At the beginning of our trip we were warned by our tour director that there were limitations to any sort of medical support in the areas we were visiting should anyone develop a medical problem during the trip. I contracted covid 2 days before the end of the trip when we were in Girdwood which was a couple of miles from our hotel. I am a senior and a candidate for the anti-viral medication Paxlovid. In Girdwood there is no availability of taxis, urber/lyft and no rental car facilities. In Girdwood, there is a pharmacy and an urgent care center. The pharmacy had a defective phone system, I received a call back 6 days after the end of our trip. I later learned that they did not have Paxlovid. The urgent care facility intake person told me they were completely booked, would not allow me to connect with a nurse or physician and I never received a call back.
The concern I have is that the warnings we received after the tour started should have been made known by Tauck on their website and in the various information literature that was sent out at different times before the start of the trip. Had the magnitude of the concerns the tour director alerted us to after the start of the trip had been made available in the pre-trip information sources I probably would have elected not to go on this trip. Any senior citizen who is a candidate for anit-viral Rx if they contract Covid should consider obtaining this before the trip and to take it with them. And they should be aware that would be significant delay for medical support should a serious problem arise.
