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Last updated: 12:21 PM ET, Fri June 12 2020 Carnival CEO Unsure When Cruises Will Return, Says Demand Still High
Travel Pulse ^ | June 12, 2020 | DONALD WOOD

Posted on 06/14/2020 1:19:33 PM PDT by Capt. Tom

The CEO of Carnival Cruise Line recently said in an interview that he doesn’t know when the cruise line will sail again.
According to Cruise Critic, Carnival CEO Arnold Donald said there was a communication sent out erroneously that said voyages would resume on August 1. Donald told the website in an exclusive interview that he doesn’t “know when we’ll sail again.”
While the press release claimed eight ships would begin sailing from the ports of Galveston, Miami and Port Canaveral, Donald revealed the message was not “a pronouncement that we are coming back on August 1.” Donald said the false announcement proved to be “one of the most insightful mistakes we've ever made,” since it caused bookings to skyrocket, signifying many travelers are ready to sail as soon as voyages recommence.

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To: leaning conservative

Noooo!!
I will definitely cruise again, but not on Thanksgiving!


21 posted on 06/14/2020 4:47:57 PM PDT by ANKE69
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To: Ann Archy
I just made Diamond on Royal when the virus hit. If I cruise on Celebrity, I can transfer my status to Elite.

That's why I waited, to get the status before trying them out.

-PJ

22 posted on 06/14/2020 4:55:44 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Capt. Tom
pj, any input on the trump cruise? -Tom

It's definitely...ON!!! In fact the deals at Celebrity cruises are now so good I am planning on booking ANOTHER cruise for next June. Alaska.

23 posted on 06/14/2020 5:39:56 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Klobuchar's Hubby Took HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE!!!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
No Tump Victory Cruise?

It's definitely ON! Remember, the cruise is in December. Cruises will commence months before then.

24 posted on 06/14/2020 5:42:59 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Klobuchar's Hubby Took HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE!!!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
No Tump Victory Cruise?

It's definitely ON! Remember, the cruise is in December. Cruises will commence months before then.

25 posted on 06/14/2020 5:42:59 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Klobuchar's Hubby Took HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE!!!)
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To: ANKE69

; )


26 posted on 06/14/2020 5:43:09 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: Ann Archy
I'm encouraging everybody to check out my Trump 2020 Victory Cruise VIDEO. It's definitely ON for December.
27 posted on 06/14/2020 5:48:09 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Klobuchar's Hubby Took HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix
pj, any input on the trump cruise? -Tom

It's definitely...ON!!! In fact the deals at Celebrity cruises are now so good I am planning on booking ANOTHER cruise for next June. Alaska.

Glad to hear that.
I made a mistake when I included Celebrity under Carnival.

Coincidently my last flying, staying cruise was 6 years ago, on the Celebrity Summit. It was a good cruise.

The last 5 years , because of my wife's health(Alzheimer's) we get driven to the Cruise ship, and keep a low profile onboard, and she still enjoys the cruises. -Tom

28 posted on 06/14/2020 6:03:01 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: Political Junkie Too

The perks on Celebrity are WAY better than Royal!! Your cruising life will change because of both cocktail hours!! You’ll meet MANY great friends!!


29 posted on 06/15/2020 2:13:59 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

I learned to LOVE martinis on my Celebrity cruise last November. I must have downed a MINIMUM of a dozen per day at the martini ice bar on that cruise.


30 posted on 06/15/2020 7:56:30 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Klobuchar's Hubby Took HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE!!!)
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To: Capt. Tom
Keep in mind that the cost of our Trump 2020 Victory Cruise has DROPPED tremendously. As a matter of fact, when I first signed up to be on this upcoming cruise while I was still on the last cruise, I got the bill aboard ship and almost had a heart attack due to the cost being so high. I immediately found Ian the Cruise Guy who was with us and he calmed me down by telling me that was the cost to the regular passenger, NOT the discount for the group which he assured me would be lower. He told me the final price would be determined in the near future after he worked on the discounts. BTW, I gave a refundable deposit so I could always bail out if I weren't satisfied with the final cost.

Okay, I felt better after he told me that so in my mind I had what the highest and the lowest cost could be and then after the coronavirus hit, I found out the new cost from Ian and it was WAAAAAAY below my lowest estimate.

Keep in mind that this is aboard the Celebrity Edge which is the most LUXURIOUS ship of Celebrity which is already a luxury cruise line.

31 posted on 06/15/2020 8:12:09 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Klobuchar's Hubby Took HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Are you a guy or girl?


32 posted on 06/15/2020 8:56:23 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy
Are you a guy or girl?

Let me check... I think I am a guy although I could transition to girl before the cruise.

33 posted on 06/15/2020 9:19:50 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Klobuchar's Hubby Took HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix

LOL!! Just asking because martinis are usually a girl’s drink....or James Bond.


34 posted on 06/15/2020 9:23:17 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Well, there were sure a lot of guys at that martini ice bar at my last cruise. I did a video about that ice bar but had to edit out a part in which a woman at the ice bar is flirting with me while I was trying to describe one of the martinis. Don’t want to get in trouble with my wife. I already got in enough trouble when I went to a rum festival a few years ago and something similar happened.


35 posted on 06/15/2020 9:50:10 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Klobuchar's Hubby Took HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix

OKAY....I was NOT going to tell you this fact....BUT the Martini Bar is where the GAY and LESBIANS meet EVERY NIGHT! It’s the LGBTQ nightly gathering......that girl was maybe NOT a girl! Stick to the RUM!


36 posted on 06/15/2020 3:32:02 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

We went on a cruise but not that type of cruising.


37 posted on 06/15/2020 6:30:32 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Klobuchar's Hubby Took HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Not a gay cruise...every night at a certain time on Celebrity, the gays meet at the martini bar! Be careful....:)


38 posted on 06/16/2020 3:28:13 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Capt. Tom
more cancellations-excerpt
Travel Pulse, Lauri Baratti, June 16,2020

Leading global cruise company Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NCL)—which operates the Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises brands—today announced its decision to extend a current suspension of all of its global cruise voyages to those departures scheduled to embark between August 1 and September 30, 2020, across all three of its brands. The cancellations do not, however, include Seattle-based Alaska voyages scheduled to sail in September 2020.snip

Further, select cruises, including Canada and New England sailings, will also be canceled through October 2020, owing to ongoing port and travel restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

39 posted on 06/17/2020 11:47:01 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: BobL; gibsonguy; NormsRevenge; Chgogal; Ann Archy; dennisw; entropy12; Captain Walker; ...
Sorry for being cynical, but Carnival announced August 1, a LONG TIME AGO. If it was a really a ‘communication error’, they wouldn’t have taken weeks to ‘correct it’. But what they did accomplish was separating thousands more people from their money, through their policy of making it quite cumbersome to get a refund. And that’s important, as they still have payments to make on their big boats.

Yesterday CARNIVAL announced it is going to sell 6 cruiseships ,not named, within the next 90 days.

CARNIVAL had a 4.4 billion dollar loss in the 2nd Qtr of 2020.

IMHO CARNIVAL has about 28 ships in its organization. -Tom

40 posted on 06/19/2020 11:08:26 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
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