skin, sit down at an outdoor table, and they waited on me ok. I escaped that place a couple days later and swore to never repeat a Coz AI! I've done one since in Roatan but no problems, altho I avoid salads.
I have no concerns about the Coz restaurants, their ice, etc, altho again I avoid salads. The hotels I've stayed since the AI escape have all supplied filtered RO water in room pitchers, but I like to make full pots of coffee in room and mix kool-aid or crystal lite for my own jugs so I just grab a 5 gallon bottle of RO water to take to the room, or tip a porter to bring me one. Tilt to pour works ok.
I don't like the idea of taking Pepto as a preventative, but maybe some actually need to. I do take a few boxes in my bag just in case, whether I go to a country south of the Rio Grande, to another state, over even within Texas. Food mistakes happen anywhere, but I never eat anything cooked at a US convenience store. :shocked2:
On physician made a good case for a 5 year typhus vaccine, but I didn't. I just stick to the safer choices as I travel.
Hydrating early and often is important to traveling and to diving both, so I work at it - not until I arrive unfortunately as I hate airplane lavatories and looking for airport heads, but once at the hotel - aggressively!
And I test every tank I breath to rule that out.