Carnival Cruise Line makes bold statement on cruise ship ducks
Hiding ducks on cruise ships is both popular and controversial.
Some cruise line passengers seem to resent other people having fun.
These are the passengers who get mad when kids are being kids in pools or other public areas. That's not kids misbehaving or not being supervised; it's children being loud and energetic in an appropriate way.
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The people who seem to dislike fun are also the ones who get their feathers ruffled by what other people wear in various restaurants. They act like their cruise will somehow be ruined if someone else wears a hat or shorts while eating in the main dining room or a specialty restaurant.
In many, but not all,. cases, these are people who wish cruises were more like they used to be. They long for formal dinners that take two hours, during which men wear tuxedos, women wear formal gowns, and kids know their place.
Those days, however, are not coming back, and John Heald pushed back on another new-school aspect of cruising while also sharing an epic Carnival voyage that's going on right now.
Carnival shares an epic voyage
Hello, welcome to today's three-minute-or-less video, and wherever you are in this wonderful world, I hope you're taking great care of yourselves and of each other. Two things to talk about today. Let's get on with this. What a voyage has just left.
Yes, it's, what time is it in Australia? It is Friday. The Carnival Luminosa just left today on a fabulous 29 day voyage. 29 day.
Let me just go through a few of the highlights. There are 2,136 people on board. There are 483 blue card holders, first-time cruisers, 483 and they're doing a 29-day cruise.
How about that? How brilliant is that? On the other end of the spectrum, we have a total of 1,400 platinum and diamond cruisers combined. And they are from everywhere. They are from the United States or 1,129 US citizens.
There are 866 from Australia, 73 from Canada, 22 from New Zealand, 20 from Great Britain and how about this? 17 from Cleveland, Ohio. How brilliant is that? And listen to this cruise. Listen to some of the places they're going to.
I have to read. It's a cheat sheet here. It's 29 29-day cruise.
Just left Brisbane tonight, Australian time. They will be crossing the equator. They will be crossing the excuse me, international dateline.
And they'll be calling in Okinawa, Japan, Hiroshima, Japan, Tokyo, Japan, Hakodate, Japan, Otaro, Japan. And then they've got all those sea days to get across into Alaska. And they'll be cruising into Alaska, calling at Seawood, Juneau, Ketchikan before arriving into Seattle, Washington.
How about that? 29 day cruise. How lucky are those 2,136 people? And just to give you one other really fascinating spectrum, the average age of the ship is between 61 and 70. The oldest guest is 94.
And the youngest guest is well under one years old. It doesn't. So one year old.
So absolutely brilliant and everything in between. I think it is remarkable.
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I don't know if there's going to be another one of those. We shall see. But wouldn't you like to do it? I've got 20 seconds left.
Carnival Cruise Line makes clear call on cruise ship ducks
One of the things I spend most of my time doing is answering, I read on YouTube, I saw on YouTube or read on some Facebook page on Cruise Crit or something. Is this true? That one today is about ducks because a YouTube Facebook person has said that the title is carnival considering canceling people from bringing ducks on board.
The answer is no.
And this all comes from the fact that the gentleman said that he walks around the ship trying to take the ducks that people have hidden and throw them away, basically. And I don't know what, why or why or why somebody would do that.
Listen, not everybody's going to like hiding the ducks.
Not everybody is going to enjoy finding them. But the majority of people do. And it brings joy to those people.
I've said this over and over again. Why would that bother you? If somebody finds a little duck and it brings them joy, it hides it and it brings them joy, who cares? So there you go. I'm just under four minutes.
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Keep bringing the ducks, keep hiding them, keep finding them. I take my dog Quantum for a walk, and the ducks at our local pond hate him. I don't know why.
I don't know why the ducks hate him, but maybe it's because he's purebred.
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