Who had that on their 2026 bingo card?

Big cruise ships like "Icon of the Sea" carry 7600 passengers and 2350 crew members. When you have close to 10,000 people packed in close proximity to each other from all around the world, diseases from all around the world are going to spread fast.

Keith

Cruise ships are large petri dishes!

I'll NEVER board one.

And to think folks, rich folks no less, blow alot of money to do that. And it's not like they have to use the boats to get somewhere, it's a friggen joyride going nowhere in particular. I get that out of my system just going for a walk in the woods for free.

I hear you, any boat bigger than needed to fish the waters you're on is too much boat, imo.

I cannot imagine being on one of those after being told several people onboard have died. I cannot imagine being on one of those even if everyone was healthy!

The ships themselves are fascinating, but not with people on them!

I think somebody had established on a previous thread that cruisers were not predominantly rich folks, rather just ordinary middle class and upper lower class. Cant remember the specifics, but according to many aquaintances that go on cruises, they are very reasoanably priced. Never been myself, for many of the reason already mentioned. Although, I should never say never as an Alaskan cruise could happen....

Never been on one never will

Election year.....

Agree on the common carribean ones as I know a few folks who like them and several of those lines are having trouble with the "usual suspects".

The plague ship in this case is apparently touring the South Atlantic visting Antartica, St Helena, South Africa among other stops so I'm assuming that it's not inexpensive and targeting a higher class of idiot. But maybe they are just regular common idiots.

Nasty ......

Nope , not for me

We've done East Caribbean , West Caribbean, Alaska, Panama Canal, Hawaiian Islands and Mediterranean Cruises. I never wanted to go on the first one. But it was fun and we enjoyed all of them. The Hawaiian Island cruise was our favorite vacation. We have shied away from them since the covid thing. They're a very economical way to see a lot of places. But it would sure suck to be on one with a disease outbreak.

Ditto that.
I don't like crowds, and don't like crowds with diseases.

I survived one in my 20's, not going to chance another one, lol

I'm much more nervous about being on planes than those dirty boats, and you are even closer to people on a plain !

Went to Australia once on the plane, was freaking nervous wreck, and it was a big plane, long flight 18 hours I think maybe a bit less, then had to turn around after 30 days do it all over to get home brutal !!!

Actually the neighbour was telling me about going on that ship and sleeping overnight on Antarctica The trip was in Jan 2026. The cost was 25G usd and he said well worth it.

Even better is when they won't let you leave!!!!!

Took the kids on an Inside Passage cruise to Alaska in 2006 after graduation. It was a good time but it was also before all the nastiness of the viruses was a thing too. Was not nearly as big a ship as the monster sizes they have today. We had an outside room with a balcony and the scenery was phenomenal. Went early in the season and it was still jacket weather. Should have gone a month later to see more wildlife.

It’s believed that those who are sick onboard got this virus off ship, at one of the island or ports they visited. Rodents on cruise ships are rare. Transmission of the virus from person to person is also very rare. I think this cruise ship is getting a bad rap over this incident.