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We were on the same cruise (wife and I, third time on Princess, first on the Regal).  Great until Friday, when she started coming down with something.   Stayed in our cabin for the most part on Saturday, drove home Sunday and she was diagnosed with the flu Monday morning at urgent care.  I got sick as well, but tested negative for the flu.  We're both still under the weather.  It's a shame, there are any number of ways we could have caught it, but we were vigilant as far as washing our hands religiously and using hand sanitizer when it was available.

I guess it just sounds better than what it really is.

 

GROUPIE

That works. Or "cult member".

John doesn't update his blog very often when he isn't on a ship and acting as a cruise director. He has said that starting in 2 weeks when he gets to the Miracle he will start posting 3 blogs a week.

 

I would consider anyone who reads or posts on his blog to be a Blogger. If I read a book doesn't that make me a reader?

Your logic is flawed. If you wrote a book, that would not make you a reader. It would make you a writer. Blogging is writing, not reading.

Noun1.blogger - a person who keeps and updates a blog

Does he even blog any more? I thought it was all Facebook. So it's a Facebook Reader cruise.

It's probably the most poorly titled theme cruise in history. "Bloggers" indicates people who blog, and no one blogs that is part of that cruise, including the head "blogger" himself. Reading a blog does not make you a blogger, and blogging every few months does not make you one either. I don't know why he even bothers with that page anymore.

If it's an April Fool's joke it's pretty lame. There's nothing really 'jokey' about it. Despite the lack of second sources, it seems believable.

 

Some numbers for comparison:

 

Carnival Dream: 128,000 Tonnes, 3652 passengers

Carnival Conquest: 110,000 Tonnes, 2974 passengers

 

Vista Class #1: 135,000 Tonnes, 4000 passengers

Vista Class #2: 152,000 Tonnes, 5100 passengers

 

And let's look at some other ships:

 

Oasis of the Seas: 225,000 Tonnes, 6300 passengers (or 5400 at double occupancy)

Freedom of the Seas: 154,000 Tonnes, 3634 passengers

 

Norwegian Epic: 156,000 Tonnes, 4,100 (double occupancy)

 

So, yeah.. seems like it's going to be a pretty big ship. And I hope that 5100 passenger capacity is every bed filled and not double occupancy!

I think "We here at Carnival..." sounds a little rednecky for the CEO to say. Poor choice of words if it is an April Fools joke. And I'm sure if true, John Heald would have been blathering about the brilliance of it all on the FB site.

Let's face it. The internet has ruined April Fools Day. Too easy to spread stupid and false rumors.

Who knows why he asked it. He does like to stir the pot (see the smoking post of his earlier this week). He knows it will provoke reactions on both sides. Loves to throw red meat to the rabid cheerleaders. WCMC vs. Bitter and Blanc, seems like a strange thing to compare.

I think that them offering this guarantee is good PR, but actually trying to collect on it, is going to be another story.

And Carnival's website and IT systems are horrendous at best. Hear way too many stories like this for it to not be a big problem. Don't mention it to any of the cheerleaders though, they'll tell you it's your browser or your computer or something.

If you want to avoid the gatekeepers who will pounce if they perceive your question to be stupid or comments that are less than accepting by them, go to his blog and use the ASK JOHN tab, and mark it private.

 

Worse, you then get a bunch of silly private messages from some of the real weird ones that live on that page.

Some of those nut jobs over there seem to be on that board 24/7 and vicariously live through him. I think they believe they are him, in some cases. Being helpful is one thing, being obsessed is another.