Who was your worst nextdoor neighbor on a cruise?

[Homosassa]

On the Carnival Liberty, first full day was a sea day. In the middle of the afternoon we were in our cabin when from the next door cabin we hear a man shouting, thuds on the wall, a child screaming and a woman sobbing.

 

On Carnival, there is no emergency number for help and the front desk doesn't answer the phone.

 

So I literally run (60+ years and with bad knees) up the stairs several decks to Guest Services desk where I am yelled at by the "special privileges" bozos in the line that I need to wait in the long peon line. I ignore the yelling and tell the person behind the desk that it is an emergency and security and medical needs to respond immediately. She takes the information and calls for help.

 

By the time I return to my cabin, there are several security officers at the cabin next door and a nurse with a medical kit hanging back in the hall.

 

The gentleman next door had overindulged in his Cheers package and was in a drunken rage. Luckily, the thuds on the wall was just his fist and not the child's or woman's head.

 

I was surprised that Guest Services called me back to report what had occurred, that the man was cut off for the remainder of the trip from alcohol, and that a security guard would periodically patrol the hall. I was also provided a number to call for help if needed.

 

Unfortunately, for the rest of the cruise, we were also called twice a day to be asked if there were any problems next door.

 

No good deed goes unpunished.

[nlg44]

We just got off the Epic, on our drive home to NC now. Our neighbor came back to his room Thursday night and started banging on his door, shouting for his friend. He then came to our room, knocked on the door and my husband answered.

 

The guy wanted to crawl across the balcony railing and get to his cabin, thankfully hubby talked some sense into this very intoxicated guy and told him it was a terrible idea.

 

Don't know where he disappeared too, but I saw him around 4:00pm yesterday, drunk and banging on the door again.

[NLH Arizona]

I've only had one bad experience. There was a baby in the cabin next to mine that cried all night and by all night, I mean from 10:30pm, when I got back from dinner, until 6:00am in the morning. Finally after a few nights of no sleep at all, I called Guest Services who told me there was no baby in that cabin, even though the folks in the other cabin next to them had complained. The next day I went down to Guest Services and again, they said there was no baby in the cabin. Not until my Cabin Steward told them there was a baby in there did they believe me. Come to find out, the folks next door were the grandparents and they took the baby in their cabin because the parents couldn't get any sleep because the baby cried all the time. Don't know if the parents took the baby back or what, but I never heard a wimper the rest of the cruise.

[Sunnysafari]

It didn't ruin our trip but the last afternoon a woman in the next room was yelling at her grown daughter that she was ruined, and the daughter had ruined her life, etc etc, very upset and very loud. From what we couldn't help hearing, the daughter had charged way too much on the ship credit card. (I felt sorry about that actually). They calmed down later and we saw them on the balcony later.

[Pitzel]

We once sailed on the Epic next door to a handicapped cabin. Apparently, our neighbor was being treated for cancer (we had no means to verify, so took her at her word) and was using the cruise as a means to get her hands on some "medical" marijuana at each port. We discovered this after smelling a distinctive aroma wafting from her balcony to ours. When we peered around the balcony divider, she said, "Shhh...don't tell security." And then she offered to share with us, as "hush" payment.

 

We did not take her up on her offer, but we also didn't rat her out either. We just kept off our balcony the few times that we heard her head outside to smoke.

[Cruzin' Daddy]

Touch wood, have never had a problem.

 

 

 

Don't just touch the wood...you need to beat it! LOL!

