[Capt. Tom]

All those relatively well-off people giving account numbers for tickets, optional activities, shopping and such. Would you give your card number if you knew the database was compromised? I think I'd skip that cruise.

The problem of course is the system wasn't compromised when the passengers gave that info to the cruise line.-Tom

[ZOOKER]

Identity theft and denial of service ransomware are just more reasons not to sign up in the first place.

Along with the chance of an outbreak causing last-minute cancellation of the cruise...
And the chance of outbreak while confined onboard...
And the chance of outbreak at your destination, so you're confined on board...
Or outbreak at your destination, such that you're quarantined and not allowed to get back onboard...
or the chance you'll lose your money when the cruise line goes belly up before you depart.

I know, I'm leaving out terrorist attacks, unrelated plague outbreaks, political unrest, undersea mines ...

[Tennessee Nana]

For most cruises the final payment day is 90 days before the cruise...at that time we get access to online check in and part of that process includes setting up an account for onboard purchases including shore excursions etc...a credit card is usually required...

Right now were not giving the info about our credit cards because most cruise lines arent allowing the passengers access to online check in until a couple of weeks before the cruise and we havent cruised for nearly a year...so the cruise lines do not have our credit card info as yet...

Plus few passengers ever got close to that 90 day window after the first couple of months of the ban because the cruise lines extended the payment date and then the cruise was cancelled etc...