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I just read that are 10 000 people stuck on cruise ships (Original Post) leftyladyfrommo Mar 2020 OP
That's three ships. Turbineguy Mar 2020 #1
Link please superpatriotman Mar 2020 #2
I read the same thing here last week, with link. Only it was more than 10 ships.... Hekate Mar 2020 #12
I just read 4 dead on cruise ship heading to Ft laudedale GusBob Mar 2020 #3
This one? spinbaby Mar 2020 #8
Who the hell gets on a cruise ship now? Watchfoxheadexplodes Mar 2020 #4
I wondered that myself. leftyladyfrommo Mar 2020 #5
Like buying the bullet for your assassin's Watchfoxheadexplodes Mar 2020 #7
That one, at least, left in early March, when many people didn't know about the issue, tblue37 Mar 2020 #10
My idiot sister did in mid-February csziggy Mar 2020 #11
They boarded on March 7th mercuryblues Mar 2020 #13
I just can't even imagine how awful that would be. nt leftyladyfrommo Mar 2020 #14
One of my co-workers came back from a cruise 2 days before we closed our school. For Luciferous Mar 2020 #6
Their stories customerserviceguy Mar 2020 #9

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
12. I read the same thing here last week, with link. Only it was more than 10 ships....
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 02:57 PM
Mar 2020

...and they were all tooling around the Seven Seas looking for a port that would accept them.

tblue37

(65,403 posts)
10. That one, at least, left in early March, when many people didn't know about the issue,
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 02:46 PM
Mar 2020

and too many others knew but didn't believe.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
11. My idiot sister did in mid-February
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 02:49 PM
Mar 2020

Originally she booked a Mediterranean cruise but it was cancelled so the offered her one out of South Africa. Then they dumped all the passengers off in Madagascar.

I don't know how she made it back - we haven't spoken since 2013 - but she's home now and jonesing for another cruise.

mercuryblues

(14,532 posts)
13. They boarded on March 7th
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 03:27 PM
Mar 2020

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in Argentina, 10 days before the cruise lines shut down. They were heading to Chile and they refused to let them dock. Since then they have been trying to find a place that would let them disembark.

Luciferous

(6,081 posts)
6. One of my co-workers came back from a cruise 2 days before we closed our school. For
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 01:46 PM
Mar 2020

those 2 days I stayed as far away from her as possible!

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