whitney69 wrote: “No way of knowing. I do know that the group of passengers that were around us in the stairwell before being allowed to get off the ship at the first excursion were not happy. I do think if they had offered not to take the cruise for the weather problem and told the passengers what might happen, and did, a number of passengers would have cancelled...”
Airlines don’t give notifications of rough flights or other weather effects. Why would cruise lines?
One issue would be returning those who wished to cancel to the US. Most of those ports in alaska have very small airports. If they cancelled the whole cruise it would be a complete nightmare arranging transportation.
Now, if you’re talking about a pre-cruise cancellation, no cruise line is going to offer something like that. Pre-cruise cancellations would require a complete refund plus a very significant amount of compensation. almost unaffordable. That’s incredible rare even during hurricane season in the gulf.
“Pre-cruise cancellations would require a complete refund plus a very significant amount of compensation.”
Any less than being sued by the passengers whether injured or not because they didn’t take the safety of their passengers into consideration.
They knew of the rough seas and the possible danger before they left port in Seattle. They didn’t tell anyone about it nor why they were shutting down early for the opening night. They made efforts to try to seem normal during the early part of the evening even while closing off the outside and not telling people of the possible danger they were putting them in.
The larger ships that do Alaska for this line can carry up to 4000 passengers. At one million a case, and the lawyer will get his/her portion, that comes to $4 billion dollars. The cost of one of the newest cruise ships for Royal Caribbean’s Oasis Class cruise ships, not the line I was on, comes in at $1.4 billion. So if just around a quarter of the passengers on my cruise had sued, it would have cost them close to the cost of building one ship at today’s prices and the cruise I’m talking about happened 30 years ago when the ships were not that expensive.
So like I said, the cruise company was more interested in their money than they were in the safety of the passengers they were carrying when they gambled no one might get hurt. This isn’t backing up toilets, it’s bodily injury.
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