This is not exactly hot-off-the-press topic and probably wouldn't have even been here, until…<\/p>\n
News item: CNN reports that in the wake of that story, Royal Caribbean shares sank nearly 3%, the latest black eye to hit the cruise industry.<\/i><\/p>\n
So, let's get this straight. Because 108 people on a cruise ship get a stomach illness thought to be norovirus, shareholders run out and dump their stock.<\/p>\n
Really?<\/p>\n
Somehow, if we were Royal Caribbean<\/a> shareholders, that would never have occurred to us.<\/p>\n At least half the passengers must have gotten better because guess what happened the next day?<\/p>\n The stock went up 1.5%.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" News item: 105 passengers and three crew members on Royal Caribbean's Vision of the Seas were treated for what was believed to be norovirus during an 11-night Caribbean cruise. The story went on to report that affected passengers responded to over-the-counter medication and that the Vision of the Seas was cleaned extensively in Port Everglades,… Continue reading Cruising's Stomach and Stock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,36,15],"tags":[137,154,493,472,912,72,819,1196,35,215,33,810],"class_list":["post-16738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-reviews","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-valor","tag-cnn","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-stock-market","tag-cruises","tag-norovirus","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-royal-caribbean-vision-of-the-seas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
\n\tCarnival Valor<\/a>
\n\t7 nights
\n\tJune 16, 2013
\n\tSan Juan<\/a> (return): St. Thomas<\/a>, Barbados<\/a>, St. Lucia<\/a>, St. Kitts<\/a>, St. Maarten<\/a>
\n\tInside: $579
\n\tCost per day: $82<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n