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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fly on April 27, 2014, 07:23:10 PM
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Saw this beautiful cruise liner whilst in Palma Majorca last week.
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Our_Lass saw a news clip in a newspaper yesterday's, she's only just mentioned it to me.
Here's the same story from the mailonline. Read some of the comments at the bottom of the article :-X
Diarrhoea, overflowing toilets and urine-covered floors: Six-figure payout for 200 cruise passengers whose dream holidays 'turned into a nightmare'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2613100/Six-figure-payout-200-Tui-Island-Escape-cruise-passengers-dream-holidays-turned-nightmare.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2613100/Six-figure-payout-200-Tui-Island-Escape-cruise-passengers-dream-holidays-turned-nightmare.html)
Not for us thankyou !!
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That's one reason why I'd never go on a cruise; if there's any bugs around I always seem to catch them.
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No excuse for poor hygiene etc but if you read the story properly its not quite as sensational as it seems.
its around 200-250 passengers over a period December 2009 and some point in 2013.
That could be 4 years
The ship carries around 1500 passengers
Lets be generous and say it operates at 75% capacity for 40 weeks over 3 years
Thats around 135000 people.
Meaning 0.2% of them got ill.
Take me to any hotel in Spain, Greece, Egypt etc that hold 500 people.
Theres often broken loos and poor hygiene
say just 2 of the guests get sick each week with a tummy bug.
Thats 0.4%
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We saw that ship last year I think whilst on our jaunts - it looks more a like a battle ship!
We have cruised 20 plus times and only once gone down with the Noro virus which was on P&O's Oceana round the Caribbean - a lovely ship andf would sail with her again.
We were told that a 'passenger who got on at Manchester took the virus on board'???
Welll I don't know but I do know that hubby wasn;t impressed when he was given a pack to give 'a sample - complete with cling film' :)) :)) he hadn't a clue what 'that' was for ::) :))
It can happen on any ship unfortunately.