[Smart, on their part]
Sep. 27th, 2019 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roaming_kate23We are smack in the middle of hurricane season.HAL does not have ships in the Caribbean during the summer/fall months.Other cruise lines do, though.To each his or her own but for me, that is taking way too much of a chance and I wouldn’t do it ever.
That’s not to say HAL doesn’t have issues with hurricanes-the ones that wind up going the length of the Eastern Seaboard before dissipating.That affects the cruises that go from Boston to Montreal(or the reverse).It’s been happening a lot more lately.I don’t know if this has something to do with hurricanes(I doubt it) but a lot of those East Coast/Canadian cruises wind up missing ports because the weather is so rough and IIRC quite a few of them are tender ports(if the weather is even remotely bad they miss ports or they find someplace close by to go(It’s happened on several cruises I’ve been on.)
Of course there is always the claim of “a lot of people were upset we missed a port”(or they missed a port that they specifically booked the cruise for.)
If you don’t get that it is for the passengers’ safety..I really don’t know what to say.
But back to the Caribbean cruising season for the rest of this post:
I get that it’s cheaper but as I said before it *absolutely* is taking a chance-a chance that I would not take-better prices or not.
I always think of how much shit Royal Caribbean got for leaving passengers in a port because they had to get out of Dodge; a hurricane was coming.Could they have handled it better?sure they could have.But the amount of hate that they got was disproportionate to what actually happened.
What sticks in my mind was a thread that Mary Louise started, that was ‘HOW DARE YOU,ROYAL CARIBBEAN” Mind you, this was on the *HAL* boards not the Royal Caribbean threads.It basically was an excuse to talk about how inferior every other cruise line is and how HAL would have handled it. Typicfuckingcal..
That’s not to say HAL doesn’t have issues with hurricanes-the ones that wind up going the length of the Eastern Seaboard before dissipating.That affects the cruises that go from Boston to Montreal(or the reverse).It’s been happening a lot more lately.I don’t know if this has something to do with hurricanes(I doubt it) but a lot of those East Coast/Canadian cruises wind up missing ports because the weather is so rough and IIRC quite a few of them are tender ports(if the weather is even remotely bad they miss ports or they find someplace close by to go(It’s happened on several cruises I’ve been on.)
Of course there is always the claim of “a lot of people were upset we missed a port”(or they missed a port that they specifically booked the cruise for.)
If you don’t get that it is for the passengers’ safety..I really don’t know what to say.
But back to the Caribbean cruising season for the rest of this post:
I get that it’s cheaper but as I said before it *absolutely* is taking a chance-a chance that I would not take-better prices or not.
I always think of how much shit Royal Caribbean got for leaving passengers in a port because they had to get out of Dodge; a hurricane was coming.Could they have handled it better?sure they could have.But the amount of hate that they got was disproportionate to what actually happened.
What sticks in my mind was a thread that Mary Louise started, that was ‘HOW DARE YOU,ROYAL CARIBBEAN” Mind you, this was on the *HAL* boards not the Royal Caribbean threads.It basically was an excuse to talk about how inferior every other cruise line is and how HAL would have handled it. Typicfuckingcal..
