A (return) to cruising and faltering first steps

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Question:

Have you cruised? (Voting closed: June 26, 2021, 06:26:00)

Not thought about it	4 (33.3%)
No way	4 (33.3%)
Would like to, but never have	0 (0%)
I have my first cruise booked	0 (0%)
Just once and never again	1 (8.3%)
Once and I would like to again	1 (8.3%)
Twice	0 (0%)
Three times	0 (0%)
More that three times	2 (16.7%)

Total Voters: 12

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johnneyw

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From station to station, back to Bristol city....

Re: A (return) to cruising and faltering first steps

« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2021, 21:36:42 »

Following from my earlier post on this thread, if any Coffee Shop members have any experience of river cruises in Europe, I'd be interested in their observations....good, bad and ugly!


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Clan Line

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Re: A (return) to cruising and faltering first steps

« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2021, 22:14:24 »

Quote from: grahame on July 01, 2021, 07:02:51

If I felt it wasn't safe, I wouldn't be planning to take a cruise next month ...

Everything is a risk.

Grahame is, of course, quite right............everything is a risk, but most people don't understand risk anyway. Most people do not accept that they at greater risk of death on the M1 on the way to Luton Airport than on the Airbus (or Boeing 737 even !) flying from there to Ibiza. The blood clots saga with the Astra Zeneca vaccine is another example.

There are much more obvious ways to demonstrate risk reduction on a cruise............(for johnneyw's info this was on the Nile !) Absolutely no one was in the slightest bit concerned about their safety on this trip !


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