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Carnival…. luxury? I have never seen those two words so close together in any sentence. Carnival is one step up from Margaritaville at Sea.
Carnival also own Cunard (sadly), and Cunard are a luxury line.
Well, they were back when I worked for them...
Fair, but the ship in question was the Carnival Encounter.
Terrible company. For anyone interested, the Netflix documentary, Poop Cruise, is worth a watch
What I remember about that documentary was how vain and clueless the people who were interviewed were. Up until that happened to them none of them had ever had an encounter with real adversity.
Oh yeah. Except this guy. This guy was great.
Who even goes on cruises anymore? They're terrible for the environment, they're not cheap, and you're trapped in a boat with a load of other people sharing diseases.
I don't get it. Is it just a boomer thing?
I went on a Disney Cruise when I was like 4. I went on another one just this past October, as both a family vacation and to celebrate my brother's girlfriend's birthday (she loves Disney, but she's not a Disney adult).
There were six of us, and then a couple of her friends and their kids came so it ended up being a group of about 12. We split three staterooms, and went on a couple "excursions" when we made port. It was actually a pretty fun time. The food was amazing, there was a late-night soft serve machine, and the people were all incredibly nice.
In the back of my mind though, I couldn't help but think about how awful this whole thing was in general. How much fuel was the ship burning, how many fish were we disturbing, look at these fat white people piling off the ship in the Bahamas. It was just always in the back of my mind, even when I tried to just enjoy things.
Well fuel should not be the problem. Fuel is actually much more efficient than airplanes. Rest of the problem though. Sure I'd worry too.
True, trying to burn airplanes to run cruise ships would definitely be inefficient
Well at first I was furious about your comment, but as I went to reply I kept laughing at how funny it is. So thanks for the chuckle.
Just like in Roman times. Orgies enabled by the labor of slaves.
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