Cruise Service Cutbacks?

[navybankerteacher]

Compare it with the CP Rail Road. Horton took it over, sold 300 Locomotives and they had a shortage to haul grain with but he made money for the Shareholders. Cruise lines are cutting back service and then wonder why we tell them to go to hell because the experience and food are just like a cattle car. We quit Princess due to their shoddy service. In 2010 it was impeccable. 7 years is all it took.

 

 

Something else has changed in that same 7 year period: the way people dress and act on mass market cruise ships has deteriorated at a comparable rate - and for a linked reason. When cruising was special and relatively expensive, it attracted people who recognized an were willing to pay for a quality experience. In reaching for an ever wider market - largely populated by people for whom an inexpensive (read "cheap") vacation is paramount, the lines decided to provide exactly that: you cannot provide quality food, good music, well-produced entertainment on the cheap - and there is little need to try when an increasing percentage of passengers neither want or appreciate such things.

 

The lines, by expanding capacity, changed the market, and the market dictates what the lines should provide .

[boscobeans]

 

The lines, by expanding capacity, changed the market, and the market dictates what the lines should provide .

 

 

Very TRUE.. It is harder to fill 2 or 3 thousand staterooms than it was in the past on smaller ships with passengers willing to pay a higher price...

 

 

bosco

[bUU]

There's a bigger issue, here: Is it proper to reserve cruising, itself, to those who have enough wealth to afford what cruises used to cost, even though both customer and supplier are willing to traffick in a more affordable option? (Answer: No.) The opening of the market to a broader range of affordability is, to a great extent, a matter of affording appropriate respect for, and dignity to, a broader range of customers.

 

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[navybankerteacher]

There's a bigger issue, here: Is it proper to reserve cruising, itself, to those who have enough wealth to afford what cruises used to cost, even though both customer and supplier are willing to traffick in a more affordable option? (Answer: No.) The opening of the market to a broader range of affordability is, to a great extent, a matter of affording appropriate respect for, and dignity to, a broader range of customers.

 

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Interesting to insert the question of whether it is "proper" to reserve any activity (or quality of that activity) to those capable of affording it, into a discussion of why an activity evolves. Virtually every optional activity is reserved, in one way or another, to those able to afford it.

 

The question might be: is it "proper" to dilute, or degrade, something to simply have more of it? Or: at what degree of dilution or degradation have you finally destroyed it?