A Senator in the Bahamas, John Bostwick, jumped into the controversy by publicly accusing Carnival o

In an article last week , we pointed cheapest airline prices 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 the cruise ship and coming ashore with their money. Local vendors in Nassau were making the same complaints.
A Senator in the Bahamas, John Bostwick, cheapest airline prices jumped into the controversy by publicly accusing Carnival of unnecessarily frightening its passengers over crime in Nassau to divert them to the cruise line's new private island, Blackbeard s Cay.
Shortly after these accusations against Carnival, Senator Bostwick wrote a letter to the Tribune newspaper talking of regular random robbery of tourists at gunpoint, including a 74 year-old diplomat robbed in Nassau while walking to church and the armed robbery of tourists outside of Atlantis. He also complained that there was a developing sex industry at the port involving boys.
Mr. Bostwick recommended an urgent saturation of tourist zones with CCTV cameras, increased police cheapest airline prices funding, and additional police patrols, K-9 units undercover operations. He also suggested the removal of all vagrants, negative characters and known criminals from downtown and efforts to avoid Nassau turning into a place of sex and narco-tourism.
In a showdown between Carnival and the tourism-dependent Bahamas, cheapest airline prices 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, Acapulco and Mazatlan.
cheapest airline prices Carnival responded to the controversy by pointing out that it sent the Bahamas with a draft warning cheapest airline prices 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 that cruise lines were planning cheapest airline prices to warn their guests.
The US Embassy cheapest airline prices 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.
We wanted to bring this to your attention as a reminder to enhance your personal security by exercising good judgment and taking certain precautions as you would when visiting any foreign destination.
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 cheapest airline prices any jewelry or carrying large sums of cash or other valuables.
Compared to the grim warning of the situation in the Bahamas contained cheapest airline prices in the U.S. State Department on-line warnings , the Carnival letter is rather innocuous and is really cheapest airline prices 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 cheapest airline prices 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 cheapest airline prices 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 cheapest airline prices 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 cheapest airline prices presented.
As a cruise passenger I appreciate the cruise line giving us the information cheapest airline prices 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 take a very serious look at what's going on there. If as a passenger, I feel unsafe I am not going to get off the ship and shop there. I've been to Nassau many times before 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 cheapest airline prices or local businesses telling a cruise line that they shouldn't warn us. Will they be responsible if we are killed or robbed by one of the locals? No they could care less just as long as we come and spend our money. With an attitude cheapest airline prices like that I'm not going to the Atlantis to spend my money.
We feel like we have been a victim of Carnival Cruise Lines in itself. Our Credit Card number was stolen and used in Canada while we were on Carnival Cruise lines. The only person we had given our number to was Customer Service person at the Counter of Carnival cruise lines. We were at Sea for Two days while our card was being used. The only thing Carnival could say was, they ARE SO SORRY THIS HAPPEN TO US!
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