Hello Fellow Travelers!
Just when I thought I was going to have to really reach down to pull some nugget of wisdom about brain cancer (here's a morsel of wisdom about brain cancer: Don't get brain cancer!) the other gift-that-keeps-giving, Carnival Cruises, dropped/overflowed/spilled/disgustingly flushed some more foodborn illness all over CNN!
Same cruise line, same story (almost), different cruisers (let's hope!).
This virus has a name (Norovirus) and the CDC (Center For Disease Control) is now involved and claiming that more than 150 passengers out of 3000+ came down with this particular virus. The ship that saw all this sickness was the Caribbean Princess owned by Carnival. (Remember? "Love, exciting and new, come aboard, we're expecting you!"). "The Love Boat" , that Carnival Cruise Line. Carnival was the floating toilet last time out. At around two large a pop ($1800+), you wouldn't think people would be standing in line(or waiting online) to book a cruise with Carnival but they are! These "passengers" (I prefer to think of them as "victims") suffered some horrible intestinal sickness they contracted aboard the "Caribbean Princess". What have we learned from this? Easy! If you have to burn 2K a person don't book a Carnival cruise! There are plenty of places that will take your dough, even other cruise lines, during the CNN piece about the sickness (they were calling it a "pandemic") they aired an ad for a Royal Viking cruise up a river to Nuremberg. Nuremberg? The WWII Nuremberg? The Trials Nuremberg? The War Crimes Nuremberg? That Nuremberg? The very same!
Let me see if I understand this correctly: You want me to stay several days on a boat, on which hundreds, nay, thousands of people have used to do all manner of personal business in before I was there? And I'm supposed to reserve a spot on this "Bacteria Du Jour" for next year? And pay some boat company two grand plus to do it? So I can end up in Nuremberg? No thanks! I'll pass! Again, I don't care how many princesses or royals are in the name, you're paying a lot of money to strap on a feedbag and gamble a lot and perhaps catch some disgusting parasite! For three to seven days. Kind of like a seafaring "Circus, Circus".
Who, if not Carnival Cruise lines, will supply these floating petri dishes? I think the need to tour exotic places while on board some vessel that enables the comfort zones of the tourists (especially Americans) is neither enlightening or even just being a good tourist!
I realize that the "cruise" probably represents a compromise position between lots of married couples, and having unlimited access to gambling and food is the only way you're going to get some people on the boat, i.e., "Look Honey, there's a 24-hour buffet on our floor!". However, I simply think there are much better ways to spend 2K. Setting fire to the individual $100 bills, for instance, would be about as useful as a Carnival Cruise. A retainer for a decent (and I mean decent as in "not great") divorce attorney, who you might consult if a spouse forces you to go on a cruise, is another way to burn two large! Throwing $20 bills off an escalator would make a lot of people happy and be a better use of $2000 than a cruise to Nuremberg.
My point is, just about anything you can imagine is a better use of $2 Large than a Carnival Cruise. Or a cruise to Nuremberg. To me, if a person has the $$ for something as temporary and dangerously germy as a cruise, they have everything and don't need or want anything else, and I don't know anyone like that.
Just contemplating a windowless stateroom gives me the heeby-jeebies! Learning that going aboard these vessels gives a goodly amount of the passengers a crash course in what life with Crohn's Disease would be like, just reconfirms what I already know: Never book a cruise! If you absolutely must book a cruise, never, ever, sail anyplace on a Carnival Cruise! It's proven time and again to be the cancer of cruise lines. Maybe Carnival has the best prices. I say if one line has a marked increase in gastrointestinal illnesses over the others, avoid it, this is not the place to save a few bucks!
PS - I am looking very forward to seeing "The Monument Men" It's got Nazis and priceless art and George Clooney! Some of my favorite things! Nazis! (boo! hiss!) Matt Damon in WWII! Again! We win the war. Again! I am so there!
Just when I thought I was going to have to really reach down to pull some nugget of wisdom about brain cancer (here's a morsel of wisdom about brain cancer: Don't get brain cancer!) the other gift-that-keeps-giving, Carnival Cruises, dropped/overflowed/spilled/disgustingly flushed some more foodborn illness all over CNN!
Same cruise line, same story (almost), different cruisers (let's hope!).
This virus has a name (Norovirus) and the CDC (Center For Disease Control) is now involved and claiming that more than 150 passengers out of 3000+ came down with this particular virus. The ship that saw all this sickness was the Caribbean Princess owned by Carnival. (Remember? "Love, exciting and new, come aboard, we're expecting you!"). "The Love Boat" , that Carnival Cruise Line. Carnival was the floating toilet last time out. At around two large a pop ($1800+), you wouldn't think people would be standing in line(or waiting online) to book a cruise with Carnival but they are! These "passengers" (I prefer to think of them as "victims") suffered some horrible intestinal sickness they contracted aboard the "Caribbean Princess". What have we learned from this? Easy! If you have to burn 2K a person don't book a Carnival cruise! There are plenty of places that will take your dough, even other cruise lines, during the CNN piece about the sickness (they were calling it a "pandemic") they aired an ad for a Royal Viking cruise up a river to Nuremberg. Nuremberg? The WWII Nuremberg? The Trials Nuremberg? The War Crimes Nuremberg? That Nuremberg? The very same!
Let me see if I understand this correctly: You want me to stay several days on a boat, on which hundreds, nay, thousands of people have used to do all manner of personal business in before I was there? And I'm supposed to reserve a spot on this "Bacteria Du Jour" for next year? And pay some boat company two grand plus to do it? So I can end up in Nuremberg? No thanks! I'll pass! Again, I don't care how many princesses or royals are in the name, you're paying a lot of money to strap on a feedbag and gamble a lot and perhaps catch some disgusting parasite! For three to seven days. Kind of like a seafaring "Circus, Circus".
Who, if not Carnival Cruise lines, will supply these floating petri dishes? I think the need to tour exotic places while on board some vessel that enables the comfort zones of the tourists (especially Americans) is neither enlightening or even just being a good tourist!
I realize that the "cruise" probably represents a compromise position between lots of married couples, and having unlimited access to gambling and food is the only way you're going to get some people on the boat, i.e., "Look Honey, there's a 24-hour buffet on our floor!". However, I simply think there are much better ways to spend 2K. Setting fire to the individual $100 bills, for instance, would be about as useful as a Carnival Cruise. A retainer for a decent (and I mean decent as in "not great") divorce attorney, who you might consult if a spouse forces you to go on a cruise, is another way to burn two large! Throwing $20 bills off an escalator would make a lot of people happy and be a better use of $2000 than a cruise to Nuremberg.
My point is, just about anything you can imagine is a better use of $2 Large than a Carnival Cruise. Or a cruise to Nuremberg. To me, if a person has the $$ for something as temporary and dangerously germy as a cruise, they have everything and don't need or want anything else, and I don't know anyone like that.
Just contemplating a windowless stateroom gives me the heeby-jeebies! Learning that going aboard these vessels gives a goodly amount of the passengers a crash course in what life with Crohn's Disease would be like, just reconfirms what I already know: Never book a cruise! If you absolutely must book a cruise, never, ever, sail anyplace on a Carnival Cruise! It's proven time and again to be the cancer of cruise lines. Maybe Carnival has the best prices. I say if one line has a marked increase in gastrointestinal illnesses over the others, avoid it, this is not the place to save a few bucks!
PS - I am looking very forward to seeing "The Monument Men" It's got Nazis and priceless art and George Clooney! Some of my favorite things! Nazis! (boo! hiss!) Matt Damon in WWII! Again! We win the war. Again! I am so there!
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