imhotep (imhotep)

To be fair to them, the original event also involved some hammering of nails

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My main takeaway from the graph: the fitter you start out, the steeper the decline. So if you want to avoid disappointments…

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As a passenger, I agree. I’ve been on the Allure of the Seas, and although it was almost fully booked, crowd management worked well - Royal Caribbean put a lot of effort into it actually. But ships of this size are a problem for destinations, which have to handle 6000 visitors at once. That’s 200 excursion buses.

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Which is why cruise lines always visit their “private islands”, basically gated resort communities where they can continue to milk their cash cows. Resembles Disneyworld. Again RCL was a pioneer with their “Labadee”/Haiti property. It’s not everyone’s idea of traveling.

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