2020 Cruises from NY gone?

[rkacruiser]

4 hours ago, BermudaBound2014 said:

@MrMike45 For those that can book last minute, I think there is light at the end of the tunnel. I fully expect  last minute dirt cheap cruising will be had once ships start sailing. 

 

My expectation as well.  I just hope that the "dirt cheap cruising" will cause the cruise experience to be cheapened.  

[BermudaBound2014]

2 hours ago, rkacruiser said:

 

My expectation as well.  I just hope that the "dirt cheap cruising" will cause the cruise experience to be cheapened.  

 

I'm pretty sure you meant "I just hope that the "dirt cheap cruising" will NOT cause the cruise experience to be cheapened":). You must have ordered the same auto correction version as I have. I swear my auto correct changes entire sentences I write. If I could fire him I would.

 

But in all seriousness, I do expect that the industry will change and expect that some of the experience will be cheapened. It's been the trend since I started cruising (1987), and these are unprecedentedly challenging times economically. I just read that even Hurtigruten Cruises needed to secure a hefty loan at high interest rates, and they are largely a working cruise line. All speculation of course, but I think cruising post Covid will prove to be much different than cruising was last February. Sure the public has a short memory, but finances will drive the decision making and the interest rates on some of the loans that cruise lines have secured are telling.

 

I am also really skeptical about the CDC involvement in the cruising industry. It's one thing to let the market drive decision making. It's entirely different when the government gets involved :(. 

[rkacruiser]

On 6/13/2020 at 7:17 PM, BermudaBound2014 said:

I am also really skeptical about the CDC involvement in the cruising industry. It's one thing to let the market drive decision making. It's entirely different when the government gets involved :(. 

 

  The USCG and the USPH have an excellent record, in my opinion, in keeping us cruisers safe.  I have less confidence in what the bureaucrats at the CDC have to say at this time.  Lots of confidence on my part in that agency in the past.  Too many "balls have been dropped" from what I have learned in that agency in 2020 for me to have the confidence that I once did in them.  

 

On 6/13/2020 at 7:17 PM, BermudaBound2014 said:

I do expect that the industry will change and expect that some of the experience will be cheapened. It's been the trend since I started cruising (1987), and these are unprecedentedly challenging times economically. 

 

I fear that that the cruise experience will continue to be so changed, as to price as to well what requirements must be observed onboard, i.e. wearing masks, that, at least for me, the days of looking forward to having more "water sailing under my keel" is over.  

 

I am trying to be realistic in my thinking.  It's not pleasant thinking.  I hope I am wrong.