Its all about the Benjamins.
Can they stay there, so we can be rid of around 1,700 of them?
I can imagine that there might be an equal number of classic car collectors with suitcases full of cash.
history of Carnival cruise lines
My math says Carnival hasn't been running anywhere for 50 years. Or is that another badly written headline?
...pollute the water, air & culture.
Worse, they stop at every Che poster or drawing for a selfie.
A couple of years ago, I watched a German documentary piece on the Carnival crowd. They had staked out some small port on the Dominican Republic and a boat would said in and off-load people at this fake upscale VIP landing area. It was totally fenced off and armed guards patrolling the perimeter. Outside of the fence? It was a third-world area....massive unemployment...and marginal conditions. As long as you stayed within the fence....you felt like a million bucks. So it was a fake gimmick that people liked and paid for.
I think the Cuban experience will be the same. Some bus will pull up and pick up the Carnival crowd....taking them to some fake upscale street with forty shops and a dozen coffee houses/pubs/restaurants. Some song and dance routine will occur, and after six hours along this controlled street area....they will be hustled back to the boat and talk for months and months over the fabulous “Che-Castro” street that they visited....all fake.
how long before tourists end up being arrested on trumped up charges?
remember this is a very restrictive regime that does not tolerate anybody not toe-ing the line
A friendly warning to anyone that may want to boycot carnival. They are but one of several lines that come under the P&O shipping. Princess and others belong to them.
How nice. The bandwagon is now in motion. I can hardly wait to see Americans stumbling over each other to get in line to go to Cuba, eager to spend their money to help prove that communism is really the best thing ever.
Unfortunately, their money will go to the castro regime, since the government owns all the means of production, including tourist facilities, and gets the vast majority of the profit.
Wasn’t the Carnival cruise line that had the “poop” cruise a couple of years ago?
