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The problem with the survival of a great enterprise if it ends up in a form of bankruptcy, you never know what the outcome will be.

It is a business, and when you owe money, you are at the mercy of your creditors if you can't make the payments. - Tom

1 posted on 01/21/2022 12:31:20 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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All part of Klaus Schwab’s promise that by 2030 none of us will own anything and we will be happy because we will all be dead.


2 posted on 01/21/2022 12:39:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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The Points Guy has a good website. American Airlines is suing him because he has an ap to manage AA miles. AA should consider it a perk but apparently they don’t. They need a new PR department.


3 posted on 01/21/2022 12:42:04 PM PST by ladyjane
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Carnival sent out Emails about their continuing ‘protocols’ today...

The jabbed rules will continue for cruises in “April and beyond” that includes all of my cruises for 22 and 23 ...

In their website they updated today to include the exemptions will continue until Dec 2022

Boosters are recommended and will eventually be required ...

They claim they are following CDC guidelines but the CDC just said that natural immunity is better than the jab ...

My next cruise is in May so that will come under their “and onward”

They also backed the final date for cancelling 22 cruises from Dec 31 to Feb 15 which makes it harder to decide what to do ...


4 posted on 01/21/2022 12:43:40 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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The problem with the survival of a great enterprise if it ends up in a form of bankruptcy

Well, one reason he might have like it so much was that it was costing them $150 to deliver service that he was paying $100 for.

5 posted on 01/21/2022 12:46:53 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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Crystal Cruises are very expensive, out of reach for the vast majority of people who want to go on a cruise.

Service is obviously world class, and they charge for it. They know that their market is limited, but there are/were enough people willing to pay for it.


6 posted on 01/21/2022 12:55:49 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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He has sailed on FORTY cruise brands? He didn’t say how many actual cruises he’s been on. It must be his profession to go cruising. Maybe he’s a secret shopper.

I’ve been on zero cruises on zero cruise brands. It seems I’ve got some catching up to do.


7 posted on 01/21/2022 12:56:52 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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Cruising on a Sunday afternoon
8 posted on 01/21/2022 12:58:05 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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If we enter into a deflationary economy.

The tourist industry will get butchered, they rely on disposable income from customers. In a deflationary environment(tight money) customers have less income for non essential businesses like cruise ships.

Plus their customer base is old, eventually old people die, which means no more cruise vacation for the dead person.


9 posted on 01/21/2022 12:58:54 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel )
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Crystal sounds very nice. What a shame.


10 posted on 01/21/2022 1:01:11 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta ( )
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Cruisin' — Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
13 posted on 01/21/2022 1:07:10 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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“Good journalists are supposed to be impartial...”

Lost me right there Hoss as I haven’t seen more than one in my lifetime and wouldn’t exactly know what one looks like anyway. They are hired to represent whoever signs their paycheck. That’s all they are in the business for. If you don’t pay them, they will be gone so fast it was suck all the air out of your office when they depart. Only one I think was close was Rush. But he was also an entertainer and conformed to the conservative platform.

wy69


16 posted on 01/21/2022 1:12:57 PM PST by whitney69
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Question: Why I’ll be devastated if this luxury travel brand is gone for good

Answer: This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers.

19 posted on 01/21/2022 1:23:53 PM PST by edwinland
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You mean to say that Crystal Cruises gave this guy a cappuccino without him ordering it?? Oh my. What unparalleled luxury and service. Once or twice I’ve had iHop bring me a cup of coffee without me ordering it, so I’m not totally unfamiliar with this sort of thing.


21 posted on 01/21/2022 1:38:03 PM PST by irishjuggler
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“Why I’ll be devastated if this luxury travel brand is gone for good”

i imagine guys like that don’t get too devastated over things like building materials and skilled labor being unavailable to rebuild over one thousand houses that burned to the ground in the Marshall fire in Colorado a few weeks ago, or the fact that only two thousand dwellings are for sale on Colorado’s Front Range from Castle Rock to Fort Collins, thus freezing Colorado’s residential real estate market because no one can buy anything else if they sell [thank you very much Dementia Joe] ... but loss of a SINGLE luxury cruise outfit is indeed devastating ...


23 posted on 01/21/2022 1:40:47 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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All Ocean or Expedition cruise guests aged 12 years or older are required to be fully inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine

That probably doesn't hurt your business. /s

24 posted on 01/21/2022 1:58:12 PM PST by Tommy Revolts
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Why can’t the cruise ships use the 18th century English legal doctrine of impressment to fill their ships with passengers?


27 posted on 01/21/2022 2:08:07 PM PST by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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Good journalists are supposed to be impartial. They stay neutral when reporting the news.

It's pretty hard to find one of those these days. See Tagline.

31 posted on 01/21/2022 3:12:16 PM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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Never been on the Crystal Ocean ships, but 5 cruises on their River boats....FABULOUS!!! After 30 minutes on the first one, I said to my husband...."I've been CRYSTALIZED"!

We were supposed to be on one from Amsterdam to Basel with Celebrity cruises bookended.....we had to cancel them also....sniff.

34 posted on 01/21/2022 4:14:45 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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I hadn’t ordered the cappuccino, but I was indeed ready for one, which she somehow intuitively knew. She clearly had taken note in the days before that I liked to slowly sip on a coffee as I wrote in a corner of the room. She must have noticed that my coffee orders on board were invariably cappuccinos, not Americanos or lattes.

This is the style of service AI computers are best at... imitating the moves of a gracious insightful fawning human.

49 posted on 01/22/2022 12:20:38 PM PST by GOPJ (Joe and Mika are bullies - they get off on fantasies of being able to push people around. )
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I hadn’t ordered the cappuccino, but I was indeed ready for one, which she somehow intuitively knew. She clearly had taken note in the days before that I liked to slowly sip on a coffee as I wrote in a corner of the room. She must have noticed that my coffee orders on board were invariably cappuccinos, not Americanos or lattes.

This is the style of service AI computers are best at... imitating the moves of a gracious insightful fawning human. Unlike the Chinese who use computers to bully humans and keep them 'in line' a US version could be ... well, wonderful.

50 posted on 01/22/2022 12:21:26 PM PST by GOPJ (Joe and Mika are bullies - they get off on fantasies of being able to push people around. )
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