Saturday, February 1, 2014

Canceling This Cruise

Sit right back and you'll read a tale: 

"A cruise ship disabled for five nightmarish days in the Gulf finally docked with some 4,200 people aboard late Thursday, passengers raucously cheering the end to an ocean odyssey they say was marked by overflowing toilets, food shortages and foul odors. Kalin Hill, of Houston, who boarded the Triumph as part of a bachelorette party, said, ‘‘there’s poop and urine all along the floor. The floor is flooded with sewer water ... and we had to poop in bags.’’

Time to clean up.

Profits flag rebound in cruise industry

Investors apparently shrugged off Sunday’s early cancellation of a 10-day Caribbean cruise after hundreds of passengers and crew members were sickened with a gastrointestinal illness.

Easy for them to shrug it off. They weren't stuck in the head.

Cruise trends for 2014: Image rehab and new ships

Off to a bad start.

Cruise ship passengers recall days of misery

"US health officials on Sunday boarded a cruise ship docked in the US Virgin Islands to investigate an illness outbreak that has stricken at least 300 people with gastrointestinal symptoms. Fast-spreading norovirus is often to blame for similar symptoms sweeping closed quarters like those on cruise ships, but a determination probably won’t be made until samples are tested in a lab."

"A cruise ship that had more than 180 passengers and crew fall sick with an apparent stomach virus returned to a Houston-area port early due to a dense fog advisory and not because people were vomiting and had diarrhea, a Princess Cruises spokeswoman said Friday. But passengers whose seven-day vacation was cut short, missing their last stop in Belize, questioned that version of events."

I don't know what makes me sicker, the smelly stench from the ship or the lies coming from management.

Yeah, I cruised through this post because this is no longer fun.