SF News Cruise Ship Where ‘Mystery Illness’ Has Sickened 150 People Has Docked in SF Here we go again with luxury cruises being vessels for illnesses, as a cruise ship suffering an outbreak of unexplained gastrointestinal illness has now docked itself in San Francisco.
SF News Cruise Passengers Stuck at SF Terminal For Hours Without Food Due to Departure Delay The Crown Princess couldn't dock on time Tuesday night in order to get passengers onboard for a voyage to Mexico, due to extra-low tides and silt buildup in the Bay, leaving hundreds of passengers waiting around the drafty cruise terminal at Pier 27.
SF News Expensive Riverboat Cruise Up the Delta to Stockton Gets Canceled A luxury riverboat cruise, the first of its kind in the Bay Area in eight decades, raised some eyebrows when it was first announced last year. And it doesn't sound like it had too many takers.
SF News Notorious Ruby Princess Cruise Ship, Which Carried Early COVID Cases, Just Crashed Into Pier 27 The Princess Cruises ship called the Ruby Princess, which already has some poor PR history from the pandemic, just had a bit of a snafu while trying to dock Thursday morning at Pier 27.
Arts & Entertainment Company Launching Pricy Riverboat Cruise From SF to... Stockton? Riverboat cruising, that seemingly luxurious European concept that gets advertised a lot to affluent seniors in between PBS shows, is coming to the Bay Area and NorCal — but would you pay $12,000 to go from SF to Stockton and back via the Delta?
SF News Notorious COVID Cruise Ship Docked Again in SF with Infected Passengers Sunday, But It’s Gone Now The Ruby Princess cruise ship, once known as the “Plague Ship” for its superspreading role early in the pandemic, arrived at the Port of San Francisco with positive cases Sunday, but left for Hawaii later in the day.
SF News A Princess Cruise Ship Docked in SF Thursday Morning After a COVID Outbreak Onboard The Ruby Princess cruise ship is now docked in SF with a number of confirmed COVID-19 cases onboard, and one passenger says “We’re not getting tested, so the Bay Area is getting us as is.”
SF News Quelle Surprise! Cruise Ships Once Again Walloped With COVID-19 Outbreaks, Passengers Can’t Disembark In another sign of wealth absolutely not correlating with intelligence, multiple cruise ships are swimming in COVID-19, as outbreaks among passengers and crew have ships of fools unable to disembark at their destinations.
SF News The Majestic Princess, the First Cruise Ship to Dock In SF In 19 Months, Arrives at Pier 27 For better or worse, the world is back to cruising, and Princess Cruises' Majestic Princess came into port in San Francisco around 7 a.m. on Monday, letting a couple thousand passengers disembark to wander the city.
SF News Cruise Ship Industry Is Pushing to Sail Again in the U.S., But the CDC Says Not 'Til November One year on from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issuing a no-sail order for all ships coming to U.S. ports, the industry is pushing back and saying it's being treated unfairly.
SF News Dancing Grandma From Grand Princess COVID Debacle Looks Back One Year Later We can now mark the one-year anniversary of the Grand Princess cruise ship COVID outbreak and the ensuing, weeks-long, nationally televised drama that was a precursor to the global pandemic. Two surviving elderly passengers say they have two more cruises planned after their vaccines.
Arts & Entertainment Insanely, Cruise Companies Are Looking at Sailing Again as Soon as November San Francisco isn't likely to see cruise ships in the Bay anytime before next spring at the very earliest, but cruise companies are already talking about October 31 being a possible restart date for an industry that just five months ago was synonymous with contagion.
SF News Passengers From Grand Princess Mexico Cruise Sue Company for Negligence In the second lawsuit to be filed by passengers aboard a Princess Cruise Lines cruise from San Francisco who were exposed to the coronavirus, passengers who sailed from SF to Mexico and back in mid-February are suing the company for negligence.
SF News As Grand Princess Idles Near Tijuana, Celebrity Cruises Crew Member Files Class-Action Suit There are currently around 80,000 cruise ship workers stranded aboard 100 vessels that have no passengers and that, in many cases, have been denied entry to most ports around the world.
SF News Grand Princess Passengers Sue Cruise Line For Negligence The first of what will likely be a tsunami of COVID-19-related lawsuits against cruise ship companies came Wednesday when nine Northern California plaintiffs filed suit against Princess Cruise Lines and parent company Carnival Corp.
SF News Filipino Cruise Ship Worker From Grand Princess Dies of COVID-19 In SF One of San Francisco's seven deaths to date from the coronavirus was a crew member on board the Grand Princess who was a citizen of the Philippines, and now fellow crew members and advocates are calling for transparency and care for the remaining quarantined crew.
SF News Somehow, People Still Got on Cruise Ships Last Month and Now They're Stuck at Sea Several extraordinary stories have come out in the last couple of days, made all the more extraordinary amid extraordinary times, about cruise ships that are still sailing the seas despite everything everyone should have learned well over 30 days ago about cruise ships being coronavirus vectors.
Arts & Entertainment Woman Documenting Grand Princess Cruise on Twitter Tweets Videos of Grandmother Dancing, Singing in Quarantine A 23-year-old Bay Area woman and her grandparents have finally, happily, arrived back on land, and they're doing a lot of singing and dancing about it on Twitter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Jose Andres's Nonprofit to Provide Meals For Docked Cruise Ship Andres is cementing his reputation for responding to national disasters, tweeting that his nonprofit World Central Kitchen arrived Sunday evening to prepare and deliver food to the passengers on board the Grand Princess cruise ship after it docks at the Port of Oakland today.
SF News 19 Grand Princess Crew Members, 2 Passengers Test Positive For Coronavirus Vice President Mike Pence was the one to announce the cruise ship cases, saying one test remained inconclusive — and the ship is now headed to an unnamed "non-commercial port."
SF News Cruise Ship Passengers May Not All Get Quarantined; Three New Virus Cases In East Bay Health officials in Contra Costa County say that there are three new cases of covid-19 there, two of which were passengers aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship when it sailed to Mexico last month.
SF News Cruise Ship With Possible Coronavirus Cases Being Held Offshore The Grand Princess, the Princess Cruises ship that made a roundtrip from San Francisco to Mexico in mid-February and returned with at least two passengers sick with the coronavirus, is currently being held off the California coast as testing of 21 passengers showing symptoms takes place.
SF News San Francisco's New Cruise Ship Terminal By The Numbers $12: How much cruise ship passengers used to be charged to disembark in San Francisco $18: How much that fee has been raised to, to help keep the project to construct a new
SF News Apparent Crew Member Suicide Diverts Hawaii-Bound Cruise From S.F. A cruise ship bound for the Big Island of Hawaii that left San Francisco Bay on Saturday has been diverted off its course as it searches for a missing crew member who went
SF News Forget High Speed Rail, Why Are We Not Cruising to LA? While the High Speed Rail Authority figures out how to round up enough money to lay track and get travelers zipping down to SoCal, Chronicle columnist and noted Jimmy Buffett fan C.W.
