Cruising Talk - View Single Post - 'Voyages of Discovery - M/V Discovery severe engine trouble fixed (at last)

**Ally** · 08-06-2008, 12:36 PM

If All Leisure are concentrating on Swan Hellenic and not overly concerned about VoD, then that would be absolutely disgraceful. It's as if they have already decided to cut their losses and wind down VoD regardless of the fact that there are passengers booked on their future cruises.

If the repairs needed are so bad, it must be more expensive to keep running Discovery in her 'damaged' state, so it should be in the company's interest, surely, to put up the white flag now and be done with it instead of dragging the apparently inevitable out.

If VoD are in trouble...whether it be financial or if the ship cannot be repaired or is beyond economic repair or whatever...they should come clean and say so. They might gain respect for doing so. If they continue on the track they are taking, then all the hard earned good reputation and respect they had throughout the cruising industry will evaporate....and any help they might have had in regards to a temporary replacement ship etc that they could have had will not be there...damn shame and damned shameful IMHO.

Put something on the website VoD, explain why the itineraries are being chopped about...your guests will appreciate and respect that alot more than being treated like mushrooms, which is the case at the moment.