I hate to think how much it cost just to maintain a giant cruise ship. Has to be well over $25 million per year.
I bet it’s much more than $25,000. The crew size is huge and then you have the fuel and maintenance.
Now you have to add in the cost of constant testing on the ship and when someone inevitably tests positive or becomes ill you have the ships stores on board that are completely wasted.
The food is good and it ain’t cheap. Fuel and food costs have both become more expensive. The profit margin for this industry was not that great before the pandemic with cheap energy and food costs.
The only answer will be to find people willing to cruise who accept that someone on the boat will test positive and they don’t care, but I don’t think many of us fully realize what is still being done in the name of the pandemic. There are still thousands of Australian citizens who have not been allowed to return home for a year due to Covid. Canada is still shut down.
These are goofy times.