Well now. That’s one article I won’t be reading today.
Possible intentional biological attack/sabotage? Lot of 3rd world folks work these boats.
The vomitorium was not a place where Romans would throwup after gorging themselves on food. The word vomit means to spew forth and the vomitorium was an open concourse where people could exit from an arena. FWIW
Between this and the family that was feuding and terrorizing other passengers for days, who WOULDN’T want to book a cruise right away?
And to think the people on the Titanic thought they had it bad.....
It could be either in the food, or also in the water lines (and therefore the ice in drinks).
Taking a cruise is high on my bucket list of things never to do.
Not going to click.... it makes me sick just thinking of it....
A Vomitorium is a part of an arena where people enter and exit before and after a show. Before a show the crowd and the lines are manageable, but during the exit it’s got to be large to allow all of the people leaving at once.
In hawaii, we call them floating sewage tanks.
I just have no desire to get on a giant floating apartment house jammed in with thousands of obnoxious tourists.
Never, ever, go on a cruise ship owned or operated by Carnival.
I can be very biased about cruise ships as i was a senior officer on one many years ago, but in all honesty there is good boats, bad boats, good crews and bad crews. Ultimately its the passengers, their health habits like not washing hands before using buffet line utensils. Or just a certain demographic group that in the old days we called “steerage”.
3 day cruises are the worst, non stop drinking, no respect of privacy, manners or dress. Just a bunch of hooligans who will sleep in their own vomit if needed.
I actually was planning on a future cruise and Princess is at the top of my list even knowing its Carnival owned. Critics will say Celebrity is highest rated but I’m old fashioned to the point i could be satisfied just booking a room on the landlocked Queen Mary which i have been on.
These new mega cruise ships like the Anthem of the Seas, the RCL ships to me are just a floating Vegas Hotel, casino and shopping mall. And very dependant upon the auspices of its captains as its been seen with the Oceana and Costa Concordia.
Would i cruise a ship with 6,000 passengers? Yes, but i would be rubbing shoulders nor hands at the buffet lines, i would book a suite and get the option of seperate dining, pool, jacuzzi and service like Norwegians Haven service has.
Its all about class, of which they are monopolizing, low fares will bring in more people, and often with ill effects, cruisers who go out of their way to make it miserable for what they perceived as the elites.
One could horribly image a boat full of grumpled drunk Bernie Sanders supporters wuth a scattering of antifa thugs intermixed with dim witted liberal minded female followers.
Yet often the crew foreign, Philipinos predominant, they are the prisoners to it all, keep up the grin and polite manners to the whole thing.
Yet still i pine for a month long excursion on a real south Pacific cruise, no stops at sheethole ports.... expensive enough to filter the class of passengers and long enough to make it quite literally, the cruise of a lifetime.
No sympathy violins playing here.
Anyone who doesn’t know these ships are like a petri dish of every disease known to man, must have been living in a cave.
I fail to understand the intrigue of these floating cesspools.
Folks who would scream bloody murder at being trapped in an elevator for 15 minutes, pay good money to be trapped in a floating elevator for weeks. ???
The pathology teaching docs loved it. They got to show their students dozens of exotic third world bugs you'd never see in twenty years if you worked at a hospital in flyover country.
One guess on how many cruises I have taken since then.
I bet their ships were constantly being recontaminated by persons in the ships’ cleaning crews between voyages; setting up subsequent voyages as already carrying the virus.
I served on aircraft carriers. Everytime the air wing embarked, they’d bring their germs with them . Several thousand people from different parts of the country stuck inside the confines of the ship. Every blasted time they’d bring the creeping crud with them.
Thomas, from Queensland, Australia, had saved up $1,700 for a 14-day voyage to New Zealand with a friend who was celebrating a birthday.
That's like $100 a day savings! Woo-wee!.