“According to Cruise Critic, Carnival CEO Arnold Donald said there was a communication sent out erroneously that said voyages would resume on August 1”
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.
Years ago when we would cruise the Caribbean on Cruise ships we would also have a vacation where we would charter a sailboat and sail the various Caribbean Islands, on our own.
On our last Caribbean sailboat charter many years ago,we did not get back our $500 deposit when we returned home .
The Charter company went out of business.
I felt bad for the people after us who payed the full bill,and flew to St. Thomas in the Caribbean , only to find out the Charter Company was gone and no sailboats available for them. They lost everything.- Tom
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