Carnival Cruise Line to start cruises again August 1, with 8 ships leaving from Miami, Port Canaveral and Galveston.

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@Loozrboy

Well shit, that might actually be cheaper than staying home. Out of work? Evicted from your apartment? Well for about the price of a squalid hostel bed and Dollar General meals, you can join our fabulous Corona Cruise! See the world! Meet thousands of new people! Enjoy sumptuous buffets and crowded lukewarm wading pools! No extra charge for extended vacation in port upon your return!

I know you are being completely sarcastic, but it is still bizarre that it still is cheaper to take the cruise, specially with the forced quarantine later before you can land, if you are healthy enough to expect to don’t have problems with corona.

@bobtato

The thing is, it’s likely that many – if not most – of these cruises will be covid-free, because of how numbers work.

I think the number might help now, but maybe in August it will be the opposite, with a higher chance that most of them will have at least one or a few infected passenger boarding.

@wphurley

Given the dearth of passangers bookings, I can only applaud the cruise-lines for figuring out how to run their boats and reduce food & fuel costs.

I’m not familiar with the usual costs, but it feels to me that they are planning to declare bankruptcy before the cruise start and do not incur in any cost.