Cruise lines love to advertise all-you-can-eat shrimp and unlimited drinks, but they’re a little less chatty about the number of passengers who die on board.
Never understood the appeal myself, but people that want to go on a cruise shouldn’t have to worry that the staff will kill them-first by overserving then by asphyxiation.
Cruises are on my anti-bucket list, which contains things I never want to do. Nevertheless, I was forced on a cruise because my father-in-law wanted to take everyone on a cruise to celebrate his 80th.
Actually being on a cruise confirmed every prejudice I had against cruises, and then some. Relevant to this story: A cruise is basically a shopping mall with booze. The opportunities to buy crap (and I do mean crap) started on our way onto the ship and never let up. And in particular, every crew member involved in serving you food and drink asked if you had a drink card, and if not, would you like to buy one. A drink card entitles you to all the booze you can drink. It is quite expensive. I would have had to consume something like 4 drinks/day for the drink card to make sense financially. And yet everyone seemed to have one. If you order a drink, and do NOT already have a drink card, the waiter or bartender gets a disappointed look on his or her face, and then asks if you would like to buy a drink card.
There is SO MUCH drinking, it is ENCOURAGED, and the pressure to do so is UNRELENTING.
the impression continues to converge on Futurama's "Near Death Star" [1] not the least at the shear size of the things.
[1] https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Near_Death_Star
https://www.theinfosphere.org/Near-Death_Star
Never understood the appeal myself, but people that want to go on a cruise shouldn’t have to worry that the staff will kill them-first by overserving then by asphyxiation.
Cruises are on my anti-bucket list, which contains things I never want to do. Nevertheless, I was forced on a cruise because my father-in-law wanted to take everyone on a cruise to celebrate his 80th.
Actually being on a cruise confirmed every prejudice I had against cruises, and then some. Relevant to this story: A cruise is basically a shopping mall with booze. The opportunities to buy crap (and I do mean crap) started on our way onto the ship and never let up. And in particular, every crew member involved in serving you food and drink asked if you had a drink card, and if not, would you like to buy one. A drink card entitles you to all the booze you can drink. It is quite expensive. I would have had to consume something like 4 drinks/day for the drink card to make sense financially. And yet everyone seemed to have one. If you order a drink, and do NOT already have a drink card, the waiter or bartender gets a disappointed look on his or her face, and then asks if you would like to buy a drink card.
There is SO MUCH drinking, it is ENCOURAGED, and the pressure to do so is UNRELENTING.
Sometimes they also go missing...
There is a very disturbing yet well-made doc on Netflix (a three-parter) called "Amy Bradley Is Missing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gKRbFpJRhQ&t=1s