Why would anyone want to ride around the ocean on a floating mall with 3000 other people?
I’ve done 5 cruises, but I haven’t been on a ship since 1999. I suspect that standards for cleanliness have become lax since then. A real shame. Of all the cruise lines I traveled with, Princess was the best.
“Why would anyone want to ride around the ocean on a floating mall with 3000 other people?”
I take it you’ve never been on one? Seems like the only time the media reports on cruise ships is when something bad happens, I’ve been on 6 or 7 and never had a problem, always a great experience.
Good question. I once considered it because it seemed exotic, offered a never-ending buffet, and was reachable by ground transportation (I never fly). Then, I read about these viral outbreaks (something consistent with your notation about large groups of people crowded together) and the encroachment by the TSA (my niece told me recently that TSA personnel checked them out at departure on a cruise she and her husband took). These two considerations have permanently scotched my interest.
“Why would anyone want to ride around the ocean on a floating mall with 3000 other people?”
Read somewhere that a typical cruise ship passenger spends a lot of time in malls back home. Identify your market as they say in business.
Been on one cruise, on a converted passenger liner where the experience was that of being on board a real ship with an open promenade deck & other traditional features.
It's a very efficient way to tour destinations you've never been to. Often, the guides are well informed and like providing information to tourists who are there to learn about the environment. If chosen carefully, the tours offered can be very thorough in one day. Some cruise ships have great cultural and atheletic opportunities, and if selective you're selective, decent food. The problem is the 3000 people. It's usually possible to plan events that aren't crowded.
What many cruisers fear more than the norovirus is being quarantined to ones room Smart cruisers bring things to sanitize their rooms and to counter virus symptoms, to avoid the quarantine.
Why would anyone want to ride around the ocean on a floating mall with 3000 other people?
Try a floating landfill. They can’t just dump the garbage overboard.