Incidents of Assaults and Physical Threats from Fellow Passengers

[Rick-cruiser]

There is a very interesting thread on the Crystal boards concerning several incidents of assaults and physical threats from fellow passengers while onboard a cruise:

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1165152

 

I was wondering if anyone onboard a Celebrity ship (or any other line for that matter) has ever experienced/witnessed an incident of an assault or altercation while onboard a cruise...?

 

- Rick

[Phxazzcruisers]

We witness an altercation between several passengers on our Equinox Cruise to the Holy Land last year. Let me tell you, the Captain did not mess around and the person inciting the altercations, even after warnings, and his family were all escorted off the ship at the port in Egypt and not allowed to reboard. PERIOD

[Friscorays]

I saw that thread and found it interesting that the poster seemed to somehow be a magnet for altercations (describing two incidents on a single Crystal sailing) as I have sailed on Celebrity, Crystal, Regent, Cunard and NCL and never been involved with or seen anything similar. I am sure things do occur, but rarely.

[GITC]

Have only been on one Celebrity cruise but did have a late-night incident outside our cabin on one of our Princess cruises.

 

A couple of brothers, apparently, who were sharing an inside cabin across the hall from their parents, who were next door to us, decided to duke it out in the wee small hours. Apparently they did it fairly quietly in that we weren't even awakened and didn't know about it until the next morning when our steward told us about it. There was blood on our door and no more brothers on the ship after we docked at the next port. Princess also doesn't appear to be very tolerant of such behavior.

[Sacramento_Kat]

Umm...I'm fairly new to these boards, but not to life, boards and travel in general. That OP on the Crystal board seems a little goofy to me. How did he know that the fellow passenger's laundry was done (or even "parched") without getting into it? Maybe the petite wife didn't experience as much of a "shove" as a "let me have back my laundry". I'm pretty mellow, but would hate to say what would happen if someone started pulling my clothes out of a dryer while I'm standing there. And the whole story about the "spy-trainer" is really out there. He was put into a choke hold by her, in public and didn't fight back, yell, report her or have anyone else notice?? Really??? Really??!!

 

Anything could be true, but it sounds like someone is either having fun, or has a bone to grind. And the "regular-poster-but-only posted-4-times-with-this-id" is a bit suspicious!. Some posts are so entertaining!

[Ivory171]

We witness an altercation between several passengers on our Equinox Cruise to the Holy Land last year. Let me tell you, the Captain did not mess around and the person inciting the altercations, even after warnings, and his family were all escorted off the ship at the port in Egypt and not allowed to reboard. PERIOD

 

Good for the Captain!

[Puffthefish]

The guys wife sounds like a real piece of work. Pulling someones clothes out of a dryer because he was being "mean". boohooo

[mgcarnut]

Laundry room etiquette has always been ambiguous. Lets say you enter a laundry room and there are two washers and two dryers (as there was in a hotel we stayed in after our cruise in January). Someone has used the washers but left the laundry room to go back to their room. Their clothes are still sitting in the washers, damp so obviously the cycle has finished.

 

Is it OK to remove the clothes and set them on top of the dryers? Or should you put them in the dryers? I wouldn't go so far as to start the dryers since the first person may have some special drying requirements.

 

Same thing with clothes that are dry but have been left in the dryer, the owner nowhere in sight - do you remove them from the dryer and put your clothes in? Do you fluff and fold the clothes you took out so they don't wrinkle?

 

It's all too complex. In the first scenario in our hotel, I took the original clothes out of the washers and put them on top of the dryers. The owner came back and had no problem with that, started his drying cycle. Seeing that I was going to need the dryers next, he came back promptly and took his dry clothes out, offered me the remaining time on the dryer. But it could have gone differently, with the original clothes' owner taking umbrage at me handling his clothes. But I didn't want to wait all night to use the washers.

 

Cheers,

mgcarnut

[BrianTom]

There are two sides to every story.

[GITC]

There are two sides to every story.

I've heard that there are three with the third being the truth. ;)

[ProfessorandtheGeek]

We witness an altercation between several passengers on our Equinox Cruise to the Holy Land last year. Let me tell you, the Captain did not mess around and the person inciting the altercations, even after warnings, and his family were all escorted off the ship at the port in Egypt and not allowed to reboard. PERIOD

 

I have to say that in all my years of cruising we have yet to experience an altercation first hand. However, I know of some instances on other ships and the punishment was removal from the ship at the next available port. Cruise Captains and crew take that mess seriously. They have too many passengers to worry about to keep trouble makers on board. Good for that Captain!

[pspercy]

We witness an altercation between several passengers on our Equinox Cruise to the Holy Land last year. Let me tell you, the Captain did not mess around and the person inciting the altercations, even after warnings, and his family were all escorted off the ship at the port in Egypt and not allowed to reboard. PERIOD

 

Maybe they wore bathrobes to the pool ?

