Here I am booking three cruises for next year, and now THIS! I'm seriously thinking of cancelling. First it's pirates, then it's missing honeymooners, and now I just don't know what to think...is cruising really a safe way to travel???

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No, LeeAnne, cruising is not safe at all. First, you are subjected to lines for embarkcation and disembarkation. There are contagious people in those lines with potential Norovirus.

Please know that cruising is very dangerous and unhealthful You may have to fly to get to your ship (unless you are in California or Florida and you cruise to Mexico or the Carribbean where you can get Turista). If you have to fly, you have to take Aireborne because of the germs. You have to schlep your own bags, weighing 50lbs each if you fly domestic or 44 lbs each if you fly international. There are no skycaps so you can really hurt yourself because you took 40 pairs of shoes and everything in the bathroom in those two suitcases which you have to LIFT all by yourself!!! You can actually hurt your back that way. You have to go to the airport where you have to get half naked to go thru metal detectors which cannot detect terrorists. Only little old women with tweezers for their chin hairs or babies with diaper pins and business men with their swiss army knives they forgot to leave at home. The real terror is from the Xray machines which will ruin film but have made millions for Nikon and Canon. If there are no cold or other virus germs from the passengers, you can get high blood pressure from the screaming babies whose parents are too cheap to buy them seats of their own. Oh and you can starve to death because there are only peanuts and raisins to eat. Then you can be on TV and you can watch your own emergency landing if you fly Jet Blue or Alaska Air and the wheels won't do what wheels were made to do while in flight. YOu can have a heart attack that way. Very Very dangerous.

Once you board, then, there is all the cholesterol in the food. Everything is cooked in Butter claiming to be French or Lobster on the Captian's welcome night. And there is ALL the food which has been in storage on a ship for days and weeks. Who knows how sick you can get? Why take a chance??? And then the alcohol, which is unlimited at dinner on RSSC but not all inclusive, or costs an arm and a leg on something called MASS Market cruises. Too much of that stuff can get you a life sentence because you blacked out and don't remember how to get to your room and you fell asleep in the hallway at 3AM - don't forget all the doors look alike and why wake up the wrong passengers who are sleeping? Then there is all you can eat food, which can cause your clothes to fit improperly and can create a problem leaving your room. That is why so many cruise passengers go missing. They can only leave by jumping off their balcony because they have no clothes that fit. That can be very dangerous because you might not ever been seen again. And then you'd never get to platnium level where you can call home for 4 hours per cabin.

OMG, I nearly died (laughing) after clicking on the photo! (and reading Kathy's post following it)

Masaki

Kathy, you are clearly in the wrong profession. You NEED to be a comedy writer.

My stomach hurts now. And no it's NOT from gorging myself!!! (I'm not ON a cruise at the moment.)

And then there was this monster that show up on my Manaus to Ftl Mariner cruise :eek:


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Who is going to be on RCCI talking about their newest lost passenger...... :rolleyes:

Kathy,

You crack me up!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Betty

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Great way to begin the day! Too funny!!

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this is a great way to wake up...omg i started reading this and almost spit my coffee out at the screen...

Kathy, That has to be the funniest thing I have read on LCT. You have a wonderful sense of humor, and a great way with words, Thanks for making me smile this morning.............

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or reading these posts and laughing so hard that you split your sides open or burn yourself with that coffee that spews out of your mouth!!! LOL Thanks LeeAnne and Kathy, those were great.

See what happens to us poor accountant types who have to slave away this time of year. We go wacky. Glad to make you all laugh. Isn't that what it's about?

Great Kathy! :banana: :banana: :banana:
Blackbird71..what the heck is THAT?

Kathy - that was fantastic! :app:
You accountants!!!! :nw:

Kathy, that is way too funny. You should be on a Talk Back type of show. And LeeAnne, I appreciate seeing anything not showing Angelina and Brad on the cover. I don't think she is pretty at all. I don't understand why everybody drools over her.
The more I learn about Angelina, the more I realize that she has always listened to the beat of a different drummer. I can respect that. And, she really has put forth great effort as a humanitarian. But enough already!

Trish