david55

A friend of ours who is a high up in the chain of travel industry consultants recently was on a conference call where poll results were offered. 37% said they would not fly until a vaccine is available. 68% said they would NEVER cruise. Ever.

747FC

If this is not a proprietary poll, can you get and post the link?

david55

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DJ_Iceman

What percentage of people said they would NEVER cruise before coronavirus? I've got to think it was already something like 40-50%, given how many people hated the very idea of cruising for one reason or another.

Global Adventurer

Agree. Anytime I told somebody I was going on a cruise all I received was a negative response. Either they mentioned getting the cooties, large herd of people or simply feeling like they would be in prison and seasick. Yep, lots of negative comments way before coronavirus.

Badenoch

Even if 40-50 percent would never cruise the survey results means that 18-28 percent of people who have cruised or were at least open to cruising would now never cruise again under any circumstances. Of the remaining 32 percent how many of them (us?) would cruise under the conditions set by the health authorities including the distinct possibility of being quarantined in your cabin for two weeks should an outbreak occur? I know I wouldn't.

david55

Here is the poll.......I was off...it is 61% that will never cruise.

https://ilovebonaire.com/wp-content/...-19-travel.pdf

Need

Of the 30 of so people on our team at work, only 2 of us had ever been on a cruise... before Covid-19. If I had to guess, I would say more than 50% of my coworkers will say they will probably never go on a cruise before this year. Right now, I would guess it would be closer to 80%. I am not sure myself if I will ever go back on one.

747FC

Looks like Crystal cruises have cancelled all cruises until 2021:

https://thepointsguy.com/news/cruise...cel-into-2021/

I really have a hard time imagining cruising coming back until a proven vaccine is introduced or some miracle treatment.

Randyk47

We are well beyond second thoughts about when and if we’ll cruise again. Cruising has been our major vacation mode for 22 years. Yes, we’ve done resorts, Vegas, short staycations, etc., but we’ve invested way more time and money in cruising than any vacation mode. It is not easy, quick, or without thought and discussion that we’ve put cruising way way back on the back burner. Yup it’s a bit depressing and at the least disappointing but it is what it is. Optimistically we’re thinking it will be 2022 before we cruise again if ever. Understand we are no spring chickens, age is unfortunately catching up with our more adventure oriented selves. Just cruising around the Caribbean on a cruise does not interested us.

gretchendz

https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/55...eferrer=Boards

These cruises are of the Mediterranean, and for Europeans only, but it is quite interesting the lengths the changes they have made, especially a quick swab test before boarding, no independent touring at ports, and contract tracing. Of course, no self-service buffets.

radonc1

I fins it interesting that we are still dealing with the concept of fomite transmission for this disease when we now know that almost all cases are transmitted by aerosols and droplets. Thus, self serve or no self serve buffets are not really going to impact the spread and transmission of this specific disease unless sick people are sneezing into them. If that is the issue, then we could say the same thing about door handles and walls as well.
You could do just as well by making people who are using the buffet line wear a mask while serving themselves which in essence is what the cruise staff is doing anyway.

A cruise line will still need daily rapid testing for the passengers and crew to ensure safety, imo.

I still do not know (nor have seen) what a cruise line is going to do when one of their passengers or crew tests positive for Covid. Will they be allowed to dock at the next port?? Will they be able to offload a sick passenger who needs hospitalization?? Will the cruise end at the time of diagnosis.???

So many questions, so few answers at this time.

justforfun

And that is why I won't book another cruise in the near future. Sitting on a $1500 credit with Cunard and will likely just let it expire.

david55

At least three cruise lines that I have read about re- starting ( including the high end Paul Gauguin) have had infections on board and returned to port.

https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/c...d-19-case.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...se/5570867002/

YVR Cockroach

No sure if any of the big cruises have actually got going yet but I doubt if any will be successful given that infection rates are back on the rise.

It's going to take quarantining passengers and probably crew before each and every cruise. Tests will be of no good if there are false negatives.

FWIW, the Paul Gauguin cruise was scuttled because a pax that had a prior -ve test retested +ve. I think the same with the small cruise line in Alaska. Hurtigruten because they didn't retest crew after they had last tested in the Philippines (and did not quarantine them on arrival i Norway). Don't know details of the scuttled German cruise Only cruises that seem to have gone w/o hitch (at least lack of reports of cruises hung up on infections), and at drastically-reduced capacity, have been Ponant cruises around France.