The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth II arrived in San Francisco last night on a round-the world cruise, the first time the ship has visited here since 2000.

Unfortunately, the visit was not much of a high point for a percentage of the passengers. Over 300 passengers and crew got sick with norovirus — that’s about 9 percent of passengers — though only 4 were still sick by the time they got here. The illness causes stomach and intestinal upset. Sick passengers were confined to their cabins, but received “free medical attention,” a chirpy woman reported on KPIX. She added that anti-contagion measures included the loss of condiments from dinner tables, and “they even took away the fancy menu covers, and we were handed paper menus — which we then destroyed.”

No one got a refund.