[Travelandtourism] Costa Cruises issues over the weekend in Italy

Mon Jan 16 17:25:49 UTC 2012

Hello Cheryl and everyone,

    I wonder which of those companies offers cruises to Tuktoyaktuk?

Peter Donahue

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From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
To: "travelandtourism" <travelandtourism at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Costa Cruises issues over the weekend in 
Italy

No, if you follow my e-newsletters and websites, and no they are not all 
associated with each other. I sell Royal Caribbean, Princess, Cunard (Queens 
ships), Oceania, Norwegian, Disney, there are other cruise lines that 
Carnival owns, I do not like Carnival, for the way I have been treated with 
them, and with the issues plaguing this company.  I am also doing training 
right now with Great American Cruises, which has been taken over by another 
company, they are the great steamboats that sail the Ohio and Mississippi 
Rivers.  I do all the European River Cruise Companies, as well as the 
company you may never had heard of, all depending on where you want to go. I 
have just finished training with Hurtigruten, which is a Norwegian owned 
ships, that specializes in Greenland, the Artic Circle, etc.
And now doing Sea Voyager Expeditions which do river and ocean cruises to 
Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, and Ecuador.   There are many out there, again 
all depends on your budget, where you want to go, etc.
If I need to learn more others out there than I will learn there product. 
There are many out there, Cindy.

Plus, Carnival, steals clients from travel agents, when you book a client 
with any cruise lines thought the agent, they know that is the clients bread 
and butter, but Carnival sells the client list, or uses them to try and 
entice the client not to use the agent, so that they don't have to pay us 
are commissions.

Leading the Way in Independent Travel!

Cheryl Echevarria
http://www.echevarriatravel.com
631-456-5394
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> From: cindy425 at verizon.net
> To: travelandtourism at nfbnet.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:54:46 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Costa Cruises issues over the weekend in 
> Italy
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> It did seem, from the news reports, that the crew wasn't trained very 
> well.
>
> It seems that most of the cruise companies are affiliated with each other,
> or with many other companies, in some way.  So, since you have a personal
> aversion to Carnival, do you advertise or promote other companies who may 
> be
> affiliated with them; or is Norwegian the primary cruise company you
> promote?
>
> Cindy
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: cheryl echevarria
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 10:56 AM
> To: travelandtourism ; Echevarria Travelblog
> Subject: [Travelandtourism] Costa Cruises issues over the weekend in Italy
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> If you haven't already heard about this disaster in Italy, I will let you
> all know, and this also should deter anyone from cruising in the future.
> Many of what I am saying are my own opinions plus, what happened as well.
> I am not a big fan of Carnival Cruise Lines, and over the last 2 years 
> there
> has been many issues with the ships, such as the same week last year when 
> I
> was on the Norwegian Epic, one of Carnival's ships was off the coast of
> California adrift due to fire in one of the engine rooms ,and other issues
> with the company as well.
> Why am I mentioning this, Well Carnival Cruise Lines is the parent Company
> of Costa Cruise Lines.
> I don't advertise any of there sales on my website or on my blog as
> postings, only because in the past, they have not allowed me as a travel
> partner come on the ships to do a ship inspection with my guide dog, all 
> the
> other ones will.
> The also do not belong to many of the Cruise Lines Organizations, I belong
> to both CLIA (which is the Cruise Lines International Association), which 
> I
> am part of and I have taken all of there training courses, when I first
> started with my agency.
> They are not associated or come to the trade shows of the organizations 
> that
> I belong to when they do have supplier trade shows such as ASTA (American
> Society of Travel Agents) and TASC (Travel Agents of Suffolk County).
> I have mentioned in the past, if I am not allowed to do the other things
> that all other travel professionals are allowed to do and go, then I will
> not advertise it, unless my clients want to go on there cruise lines, and
> then the client comes first.
> I am not saying if in the past you have had no issues with Carnival, and
> they are your favorite cruise lines, we all have our favorites.
> Getting back to Costa Cruise Lines.
> On January 13, 2012. the ship came a ground in shallow waters, and hit a
> rock, and made a gash in the side of the vessel, of the coast of
> Civitavecchia (Rome) on a 7 day cruise, carrying over 3200 passengers and
> 1000 crew members.
> At this point in time, the authorities in Rome have arrested the Captain,
> for violating orders and going off course.
> I was watching Good Morning America this morning, and a couple who was
> celebrating their honeymoon, stated that none of the crew came and helped,
> in fact, about an hour after the ship hit, they were saying it was
> electrical problems, which by this time, the ship was already on her side.
> Also, the Captain and some crew members had abandoned ship.
> The passengers were at the mercy of there own devices until people came to
> rescue.  Mostly everyone was rescued there were about 6 casualties as of
> now.
> I am still cruising myself, I love cruising and will always tell people it
> is the best vacation ever.
> But I don't trust this cruise lines at all, the staff that was there, were
> not trained properly in evacuations, etc.
> I will keep everyone up to date on this.  But my own feelings on Carnival 
> as
> a whole I do not like.
> My own opinions, and my own experiences.
>
>
> Leading the Way in Independent Travel!
>
> Cheryl Echevarria
> http://www.echevarriatravel.com
> 631-456-5394
> reservations at echevarriatravel.com
>
> For daily updates read our blog at
> http://www.echevarriatravel.wordpress.com
>
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