That's what I was thinking.
Bingo!
Ya know, if I was on said cruise, I think I would find out ways to help. Communications maybe...
on a cruise ship you have no resources as a passenger.
Its lay back, relax and be waited upon. Unless you pick the wrong line... And Royal Carib doesnt exactly have a fabulous customer service track record.
Never been on a cruise - seem too restrictive to me - but IF I did, I'd have my laptop, etc. with me.
Or I could throw them table scraps.
j/k
We took an Alaska cruise a few years back... talked to other line passengers at stops and none of the reports were as good as the service on our carrier.. Holland America
I have been on a lot of cruises. Different cruise lines and even different ships have different personalities and quirks but I can honestly say I have enjoyed every single cruise. The big advantage is that you get to visit different places without changing hotel rooms. You check into a room one time and stay there while the 'hotel' travels to different ports of call. I hate checking in and out of hotel rooms, so I love cruising. It is like travel without the traveling part.
I do agree with thebaron that Haiti needs tourism more than ever, but it has to be very awkward right now to visit a place on a luxury cruise ship that just had a natural disaster on the scale of the one that just hit Haiti. A ship loaded with food and drink visiting a place where people haven't had food or water for a week has got to be strange. In the cruise line's defense, they did donate tons of supplies to the relief effort that would have had to be flown in otherwise, a very good thing indeed!
thebaron
So the locals don't deserve any money from visiting tourists so they don't have to depend on donations to survive?