whoops sorry...let me restate my observation... ;) had these folks not come to CC and asked for advice/help and that thread became a hot thread due to the nature of the predicament, they would have been stuck with not going on a cruise...FDR came to their aid because it was on CC, jancruz (Hi Jan) possibly moved things up the food chain because she became aware of it on CC and even CC leadership got involved. What would have happened if these folks not come to CC? How many more people were stuck in the same boat (pardon the pun) and were denied the cruise? These people got the raw end of the stick and they probably have gone away mad, now...if they just took what they were told "Sorry, SOL" and not escalated further, FDR obviously has not come to their aid. I'm just spectulating here, but I'm willing to bet there were a few more passengers who got bumped.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends ~~M. Angelou~~