Last week 20/20 did a special show on the Concordia disaster. It pissed off more than a few of the Carnival cruising faithful on Cruise Critic because they thought it reflected badly on Carnival. Personally, I would never go on a Carnival cruise, but I think some of the people that are frequent cruisers on their ships just don't want to hear anything bad about their ships(the other example of an extreme feeling like that is the Holland America boards.
They showed some of the problems that come up frequently on cruise ships.One of them was fighting. Not just on Carnival but on other ships as well; but Carnival really pushes their drink of the day-gee, I wonder if there could be a connection there? Of course the cheerleaders come out of the woodwork and say that they have never seen that happen on any of the cruises that they've been on and they have been on 20 cruises.Doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
They also claimed that there was an agenda on the part of ABC- which airs 20/20-because they are owned by Disney. Umm lolwhut? Disney also has a cruise line but that was only mentioned in passing.
Cruising is as safe as it's ever been;however the fact that other cruise lines' execs were slow to address it really got some people upset. I honestly don't think they did it to be malicious, they were just trying to find the right words and find the right words.
Why wouldn't you ever go on a
ReplyDeleteCarnival Cruise? I've gone on 4 now...they're a good cruise line, especially for the money. I don't mind that you won't go, I'm just curious as to why?
Eh, they're just not my thing. I've looked at their itineraries and they aren't much different than Holland America's Then again, I love Holland America, but reading Cruise Critic,if you didn't know anything about Holland America, first impressions would be that they have a lot of snobby passengers.
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