Comments on: An Ocean Of Bad Cruise News

By: Tanya

Tanya — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:46:01 +0000

Thanks for the mention. I’m sure missing my traveling adventures and blogging. Fingers crossed the world opens to us soon. Tanya

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 11:24:25 +0000

In reply to Penelope Rice.

We’ve got a 2-weeker in November coming up that we were hopeful would be going ahead right up until this week’s FCO announcement here. If they don’t change that advice before the end of August then I can see that getting knocked aside for no good reason and the track record of the FCO updating advice is not promising. August next year on (now) the Regal is still going ahead (barring the next disaster) so there is that but it’s not a ship we wanted, it’s not a class we like, and we lose our big balcony for fjords and midnight sun-watching so it all feels like such a let-down. It’s that May trip to Alaska that will be the kick to the guts if and when it gets cancelled.

Things might look better in a month but right now it’s not a happy world to be wanting to travel in.

By: Penelope Rice

Penelope Rice — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 11:15:42 +0000

The cruise to Greenland with Nat Geo that was supposed to happen this August was canceled, due to Americans being assholic plague rats. My upcoming Crystal Cruises cruise to South Asia (starting in Mumbai and ending in Singapore) that supposedly starts in Nov, 2020 will very likely be canceled (although it is not yet) due to the above reason, plus India also being full of disease. We have two cruises booked for ’21: the same Greenland cruise in August, and a South Pacific cruise, also with Nat Geo, in April. We got our money back from Lindblad, plus a $10k credit when they canceled our Greenland cruise this year, so we wound up ahead of the game monetarily; but, it was still a huge emotional blow. Hubby and I are now stuck in DC for the entire summer while the rest of the nation coughs, gasps, and dies around us. The DC-region has gotten its caseload under control, but it’s only a matter of time before dumfukistanis from the disease-riddled rest of the US bring the plague back our way. We don’t have travel guidance saying ‘don’t cruise’ per se, but who’d want to get on a plane with a bunch of filthy Americans right now?