I decided many years ago that cruises had nothing of interest for me. Besides, I knew that they were floating petri dishes long before this pandemic.

Take such a trip in the future? Never ever.

Maybe for 40M up front verified and a week to spend some beforehand?



We all have a price for pain and a big gamble.

Right now, some asshole is risking his life for beer or candy.

They are floating Petri dishes.

So, no change here.

Not my cup of tea before, now, nor into the future. The fact they enjoy skirting our regulations to make more short term money makes my feelings coalesce into a block of disdain for the industry. Gross.

Yes. There are many types of cruises. Most people only think they are the Caribbean Party ships.

Last year I was on a cruise through the Baltic to St. Petersberg. It was fantastic.

still - I don't want to be on ship for days and days

Honestly my most favorite cruise.

we saw Norway, Sweden, Poland and Estonia as well as Russia.

Estonia was amazing. It reminded me of a nursery rhyme. There were people in old time velvet dressing selling chestnut. So amazing.

(where we went to Stutthof Concentration Camp) and Russia. We ponied up for the extra $800/pp for the excursion flight to Moscow, which is somewhere I never expected in my lifetime to visit.

I'm not a great fan of cruising, but this was the best one we had taken.

At the moment, no way. But after everything settles down sure, no problem.

In fact I'm booked on a cruise to Alaska in 2021, I'm assuming everything will be normal by then.

I've been on several cruises and in fact find them rather enjoyable and relaxing. I'll sit on the balcony and read a book for a while every afternoon while the ocean goes by. In the evening there's a very nice meal followed by a 'vegas style' show followed by a stop in the comedy club. I don't pretend that cruises are for everyone, but I find them enjoyable.

Also, I was lucky enough to take a cruise to Cuba before tRump and Bolton put an end to that.

we missed the boat on Cuba - they snatched it away as we were deciding on a trip.

and have never wanted to be.

Years ago when I saw a story about some cruise ship stuck floating on the ocean for days without power or plumbing, I told my husband that I never wanted to go anyplace for fun that I couldn't drive or run away from if it got ugly. That is a fundamental thing for me. The bacterial/viral issues are an added deterrent. I'm not a big fan of flying either--just because you are trapped in that plane until it lands and somebody decides to let you out.

Yeah, I'm probably a stoop-id hick or some kind of crazy paranoid loon, but I need to know I can leave someplace if I'm going to be ale to relax there.


Laura

I have a close friend who loves to go on cruises. I could never understand that. I just don't like being trapped with all those people.
Plus the fact she has to shop for all the special outfits she needs for various "occasions" during the cruise that she most likely will not wear again.

Give me a rowboat and a lake.

Part of vacationing for us is that if we wake one day get a bug in our nose about going somewhere, or leaving to stay somewhere else, we just do it.
On that boat, those impulse decisions aren't possible.
Not our thing. Neither of us has ever been interested.

Do you know how many cruise ships are in operation? Would I go right now? Nope. But I would absolutely go on a cruise. I have been several times and the seriousness of cleaning on a ship is insane. But during an event where there is a massive infectious disease it isn’t a great idea. Then again neither is going to the store right now. Consider going into a store where you need to pull on a handle to open a door. When is the last time that was cleaned? How many people touched that handle just today? Or the handrail at a mall? or the piece of fruit you just put in your cart that others picked up looked at and decided on a different piece of produce. sitting at a movie theater touching all sorts of things, then putting your hand in your popcorn and shoveling into your mouth.

The topic of the cruise lines comes up here almost daily. If it isn’t something you would do then don’t do it. But know that there are just as many things in normal life that are equally as potentially dangerous.

That’s a snooty thing to say.

So definitely not all pedestrian.

Stuck of the coast of Florida, waiting to see which state gets the COVID-infected passengers. (She's actually on the ship where the healthy passengers were evacuated to)

It is much more fun traveling on land

so-ever. None. Would you want your destiny in someone else's control? Look at the Cruise ships out there now on the water. No one will let them dock and allow the passengers to disembark. Imagine. I wonder how many of these people are possibly losing their jobs (can't get back to work, stuck on the ship), and other negative impacts to their lives, all out of their control.

with the added risk of drowning

Glad I read these comments.

25 years in our Navy taught me that fact.

Seems a recipe for disaster.

Now, lying on a beach?

Oh, yeah.

A Panama Canal transit and Tierra Del Fuego are still on my bucket list. But it can wait, forever if need be.

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I have never taken an oceanic cruise, just local river and deep sea fishing charters, but have known many people who have.


They not only register their ships in foreign nations for tax avoidance, but also so they don't have to maintain health and patient care standards that an American firm would be more bound to follow.

The employees they often hire are not the cleanest or have the best backgrounds either.

Food is OK, especially if you pay for upgrades, but I'm sure that the open shrimp bars are rife with germs.

The people who seem to enjoy them have a very basic level of vacation expectations, sort of like the people who go to the same vacation spot for 10 years.

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you might like to know your description is 100% wrong.

easier to shit on people if you don't worry about facts.

You reply is like me giving a negative view of traveling to space. Ridiculous!!!!

