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In an article last week , we pointed out the criticism leveled against Carnival by the Atlantis mega-resort that Carnival's warning letter provided to cruise passengers had the potential to scare them from leaving discount online travel services the cruise ship and coming ashore with their money. Local vendors discount online travel services in Nassau were making the same complaints.
A Senator in the Bahamas, John Bostwick, jumped discount online travel services into the controversy by publicly accusing Carnival discount online travel services of unnecessarily frightening its passengers discount online travel services over crime in Nassau to divert them to the cruise line's new private island, Blackbeard s Cay.
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In a showdown between Carnival and the tourism-dependent Bahamas, discount online travel services the cruise line has the upper hand. Carnival can pull out of Nassau in a second and leave the island reeling. Just ask St. Croix, discount online travel services Acapulco and Mazatlan.
Carnival responded to the controversy by pointing out that it sent the Bahamas with a draft warning during a May 2013 meeting of the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) members. A vice president of Carnival stated the Bahamian government was made aware in advance discount online travel services that cruise lines were planning to warn their guests.
The US Embassy in Nassau recently issued a security message advising US citizens traveling to the Bahamas to be aware of their surroundings and remain on heightened alert to avoid being a victim of crime.
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If you decide to venture into town, we encourage you to stay in the main tourist areas, return to the ship before sunset, and refrain from wearing discount online travel services any jewelry or carrying large sums of cash or other valuables.
Compared to the grim warning of the situation in the Bahamas contained in the U.S. State Department on-line warnings , the Carnival letter is rather innocuous and is really not much of a warning at all. It's incomplete and understates the critical nature of the crime problem in Nassau.
It's often hard for the cruise lines and the local tourism officials in the Caribbean ports of call, which rely on U.S. dollars from cruise passengers, to have a transparent conversation about the risks associated with crime in the ports of call.
Just today, an article was published in a newspaper in Trinidad Tobago about the harm to the country's tourism industry caused by travel advisories about robbery, kidnapping and sexual discount online travel services assault involving cruise passengers and tourists.
Nassau use to be a great place to visit, great deals for shopping, and just great fun to be a tourist. Now it is run down, they have no deals and their beaches are now so unkempt, I would not want to use them. I must say I now also feel pretty much the same way about Grand Cayman. No one wants to go to a nasty place where they feel they are a target. I am glad I was able to experience the Caribbean when it was what the posters presented.
As a cruise passenger I appreciate the cruise line giving us the information and letting us decide if we are going to leave the ship or not. This was a responsible move on the side of the cruise line. My husband and I will be having a serious discussion about this very topic when we get closer to our arrival date. If Nassau wants to have cruise passengers continue coming to their island I think they should discount online travel services take a very serious look at what's going on there. If as a passenger, I feel unsafe discount online travel services I am not going to get off the ship and shop there. I've been to Nassau many times before discount online travel services and each time the island has declined a little bit each time. The people are not as friendly, the crime is higher and the place just looks unkempt. I think it's crazy to have a resort or local businesses telling a cruise line that they shouldn't warn us. Will they be responsible if we are killed or robbed discount online travel services by one of the locals? No they could care less just as long as we come and spend our money. With an attitude like that I'm not going to the Atlantis to spend my money.
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My family and I visited the Atlantis Hotel two months ago and we were appalled in what we saw. We even called the Manager of the Hotel and Police but nothing was ever done about it. There were two drug addicts shooting up drugs on the beach and after they were done they stuck the used needles in the sand facing up. This was defiantly done intentionally so someone would get stuck in the foot. A local woman told us this has been happen now for over a year. With a Country who's HIV and AIDS is out of control, discount online travel services the last thing a tourist discount online travel services needs is to contract AIDS while on vacation! I tell Mr. Walker, the Bahamas is worst than what you know!
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