GWV-press alerted

[atexsix]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/nightmare-at-sea-cruise-line-forces-elderly-tourists-to-get-off-halfway-across-the-globe/ar-BB11mzJj

 

I think HAL has some valid points.  The lawsuits would be endless if they took the chance.

 

Feel free to delete or merge if already posted.

[Cruising-along]

Too bad they have the wrong ship in the photo!

[Vict0riann]

I think we saw this article a day or so ago, and things have changed.  HAL is helping with onward air travel now.  Scrapnana has a couple of threads about her “adventures” on the GWV.  

[CruiserBruce]

"Nightmare at sea"?? Not too much hyperbole there...

[cruiserchuck]

16 minutes ago, CruiserBruce said:

"Nightmare at sea"?? Not too much hyperbole there...

 

Especially since all of California is now supposed to stay home, with limited exceptions.  Being on a luxury cruise ship with unlimited food is not a nightmare compared to what the rest of us on land are going through.  

[TiogaCruiser]

And those of us with exceptions are busy!

[Mary Ellen]

We're currently on the Amsterdam. I'm attempting to be tactful - but since the beginning we've been aware of the couple mentioned in the article. We'll be happy not to sail with them in the future.

[Copper10-8]

Unfortunately, that Sun Sentinel article is just a tad bit slanted to one side, about 90% worth. Imagine that 🙃

[Krazy Kruizers]

Thanks for the link to the article.

[Mary Ellen]

The Captain just announced we’re deviating our course so we can medi-vac a passenger. This is precisely why it would be unsafe for passengers to continue past Australia given the current pandemic. Australia is sending a helicopter. HAL can’t be sure any other country on the way back to Ft. Lauderdale would also do so. The odds are actually extremely low. 
 

This couple would probably be screaming loud and clear if it was one of them and help wasn’t available.

Edited March 20, 2020 by Mary Ellen

[puppycanducruise]

Thanks for posting the link to the article.

[VMax1700]

2 hours ago, Mary Ellen said:

The Captain just announced we’re deviating our course so we can medi-vac a passenger.

Best wishes to the passenger with the medical emergency.  They are lucky to be within heli range of land.

I am sure there will be some 'theorists' who will suggest that the medi-vac was staged just to emphasise HAL's position. 🙄

[TiogaCruiser]

4 hours ago, Mary Ellen said:

The Captain just announced we’re deviating our course so we can medi-vac a passenger. This is precisely why it would be unsafe for passengers to continue past Australia given the current pandemic. Australia is sending a helicopter. HAL can’t be sure any other country on the way back to Ft. Lauderdale would also do so. The odds are actually extremely low. 
 

This couple would probably be screaming loud and clear if it was one of them and help wasn’t available.

Captain Jonathan was so right- what a hellova way to end a career.😣

[old mike]

An insight into the sewer like minds of second rate lame stream media fear mongering churnalists. 

 

 

 

[cat shepard]

1 minute ago, old mike said:

An insight into the sewer like minds of second rate lame stream media fear mongering churnalists. 

 

 

 

If I could say this without stumbling, I would borrow it!  Great wording, thank you!

[iancal]

If we were on that ship we would be focusing our attention on making planes to get home.  Not contacting the media to whine.

 

I can only assume that those folks who are featured in the article had no trouble making the appropriate onward journey reservations/plans (or HAL did it for them) otherwise they would not have had time to complain to the media.

 

I put in down to boredom.  Cannot blame the media.  They are in the entertainment business, not the factual news business.  Anything to boost circulation/audience numbers in order to increase advert revunues.   Sentinel may be bad, but certainly no where near as bad as CNN or FOX for this typed of journalism.

Edited March 20, 2020 by iancal

[1ANGELCAT]

10 hours ago, Mary Ellen said:

We're currently on the Amsterdam. I'm attempting to be tactful - but since the beginning we've been aware of the couple mentioned in the article. We'll be happy not to sail with them in the future.

Have you ever read any of her travel articles? She’s been in Cruise Travel mag many times. Pure hype.

[TiogaCruiser]

3 hours ago, iancal said:

If we were on that ship we would be focusing our attention on making planes to get home.  Not contacting the media to whine.

 

Holding mine.

I know this is a slip, but that is only short of what some may feel they need to do to get home.

[3rdGenCunarder]

12 hours ago, Copper10-8 said:

Unfortunately, that Sun Sentinel article is just a tad bit slanted to one side, about 90% worth. Imagine that 🙃

 

Good thing the ship doesn't list like that!

 

Most news stories about cruise ship "disasters,"  and not just the Corona situation, get overblown. It's a "sexy" story that grabs the reader's/watcher's attention.   

[AV8rix]

Well, welcome to the media take on disasters, folks!  We aviation folks have been putting up with this crap for decades 😬. 

[bouhunter]

The article blaming the cruiseline is of course slanted and wrong.

 

That said, I'm sure one thing that's accurate in the article is that there are some "elderly and frail" passengers.  There are on every cruise.  I don't understand some of them going for 7 days, doing so for 4 months is just plain stupid.

Edited March 20, 2020 by bouhunter

[SilvertoGold]

9 hours ago, 1ANGELCAT said:

Have you ever read any of her travel articles? She’s been in Cruise Travel mag many times. Pure hype.

 

 

I have read her travel articles and they were always very pro-HAL.  The angle she takes in this article is disappointing.  More than enough "too precious" pax on this cruise without her adding to the total.