Just Cruises Plus

An expose on CNN  showed food being stored in crew staterooms and hallways on board the Silver Shadow while she was  cruising in Alaska.  The media generally accentuates the negatives in any story relating to cruise lines.  However, there are times that the cruise lines are not responsible or forthcoming.  There are times when cruise companies will cut corners to save a buck.  When it doesn’t affect safety or health, it’s no big deal.  For example, we heard that one cruise line stopped putting parsley on potatoes to save money.  This is cheap but no big deal.

However, when food requiring refrigeration is stored in cabins and hallways, a catastrophy is being risked.  Silversea denies that this was a company policy and that it was crew members who were acting inappropriately.

Silversea charges top dollar for their cruises and should be able to afford the refrigertors required to store their food.  The ship will again be inspected but we would not recoomend the Silver Shadow until it has passed several inspections.

We get the Center for Disease Control Vessel Inspection scores and we find that a failure is exceedingly rare.  Most ships score over 95 (out of 100).  Check your ship out at http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/.  You’ll see that both Princess and Royal Caribbean had multiple ships that scored a perfect 100.