Craziest thing you've seen another passenger do

[bEwAbG]

Reading about the morgue and deaths on cruises reminded me about 15 years ago my grandparents took my entire family on a cruise for thanksgiving.

 

Well my cousin is swimming in the pool and someone floats into him. He pushes this man away bit sees he's not moving just floating. My cousin is 12 and screams "oh my God I'm in the water with a dead guy!!!"

 

Obviously everyone jumped out, and it turns out my cousin was right and the guy had died.

 

This was 15 years ago and he still refuses to go on another cruise to this day.

 

Geesh. The stuff of nightmares. Hopefully the guest was having a good time when he keeled over. I've often said I'd like to be watching a fun show when I go! Hopefully I won't scar any kids. :eek:

[ginnyks]

This is mild compared to most of these posts but here is my addition:

 

About 10 yrs ago our cabin was near a large family group that included at least 3 generations and the partiarch used a scooter. One evening we noticed a child around 10 or 11 gleefully riding the scooter up and down the corridor while her grandfather was probably asleep. The grand daughter wasn't disruptive, she would stop to let people walk by and never really caused extra noise. She appeared to be joyriding a rather long time.

 

The next morning as we were exiting our cabin we heard her grandfather state beside his once trusty scooter, "I really can't figure out why it won't start this morning, I had the battery fully charged before I went to bed". My DH and I just smiled hello to them, knowing what the answer was. If the rider had been a rowdy brat the previous evening and caused trouble we might have dropped a hint or two.

 

 

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[Pushka]

The legend of laundry rooms and these occurred on the QM2 world cruise. Woman disembarked in Australia as she threw an iron at another Traveller. Another person put a chocolate in the hot dryer of another Traveller's laundry as presumably they hadn't removed the items quickly enough.

[cdnhockeyfan]

Was in the buffet line behind a "larger" size man. He was collecting his lunch on a plate with a tray. When his plate couldn't accommodate all of his food, he dumped the plate on to the tray and kept on going adding more.

[Guindalf]

Trivia brings out the worst in people. Almost as bad as food!

 

I am reminded of the time my DW decided to take a nap and I went down to play trivia to pass the time. I won, as I often do (I have an insane ability to remember useless facts!), an a group of about six people, all armed with pads of stuff, actually claimed I cheated!

 

How, was the question asked by the staff member as well as the other participants of the quiz.

 

'He's on his own. He should be in a team".

 

Wait, what??????

[Pushka]

I get really cross at Trivia. Just played it once on a ship. The so called answers were wrong! We told the MC that and he just said that the answer is what is written on his sheet and it's accuracy wasn't important. At which stage I realised how pointless it was.

[keithm]

Reading about the morgue and deaths on cruises reminded me about 15 years ago my grandparents took my entire family on a cruise for thanksgiving.

 

Well my cousin is swimming in the pool and someone floats into him. He pushes this man away bit sees he's not moving just floating. My cousin is 12 and screams "oh my God I'm in the water with a dead guy!!!"

 

Obviously everyone jumped out, and it turns out my cousin was right and the guy had died.

 

This was 15 years ago and he still refuses to go on another cruise to this day.

 

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On an average trip of 10 days(or more)about 3 pax will die on the cruise. This was according to the staff I asked on the QM2.

[dkjretired]

You are correct! My son is a physician and found out there are 6-8 body bags that go along on each cruise. They keep the deaths quite secret' date=' unless rumors get out. As for the medical treatment, I hope I never need it. DH developed a nasty infection on December 2016 Eclipse. He finger swelled up 3 times the size and very painful. The ship doctor put a f'n bandaid, yes a BANDAID on it. It was worse the next day, and her nurse change the dressing. The third day, we called our son and texted him a picture of it. He panicked and said it was celluitis, which can systemically travel quickly. Said he should be on an IV drip in a hospital. DH went back to the hospital, a new doctor concurred, but said they had no IV's available, and gave him 2 regular antibiotics. It took some to to heal after that. Moral of the story: hospital is only good for maybe seasickness!![/quote']

 

My neighbor in NJ is a Bayonne Fireman. He states when the ships come in it is rare when they are not sent there for one reason or another.

 

A little off topic but it is rare that the ship does the Bermuda run without having at least one fatality from the scooters in Bermuda.

