(nypost.com)
Not even hundreds of thousands of rotting corpses can keep boatloads of vacationers from Haiti.
Royal Caribbean International is still cruising to private Labadee Beech, a mere 60 miles south of the earthquake's epicenter -- where mountains of decaying bodies foul the air and traumatized residents scrounge for food.
Guests on the 3,100-passenger Navigator of the Seas yesterday lounged in hammocks, sipped rum and tooled around on Jet Skis an hour's car ride from devastated Port-au-Prince.
And sister ship Liberty of the Seas is due to dock today.
"I just can't see myself sunning on the beach, playing in the water, eating a barbecue and enjoying a cocktail while there are tens of thousands of dead people piled up on the streets [of the capital]," someone wrote on the Web site cruisecritic.com.
But CEO Richard Fain argued that Royal Caribbean was keeping hundreds of Haitians employed and planned to donate $1 million to the rescue effort. He added that each cruise ship was dropping off food and water.
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