Posted on 09/19/2021 5:40:17 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
When I was a kid we also did the popcorn in a pot, shake it on the burner till the popping stopped...NOT the finest popcorn.
We also boiled hotdogs in water!? ain’t nothin’ in this life tastes worse than a soggy, boiled hotdog :-/
That passage caught my eye, as well.
After all: Who could possibly object to paying the same fare as everyone else, but being denied access to many of the amenities? /sarcasm
Are the unvaccinated riff-raff at least allowed to vomit over the same rails as everyone else?
Regards,
ROTFL!
Just got back yesterday from a short 3 day test cruise on MSC Divina cruise to Nassau & private island. All went well. No one got sick with covid. The ship has capacity for 4400, but barely 1000 passengers on board. I think the crew outnumbered passengers! Divina is a beautiful ship. Now we are ready to sail on longer trips. Ship was barely 25% occupied, so very unusual experience with no lines and no crowds. This was first cruise for the staff after 18 month hiatus, and everyone of them was very happy to meet actual passengers and pampered us to death. From what I learned the staff was preparing and practicing on the ship for last 2 months, and they told us it was kind of boring to meet no passengers.
No business can survive with this cost to revenue ratio.
Enjoy it while you can, that cannot last.
What 'cost' ratio?
All they have to do is raise the prices of the tickets.
“””I cruise to meet amazing people from all over the world and make new and long lasting friends. I won’t do check point charlie to do it.”””
I agree with your sentiments. Unlike hotels or resorts, cruise ships are the best way to meet people. So I would not envision it being a pleasant experience to be on a ship with few passengers who are forced to keep their distance.
Social distancing is perhaps the grand plan of the totalitarians to keep people from talking to each other about the craziness going on in this world.
Such a travesty to see 10,000 s at football stadiums, maskless. And yet citizens on cruise ships are targeted for extermination.
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Yup arbitrary rules all over the world. Especially pointless in first world countries (I’ll be generous and continue to count the USA as one of those, for now) where vaccines are plentiful, anyone who wants them can have them - plus boosters - and we are told that they prevent serious disease - so that should be enough right?
Nevertheless I love travel and cruises and I’m due to sail out of Barcelona to Rome, Florence etc in 2 weeks. From reading the article and the comments of people who have actually cruised recently it all sounds pretty good to be honest and worth the vastly reduced price I paid for a premium balcony. I’m looking forward to fewer passengers and smaller crowds (although the flip side is that the companies will go out of business if they can’t get back to normal occupancy at some point soon).
The only aspect that bugs me is Italy’s covid restrictions we will have to take official cruise excursions and can’t venture out to explore on my own.
“After all: Who could possibly object to paying the same fare as everyone else, but being denied access to many of the amenities? /sarcasm“
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I agree that would suck.
But bear in mind the non vaccinated accept those conditions when they pay for the cruise. No one is forcing them to go on a cruise.
And the vaccinated passengers ARE paying more for these
cruise perks. There is a cost - potentially a large one - associated with the risks they took when they agreed to receive the vaccine. After all, vaccines are “experimental gene therapy” - I am reminded of that every time I log into free republic lately.
Exactly. It’s not recreation if I have to jump thru hoops. I’ll keep my money and travel to local resorts.
All they have to do is raise the prices of the tickets.
53 passengers on a boat that holds 2,500 people?
They'd have to raise the price 50X to break even on ticket sales, but who is going to pay for all the extra dinners, booze and trinkets that the missing 2,500 patrons won't be buying?
That 'cost ratio'.
Did you graduate from BU with AOC and both got a degree in 'funance'?
No; I just failed to see any 'costs' in your post I responded to.
To: Capt. Tom On my recent Crystal sailing around Iceland, there were more than 200 crew members on board to serve 53 passengers. That’s a ratio of around 4-to-1. It’s a level so high as to be almost ridiculous. No business can survive with this cost to revenue ratio. Enjoy it while you can, that cannot last. |
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