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Hurricane Irma
- Thread starter JohnD
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And now you've got the thousands of people the cruise ships dropped off. From the couple of brief interviews I watched, it didn't appear the cruise lines were assisting the passengers they just dumped in Miami. DCL probably being the exception. That's what you get for cruising Carnival....
disneygeek90
Well-Known Member
This is not what I need to see.
21stamps
Well-Known Member
What?!?!?!!!! Where are they supposed to go??? Seriously, where will they go? A Shelter????
What a nightmare.
Yeah, let's make up the games that count, not those cupcakes we are/were all playing Saturday. But that bites for those cupcake teams, if they lose the payments promised.
I would have dropped them off at a port a little further north - not one in the middle of an evacuation zone. And helped them make arrangements to get home. The one woman I saw interviewed was rather upset - she didn't know how she was now going to get home.
Probably best. Besides, who wants to sit in Doak for a noon game in September against a cupcake? I don't care if it's the home opener. But that bites for L-M....
21stamps
Well-Known Member
Right?! There isn't a flight or rental car left in the area. Those people are literally stranded? I'm just in shock that the cruise lines would do such a thing.
Los Angeleans would say that's a typical day on the San Diego.....
Nubs70
Well-Known Member
75 is red/orange all way into GA. 441 is green, never drove it though.
What?
But they have no water.....
Dang, Irma, pick a route and stick to it. Preferably one waaaay east of Florida.
peter11435
Well-Known Member
DCL debarked at port canaveral this morning and afternoon.
cjgren
Member
Didn't you know? Cakes are essential items for that hurricane party Bob down the street is throwing.
(Actually there are a few people I know from high school posting on Facebook about how they're throwing a party for the hurricane. This is not a Nor'Easter!)
PanInFlight
Active Member
I can guarantee they will honor anything. When a hurricane is involved especially one hitting Florida all policies go out the window and refunds and exceptions are made without any hesitation.
If DCL can get from Castaway Cay to Port Canaveral overnight, then other cruise ships should have been able to turn north and dropped passengers some where else beside Miami. I'm sure they have provisions for at least another day or two. I realize I eat a lot of shrimp on my cruises, but not the entire ship's supply.
The bridge contacts the major carriers at MIA, asking them to have ticket agents with tablets at the port available to help passengers upon disembarkation who are flying home. You pretty please ask the carriers to give THOSE folks priority over booking new flights (especially since YOU created the problem). You ask the stewards to contact passengers in the cabins they service to get a head count of whose flying back and where to and you provide that to the carriers in advance, hoping they could have already rebooked their flights. That's what you do. You don't dump them at the port in Miami and say "it was a great trip, have fun trying to get home".