Originally Posted by
Peter Cartwright
Bill,
I totally agree ! My wife and I were booked to sail on Azura from Bridgetown Barbados, cruising the Caribbean and then home to Southampton. P&O cancelled all cruising two day prior to our flight out to join her. As did Cunard calling all their vessels back to Southampton. I was told on another website that Carnival will survive as they are a big company? I personally think, not just Carnival but all cruise companies are going to be hit hard. The appreciation of how this virus spread will no doubt effect how passengers fair on cruise liner accommodation?
I was a bit disappointed as I am 65 and was taking my wife to show her all the haunts I visited back in the early 70's working as deck crew with P & O. I left the old Oriana on 9/5/1975 after the world cruise. I started when I was 15 with F T Everards of Greenhithe in my school holiday - six weeks as cabin boy on Assiduity a coastal tanker. I then went to Fleetwood Nautical College to learn navigation & seamanship. The rest is history. Now semi retired and p/t porter in local hospital putting something back