“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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whitney69 wrote: “Any less than being sued by the passengers whether injured or not because they didn’t take the safety of their passengers into consideration.”
Read the cruise contract. You gave up the right to sue. Mandatory arbitration. All the things you mentioned would be evidence that they did take the safety of their passengers into consideration. An arbitration would consider weather a inherent danger of being on the sea.