Bankrupt - Pullmantur Cruises

It's always a good day when Bright Sun Films talks about ships 😁

I used to work on board Pullmantur cruises as a receptionist from 2018 until 2020. I was on board during the global shutdown due to the pandemic. I vividly remember being part of the video you show and it feels like yesterday. Like you mentioned, employee morale was kept high because of all the crew that was stuck at sea with their home countries borders closed and waiting to be repatriated. Slowly our food was running low because there were limited ports that wanted to take us just to receive supplies of food or fresh water. Tough times and I appreciate you taking the time to discuss about Pullmantur and its crew. Luckily now I am working in a different cruise line and I am happy

Boy, this one really tugged at my heartstrings - we sailed with them in the summer of 2015, 2016 and 2018 out of Barcelona. While the ships themselves weren’t great, the crew was wonderful.

Wendover has Airplanes, Jake has Cruise Ships 😂

As I Spaniard, I have to say it was the best cruise line for Spanish/Portuguese speaking guests. Everything from the food to the entertainment was Taylor made for us and it was way more fun than any other American cruise line, even with the older cruise ships…

Monarch holds a special place in my heart. I sailed her well over a dozen times from Florida. She was once the largest cruise ship sailing! Thanks for another great video!

The three Carnival ships were Fantasy class. The company ended up scrapping 6 of 8 ships in the class. The 2 ships that were saved were built with Azipods instead of traditional propellers and rudder.

The saddest part of it all to me is what happened to those ships the line owned. They may no longer have been frontline ships but they were still attractive vessels with a lot of life left in them under other circumstances.

Sovereign of the Seas was the first RC ship I ever went on. Went on Majesty of the Seas as well which was its sister. They were great ships. Easily could be sailing today with some updates. Another great video Jake!

Went on a Caribbean cruise on the Monarch in Oct 2019. It was a good experience and we had a lot of fun. Sad to have seen the Monarch taken to a junkyard in summer 2020

That was bittersweet for me. The last vacation I took with my fiancée before breast cancer took her out, was a cruise on Monarch of the Seas. That was a beautifully designed ship. I think that model of cruise ship was much nicer looking than what they build since. Monarch was about 15-20 years old in 2006. So, making it to 2020 before being scrapped is sad to see, but as cruise ships go 30+ years is a long life, and now I know what when and where my beloved ship met its end. Sad, but adding some additional closure for me. Thanks Jake.

The Sovereign and the Monarch were my favorite ships ever. I love love LOVE their designs! Seeing the Sovereign and Monarch scrapped is like seeing the Olympic and Mauretania scrapped back in the mid 1930s. Can’t wait for “Bankrupt: TelevisaUnivision” soon

My family and I went on a Pullmantur cruise about a decade ago and had a really great time. My mom found cheap tickets so we flew to Florence and sailed out of Revenna and visited Venice, Dubrovnik, some Greek islands, and Athens. It was a lot of fun but we were a few of maybe a dozen English-speaking guests on the entire boat which was pretty hilarious. We spent most of the time in the casino because all of the dealers spoke English so we could have someone to talk to 😂😂

Been in a cruise with them in Brazil, in 2019, on MS Sovereign! Such a fine ship, was in immaculate conditions and had such a history. Was not a bad experience, for the price paid and the “all inclusive” part of the cruise.

My first cruise was on Sovereign of the Seas in 2006! Hate that it’s been scrapped.

Fun fact; whilst Pullmantur Cruises collapsed spectacularly, Pullmantur Air still operates today as Wamos Air. How’d they survive? The same way most passenger airways did; during lockdown, they gutted the seats, put them in storage and replaced it with packing space so they’d temporarily become a cargo airline.

Great video as always. One small detail is that Brazil is definitely not Spanish speaking. We speak portuguese 😅

The first cruise I ever went on was royal Caribbean’s sovereign of the seas. She was transferred to pullmantur shortly after. It was sad to see it destroyed in 2020. Since then I’ve been on 3 more cruises. We love them!

Jake, would be super cool to see a video from you where you document the beginning of COVID through cruises sailing again, a look at the whole industry. Cruise lines were sort of ground zero

These ships/cruise lines videos are by far the best imo. Sad these guys couldn't survive, by all acounts passengers seem to have loved this fleet