On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:26:53 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/9/2016 8:19 AM, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 03:52:13 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


Saw this discussed on "The Weather Channel". They were basically
saying "BS" to the claims by the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines that
the "Anthem of the Seas" was caught in an "unexpected large storm".

TWC showed National Weather Service forecasts as early as last Wednesday
that accurately forecast the storm and it's severity forming, well
before the ship left New Jersey headed for Florida en-route to the
Bahamas. The ship sailed right into 30+ foot seas and hurricane force
winds.

The Weather Channel meteorologists were at a loss as to why the decision
was made for the cruise ship to sail anyway, especially along it's
intended course off of Cape Hatteras where the storm had already
formed and was situated.


http://tinyurl.com/jov5edb

Royal Caribbean and Carnival are two on which I'd never take a cruise. Next in the bucket:

https://disneycruise.disney.go.com/c...-disney-magic/

....when we sell the house. (Give it a couple seconds to load.)
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Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

Royal Carribean and Carnival shouldn't be mentioned in the same
sentence. Carnival is the cattle car of cruise lines. Those who have
visited Gitmo know about the cattle car.

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We've only been on two of the big cruise ship lines - Royal Caribbean
and Princess. I thought they both did a good job but that's a limited
sample size.