Funny tales from cruising..

[cruiseanywhere2]

One of my colleagues having been on her first cruise complained the entertainment team were the same people every night:eek:

[DamianG]

We're just back from the Oriana Christmas cruise and one lady passenger was at the forefront of the entertainment events. She sang (or should I say performed) Karoake, dramatising the words as she sang. She danced at the Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve discos, and at the Great British Sailaway she danced around the pool so much that eventually the entertainments team got her up on the mini stage so that she could sing and dance with them.

Next time we saw her she was one of the first disembarking in Southampton.......in a wheelchair!!!

One for the fraud department?

Damian

[DamianG]

My in-laws were on an excursion a few years back and a lady complained that all it did was rain and all they saw were trees. And the excursion was..........a trip to the rainforest.

Damian

[tom_uk]

On our recent Adonia cruise it was Xmas Eve and we were on the bus going through Nazareth.

A lady sitting behind us was tut-tutting to her husband saying- "Oh really!!! It's all just so comercialised and modernised here - no use at all!!!"

We thought she must have been expecting to see folk still riding donkeys!

:)

 

Caryl

 

Did you see any fighting priests?

[CASPALL]

No Tom - only saw fighting taxi drivers in Jerusalem. :rolleyes:

 

Damian - that is just so ridiculous, but I can believe it. We had a long while to wait to board our Thomson flight at Naples airport as there were so many passengers in wheelchairs to use the ambulift (or whatever its called)

We had seen the same passengers WALK through Gatwick and onto the plane at the start of the holiday. Is it a case of - "Oh! No doctors certificate needed - I'll have a bit of that!"

Maybe it was as well they did go in wheelchairs as there was much pushing and shoving of backs to get off the bus and onto the plane to find locker space for bags. One old lady was almost knocked over in the rush.

 

 

(Apologies to anyone who genuinely needs this service - I know it is difficult for people with disabilities to get through airports - no offence meant!):).

[lostinvegas]

A couple unused to P&O interpreted this as meaning Formal OR Black and White, with the latter perhaps involving fancy dress. So the lady turned out for dinner dressed as a fresian cow, complete with face paint and udders, only to find everyone else in formal dress. Whether on not she stayed in costume, and if so was served in the MDR, is unknown!

 

I could believe this one I was on Fred Olsen recently and lots of people wore fancy dress on the theme nights .

 

I have done the trying to get into the wrong cabin on the wrong deck a few times.

 

Had an embarrassing moment too when someone cleaning the balconies of the cabins saw me naked in my room. I don't know who was more embarrassed. The next day a free bottle of champagne turned up in our room. If they had sent a message round about balcony cleaning I had missed it.

 

Our cabin over Christmas was next to the medical centre and I have to say even in rough Bay of Biscay seas it was not too bad, so there might be some truth in that one.

[indiana123]

Damien.. I know exactly the lady you mean. she was everywhere. she must have had the energy of an ox.

 

At first we thought good for her, she is enjoying herself but after 17 nights she got a bit wearing. We wondered if she lived on board as she embraced all the staff. Its hard to explain if you weren't on that cruise, but honestly she was everywhere, all the time. It would have been nice if others, say first timers, could have been picked for some competitions, but she was there everytime I looked.

 

Whilst I have sincere sympathy for those with genuine mobility problems, there were those that were not. One lady clinging on to her Husband, then walking with two sticks suddenly realised that first sitting were out and making their way to the theatre and seats were going. We were gobsmacked... she went off like a rocket, much faster than us and we are mobile.

 

One thing puzzled us. It was fixed dining, so why were the same people queuing every night at 8 for 8.30 sit down. It wasn't as if they would run out of food. That made us laugh every night.

[DamianG]

Damien.. I know exactly the lady you mean. she was everywhere. she must have had the energy of an ox.

 

At first we thought good for her, she is enjoying herself but after 17 nights she got a bit wearing. We wondered if she lived on board as she embraced all the staff. Its hard to explain if you weren't on that cruise, but honestly she was everywhere, all the time. It would have been nice if others, say first timers, could have been picked for some competitions, but she was there everytime I looked.

 

Whilst I have sincere sympathy for those with genuine mobility problems, there were those that were not. One lady clinging on to her Husband, then walking with two sticks suddenly realised that first sitting were out and making their way to the theatre and seats were going. We were gobsmacked... she went off like a rocket, much faster than us and we are mobile.

 

One thing puzzled us. It was fixed dining, so why were the same people queuing every night at 8 for 8.30 sit down. It wasn't as if they would run out of food. That made us laugh every night.

 

I guess some people just love a queue - same as those queueing at 7:30am for the MDR to open for "2nd sitting" breakfast at 8am on disembarkation day!

I'm so glad you've backed us up regards that particularly lady. We had the same thoughts exactly, originally thinking "good for her" then gradually becoming more tired of her antics. Good to know it wasn't just us thinking that way.

Thanks

Damian

[CASPALL]

"One thing puzzled us. It was fixed dining, so why were the same people queuing every night at 8 for 8.30 sit down. It wasn't as if they would run out of food. That made us laugh every night"

 

On Adonia there was no room to queue but they still queued - making it difficult for 1st seating diners to get past. It also ruined the bar where the queue formed. No nice quiet drink there. Why do the British spend so much of their lives queuing!:confused:

 

Caryl

[LibraLass41]

That is SO sad, why on earth do these people queue when they have a reserved table and will be fed when all seated anyway?

 

If you queue, tell us please why?:rolleyes:

 

(Is there a prize for the first seated?):D

[Longislandtea]

My sister and I had a very nice time in the spa and got chatting to a lovely spa lady. She told us her funny story.

 

A lady was having her hair done and her husband arrived to see if she had finished. He asked the hair dresser where she slept at night. He was very rude in the way he asked. The spa manager said to the husband. Its ok, there is a helicopter that takes her off at night time. The next day the husband was seen at the recption desk complaining about the noise the helicoper made and wanted OBC for to compensate him for not being able to sleep.:confused: