The Cruise Industry ...HAHAHAHAHA

[Kurt]

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/thre ... index.html

Idiots sold everything to have everything done for them for 3 years.

They did not even have a ship.

And, the person who set it all up is offering another identical "Live at sea for 3 years" thing with another company and offering the people who got screwed over by her the first time to "move over" to the new company so she can "get things going".

This is a classic case where a bad business plan turns into fraud.

Fraud victims are the best people to hit up for fraud again (like she is doing with her former customers). My guess is the new company, HLC Cruises, will offer "Life At Sea" victims a discount rate and then just take their money again.

https://www.hlc.cruises/

[snaark]

Never understood why anyone would go on one of these things.

[Kurt]

Never understood why anyone would go on one of these things.

Not my thing at all either but if I was disabled or traveling with someone who was I can see how a cruise could be an easier way to travel to places or see sights.

I have co workers who do Cruises and they always catch COVID on them. Crazy big, really crowded petri dishes.

[ROB]

They seem like hell on earth to me.

But everyone raves about how great they are.

I wonder if I am missing something. Tempted to go on a short one to find out for that reason alone.

[Kurt]

They seem like hell on earth to me.

But everyone raves about how great they are.

I wonder if I am missing something. Tempted to go on a short one to find out for that reason alone.

If one that is so great for my desires comes along I think it will become self evident.

A friend of mine went on one with his family for his dad's 85th birthday. His dad was not ambulatory so they had a good time together.

But that was all he complimented about it. He would have never gone if it weren't for his dad.

[Chimborazo]

I really feel sorry for those people.

Cruises sound like hell on earth to me too, though I would consider a National Geographic cruise if I was flush with cash.

[Kurt]

I really feel sorry for those people.

Cruises sound like hell on earth to me too, though I would consider a National Geographic cruise if I was flush with cash.

Carl Sagan used to do Astronomy Cruises...That would be cool.

There is very little that would get me to take a cruise but I am sure there is something that would get me on a cruise ship.

Like passenger navigation classes with a sextant.

Harpoon throwing classes.

Stuff like that.

[SRR]

There is very little that would get me to take a cruise but I am sure there is something that would get me on a cruise ship.

Like passenger navigation classes with a sextant.

Harpoon throwing classes.

Stuff like that.

Something like "seafaring for the financially comfortable out of shape middle aged westerner".

Where you wake up at sea in your comfy oversized bed, have a large breakfast with mimosas, put on a pirate hat and wrap a rope around some sort of ship thing and then have a nap. And boast how you are totally sailoring like those dudes from the 1700s.

Throw a harpoon around 2pm then have a few beers and another nap. To get a "real feel" of how tough the pressganged deck swabbers had it back in the 1600s.

If you find anything like it I might do it too.

[Kurt]

Ok....This could be fun:

Airsoft but with Age Of Sail type cannons. Grappling hooks, Airsoft flintlocks and matchlocks and done on refurbished "Love Boat" sized cruise ships (since those are way too small for regular cruises) and then the cruise is spent fighting another cruise ship and trying to overtake each other.
End of the day is feasting and boozing Then washing down B1 pills with Pedialyte, sleeping until noon and doing it again.

Various themes could be done too like Boat of Vampires, Steam Punk, Post Apocalypse, or 1970s "Love Boat" with the same hair and clothes and everything but they get attacked by A Clockwork Orange Droogie boat.

Airsoft makes cannons right?

[Kurt]

And it would have to have things like showers and toilets and a bar cuz I am not gonna get Keel Hauled by fellow passengers and not have a drink and a shower afterwards.

[Darcy]

i know a bunch of ex-SEALs that LOVE LOVE LOVE cruises. Must be a Navy thing. Lots of them bought a shit load of cruise company stock when COVID shut everything down and prices tanked. I can't see myself embedded into a crowd intentionally, for every stop. They come into Halifax regularly and the downtown gets pretty crowded. I research off season for anything I do to avoid same