kathi
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2005
There are so many questions that need to be answered before allowing cruising to start again. This is not on the CDC, it's on the cruse lines and ports. The top two that come to mind:
1) If there is an outbreak on a ship, how do the passengers get back home? Who pays for it? What assurance is there that any port would take them? The federal government (i.e. our tax money) bore a large part of cost back in the spring and had to deal with all the coordination/diplomacy of getting people back to where they started. The cruise lines have to offer a solution for that and guarantee that it won't be a giant disaster. I have not seen anything suggesting they have this resolved.
2) Ports/Countries are not taking ships. You can want to cruise but if you can't get into ports, it's just not going to happen unless they relax regulations and cruises to nowhere are allowed. Castaway Cay is the Bahamas, so they would have to allow ships before DCL could even go there.
I don't see anything starting back up until those two major hurdles are cleared and neither of those are the fault of the CDC.
1) If there is an outbreak on a ship, how do the passengers get back home? Who pays for it? What assurance is there that any port would take them? The federal government (i.e. our tax money) bore a large part of cost back in the spring and had to deal with all the coordination/diplomacy of getting people back to where they started. The cruise lines have to offer a solution for that and guarantee that it won't be a giant disaster. I have not seen anything suggesting they have this resolved.
2) Ports/Countries are not taking ships. You can want to cruise but if you can't get into ports, it's just not going to happen unless they relax regulations and cruises to nowhere are allowed. Castaway Cay is the Bahamas, so they would have to allow ships before DCL could even go there.
I don't see anything starting back up until those two major hurdles are cleared and neither of those are the fault of the CDC.