Daily Finance published a debate today by the Motley Fool analysts about whether Carnival is a sound investment following the Costa Concordia disaster and the fire aboard the Costa Allegra cruise ship.
The result? Three thumbs down.
Here are the analysts’ thoughts:
"I’ll keep my flag planted on dry land."
"My primary beef with Mr.
The Palm Beach Post News / WPTV reports that ten passengers aboard the Bahamas Celebration cruise ship experienced a cruise they will never forget.
Raw sewage was coming out of sinks and overflowing from the shower drains. The mess leached out into the bathroom floors and into the hallway. One young woman said: "It was
Yesterday the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida issued an opinion which revisited the infamous "deep throat" case involving a corrupt claim supervisor at Royal Caribbean and a crooked Miami maritime lawyer.
The case is entitled Wingate v. Celebrity Cruises, Ltd. and is available online here.
You will recall that the case involved a local Miami
In a story widely reported in the national media, the Centers for Disease Control failed Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Seas after conducting a surprise vessel sanitation inspection last month.
On November 18, 2011, CDC inspectors boarded the Monarch of the Seas, which is the cruise line’s oldest vessel, and found numerous public health risks and violations if the
The Telegraph in the U.K. has an interesting article this weekend – "Cruise Ships Could Be Shut Out of Venice Over Erosion Fears."
The article points out that environmentalists and heritage groups have long complained that mammoth cruise ships plow through the shallow Venetian lagoon and damage the fragile canal banks, wooden piles and mud
An online news sources today published an article entitled "Drinks for Teens on Royal," which states that Royal Caribbean has lowered the drinking age for passengers onboard sailings operated outside of North America.
The article states that "while the minimum age of consumption for sailings in North America remains at 21, the limit for
A local news station in Tampa, WTSP 20 News, has a story about an elderly couple’s cruise horror story.
Betty and Ronald Coleman from Port Ritchie Florida were sailing on a Panama Canal cruise aboard the Norwegian Pearl when Mr. Coleman contracted what is described as norovirus. NCL put the Colemans ashore in Cartegena Columbia without contacting the
Over the years I have learned that the single most critical factor that drives clients to our office is not when a cruise passenger has been injured or inconvenienced. Stuff happens, and most people understand that. But when a cruise line treats passengers poorly after injuring or inconveniencing them, that’s when our law firm’s telephone begins to ring.
Over 75% of
Last year I published a series of articles about how cruise lines mishandle customer complaints and ruin their reputations in the process.
Part I of "And the Cruise Industry Wonders Why It Has An Image Problem" series focused on the ways that Carnival and Royal Caribbean managed to botch customer problems and tarnish their images.
Part II took a
NBC Los Angeles reports today that Royal Caribbean Cruises demonstrated "a gross indifference to the life and health" of passengers by continuing to cruise with a ship that "that allowed poison gas exposure to its passengers," according to Miami Dade County Judge Marc Schumacher.
The ruling today involved a leak of hydrogen sulfide that killed three Royal Caribbean crew
Last week I was away from my computer traveling in Jamaica to visit crewmembers while the story broke about the U.K.’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency detaining the MSC Cruises’ Opera cruise ship for safety violations.
The incident was the type of event which I would normally and quickly write about. But by the time I returned to Miami the cruise
The New York times published an excellent article about a small school which Royal Caribbean built in Haiti. Entitled "In Haiti, Class Comes With a Peek at Lush Life," the article was written by Sarah Maslin Nir and contains some interesting photographs by Piotr Redlinski.
The little school is called "École Nouvelle Royal Caribbean," which
In a proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Royal Caribbean Cruises disclosed that its 2010 compensation paid to CEO Richard Fain (photo left) increased almost 60% to $8,600,000. Royal Caribbean increased the compensation paid to the company’s four other named executives from 18.5% to almost 50%. The largest compensation increase of the four executives went to Adam Goldstein (photo right), the president of
A news station in Bradenton Florida is reporting on an interesting story of a Princess Cruises customer, Mr. Welt, who booked a 12-day cruise called the "China and Japan Explorer." The cruise ship was scheduled to sail from Shanghai with three stops in Japan.
But then the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. Mr. Welt was initially undeterred, but he became greatly concerned
Its been a while since I awarded my monthly "Worst Cruise Line in the World" award.
But for one cruise line – Royal Caribbean – this year has been a such nightmare that it wins the first worst cruise line award for 2011 hands down.
Last week started off with the disappearance of a 32 year old musician
This weekend we reported on a lawsuit which had been filed against Royal Caribbean over the death of a 56 year old passenger, Barbara Davey (photo below left). The deceased passenger’s husband, John Davey, stated to the Scottish and U.K. media that "Barbara was tossed around like a ragdoll and was seriously hurt" during the violent storm which rocked the Brilliance of the
A video has been circulating on the internet which shows the new Disney Dream cruise ship coming perilously close to colliding with Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Seas, just days before the Dream was christened in Port Canaveral.
A passenger’s YouTube video shows the Dream drifting very close to the Royal Caribbean cruise ship.
Consider this massive public relations failure by this cruise line:
After this couple’s cabin was flooded by a busted water pipe, Royal Caribbean Cruises refused to refund any portion of the cruise fare – instead offering only a 50% on a future cruise. This was the couple’s first vacation after the husband served in
