Seeing that over 50% of the passengers on Royal Caribbean cancelled their cruises and demanded their money back when Royal switched policy to allow unvaccinated people -- which forced Royal to backtrack and state it only applies to Florida. And now Royal is sending information to booked passengers claiming that over 90% of people will be vaccinated on their cruises in an attempt to stop further unbookings. It gets back to giving the customers what they want. And over 80% of cruisers in the U.S. want vaccinated cruises only. Nobody wants to go on an unvaccinated cruise which turns into the next Diamond Princess.
Please show the source of "50% of the passengers on RC canceled their cruises and demanded their money back when RC switched policy to allow unvaccinated people". I'd like to see evidence of the cancelations and then the cancelations tied to the policy switch (perhaps they checked a box saying that?)
As posted earlier according to travel agents --- a large percentage of people on Royal Caribbean cancelled their cruises and demanded their money back from Royal after they changed policy. This taught Royal a harsh lesson regarding what their customers want. This situation has been covered by Cruise Critic and other cruise related forums/new sites. Seeing that all the cruise lines have developed a work-around to thumb their noses at DeSantis -- his "no COVID passports" policy is laughable.
Ok, so "50%" now became "large percentage" (which is completely subjective and could be 10% or 90% depending on the person), and the source is now supposedly "travel agents saying so". But no source anywhere confirming anything you said other than you claiming hearsay. Any time you want to provide actual cancelation data from the cruise line or anything concrete, I'll happily stand corrected. Until then, another GWB Lie ™.
I outlined this in earlier information. Within 48 hours of Royal's policy change 40% of travelers attempted to booked. This rose to 50% after a week. As reported by Travel Agents who do most of the booking for cruises associated with outfits such as cruises.com, etc. Keep in mind the majority of cruises booked for 2021 are cruises that the cruise lines cancelled in 2020. The non-refundable part of the deposit from passengers had to be applied to another cruise and the cruise lines only offered 2021 bookings to apply the credit to. This means most of the 2021 cruises were already people with previously booked cruises -- this situation also caused the price of 2021 cruises (due to re-booking demand) to go up greatly compared to their original 2020 prices. Of course, this caused many disgruntled passengers because now their original $1100 cruise is costing them $2600 in 2021. The cruise lines were refusing to refund the deposit money -- but at the same time promising their cruises would be "safe". Well with the change in policy on Royal most passengers did not consider their cruises safe -- and found a great avenue to demand their "non-refundable" money back if the cruise line would not ensure safe, vaccinated cruises like the rest of the industry.
Who gives a shit if you've outlined this in earlier information. Show the source of data. So far you can't seem to. I wonder why the hell that is? 40% of travelers for what...one cruise? A month's bookings? Where is the data?? where is the source?? Sounds like - if true - it was a great way to get their money back by using the excuse of "safety".
So much DeSantis "winning". Want a miserable cruise experience? Try to step on a cruise ship unvaccinated. Where you will be treated as a social pariah, not allowed in group settings like the theater, and generally treated like dirt. Just so the message gets across that you are not wanted. Royal Caribbean plans to keep unvaccinated guests away by making cruises expensive and uncomfortable for them https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs...-cruises-expensive-and-uncomfortable-for-them Yes, you can cruise from Florida without a vaccine — if you pay for testing and sail in ‘mask class’ https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opi...0210623-ypt4zazylfgavg7oaihwssgtui-story.html
DeSantis is a small dicked trump wanabee... Is this Nazi Germany now? Public universities in Florida will be required to survey both faculty and students on their political beliefs and viewpoints, with the institutions at risk of losing their funding if the responses are not satisfactory to the state's Republican-led legislature. https://www.salon.com/2021/06/23/de...ssors-to-register-political-views-with-state/