Biotech Diver
Contributor
You are right. Although I personally have never done a cruise because I don’t want to spend more than 8 hours in a port and don’t want to spend my whole vacation sitting on a deck chair, a lot of people like that type of vacation. It’s the only way people without a big budget can see those places.I'm gonna play 'devil's advocate'. Many of the cruisers choose that form of vacation because it's the only way they can afford to ever visit places like Key West or St Martin for half a day. I wonder where those tourism dollars would go if the cruise industry dried up - and it very well might in light of COVID and the new realization that those kinds of things can and do happen all the time.
Key West really doesn’t do it for me. I can fly to anywhere in the Caribbean or upper South America in less time than it takes me to drive to Key West. I could spend considerably less on lodging at a significantly better hotel in the Caribbean than in Key West and have better diving and local food for less.