[txsloth]

Umm...I'm fairly new to these boards, but not to life, boards and travel in general. That OP on the Crystal board seems a little goofy to me. How did he know that the fellow passenger's laundry was done (or even "parched") without getting into it? Maybe the petite wife didn't experience as much of a "shove" as a "let me have back my laundry". I'm pretty mellow, but would hate to say what would happen if someone started pulling my clothes out of a dryer while I'm standing there. And the whole story about the "spy-trainer" is really out there. He was put into a choke hold by her, in public and didn't fight back, yell, report her or have anyone else notice?? Really??? Really??!!

 

Anything could be true, but it sounds like someone is either having fun, or has a bone to grind. And the "regular-poster-but-only posted-4-times-with-this-id" is a bit suspicious!. Some posts are so entertaining!

 

Oh, thank you for your post. I was just going to ignore the link, but you made me curious. I'm still laughing over the spy trainer/choke hold story. The guy is obviously a troll. Funny stuff.

 

Edited to add: To whatever extent the laundry room story was true, it further confirms my appreciation for Celebrity not having self-service laundry.

[2ndsailing]

We were on the Tahitian Princess celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary two years ago. We had a honeymoon couple next door. We didn't hear this; but they had a big fight and the wife locked him out on the balcony all night. The neighbours on the otherside couldn't believe we had slept through this as it was very loud. We didn't see the couple the rest of the cruise and we wondered what happened to them; but they were in the row behind us on the plane. Apparently there was something wrong with the toilet in their cabin and they got moved to another cabin (or so they told me on the plane)...could that have tiggered the fight? He left the seat up? didn't flush properly???? I wonder if they'll make it to their 25th?:confused:

[Lois R]

I've heard that there are three with the third being the truth. ;)

 

Thank you:). I was thinking the same exact thing.

[c-legs]

I've heard that there are three with the third being the truth. ;)

Aahhhh.....Brilliant wisdom !!!! :D

Common sense re-defined to a new height :cool:

Thank you

Cheers

:)

[RhondaPerr]

I have seen two altercations. One was during a Bingo game the guy who was one number away physically attacked the winner.. And I think it was last year, a rather rude and drunk guy waited to jump someone in the theatre.. I am thinking he walked the plank because we never saw him again! :)

[Nancyquilts]

About the laundry - I would take someone's laundry out of the machine and stack it if they didn't return within 5 minutes of my wishing to use the machine. I would expect someone to take mine out if I weren't there in time. I wouldn't put someone's wash in the dryer, as maybe some things that were washed shouldn't be put in the dryer. Of course, this would be on a cruise line that had self service washers and dryers, unlike X and RCL.

[GITC]

I was thinking as I read the linked thread, aside from the shared thoughts about the OP in that thread being mostly responsible for what did or didn't happen, that there is so much violence on Crystal. All those people with all that money.....proves that money can't buy happiness. :D

[Jill SC]

About the laundry - I would take someone's laundry out of the machine and stack it if they didn't return within 5 minutes of my wishing to use the machine. I would expect someone to take mine out if I weren't there in time. I wouldn't put someone's wash in the dryer, as maybe some things that were washed shouldn't be put in the dryer. Of course, this would be on a cruise line that had self service washers and dryers, unlike X and RCL.

 

I agree. If someone hasn't returned within a reasonable time after their machine has finished, I will remove it and stack it neatly. I did that on an NCL cruise, removed someone's clothes from the dryer after they didn't show up for ten minutes (clothes were dry). The laundry room was getting backed up with people waiting for machines. When the lady did return for her clothes another 15 minutes after I removed them, she was mad. She sent her husband back to scold me. He retreated after speaking his piece when he realized that the other half dozen people in the laundry room were unsympathetic to his concerns

[Longboysfan]

I've heard that there are three with the third being the truth. ;)

 

 

I usually make that up as I go along.....

[Huddler]

I was on a cruise this winter with lots of angry New Yorker and New Jersey folks. There were several very heated arguements over deck chairs. I was certain a brawl or 2 was going to break out but thankfully cooler heads prevailed.

[stardust]

We were on a new years cruise and two drunk men fought it out on the pool deck, complete with flying deck chairs. Some passengers were injured. The two men were locked in their cabin together (I don't know whose brilliant idea that was) until we docked about When the Barbados police arrived to escort them off the ship, the cruise personnel found the cabin pretty much empty. The men were in there, but they had thrown anything and everything they could rip loose over their balcony during the night. That was our entertainment for the week!

[Slumdog Millionaire]

I was on a cruise this winter with lots of angry New Yorker and New Jersey folks. There were several very heated arguements over deck chairs. I was certain a brawl or 2 was going to break out but thankfully cooler heads prevailed.

Mets' fans

[cruise53]

I bet they had to pay!!!!!!!!!!!!!