Holy crap, that bumps right up to the first proposed sailings!CDC has a no sail order until July 24 but I am assuming they could extend this order if they deem cruising is still unsafe.
Cruise Ship Guidance | Quarantine | CDC
CDC’s guidance for cruise ships operating in U.S. waterswww.cdc.gov
If it's even still being offered. I have no knowledge, but have read some rumors that insurance companies may drop this option, or price it really high.
If a cruise cancels, the cruise lines are providing 100% refunds or additional bonus of future cruise credit if you don't take the refund. Travel Insurance for cancellation would be a waste of money. If we were to cruise, it certainly wouldn't be out of a port we had to fly to. Cruise lines have been far more accomodating with cancelled cruise sailings than the airlines have been with cancelled flights. Yet the cruise lines continue to get dumped on but the airlines get bailed out.
I think the problem is you are closer to these people for a longer period of time on a cruise ship.
heck, I wouldn't offer it! But, if I were booking that early of a cruise, I'd be looking for it!
I don't live anywhere near a port city, so drive-to isn't a reasonable option. My first cruise, lucky we bought air through the cruise line, as the plane coming to get us was delayed elsewhere. We missed sailaway, caught up middle of next day, after many flights and an overnight stay sans luggage. For me, it's not just the cruise that can be problematic. Lost luggage would be bad, too.
Air is part of our infrastructure, cruises aren't. Barges are commerce, cruises are vacation. I think there is also some ... unease? with ships refusing to flag US. So, if they don't pay taxes here, why would taxpayers bail them out? I get it, they need to operate in ways they see fit and make a margin. I think NCL is the only US? From the little I follow things like this, I mostly see NCL panned as not as good of a cruise experience. I recall wonderful service but have heard NCL staff is not so courteous and eager to please. I dunno, kinda fits some of the Ugly American stuff....
All NCL ships, except Pride of America, are registered in the Bahamas.
The discussion isn't necessarily around who gets bailed out or not, but while the cruise lines don't pay much in corporate income tax, the airlines aren't far behind. They paid about 3.5% of their income in 2019. Both industries support millions of jobs outside of their companies. Farmers are destroying crops and dumping products because both cruise lines and restaurants are shuttered and not buying. Airlines should have been made to go out to the capital markets like the cruise lines did and raise cash. Airlines made a net profit of about $30B in 2019. I don't know exactly how much the cruise lines combined in profit, but it is probably about the same. Given that, if cruise lines could raise money on the capital markets, there is no need for the US taxpayer to bail out airlines.
"bookings skyrocketed 600% over 3 days after the announcement. That was in comparison to the 3 days prior to the announcement. "
Yes, we did. Last week we booked a cruise for Oct, 2021. They have some great deals going on right now.
So when they take your number and add 600%..........................
Yeah, that 600% "increase" really meant nothing. In the original article that started this thread, they referenced the same 600%:
for those who are low risk and without co-morbidities, it is like a flu. This is from an Israeli study:
Try telling that to the 75,000+ Americans who have died of COVID-19.
Travelers Are Ready to Cruise Again—And They're Booking Up 2021
Space is running out fast.www.cntraveler.com
A lady at one of my zoom groups said she wasn’t afraid of dying. She went to A Mother’s Day brunch at her sons house. She said she kissed and hugged everybody. I thought, she’s not afraid of dying. But is she OK with killing her kids and her grandkids.
