Should you book a cruise when everybody is saying you should avoid ships like the plague?

The situation is changing by the hour and it’s impossible to keep up with a moving target that’s closing down countries. But unprecedented efforts to control the enigmatic virus have made what should be a time to look forward to a spring or summer getaway into an exercise in scanning headlines about how you can’t get there from here.

Princess Cruises and Viking are cancelling all cruises until May. Virgin Voyages, whose ship Scarlet Lady was due to start service in March has put off the ship’s inaugural season until July.

Read it all in the Cruisington Times

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