Posted on 07/13/2021 10:35:21 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
This was supposed to be a summer of love for the cruise line industry, but the bounce for Carnival , and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings is starting to take on water.
Carnival -- the world's largest cruise line -- has just one cruise ship currently sailing out of Florida. Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line are also finding it hard to build momentum during the peak summer travel season. With the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis trading shots in disagreeing with sailing guidelines, it's the cruise lines that are now caught in the crossfire. Shareholders and cruise line fans are starting to pay the price.
Shore excursions Governor DeSantis was standing up for the cruise industry just a few months ago, battling it out with the CDC over requirements that each individual ship complete costly test sailings or demand that 95% of passengers -- and an even greater number of its crew members -- be vaccinated to resume operations. Just a few weeks ago, he was threatening cruise lines to fine them if they required that passengers wear masks out of Florida-originating itineraries.
The fallout isn't pretty. According to The Miami Herald, Carnival will be joining Royal Caribbean in requiring that unvaccinated passengers older than 12 buy new COVID-19 travel insurance if they're leaving from Florida ports come August.
Now we're at the point where the brands may be forced to alienate some customers as the restart process gets politicized between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.
Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Line are generating negligible revenue. International travel restrictions remain in place. All three cruise line stocks are now roughly 20% below where they were earlier this year. In short, it hasn't been such a bon voyage.
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The Motley Fool also has picked up on the vaccinated vs unvaccinated aspect.
When cruise lines are back to sailing all their ships and have to fill them to capacity, will alienated cruisers be there for them? -Tom
When cruise lines are back to sailing all their ships and have to fill them to capacity, will alienated cruisers be there for them? -Tom
LOL! It seems cruising is going full "Flight Attendant" on it's consumers.
Let it all die.
I know someone who flew all the way to the Greece for a Royal Caribbean cruise.
Got denied access for a covid technicality and got sent home.
What laws have been passed to protect private businesses from covid lawsuits?
“will alienated cruisers be there for them?”
My limited experience says no. I know a few people who have their cruises canceled. They had prior cruising experiences and are pissed. They won’t be returning.
over 12 get the jab or else?
They are not following the science.
Cruise industry already has 185,000,000 vaxxed customers waiting to book cruises.
Most vaxxed are seniors and adults which is the majority of the cruising crowd. In my guess 90% of regular cruisers are already vaccinated.
Some people are just waiting to see results of initial cruises just starting in July. Those results will decide if cruise industry revives and how fast it revives.
If ships are full of vaccinated passengers, I expect problem free cruise results.
Given that there is no evidence that the vaccine prevents anyone from getting sick, and has caused upwards of 9 000 deaths- they are not following science at all.
Cutting their own throats
The government should just butt out and let the cruise lines run their own business.
“seniors”
Covid vaccinations are only about 90% effective in the Geritol generation.
If you as a senior got the flu after regular flu vaccinations, you may wish to avoid crowed places as much and as well as you easily can.
We have hotels and beautiful beaches(and rainy days for about a month now).
The cloudy skies keep the temperatures down.
Ditto.
Spend your dinero with Florida businesses on land.
Don’t forget the $150 testing fee.
I’ll be keeping my feet on land.
Let the results speak for themselves. Cruise are now just starting to sail from Florida with MAINLY vaccinated passengers only. I am booked on MSC cruise in September.
No point in guessing the outcomes before the events. We will soon know how it turns out ACTUALLY. I believe in actual results 1000 times more than opinions.
“Carnival will be joining Royal Caribbean in requiring that unvaccinated passengers older than 12 buy new COVID-19 travel insurance if they’re leaving from Florida ports come August.”
If that’s the only thing free people must do to cruise, i.e., buy extra insurance, I can live with that.
If you do not look for evidence, you are not going to find evidence.
YES... IF the prices go down.
I want to see if a vaccinated ship still gets a Covid outbreak, and what the reactions are to that.
-PJ
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