A long article, but I feel the recovery will take years.
What do you think? -Tom
Frankly, I don’t see cruise ships being an issue; there’s no particular reason they have to be more risky, and they probably were NOT more risky, you just need to take precautions.
And if a cruise line goes bankrupt, someone will buy it out, a bunch of investors will lose money, but the cruise ships will be back out sailing.
Until COVID-19 mitigation efforts through a really effective vaccine become widely available, expect many cruise lines to put their ships into mothballs for years to come. I wouldn’t be surprised that the likes of Royal Caribbean and Carnival start scrapping a lot of older ships over the next three years.
I dunno. The cruise industry was having lots of problems with ships coming into port with lots of sick passengers WELL BEFORE Covid-19. These floating super-hotels appear to have massive sanitation problems — particularly in food services.
Wish I knew when we can cruise again. I think this extending the ban by a month or two every month or two can go on for years.
I’m certainly grateful for the dozen or so past cruises and hope for a few more.
Its not Sept...its till the end of Oct ...
I’ve known numerous folks who have gone for cruises and have said they enjoyed them. I’m not motivated on going on one, as I can stay at home and read a book and raid my fridge without it costing me the price of a cruise. I like history and might consider a cruise in the Med visiting historic ports, but no in the Caribbean. And I don’t want to take a chance of the ship I’m on disappearing into the Bermuda Triangle.
I have known a whole lot of people who recovered from the many bumps in life’s road . . . until they didn’t.
I’m really bad at predicting the future, but it’s possible that this most recent bump will be too big for the cruise industry. It’s also possible that the public has the attention span of a gnat and will happily go back to cruising with Norovirus as soon as Corona goes back to just being a cheap beer.