Cruise ships make ports go broke, sure they do.
"-hh" wrote in message
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> Don & Lynn wrote:
>> Sounds like a good time to boycott Alaska!!! They are too greedy.
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> For me, its a sign that its time to go back to Alaska: their
> infrastructure does honestly need help, and if I can be the opposite of
> a burden on my hosts by paying my fair share, everyone ends up a
> winner.
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> IMO, the "greed" here is on the part of the self-serving traveller who
> doesn't want to see his cruise prices to go up to actually pay for the
> infrastructure that he has enjoyed. I really recommend people pick
> someplace like Juneau and go read their onilne city council meetings,
> such as this example:
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> Here, Juneau was trying to figure out how to sc. up $750K that was
> needed to update their docks to support the then-new "Panamex" ships.
> Because docking fees weren't high enough to pay that amount, the town
> was looking towards the cruise lines and State to potentially help out
> in a 'thirds' cost-sharing arrangement.
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> Gosh, it seems quite odd that someone who is supposedly so "greedy" is
> having significant problems in a one-time raising of an amount of cash
> that is less than the typical weekly gross revenues of *each* of the
> typical cruise ship that visits them every day.
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> -hh
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