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~ ravel with Cruise Holidays [ Cruise lines provide great food at low prices ] jeAeeg ast week, we did a review of the meals served on a typical day at sea on a Caribbean cruise ship. In 1992, the cruise industry spent $600â€"million purchasing food and bevâ€" Now that Revenue Canada has invited people to volunteer unpaid taxes you might wonder who will set the example and do the decent thing. Politicians might if they appreciated personal salaries, benefits and pensions could be taxed for a deemed interest portion of deficit spending. Many people pay this tax when they provide a loan to keep a business operational. The explanation is hard to understand but the reality is clear. You simply calculate the interest you would have paid if you had borrowed your income from the bank. Then you pay the tax on it plus the regular income tax. Now that we have a kinder approach and a willingness to all pull together, we should see those paid from the national debt pay by accepted rules. By the way it stops when money becomes available because the deficit is gone. What an incentive, a vested interest for those who make the golden rules to manage the cash flow to balance the budget. These are the points of view of an Oakville citizen, who is concerned about the tax burden. If you want to voice this or similar tax anomalies needmg attention please respond to: > 1 DIDN‘T KNOW POLITICIANS DIDN‘T KNOW THAT The Oakville Beaver, P.O. Box No. 4407, 467 Speers Rd. Oakville, Ontario, L6K 3S4. . On Carnival‘s "Fun Ships", each week, they will serve about halfâ€"aâ€"milâ€" erages to wine and dine us! That amount is far too big for most of us to relate to, so let‘s take a look at some of the details. lion meals! Six tons of filet mignon steak, 146,000 shrimp, 35,000 hamburgâ€" ers (now THAT‘S a BBQ!), and 1,600 lbs. of smoked salmon. Interestingly enough, many cruise SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1993 PAGE 12 However, charges for bar drinks and wines are very reasonable when comâ€" pared to local establishments. Drinks are typically $2.75 to $3/beer; $2 to $2.50/wine, and up by the bottle. Pop is included at meals, but is charged if served from the bar service at 75 cents to $1.00 each. The beverage service is very big business for the cruise lines and is not included in the cost of your cruise fares. In a typical month, Carnival will serve 650,000 beers, 50,000 bottles of champagne and sparkling wines (which averages about 15 cases per ship per day), and another 100,000 bottles of wine! lines spend almost as much on seafood products as they do on meat products. December 19, 1993 to January 4, 1994 Claudia Morley will host "THE PRESIDENT‘S CRUISE" Panama Canal Passage on board the Seabourn Pride For the first time ever we are allowed to offer this special cruise at Canadian Dollars at Par! Space must be booked September 30th to qualify. For more information please call Claudia Morley, President 366â€"4636 Girvan Travel Service Limited SEABOURN useA Did you ever wonder how much the cruise line spends to feed you each day? Don‘t forget, all of your meals on your cruise ship are included in the fare of the cruise â€" one of the best bargains in the travel industry! Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines operâ€" ates nine ships. Last year, they spent $55â€"million for food; $10â€"million for beverages; and another $10â€"million for food and beverage support items such as linens, china, and disposables. A typical biweekly loading of the ‘Sovereign of the Seas‘ (passenger capacity â€" 2,276) will give us an insight into their shopping list. Meat â€" $75,000; poultry â€" $15,000; fish â€" $65,000; dairy â€" $30,000; other foods â€" $97,000; beverages â€" $50,000; and supplies $40,000; for a grand total of $372,000! Each year, Royal Caribbean passenâ€" gers consume 200 tons of lobster, 250 tons of shrimp, and 16 million eggs! (Any cruise trivia buffs out there, try some of those stats on your friends.) The grand lady of the seas provides us some equally impressive information. The QEII, with 1,400 passengers, on a typical 10â€"day round trip, transatlantic crossing, spends $175,000 for food and beverages. Cruise lines purchase huge volumes of quality food and beverages on the world markets. Their economies of scale are so great that it allows them to serve high quality meals at very low costs. The QEII will take on 40 lbs. of caviar, one ton of live lobster, 1,200 gal. of ice cream, 1,500 lbs. of coffee, and 25 blocks of ice for the ice carvings. Some cruise lines will budget more per passenger per day for food. The results of past passenger surveys places Celebrity Cruises and Holland America Line at the top of passenger ratings for food. f Submitted by Bob Kerby, Cruise Holidays, 338â€"2077. The answer to my earlier question... it‘s under $10 per person per day! _Busea. ‘V”fll/flfl”fif