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Is Carnival Cutting Corners on Maintenance?
It seems that Carnival ships are making headlines with their breakdowns.
With the cruise industry so hungry for customers, their profit margins must be pretty thin. Are they cutting into essential maintenance in order to defray operational costs? |
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Is Carnival Cutting Corners on Maintenance?
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, Orval Fairbairn wrote: It seems that Carnival ships are making headlines with their breakdowns. With the cruise industry so hungry for customers, their profit margins must be pretty thin. Are they cutting into essential maintenance in order to defray operational costs? Why is this even in question? Of course they are. And the suckers keep on coming. |
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Is Carnival Cutting Corners on Maintenance?
Good to see your post Ray.
Of course Carnival is cutting corners.......on EVERYTHING. We made a big mistake taking a 4 day out of our hometown. Horrors, but we knew better. Then we decided to use our "future cruise" certificate and did a 7 day. Not quite as bad but bad enough that we said NO MORE to Carnival. I will say this however, the service was excellent, the crew really tries. We leave on the 25th for a cruise on Celebrity equinox. Celebrity never let us down. |
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Is Carnival Cutting Corners on Maintenance?
On 3/16/2013 1:26 PM, Dory Samuels wrote:
Good to see your post Ray. Of course Carnival is cutting corners.......on EVERYTHING. We made a big mistake taking a 4 day out of our hometown. Horrors, but we knew better. Then we decided to use our "future cruise" certificate and did a 7 day. Not quite as bad but bad enough that we said NO MORE to Carnival. I will say this however, the service was excellent, the crew really tries. We leave on the 25th for a cruise on Celebrity equinox. Celebrity never let us down. My sister is a travel agent. We're going on a free cruise on Carnival in April to Bermuda. We'll be sailing through the Bermuda Triangle. What could possibly go wrong? LOL -- ____ Brian M. Kochera ABCDT Animal Behavior Collage Certified Dog Trainer Sit Stay And Beyond LLC Dog Manners Not Mayhem "The poor dog is the firmest of friends, the first to welcome the foremost to defend" - Lord Byron ____ View My Shutterfly Page http://photosbybrianmk.shutterfly.com/ My Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/brian.kochera1 |
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Is Carnival Cutting Corners on Maintenance?
On Sunday, March 17, 2013 12:58:58 PM UTC-7, Brian K wrote:
My sister is a travel agent. We're going on a free cruise on Carnival in April to Bermuda. We'll be sailing through the Bermuda Triangle. What could possibly go wrong? LOL Free cruise, heh? I've always wondered about those. Don't you have to pay tax on that? Ordinary income? Taxed on the suggested retail price, not heavily discounted price everyone else pays, right? How much do you figure this free trip costs? |
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Is Carnival Cutting Corners on Maintenance?
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wrote: Free cruise, heh? I've always wondered about those. Don't you have to pay tax on that? Ordinary income? Taxed on the suggested retail price, not heavily discounted price everyone else pays, right? How much do you figure this free trip costs? That would be if the cruise was won in a contest. A coworker won such a contest and the cruise tax was based on brochure rate which meant he ended up paying two thirds as much in taxes that he would have paid if he had booked the cruise at the actual going fare. He came out a little ahead. In Brian's case I think it is a gift. She can probably gift him up to $11,000. -- Charles |
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Is Carnival Cutting Corners on Maintenance?
On 3/18/2013 9:13 PM, Charles wrote:
In article , wrote: Free cruise, heh? I've always wondered about those. Don't you have to pay tax on that? Ordinary income? Taxed on the suggested retail price, not heavily discounted price everyone else pays, right? How much do you figure this free trip costs? That would be if the cruise was won in a contest. A coworker won such a contest and the cruise tax was based on brochure rate which meant he ended up paying two thirds as much in taxes that he would have paid if he had booked the cruise at the actual going fare. He came out a little ahead. In Brian's case I think it is a gift. She can probably gift him up to $11,000. Travel agents can typically sail at deeply discounted prices if there is available capacity (which I'm guessing that Carnival has these days, and will have even more of after the recent events). They end up paying port charges and taxes and maybe a little more. I expect this is the angle our recent spammer is exploiting as well. Bill |
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Is Carnival Cutting Corners on Maintenance?
In article , Bill
wrote: Travel agents can typically sail at deeply discounted prices if there is available capacity (which I'm guessing that Carnival has these days, and will have even more of after the recent events). They end up paying port charges and taxes and maybe a little more. I expect this is the angle our recent spammer is exploiting as well. His sister may have been able to book the cabin at a travel agent rate but I believe that whatever rate she is paying she is gifting him the cruise. Brian can pipe in he please with actual fact as opposed to my speculation. As far as the spammer, what he is offering sounds like a pyramid scheme. Likely he really does believe it is a business now. That is how they pass on the scheme up and down the pyramid.... by making the marks believers who think they are passing on good news....... -- Charles |
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Is Carnival Cutting Corners on Maintenance?
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:27:10 -0400, Orval Fairbairn wrote:
It seems that Carnival ships are making headlines with their breakdowns. With the cruise industry so hungry for customers, their profit margins must be pretty thin. Are they cutting into essential maintenance in order to defray operational costs? Do dogs bark? LOL |
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