Australia investigating Carnival luxury cruise line following allegations workers live in overcrowded conditions with no water, earning as little as $2.50 an hour.

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• ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Carnival…. luxury? I have never seen those two words so close together in any sentence. Carnival is one step up from Margaritaville at Sea.

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• Trebuchet@europe.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Terrible company. For anyone interested, the Netflix documentary, Poop Cruise, is worth a watch

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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What I remember about that documentary was how vain and clueless the people who were interviewed were. Up until that happened to them none of them had ever had an encounter with real adversity.

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• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who even goes on cruises anymore? They’re they’re terrible for the environment, they’re not cheap, and you’re trapped in a boat with a load of other people sharing diseases.

  I don’t get it. Is it just a boomer thing?

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  • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I went on a Disney Cruise when I was like 4. I went on another one just this past October, as both a family vacation and to celebrate my brother’s girlfriend’s birthday (she loves Disney, but she’s not a Disney adult).

    There were six of us, and then a couple of her friends and their kids came so it ended up being a group of about 12. We split three staterooms, and went on a couple “excursions” when we made port. It was actually a pretty fun time. The food was amazing, there was a late-night soft serve machine, and the people were all incredibly nice.

    In the back of my mind though, I couldn’t help but think about how awful this whole thing was in general. How much fuel was the ship burning, how many fish were we disturbing, look at these fat white people piling off the ship in the Bahamas. It was just always in the back of my mind, even when I tried to just enjoy things.

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    • faintwhenfree@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well fuel should not be the problem. Fuel is actually much more efficient than airplanes. Rest of the problem though. Sure I’d worry too.

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  • bcgm3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Anecdotally, it’s mostly boomers, but there’s a handful of 20’s-30’s too. I went on my first and only cruise, a Carnival, with five friends circa 2016. We split two rooms and a drink package. The casinos were packed with the eldest, and the younger folks just double-fisted mixed drinks all day (our plan). Saw at least a few get carted off the pool deck in wheelchairs. The food was legitimately great, never seen such excess before or since. Everything else was meh, including the stops in the Bahamas (though that was mostly due to the weather being terrible).

    4/10 experience at best and the value we managed to get probably hasn’t existed for years now.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I worked on one once. I wouldn’t be a passenger, since the only entertainment is gambling, drinking and incredibly bad stage shows twice a day. At least guests only stayed a few days and not five months.

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• No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Likely true have work the industry and exploration and first world standards are not their thing at any level.

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• IpsumLauren@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Look at the spoiler in that ship!

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