--- description: Passengers are thought to have contracted the norovirus title: Royal Caribbean Cruise Cut Short After 200 Passengers Fall Ill image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Royal Caribbean Cruise Cut Short After 200 Passengers Fall Ill by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2015 7:55 PM CUT by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2015 7:55 PM CUT A Royal Caribbean cruise liner cut short a nine-day voyage to Jamaica after about 200 passengers and crew members got sick. The Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship returned to a Baltimore port a day early Monday after many passengers began exhibiting symptoms of the highly contagious norovirus, including vomiting and diarrhea, the Baltimore _Sun_ reports. A Royal Caribbean spokesman said about 10% of the ship’s passengers had fallen ill and were being treated with over-the-counter medication aboard the boat. Two illness outbreaks occurred on the ship last year, making about 200 passengers sick. Royal Caribbean said the ship would receive a full cleaning and disinfection and that its terminal would be sanitized. \[[_Baltimore Sun_](http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/ports-rail/bs-bz-norovirus-20150203-story.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3694248/royal-caribbean-cruise-norovirus-baltimore/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3694248/royal-caribbean-cruise-norovirus-baltimore/"},"headline":"Royal Caribbean Cruise Cut Short After 200 Passengers Fall Ill","datePublished":"2015-02-03T19:55:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:07:07.861Z","description":"Passengers are thought to have contracted the norovirus","url":"https://time.com/3694248/royal-caribbean-cruise-norovirus-baltimore/","keywords":["Travel","norovirus","cruises"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Victor Luckerson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3694248/royal-caribbean-cruise-norovirus-baltimore/","name":"Royal Caribbean Cruise Cut Short After 200 Passengers Fall Ill"}}]}] ```