Good Cruise article from cnn.com

[Schplinky]

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Here's a link to the CNN article that was originally posted here.

 

Cruise season features themed trips, 6 new ships

[canderson]

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The current 102% occupancy figure was certainly interesting, but it's hard to know exactly what that means unless you know how many cabins are being occupied by 3+ persons at a time, and if that's any different than it used to be. Afteall, a ship sailing with half the cabins empty and 4/cabin for those that are occupied would generate the same 100% occupancy rate.

 

In other words, the body count per sailing is holding at the same relatively high rate, but has the percentage of empty cabins changed at all?

 

Anyone see any hard core statistics on this part of the business?

[canderson]

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Side note: ... which is as it should be. I'm sure that CC doesn't want to get into the middle of "fair use" and copyright issues. If we stick to excerpting articles, everybody stays happy.

[dkjretired]

Side note: ... which is as it should be. I'm sure that CC doesn't want to get into the middle of "fair use" and copyright issues. If we stick to excerpting articles, everybody stays happy.

t

 

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[Schplinky]

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Thanks Walt,

 

I didn't know but freely admit that ignorance to the law doesn't negate the law. I'll be more careful