Not really trying to be a Debbie Downer. I've been on 17
DCL cruises, including the 4 day bahamas cruise December 18. We did get off in Nassau, primarily because one in our group had never been.
We also have taken a few land-based trips in the Caribbean, primarily to St. John. The first was in April of 1990, in the aftermath of the devestation of Hurricane Hugo.
We also did a land-based trip to Jamaica in 1991, and my sense then was that public order might not be sustainable. There were people swimming up to the resorts selling drugs from the water, and we took a bus trip from our resort in Montego Bay to Negril, during which we encountered children as young as 10-12 holding Thai stick and other drugs up to the windows of the bus for the purpose of selling them. I would not go to Jamaica at this point.
I have been to Mexico at least seven times, including Mexico City in the mid-90s for work, a land-based trip to Cancun in 1995, a cruise to the west coast of Mexico in 2012, and two western Caribbean itineraries that included stops in Cozumel. I would be willing so go to Cozumel again, and would love to go to Puerto Vallarta, but I would have to take the latter under advisement.
The hurricanes are nothing new, but the crime situations in Mexico and Jamaica are on a trajectory that does not seem to be episodic. Further, the Zika outbreak is more pervasive than most of the recent mosquito-borne disease problems that they have had down there.
My point was that the cruise industry seems too heavily concentrated there, and may need to consider some options, at least as contingencies.