I like wide open spaces that I can drive on and a horizon I can get to without swimming to it.

It seems it fits everything now. “Ohh that steak is so creepy I can’t eat it” or “That box of dry cement is so creepy.”

long long time. Been asked to go on them and made to listen to people rave about them for years. UGH!!!

It’s like calling a hammer a clock.

Right up there with “I know, right!?” in the irritating new social norms department.

(which you won't because your mind is made up) through the inland passage in Alaska, or the Norwegian Fjords, you would understand how wrong you are.

If the is an effective vaccine, I would.

… but what are the chances everyone on board were vaccinated? They might still not allow you to get off the boat if others had tested positive. That would fall in the "major suck" column!

I have a love hate relationship with cruises.

On one hand, they are restrictive and in many ways either juvenile or really old. Living in South Florida, I am really over the entire Caribbean Cruise industry. I don't need to get on a boat only to pile onto a beach with a bunch of pasty midwesterners. Or worse go shopping for a bunch of Chinese made junk made to look like native crafts.

On the other hand, the cruise industry provides some opportunities to see places like Alaska that are difficult to see other ways. The main thing I like about them is that the planning is minimal. It takes me weeks to plan a land based vacation with hotel stays and itineraries. Then the entire vacation is my responsibility to get my family to the right place at the right time. Cruises reduce your options but they take care of all that. It is really the only kind of vacation that allows me to truly relax. "Show me where to eat and show me where to sleep" and I am done. I can kick back in a way that my family "cruise director" status won't allow.

On the plus side, there will be some awesome deals in the next few years.

Cruise ships are like petri dishes

With stories of crew accessing tipsy female passengers' cabins late at night, people "falling" off the ship, ships catching on fire, plumbing failures at sea and having to poop in buckets, etc.

I enjoy going on cruises. They’re fun and relaxing, and I like being on the sea.

You could ask the same question about flying; I won’t get on a plane, either, until the pandemic passes.

I’d go on a European river cruise however.

Hopefully will live to do so, ha.

I just can't imagine being trapped on the thing. I'd be circling the railing wanting to escape the entire time!

and sure as hell not now.

they are floating petri dishes where the passengers are subject to effectively false imprisonment (cannot leave on their own) at any time.

NO THANKS!

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Highly doubt I'll order from or eat in a restaurant anytime soon either.

No thanks. Never. Floating petri dish.

it's the only kind of vacation I even want to do other than short day trips around Florida.

I will happily go again when it's OK to do so.

They pull into port at European cities like Naples, Rome, Madrid, etc. The people leave the boats, and don't eat in restaurants. They don't stay in the hotels, etc. IOW, they deprive these cities of the much needed tax revenue from tourism.

Maybe?

My idea of social route is having to be in large groups of people I do not know, so he idea of a cruise holds zero appeal, even without the contagion aspects.

The smaller riverboat cruises in Europe are a maybe, but a weak maybe.

Let the cruise ship industry die.

Once this is over, I hope everything goes back to normal. I’m sure it will.

First, the pandemic will have to be on the decline. Then, the ship’s got to be cleaned before I board it. And finally there’s the business of campaigning to Remove Donald J. What’his-name and the Insane Clown Posse from the White House and to elect as many Democrats as possible to replace them and to restore good government to our ailing republic.

Hell No again!

Double Hell No!

Or maybe the next.

Not even when The Love Boat was a hit tv show.

I would consider a river cruise, perhaps in Europe on the Danube, etc.

"The Death Boat...la, la, la, la, la, la!"

The series wouldn't have been very upbeat with that theme.

river cruises in Europe.

years ago, and after all of the Carnival cruise disasters of recent years, I've said, "No way." Now, I'm completely confirmed in that belief.

Even before the coronavirus, my acquaintances who were avid cruisers and tried to recruit me into their cult ALWAYS came back horribly sick from every cruise.

I will not go on a cruise

Noro has been the gift a cruise seems to give a lot of people. No way.

was to the Baltics in 2007 on the Celebrity Constellation. While it was an interesting itinerary, it sealed the deal to make me never wish to cruise again. I just don't get the appeal of average food, rude co-passengers, literally being herded through off-ship activities, and the threat of noro-or other viruses, all at a premium price.

Someone else will be happy to have my place, I'm sure.

Oh, and it rained for 13 of the 14 days.

I will never go on one not ever!

I like my privacy, so that's not something I'd be into. Even if they weren't floating Petri dishes. But, I also won't eat sprouts... so, unnecessary health risks just aren't my thing.

Unless maybe a small-ish European river cruise, Alaska, Nova Scotia, etc. Just not those massive petri dishes. Blech.

it always sounded horrible to me

close quarters, little rooms, stuck in the same environment with all those fucking people.

gack!

i'd love to go to alaska and see the glaciers but i certainly wouldn't hop on a cruise ship to do it. for years i have said it's gonna be the first place i go when i die.

I've enjoyed each cruise I've taken.

I wasn't scared to go on a cruise before the coronavirus, and I won't be scared to go on one after the pandemic is over.