[Mynki]

On an average trip of 10 days(or more)about 3 pax will die on the cruise. This was according to the staff I asked on the QM2.

 

You do know with it being Cunard that some people will believe you! :D :D :D

 

Some happy, cheery soul set up a website detailing cruise ship deaths. When you consider how many ships are at sea at a given time they're not really that common. Just 43 people passed in 2016 whilst cruising

 

http://www.cruiseshipdeaths.com/Cruise_Ship_Deaths_2016.html

[screwsmcernst]

While cruising with my sister and her husband, my BIL and I were on an elevator going to our cabins, it was around 10:30 in the morning, when a large woman got on the elevator with a tray piled high with multiple hamburgers, hot dogs, and french fries. I asked her if she was having a party in her cabin. She replied, "No. This was a snack to hold her over until lunch." :eek:

 

The worst thing I ever saw was a very drunk woman get out of the pool, sit down on a lounge chair, and then she proceeded to slide her bikini bottoms down her legs, and urinate right there. When she was finished, she pulled them up, and just sat there like nothing happened, until security came and escorted her away. I guess the silver lining is that she didn't pee in the pool. :D

[Shaco]

Several years ago at breakfast, we sat with an elderly man who ordered a six minute egg. After he was served, he complained to the waiter that he ordered a six minute egg, but he got a four minute egg, which was unacceptable. Next came an eight minute egg. Returned again. While the table was waiting to see what would happen next, the lady sitting next to me, a total stranger, asked if the man wanted something from her plate. He said yes, took her plate, and emptied all of it onto his plate. He returned the empty plate to the lady and started eating her food! My jaw is still on the floor in that dining room.

[PoppyandNana]

Now that I've wiped up the coffee I spilled all over the screen, here's mine (not on Celebrity though).

We were in an adjoining cabin, but not travelling with the people next to us. 2 AM and dh is sound asleep. I hear a key rattling in the door, and being a light sleeper, I'm on full alert. Second rattling of key. Third rattling of key is the charm. Now I hear, "Honey, I'm back" and the voice is coming from the cabin's hallway. I scream "You're in the wrong cabin." I slap dh to wake him up and he pipes up. Now the stranger is screaming, "What the (blank) are you doing in bed with my wife, you (blank)?" Mr.Visitor proceeds to grab the hallway curtain and becomes entangled in it.

This is our first night on this ship and we have yet to hit the right light switch, so this is playing out in the dark. Before we do, our friendly neighbor advises us that he will "beat the blank out of my husband." Somehow he realizes his error, untangles himself and scoots out. The hint might have been when I screamed out, "Unless you're married to (my name), you're in the wrong cabin, fool."

We found out from the Hotel Manager that the ship had just come out of dry dock and our key cards were coded erroneously to allow us and our neighbors to have access to each other's cabin.

This happened about 8 years ago. We recently ran into the same Hotel Manager and as soon as we introduced ourselves, she remembered the incident and said it was a first for her in her twenty year career.

 

One of the reasons we like Celebrity so much is that basically every cabin is a connecting cabin. However, its configured in such a way that there is no door inside your cabin to the other one. The connection is handled by having a secondary door that can be opened allowing passage between cabins.

[Fish Lover]

You do know with it being Cunard that some people will believe you! :D :D :D

 

Some happy, cheery soul set up a website detailing cruise ship deaths. When you consider how many ships are at sea at a given time they're not really that common. Just 43 people passed in 2016 whilst cruising

 

http://www.cruiseshipdeaths.com/Cruise_Ship_Deaths_2016.html

 

According to this article: "December 22, 2016 - PENDING: British Woman Jumped Overboard,Female 74, Cruise Ship Passenger, Queen Mary 2"

Maybe we can still save her?:confused:

 

I don't doubt these events happened, but I doubt the publisher is aware of every single event. They position themselves (name and logo) as an "official" agency but in reality are not. They are basically a news clipping service regarding cruise line deaths.

[pd7277]

On a 1995 cruise from NYC to Bermuda we encountered a couple at our dinner table whom we would eventually nickname Horseface(her) and Troll(him).

 

It started on our first evening in the dining room. We had introduced ourselves to the first two couples of our table and were awaiting the third. I looked up at the waiter and his mouth was hanging open like he had seen a ghost (actually is was the third couple for our table which we later found out traveled this ship often).

