I surely hope the cruise industry will recover from the avalanche of industry obstacles over the past 2+ years. It is a great way to island-hop the Caribbean, Hawaii, tour coastal New England and the Mediterranean.
If you have the time and money, you will aways be able to do a cruise.
I just think the big 3 are in such debt now, they are going to have to do things like a chaper 11 bankruptcy , where they stay in business, but the court keeps the creditors at bay while they try to straighten out the problem. -Tom