[Capt. Tom]

If you were only to read pro cruise line blogs like: Cruise Hive, Travel Pulse, Cruise Fever, Cruise Critic and several other pro Cruise blogs you would get the impression things will get back to normal shortly, and that can got kicked down the road for over a year now.

I posted this thread as a reality check for us cruisers. (Remember a companies stock price is not always an indicator of its monetary success.)

Obviously Cruising is not going to be like it was in the past, so cruisers today have to make adjustments. Some of the Cruise Lines are doing that now.

In a pro cruise blog article I wouldn't expect to see a paragraph like the one below from this article. -Tom

"Given the sheer cost of owning and operating cruise ships, this is an industry I will stay away from. Cruise stocks might have recovered nicely from the depth of the recession, but the business is still in shambles and will be for the foreseeable future."

[Flick Lives]

Carnival said that it burned $510 million per month in the third quarter of 2021, showing just how costly it is to run a cruise line that’s still not at full capacity.

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Just how long can they burn cash before running out?

[wastedyears]

Cruise stocks? That's low energy.

[devere]

Our last cruise, trans-Atlantic in the summer of 2019, was marred by an epidemic of norovirus onboard. In the age of the Wuhan virus and it’s many mutations, I am doubtful that I will ever be cruising again.