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MediaFaro News Digest

French city of Nice backtracks on big cruise ship ban.

The mayor of Nice on Friday backtracked on plans to ban big cruise ships from the French Riviera town to prevent overtourism.

The original plan was lauded by environmentalists but caused dismay among local businesses owners and the cruise industry.

mediafaro.org/article/20250301

FRANCE 24 · French city of Nice backtracks on big cruise ship banBy FRANCE 24
#Nice#Cruise#CruiseShips
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Mark H

For this is Hikawa Maru in Yokohama, 2018. Launched in 1929, she was originally an ocean liner carrying 331 passengers, becoming a hospital ship in World War II, then a cargo ship and back to cruising post-war. In 1961 she was permanently berthed and turned into a hotel, restaurant, and museum ship.

We're at a high elevation on a cruise ship looking across a short stretch of water to another berth on the outskirts of a city. It's a cloudy day and the water is flat. The landscape behind the berth consists of a line of trees partly covering some brick buildings behind with a road bridge passing behind that and over the water that continues to the left out of view. Docked at the berth is an old ocean liner. It's long with a black hull over a thin band of red just above the water level. The deck structures are white and only a few decks high with porthole windows on the lowest and larger windows above. A promenade deck space is on the uppermost of these. A flat bridge forms the front of the upper deck area and is set about a third of the way back from the straight prow.
#SchiffSamstag#ShipSaturday#HikawaMaru
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Mark H

Posted some pro-Ukraine stuff to Instagram as part of Operation See Who Gives A Shit In The Travel Community there. A fishing exercise. With a lot of cruise people, certainly where Americans are concerned, Republicans outweigh rational, empathic humans, but it is nice to occasionally find those who are as appalled by everything as the rest of us, even if it's not great reading. I've omitted my comment as it's not relevant.

Screenshot of part of one half of a conversation from a woman on Instagram. She's replying to a story post that featured a Ukraine flag and some text that's not possible to read. The first reply is: "We are so embarrassed and cannot believe what is happening. I don’t blame any country for abandoning this administration. It’s deplorable." The second, to a reply we can't see, is: "My husband works for the state, not federal government and our maga governor now wants a state level DOGE so we’re terrified what that means. There is so much bullshit (pardon) being thrown at us at one time, you can’t fully focus on anything. But there is a huge fear of what is to come. I feel horrible for the people already affected. The administration and the Heritage Foundation are the cruelest I’ve ever seen and they embolden the racist, homophobic, misogynistic people. It’s terrifying to be American."
#Ukraine#Travel#Cruise
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George Ellenburg (he/him/his)

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
You might not want to get #sick while on a #cruise, or you may end up like #MikeCameron from Braham, Minnesota:

Mike Cameron, a man from Braham, Minnesota, won a free cruise with #NorwegianCruiseLines but ended up with a $47,000 #medical #bill after falling ill with the #flu onboard[1][5].

Key details of the story:

1. Mike Cameron and his girlfriend Tamra Masterman won a free week-long Caribbean cruise on the Norwegian Cruise Line Encore.

2. The cruise departed from Miami on January 5, 2025[1][5].

3. During the trip, Cameron contracted the flu and required medical treatment in the ship's medical center[1].

4. He spent four days in the medical ward, receiving oxygen, catheter placement, IV medications, and X-rays[8].

5. The couple had purchased travel insurance from Norwegian Cruise Line that covered medical expenses up to $20,000[1].

6. Despite having insurance, they were charged $47,000 for the medical treatment[1][5].

7. The cruise line maxed out two of their credit cards on file, leaving them with a remaining balance of $21,000[1].

8. Norwegian Cruise Line stated that their pricing was "closely comparable to other cruise lines and is what we believe to be fair and reasonable"[1][5].

This story has been covered by various news outlets, including FOX 9, The Independent, CBS News, and others, since late January 2025[1][5][9].

