It's only July and there haven't been many tropical storms/hurricanes..yet. But when there *is* one-and if they interfere with cruises-and a cruise line screws up dealing with it, you'll know.
Personally, I would never cruise during hurricane season.I understand why people do so(cheaper) but they do NOT understand that there are risks involved with it-missing the boat, and missing ports among them.And people do not buy insurance.Without insurance, you are shit out of luck-and people STILL don't do it. That makes no sense whatsoever!
When a cruise line "screws up" and doesn't deal with it appropriately,people are almost gleeful.Not defending the cruise line,but there are plenty of fans of other cruise lines that are quick to line up to bash the offending cruise line.Same with the people who write for the main Cruise Critic website..to read some of what they write when things like this happen,there is a bias against certain cruise lines.
The time when Royal Caribbean "screwed up" because of Hurricane Irene is a good example. There were a LOT of people who flew in to San Juan Puerto Rico(where the cruise started). You NEVER do that-at least not if you're a *smart* cruiser. The only reason that you would get to the port the day of is if you were within driving distance-Ft. Lauderdale is a good example of this, as are San Diego and Long Beach.)
People want to lay complete blame on the cruise line but truth of the matter is, is that cruisers do plenty of things that are *their* fault..not saying that the cruise lines aren't at fault, but when you read the posts on the Cruise Critic forums bashing cruise lines who "screw up" and read the posts from Cruise Critic writers, their biases certainly shine through. You certainly see it on the HAL(Holland America Line) boards. Cruise Critic brass are biased-especially towards Holland America.They see HAL as especially untouchable..for whatever reason.
Gonna go off topic here but it bears discussing..
Royal Caribbean frequently comes in for a lot of shit and I think their super-sized ships bring out the hate in people.What a bizarre thing to hate over.No-one is forcing you to cruise on them-and you're entitled not to like them but some of the comments are based on..searches for a phrase and settles on "petty bullshit".
Holland America is-in order to keep up with the Joneses like Royal Caribbean- being forced to go to bigger ships..which will probably make Holland America lose some of its appeal for the writers at Cruise Critic.
Holland America is starting to realise who their actual passenger base is. And I KNOW they read the Cruise Critic boards(I mean, they know peoples' real names,so..)
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