 

After we finished dinner on the second night Horseface summoned the maitre d' to complain that the food was unacceptable and she wanted to see the next evening's menu to see if there would be anything to her liking. Of course, there was not. She then proceeded to tell them what she wanted them to make for her the following evening. The next night came and when the entrees were served, she informed them she was no longer in the mood for the entree she requested the night before and to bring her the menu. :eek::eek:

[TFLG]

On my first "real" cruise we pulled into Acapulco after 3 sea days and there was a line of ambulances on the dock. They must have hauled at least 6 people to the hospital. Another we had to make an unscheduled stop in Cabo to offload a passenger that had a heart attack. And another we saw a woman in a wheelchair during check in that looked like she was VERY sick. Sure enough, departure time came and went, then we see sirens heading to the dock and watch her get wheeled off on a stretcher. I can't believe they let that lady onto the ship in the first place.

[TFLG]

On a 1995 cruise from NYC to Bermuda we encountered a couple at our dinner table whom we would eventually nickname Horseface(her) and Troll(him).

 

It started on our first evening in the dining room. We had introduced ourselves to the first two couples of our table and were awaiting the third. I looked up at the waiter and his mouth was hanging open like he had seen a ghost (actually is was the third couple for our table which we later found out traveled this ship often).

 

After we finished dinner on the second night Horseface summoned the maitre d' to complain that the food was unacceptable and she wanted to see the next evening's menu to see if there would be anything to her liking. Of course, there was not. She then proceeded to tell them what she wanted them to make for her the following evening. The next night came and when the entrees were served, she informed them she was no longer in the mood for the entree she requested the night before and to bring her the menu. :eek::eek:

 

we've run into a few of "those". It's amazing how some people turn into lord god king boofoo and queen when they step onto the gangway.

[TFLG]

The more I read the more ridiculous stuff I remember. This one happened on the waterfall excursion in Hilo HI. We are all on the 2 vans ready to leave when 3 stragglers show up. A husband, wife and MIL. There is one seat in one van and 2 seats on our van. The wife starts throwing a tizzy fit because they all can't sit together. Then she comes onto our van and asks if someone will move to the other van, eh NO! So they finally get on, the wife and husband in our van the MIL in the other. On our 2nd stop, the wife isn't back when it's time to go, so we wait, after 15 minutes the husband says leave her, lets go (and he was dead serious). The van driver would not, so he went and chased her down. 45 minutes later they show up. We give her a nice round of applause when she gets on which got her all upset. Then she starts with the stupid questions. What kind of trees do the have in Hawaii, what kind of dogs do the have in Hawaii (really she asked that!) and many others I can't remember. This woman was dumb as a post! For the rest of the excursion she just wined about us being so mean to her:p:D No idea how that man put up with that woman.

[willcruiseanythyme]

Now that I've wiped up the coffee I spilled all over the screen, here's mine (not on Celebrity though).

We were in an adjoining cabin, but not travelling with the people next to us. 2 AM and dh is sound asleep. I hear a key rattling in the door, and being a light sleeper, I'm on full alert. Second rattling of key. Third rattling of key is the charm. Now I hear, "Honey, I'm back" and the voice is coming from the cabin's hallway. I scream "You're in the wrong cabin." I slap dh to wake him up and he pipes up. Now the stranger is screaming, "What the (blank) are you doing in bed with my wife, you (blank)?" Mr.Visitor proceeds to grab the hallway curtain and becomes entangled in it.

This is our first night on this ship and we have yet to hit the right light switch, so this is playing out in the dark. Before we do, our friendly neighbor advises us that he will "beat the blank out of my husband." Somehow he realizes his error, untangles himself and scoots out. The hint might have been when I screamed out, "Unless you're married to (my name), you're in the wrong cabin, fool."

We found out from the Hotel Manager that the ship had just come out of dry dock and our key cards were coded erroneously to allow us and our neighbors to have access to each other's cabin.

This happened about 8 years ago. We recently ran into the same Hotel Manager and as soon as we introduced ourselves, she remembered the incident and said it was a first for her in her twenty year career.