Citations:
[1] https://www.fox9.com/news/braham-man-47k-flu-norwegian-cruise-ship
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Cruise/comments/1idxb1u/wild_story_my_local_tv_station_just_ran_minnesota/
[3] https://retailwire.com/norwegian-cruise-line-medical-bill/
[4] https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/3047118-47k-bill-for-the-flu%E2%80%A6-but-they-had-insurance/
[5] https://www.the-independent.com/travel/news-and-advice/caribbean-cruise-line-norwegian-flu-medical-bill-b2692412.html
[6] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO-FCIC.pdf
[7] https://www.yahoo.com/news/braham-man-owes-47k-flu-034309288.html
[8] https://people.com/minn-man-who-won-free-cruise-gets-usd47k-medical-bill-after-catching-the-flu-8786897
[9] https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-man-free-cruise-expensive-medical-bill/
[10] https://moneywise.com/insurance/health/this-minnesota-man-won-a-free-norwegian-cruise-to-the-caribbean-but-got-smacked-with-47000-medical-bill-after-being-admitted-to-ships-icu-heres-how-to-avoid-the-same-mess

RE: https://m.ai6yr.org/users/ai6yr/statuses/114078348985472756

FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. PaulNorwegian cruise passenger gets flu, and $47,000 medical billA Braham man is stuck with a $47,000 medical bill after he came down with the flu on board a Norwegian Cruise Line ship earlier this month.
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Steve Thompson PhD

Fifth norovirus outbreak hits Holland American ships since December

upi.com/Health_News/2025/02/26

Eighty-eight people aboard a Holland America cruise ship, the Eurodam, in the Caribbean were sickened in a norovirus outbreak -- the fifth striking the line since early December.

The breakdown was 79 of the 2,057 guests and nine of the 834 crew members, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. This represented about 3% of those onboard.

UPI · Fifth novirus outbreak hits Holland American ships since December - UPI.comEighty-eight people aboard a Holland America cruise ship, the Eurodam, in the Caribbean were sickened in a norovirus outbreak -- the fifth striking the line since early December.
#NOROVIRUS#OUTBREAK#CRUISE
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Mark H

For here's the serene Baltic Sea as seen from our aft cabin on the approach to Estonia back in 2017. Seagulls flew in our wake to see what our ship was bringing to the surface but we were cruising so slowly I doubt anything was disturbed at all.

An almost completely blue photo in portrait orientation. The sky and sea split the view in half. The sky is not completely clear with wispy veils of cloud to the upper right and thin sheets of the sort of cloud that will quickly burn off under sunshine towards the horizon. The sea is almost perfectly flat with no vessels or land on the horizon and only a handful of wheeling seagulls to spoil the view. We're at the aft of a ship because we can see the vessel's wake but it's barely more than a change in colour tone and texture on the water's surface; no foam or chop to be seen. We're clearly moving at a very low speed on this placid sea.
#Travel#Photography#Cruise
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Mark and Marie
Gamle Stavanger is the old town part of the city of Stavanger, the last port of call on our 2013 cruise aboard Crown Princess to the Norwegian fjords. We'd spent the day here on an excursion initially to an iron age farm, an old telecoms tower, and the city's cathedral, but with free time at the end and our ship safely close by and in sight we went for a walk around this picturesque spot before boarding for the last time.

This was the former slum area of the city and during modernisation in the 1950s it was almost all torn down to make way for new buildings but the city architect saw its potential and ordered a clean-up instead. So nice was this area that we returned to it ten years later for more of a look and to visit museums nearby.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Norway #Stavanger #GamleStavanger #Architecture #Cruise
A traditional Norwegian city street of cobbled stones between two rows of primarily white buildings. The street is narrow - a single car could drive along it - and it rises very slightly as we look along its length before opening out into a wider space and disappearing behind buildings to the left. The buildings on our right have a lower floor with a pale grey render but their second storeys as well as all the fronts on the houses on the left are lined horizontally with clean, white, wooden boards. Potted plants on the street and some hanging plants beside doors provide splashes of green and purple colour in this otherwise monochrome scene under a cloudy sky.
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