Well, will they get nightly bunny rabbits? My wife and I were married on the Sensation in the port of New Orleans last December, before we spent a week cruising down to Mexico. We had considered a return trip someday. Don't look like it will happen.
Posted on 09/04/2005 8:25:43 AM PDT by ex-Texan
Carnival Cruise Lines announced Saturday that the U.S. government has chartered three luxury cruise liners - Ecstacy, Sensation and Holiday - for the next half year, to provide temporary housing for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Two of the ships, the Ecstasy and Sensation, have a maximum capacity of 2,606 people each and will be based in Galveston, Texas. The third, the Holiday, has a maximum capacity of 1,800, and will likely be docked in Mobile, Ala.
Carnival Cruise Lines would not reveal how much FEMA was paying to charter the ships. Carnival crews will operate the ships, which will be at the disposal of the U.S. Military Sealift Command.
The company said people who had their cruises on the ships cancelled could receive a full refund or book a trip on another ship.
A Carnival spokesman said the inconvenience to their guests will provide desperately-needed housing for thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims
Well, the casinos will be filled the first few days of each month.
The term "Hog Heaven" comed to mind, and just wont leave.
These people ain't NEVER leaving these digs!
GIANT WHITE SHARK SPOTTED AT COMMANDER'S PALACE
just what we need. government welfare cruise ships.
Or they'll refuse to leave unless they're provided with similar accomodations and Reverend Al will say it's only what's owed to them for centuries of ill-treatment. Probably, Mugabe will jump in on this one.
"I want the name of those ships so I NEVER book a cruise on any of them in the future."
They are the Ecstacy, Sensation and Holiday. I kid you not. lol, they are nemed in the article.
Talk about reparations...We are about to see how people will react to the governments providing them with EVERYTHING. Food, housing, money, etc in a luxury style.
oops
nemed = named
"My room was to be filled with long stemmed roses."
You can count on it.
Well, will they get nightly bunny rabbits? My wife and I were married on the Sensation in the port of New Orleans last December, before we spent a week cruising down to Mexico. We had considered a return trip someday. Don't look like it will happen.
Let's be sure to see the exit inventory of damages.
And those 'landbound' will cry discrimination!
Heard on Ecstacy intercom: Crack now being served in the main lounge.
My money's on that idea...
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