Maybe the best story yet right here!!👏👏👏

 

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[willcruiseanythyme]

While cruising with my sister and her husband, my BIL and I were on an elevator going to our cabins, it was around 10:30 in the morning, when a large woman got on the elevator with a tray piled high with multiple hamburgers, hot dogs, and french fries. I asked her if she was having a party in her cabin. She replied, "No. This was a snack to hold her over until lunch." :eek:

 

The worst thing I ever saw was a very drunk woman get out of the pool, sit down on a lounge chair, and then she proceeded to slide her bikini bottoms down her legs, and urinate right there. When she was finished, she pulled them up, and just sat there like nothing happened, until security came and escorted her away. I guess the silver lining is that she didn't pee in the pool. :D

OH. MY. GOSH! That is disgusting!

 

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[OzKiwiJJ]

I get really cross at Trivia. Just played it once on a ship. The so called answers were wrong! We told the MC that and he just said that the answer is what is written on his sheet and it's accuracy wasn't important. At which stage I realised how pointless it was.

 

We enjoy trivia but it really makes a difference as to which of the CDs team is running it - some trivia hosts are brilliant and others are cringe-worthy.

 

On Golden last year there was one guy who always argued with the trivia host. Luckily that guy didn't play every day. However the day we won (the one and only time) he was there and arguing again. I have to confess that I felt a bit smug when it turned out that we beat him and his team, not just by the normal one point but by a whopping four points. :D

[caribill]

The more I read the more ridiculous stuff I remember. This one happened on the waterfall excursion in Hilo HI. We are all on the 2 vans ready to leave when 3 stragglers show up. A husband, wife and MIL. There is one seat in one van and 2 seats on our van. The wife starts throwing a tizzy fit because they all can't sit together. Then she comes onto our van and asks if someone will move to the other van, eh NO! So they finally get on, the wife and husband in our van the MIL in the other. On our 2nd stop, the wife isn't back when it's time to go, so we wait, after 15 minutes the husband says leave her, lets go (and he was dead serious). The van driver would not, so he went and chased her down. 45 minutes later they show up. We give her a nice round of applause when she gets on which got her all upset. Then she starts with the stupid questions. What kind of trees do the have in Hawaii, what kind of dogs do the have in Hawaii (really she asked that!) and many others I can't remember. This woman was dumb as a post! For the rest of the excursion she just wined about us being so mean to her:p:D No idea how that man put up with that woman.

 

Maybe that is why he was willing to leave her behind.

[caribill]

Trivia brings out the worst in people.

 

There was a couple (on another cruise line) who spent many weeks on the ship and knew almost all the answers for the often repeated trivia questions.

 

a) They used the prizes they won as tips for their cabin steward and dining room servers.

 

b) They always sat in the same place each day. One day one of our teammates came early just so he could sit in their place. When they walked in and could not have their favorite place to sit, they just walked out and skipped that trivia session.

[ceba]

Now that I've wiped up the coffee I spilled all over the screen, here's mine (not on Celebrity though).

We were in an adjoining cabin, but not travelling with the people next to us. 2 AM and dh is sound asleep. I hear a key rattling in the door, and being a light sleeper, I'm on full alert. Second rattling of key. Third rattling of key is the charm. Now I hear, "Honey, I'm back" and the voice is coming from the cabin's hallway. I scream "You're in the wrong cabin." I slap dh to wake him up and he pipes up. Now the stranger is screaming, "What the (blank) are you doing in bed with my wife, you (blank)?" Mr.Visitor proceeds to grab the hallway curtain and becomes entangled in it.

This is our first night on this ship and we have yet to hit the right light switch, so this is playing out in the dark. Before we do, our friendly neighbor advises us that he will "beat the blank out of my husband." Somehow he realizes his error, untangles himself and scoots out. The hint might have been when I screamed out, "Unless you're married to (my name), you're in the wrong cabin, fool."

We found out from the Hotel Manager that the ship had just come out of dry dock and our key cards were coded erroneously to allow us and our neighbors to have access to each other's cabin.

This happened about 8 years ago. We recently ran into the same Hotel Manager and as soon as we introduced ourselves, she remembered the incident and said it was a first for her in her twenty year career.

 

So funny!!!:D:D:D

[Marion B]

In all fairness, I must admit that the word I used to address our nighttime visitor was not "fool."

[BonnieSte]

I woke up one morning and slid my curtains open to see this...