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Anymore I rarely get on a ship for less than 15 days, hate short cruises and I don't go to the Caribbean.
Yeah I did my first Caribbean in December and it was OK... but Alaska in 2017 was far better. As for the length, I definitely want to experience something longer than 7 nights so I just booked the final Alaska cruise of the season (9/11) to go with the Hawaii cruise I already had booked for 9/17. The savings for the Alaska cruise were over 50%. Gee, I wonder why???
16 nights of Alaska then Hawaii. Seattle, 4 stops in Alaska, Vancouver, back to Seattle, then Hawaii with multiple nights on multiple islands.
It's 5 months from today and hopefully COVID-19 won't interfere.
We've been on over 15 cruises, one of which was a 15 day from LA to HI and back. We had to fly from the east coast to LA, and I caught a flu bug from someone on the plane. Didn't hit me until I was on the ship. Ended up quarantined in the balcony cabin for most of the time in Hawaii.
We have been on about 6 cruises since then. We tend to favor cruises we can drive to though! Due to financial reasons our next cruise(s) aren't until the fall of next year. We are still planning to go. After this pandemic, we are more accepting of the precautions recommended to stay safe. We feel most other people will be as well, which should make it much safer for everyone.
I think we will go back to cruising. I visit City-Data and other social media sites daily so if something contagious is spreading, it'll be mentioned here. I'll just cancel my cruise and won't take the chance.
The only vacation I like is cruising, so I will be back onboard as soon as a vaccine is available.
Like plane crashes, cruise ships get national media coverage. However, most people don't know
that viruses are more prevalent in nursing homes, schools and hospitals. The latter is only covered
by local media, if at all. https://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/trends...outbreaks.html
I haven't looked it up, but I would bet that there are more infections/deaths of nursing home
residents from COVID-19 than passengers on cruise ships.
I get the regular flu vaccine every September. Hopefully, the COVID one will be available at the same
time 2021. Soon after, I hope to be at sea again!
I love how the question was "Will you cruise AGAIN" and most of the replies are from those who either dislike/hate cruising or have never even taken one.
Yes, my question was geared to people who have cruised before only because I have found that either you like cruises or you don't. Figured the question was better suited for those who typically like cruising.
Like plane crashes, cruise ships get national media coverage. However, most people don't know
that viruses are more prevalent in nursing homes, schools and hospitals. The latter is only covered
by local media, if at all. https://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/trends...outbreaks.html
Well, there's far more nursing homes than there are cruise ships. But, you pose an interesting question. In theory, nursing homes should be better prepared and better able to handle preventing an outbreak than a cruise ship.. So, in theory, at least by infections, leaving deaths out of the equation.. One would think that the infection rate would be lower.
I'd think perhaps cruise ships might be more comparable to prisons..
Ok.. That didn't come out like I meant..
I mean that prisons don't have overly good containment procedures like a nursing home SHOULD have. So, in THAT way, cruise ships might be more in-line, infection-wise, with a prison.
Both can initiate a quarantine, but.. Rooms so close together on a cruise ship.. Cells so close together in a prison.. I think there's some similarities there.
When the kids are older, we're still planning on taking a cruise to Antarctica. That's still many, many years away though.
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