Posted on 12/27/2021 7:54:56 AM PST by Capt. Tom
You can see from this article the problems the Cruise Lines are having filling their ships with passengers.
Many people who go on cruises are destination oriented. Add to that the "vaccine" requirements, and the testing and mask requirements; and a lot of passengers will stay home.
Every day the Cruise lines bring in more ships to a declining Cruising public.
IMHO, more expenses and less income, for a business run on borrowed money. -Tom
Can’t they just deny tickets to grossly obese people?
Meanwhile, back in the Caymans...the little tourist businesses had prepped for the expected influx but are now out of luck.
They should just bypass he destinations and offer cruises with all sea days and double the size of the casinos and bars.
In my experience on cruise ships many people are there just to gamble and drink and never leave the ship.
Cut through a casino once to save time going from one end of the ship to the other....when I walked out I wreaked of cigarette smoke so badly I ended up going back to my cabin to change cloths.
Service at the Margaritaville was pretty bad when I was there in Nov 2019 on a cruise. Took 30 minutes to get a hurricane.
ps
I caught Covid on that cruise. My wife broke her foot. But I did win $500 at the Texas hold em table.
No. They let entropy on all the time.
Just stopped in to find out how they got a cruise ship to the Grand Canyon. Back to my coffee....
Great you get refill on coffee, I have mine all over me — tanx alot.
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I have been on cruises where many obese people were onboard.
If you sit in the buffet, and watch some of the younger people, when two of them go by, it looks like 2 Volkswagens trying to pass each other.
A lot of obese people have to be victims of medical problems because they couldn't be as overweigh as they are just by eating. -Tom
That’s how I first read it too. I know we’ve been having above-average rainfall in Arizona this year, but not THAT much above-average!
I thought it said Grand Canyon at first. No wonder it was canceled.
LOL! You too, huh?
Unfortunate that Cayman Islands is delaying the end of their pandemic by trying to prevent Omicron, the natural vaccine.
On the other hand, I returned yesterday from a 7 day Caribbean cruise on the Norwegian Encore. Virgin Islands and Dominican Republic. The local guides and businesses were grateful to finally welcome us back. It was a great experience and a wonderful Christmas.
That is how I read it as well.
The last place I’d want to be is stuck on a vessel with thousands of people going from port to port. I’d much rather find a nice, isolated beach location with a small town or village nearby.
“They should just bypass he destinations and offer cruises with all sea days and double the size of the casinos and bars.”
They cannot do cruises to nowhere in the US unless the ship is registered, and built in the US. Either Holland America or Viking has one cruise ship that qualifies, it does cruises around Hawaii.
What the can possibly do is leave from the US and go to private islands in the Bahamas or Honduras.
I still don’t see the appeal of being on a filthy overcrowded barge eating 3rd tier crap food
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