View Full Version : A new Mexican cruise line.
casavaha
January 24th, 2011, 09:18 PM
I noticed this article in "Cruise Industry News" as well as Mexican news.
OCEAN STAR CRUISES, made up of Mexican investors recently bought from Louis Cruise
Lines, the Aquamarine (ex RCL Nordic Prince) This ship was built in 1971. Ocean Star
plans to do 3, 4, and 7 day cruises from Acapulco to various ports on the Mexican Pacific
Coast. This venture is supposed to start Apr. 11, 2011.
May I be the first to predict that this cruise line will go broke within a few years.
It will attract very few' if any Americans and Mexicans that cruise want a more modern
and safer ship. With the large cruise ships pulling out of the Mexican West Coast, where
will the passengers come from?
Greg
bepsf
January 24th, 2011, 10:19 PM
CCL tried almost exactly the same thing with the old Carnivale...
...it was renamed FiestaMarina and marketed towards a Hispanic market - and the venture failed miserably.
Krazy Kruizers
January 25th, 2011, 05:58 AM
Doubt if it will take off.
HAL4ME
January 25th, 2011, 08:19 AM
They have better luck in a meterorite striking than me booking that ship! With everyhting that is going on in Acapulco currently this is doomed to fail even before it's inaugural cruise IMO!
Randyk47
January 25th, 2011, 10:00 AM
Yep. I'm going to run right out and not book this ship! Reminds me of the small lines running Bahama cruises out of Florida. Ain't happening. :eek::D
Aussiemick
January 25th, 2011, 10:00 AM
They have better luck in a meterorite striking than me booking that ship! With everyhting that is going on in Acapulco currently this is doomed to fail even before it's inaugural cruise IMO!
And what is going on in Alcapulco that is not going on in LA, Tucson, Long Beach, and schools all over America?
Randyk47
January 25th, 2011, 10:12 AM
And what is going on in Acapulco that is not going on in LA, Tucson, Long Beach, and schools all over America?
Actually I didn't even consider the reported violence in Acapulco in my posting though I'd have to say I don't know of too many headless bodies found in "LA, Tucson, Long Beach, and schools all over America". I have no interest in flying all the way to Acapulco and getting on some 40 year old ship for 3 to 7 day cruise and it could be sailing out of Galveston, Texas and I'd still feel that way.
SwissMyst
January 25th, 2011, 10:14 AM
Wonder if its primary appeal will be gambling and contraband cargo?
HAL4ME
January 25th, 2011, 10:23 AM
And what is going on in Alcapulco that is not going on in LA, Tucson, Long Beach, and schools all over America?
I am Canadian and use to live in LA actually during the worse possible time to have been there, O.J., Reginal Denny, the Driveby Shootings on the Freeways 405, Northridge Earthquake. I finally moved back to Canada after 5 years being there. I am currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina (15 million people).
There wasn't anything going on in L.A. (City of 14 million) remotely like what is going on in Acapulco currently with Drug Gang Violence and mass murder beheadings etc.,...nothing like that at all.
Please I see that you are from Mexico and it's not slated in anyway against you personally or the people of Mexico...no lo tomas asi pero lo siento chico...pero basta con respecto en este tema....ya esta!