The pandemic highlights issues with illness streaks on cruise ships but it didn't start yesterday with Covid-19.
There have been nasty illness issues with cruises for years, maybe decades. Maybe there is something fundamentally wrong with the sanitation standards or procedures. Once something takes hold on a cruise ship it just seems to bounce around for a while infecting people. Or if not the sanitation standards, it's in the core way the ships are engineered or the way these businesses operate. There's a certain amount of potential risk to your health that just comes along with the act of climbing aboard a cruise ship. Covid-19 gives the issue no quarter but it's not chapter one.
I think it will be a long, long time before the cruise lines recover. Certainly there will be some attrition and consolidation in the industry. The ships themselves will survive. Cruise ships are floating hotels. Like someone else said about hotels that close they are a physical asset that is purpose-built. So some will close down, sit idle, get sold, and get remodeled. Some may be re purposed. But most of them will remain as cruise ships.
quote="Susan L."]
I wonder if cruises will come back, and if shoppers will still have a strong jones for them.[/quote]
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/09/2020 08:09AM by JustForFun.