A couple of heartwarming stories this morning for all those people who love to take a swipe at cruiselines for whatever reason they can find that day.
Cruise Community reports P&O Cruises Australia is donating items from its ships that it no longer needs to Mission Australia. It's a fantastic list of stuff - two truck loads of rollaway beds, cots, almost 2,500 bed spreads. The items are distributed to those in need or sold to raise money for the Mission.
Coincidentally, Captain Greybeard - alias John Honeywell of the Mirror - reports that Holland America Line is donating all those left behind pots of gels, shampoo and lotions to the Florida homeless. It will also be giving them unwanted towels, mattresses, TVs, cookware. Apparently they do something similar in Seattle.
It's a great idea. After all, cruiselines are constantly renewing this or upgrading that to make life for us cruisers so very comfortable.
Makes me wonder what they did - and others still do - with all this stuff before?
Jane Archer
