Whacky Requests

[jhannah]

We've all heard them. Passengers who ask for off-the-wall or impossible things while on their cruise. Low-salt caviar? Non-fat prime rib? Here's an interesting article.
(http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/travel/2008/08/31/2008-08-31_sea_of_wacky_demands_.html)

[pipedreams62]

There are ways to remove those with wacky requests


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[ANSalberg]

On the World cruise 2007 - my DH and I watched a woman throw a MAJOR temper tantrum in the foyer of the main dining room after lunch -because the waiter didn't "Offer her a second cup of coffee after lunch" ..............My thought was "JUST when you thought you'd heard EVERYTHING" ......;)

[Copper10-8]

So why can't you make the elevators go to the front of the ship?

[sail7seas]

"Can't you make this ship stop swaying?" :eek:

[aliaschief]

To the Filipino waiter. "What country are you from?"

[celebrate20]

LOL...that makes my request for ice and an extra pillow very reasonable.,right?

[sail7seas]

:) Yup ....... :D

[Krazy Kruizers]

Woman watching a crew member putting oranges into the orange juice maker to make fresh orange juice in the Lido -- "Is that really fresh orange juice?"

[arzz]

Actual quote from a woman on a Zaandam cruise several years ago when we were having difficulties with the stabilizers:

"I am never taking this cruise line again it is too bumpy!"

[shining gem]

A guy was throwing a major tantrum in the hallway and demanding the steward not put a chocolate on his pillow as he was sick of waking up in the morning with chocolate all over his face,
No, I'm not kidding.

[cruzincurt]

Ran into a woman once who complained the suite she was upgraded to was just to large for her:rolleyes:.

We sailed one time when the couple at our table always ordered a quarter wedge of lettuce as their salad every night.

[JimVrhovac]

Thank you the laugh's made our day

Ruth & Jim

[Taxguy7]

Woman watching a crew member putting oranges into the orange juice maker to make fresh orange juice in the Lido -- "Is that really fresh orange juice?"

She will believe the person she asked, not her eyes.:eek: Did she inquire if that person had ever seen an orange tree?:confused:

[Krazy Kruizers]

She will believe the person she asked, not her eyes.:eek: Did she inquire if that person had ever seen an orange tree?:confused:

Darn -- I didn't think to ask her that!!

You should have been sailing with us.

[jtl513]

Woman watching a crew member putting oranges into the orange juice maker to make fresh orange juice in the Lido -- "Is that really fresh orange juice?"Well ... strictly speaking, the oranges weren't picked that morning ... :D :D :D

[Mysteryfan]

Ran into a woman once who complained the suite she was upgraded to was just to large for her:rolleyes:.

We sailed one time when the couple at our table always ordered a quarter wedge of lettuce as their salad every night.


I guess then we can order the whole lettuce ---):D

[Spender Nui]

I heard 2 passengers talking ... "you have a clock on your night table in your cabin? How did you get it." "I brought it with me." How did you get it plugged in?" "I had MY GUY crawl under he bed and plug it in for me. I told him at the end of the cruise when he climbed under and unplugged it I'd give him a nice tip."

I bet it was!

[TCF]

Just for the record....there are a lot of places in France where a salad is just that....a quarter head of lettuce seved with olive oil, wine vinegar, salth&pepper!

Never did much for me...but then I am not French!

[seafun]

It reminds me of an old German chef I worked for years ago, who called the plain lettuce wedge, "The Honeymoon Salad." ... Lettuce Alone ... (let us alone...;) )

He would always guffaw and throw his head back in laughter like it was the funniest joke he ever heard. The rest of us did not. :rolleyes:

[Taxguy7]

Darn -- I didn't think to ask her that!!

You should have been sailing with us.

I hate to laugh at people (in front of them:D ) but I might have if I asked her that. :p

[kryos]

On the World cruise 2007 - my DH and I watched a woman throw a MAJOR temper tantrum in the foyer of the main dining room after lunch -because the waiter didn't "Offer her a second cup of coffee after lunch" ..............My thought was "JUST when you thought you'd heard EVERYTHING" ......;)LOL ... why on earth didn't she just ask for one?

Blue skies ...

--rita

[kryos]

"Can't you make this ship stop swaying?" :eek:


LOL ... she must have been on a high deck. You know what they say ... "the more you pay, the more you sway." :)

Now, me ... I looooooovvvvvveeeeee swaying. :)

Blue skies ...

--rita

[jt1120]

This is sort of related: I was at a buffet on my lunch hour recently, and I heard this and almost died. It was all about chicken wings. With chicken wings, you basically have to kinds: drumsticks (or "drummies" as my wife calls them), and the two-boned wing. We all know that you get more meat with the drumstick, correct? This particular time the only wings available in the pan were drumsticks. A woman asked one of the workers if there were any of the "flat kind" coming out soon? She stood right in front of the wings, blocking the whole section of the buffet, just to ask for the "flat kind." I (somewhat politely) nudged her and grabbed four wings and just had to roll my eyes.

[2bout2c]

We've all heard them. Passengers who ask for off-the-wall or impossible things while on their cruise. Low-salt caviar? Non-fat prime rib? Here's an interesting article.
(http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/travel/2008/08/31/2008-08-31_sea_of_wacky_demands_.html)
Once in the ladies room outside the dining room on the Volendam, a lady commented there just weren't enough toliets on the ship. I told her I thought there were plenty, since I even had one in my cabin. Didn't she?
I don't think she "got it"