Bad news especially for Puerto Plata:
Alexander
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CDC Suggest to "Avoid Cruise Travel"
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Living in POP, yes, they are full... Just today they have one of the biggest ships in the world there... City center full of tourists... I just hope that numbers don't rise too much...
At least one of the recent arrivals here wasn't originally scheduled to come to the DR. A Carnival ship reported staff with Covid and their next two scheduled ports denied them permission to dock so they came to Amber Cove instead. Just what we need, Tourists who knowingly have come into contact with Covid walking around downtown...
Didn't a 5k passenger dock in Taino Bay today? No wonder why the new Mickey D's mysteriously shut down due to a faulty machine. How much Coby was walking around Puerto PuTa today? Send us your weak your tired, your infected.
I saw it arriving at 8am today “Royal Caribbean international” painted on its side. By 10am there were bus loads of cruise tourists spending $$$ in shops and tourist attractions. Well ventilated & outdoor restaurants on malecon had lots of tourists, & on outdoor walking tours, seemed to be good distancing from majority of locals and in open air spots so to me any covid threat to locals was outweighed by the money being spent and jobs being generated. Most covid threat may be to tourists on the ship itself or the big tourist buses with no open windows just a/c. We’ll see soon enough if I’m wrong.
These cruise ships now seem to arrive every couple days in now in “Taino Bay”
Imagine getting double-jabbed just because you wanted to hop on a cruise ship, and then immediately seeing your cruise trip cancelled because the jabs didn't work as expected. 🤣
My advice to everyone is ignore anything the CDC says.
If you listen to travel advisories from the US bureaucrats for health or violence you would never travel anywhere.
I'd like my chances better on a cruise ship than on the streets of Chicago or Philadelphia any day.
Maybe the warnings should be issued for certain areas of the US itself.
If you listen to travel advisories from the US bureaucrats for health or violence you would never travel anywhere.
I'd like my chances better on a cruise ship than on the streets of Chicago or Philadelphia any day.
Maybe the warnings should be issued for certain areas of the US itself.
Here's the cruise companies rebuttal..... they claim ships are safer than most forms of travel
To put the Pto Plata people at ease a bit
www.newsweek.com
To put the Pto Plata people at ease a bit
Cruise Ship Companies Push Back Against CDC Warning to Avoid Them
The CDC advised Americans to avoid cruises as COVID cases rise across the country, because Omicron could be highly transmissible in the confines of a ship.
www.newsweek.com
No ship, Dick Tracy.Bad news especially for Puerto Plata:
Alexander
(We used to say something like that when there was a mastery of the obvious presented. Only one letter was different.)
People are "cruising on". As expected.
The news is touting Omicron as "the final injection". I saw that last night on DR news. Please keep up.
I read there are about 200 ships over the next year to the POP port alone. That is a LOT of tax dollars. AI tourism is number one and cruising will be back to number 2!! 200 ships X 4,000 passengers per ship X arrival/departure taxes (or whatever fees the DR government charges ) must add up to at least as much money as the whore mongers in Sosua, eh? That is exclusive of their spending anything more on shore, most of which is still controlled by cruise companies.
Bingo.
And then the further false claims of reaching "herd immunity" after that via those infections.
Agreed. It will be used to promote the moving on of society from Pandemic to Endemic.
That dialogue is under way.
Welcome to the "new normal" aka life in a paranoid state of submission.
Was up there yesterday just long enough to wish NorthernCoastDiver a Merry Christmas/ Happy New Year and afterwards put down a few cold ones with Garyexpat. Not too many mongers running about.
I've never seen cruise ship passengers in groups brought in east of Puerto Plata. I believe this is going to change very soon regardless of what the CDC is telling people because Team Luis is about money, not about the losses.
They have big plans for Sosua and I believe a lot what they going to do revolves around the arrival of these same cruise ship passengers. Makes perfect sense if you think about it. What better way to bring money into Sosua (not trying to go off-topic) than to fill it full of day trippers and create the Disneyland atmosphere these type of tourist enjoy.
The northcoast will see a lot of changes and the cost of living will skyrocket should they do this. Sadly locals will be forced to relocate far away from the action. Time will indeed tell. At the of the day people are getting sick and tired of government agencies like the CDC telling them how to live their lives.
I wrote that part of the North Coast off a while a go as a good place to live. It will become an overpriced, generic, hell hole of a place if everything come to fruition. I have many friends who will be misplaced as a result. NorthernCoastDiver is a great guy eh?
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