 

 

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[mkmaud1025]

During my last cruise, three years ago. DH and I were on the Explorer of the Seas in a promenade facing stateroom. Very first day, hours after boarding, I was looking out our window at the beautifully decorated promenade..... only to see our "neighbors" across the way stark naked with their shades wide open!! :o

[SuiteTraveler]

On the MSC Divina in the Yacht Club, I was in the cabin hallway heading to the elevator to the Yacht Club pool and heard a woman loudly yelling at her husband who sounded like he was trying to calmly explain things to her and she was becoming more and more hysterical and angry and verbally attacking him over and over again about things which didn't seem to make sense. Very uncomfortable. The next night, I saw these two in the Yacht Club lounge and the woman was just going on and on at the man. Nothing he said was right (according to her) and she was just so nasty and irrational and he kept patiently trying to talk to her. What she was saying was so wrong and accusatory. After listening to what they were saying for a 15 minutes or so (impossible not to as they were in our direct line of sight to the pianist and only 1 table away) I realized the woman had dementia and that the man probably didn't know it as he was trying to talk to her as though she was rational, which, she clearly was not at all. I felt so bad for him, for both of them. Dementia is a terrible and fatal disease and I'm afraid the man didn't know what was going on with his wife and was trying to relate to her the way he did before she became ill which doesn't work. The next day was the first port day and apparently they disembarked as we never saw them again. I can only hope that the man now knows what is going on with his wife and that he has gotten medical help for her (such as it is.) Just a very sad situation.

[klr6773]

Knock on wood , but nothing horrible stands out so far. I will say that my first cruise was in a connecting stateroom and I made sure that I never had connecting after that, as the kids next door banged on the door frequently.

 

My first real experience in learning that some parents are truly on vacation, even from their own kids, when they go away.

[newmexicoNita]

The Breakaway, 14 Day Eastern Caribbean, January - February 2017..

 

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

"F*!K YOU!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

"OH MY GOD!!"

 

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

**walls get banged**

 

*doors slam*

 

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

She screamed as she ran down the hallway, this was 2 or 3 AM, I really don't remember as time doesn't exist when it's that early, or is that late? Security got called, security showed up, we ended up with free laundry, wine, and strawberries. Quite exciting.

 

Other nights there were parties and yelling, but nothing like that night described above.

 

I finally did see the guy, in a hot tub, I asked him what the heck happened, and like the jerk he was, denied the whole thing and said he had no idea what I was talking about.

 

"Is that why everyone on the floor looks at me with disgust and acts like they hate me?"

 

"Sure is, it was chaos that night, man."

 

We've never experienced anything like that on any of our trips. That room was completely out of control and no one will ever know what happened the night the woman ran screaming down the hallway. But hey, we got some free stuff out of it so it's all good.

 

So, who has a more exciting story than that?

luckily never had a bad neighbor: we did cruise on a Celebrity cruise one time (an older ship) where the walls were so thin we could hear the conversations of the people in the next cabin: Good news, they were part of our group. And one time, on a cruise line that is long gone there were a group of very young men in the cabin next to us that got a little noisy from time to time, but nothing we couldn't live with. I have had a lot more problems with people in hotel rooms.

[kcwingwalker]

After several cruises we encountered the "Bickersons" on our last cruise. Not terrible, but annoying. TV often blaring and the wife loudly commenting on anything or everything from the balcony to her husband in the cabin "Herb! Lifetime guarantee" and lots of comments about the upcoming election. She was rooting for Trump, but we were never sure who her husband was for.

 

And every afternoon a friend joined the couple and they had drinks on the balcony. Very nice for them and something we enjoy too. But without the blaring TV and the running commentary from the wife.

 

Towards the end of our repo from Boston to New Orleans lots of people were checking their photos and making their choices for purchase. But one voice could be heard above everyone else. "Herb! There's a special on the pictures!"

 

Certainly this behavior was not even close to reporting nor would I knock on the cabin and ask if they could tone it down a bit. I doubt if they had a clue they were annoying. They were on vacation and having a good time. Some neighbors are better than others and mine were harmless.

[MrJulius]

Not really a neighbor but this guy almost was.

 

 

5 years ago on the Pride of America. It was our 25th anniversary. We were staying in an aft corner wraparound balcony. Those cabins are not cheap.

 

 

The same cabin, one deck below, was undoubtedly a family that won the cabin via some sort of Walmart contest. Obviously their first cruise and probably their first week out of the nut house.

 

 

They had some friends/family staying in the cabin next to us. One night, while underway, Jethro from the balcony below us, decided that he was going to climb from his balcony directly below us to his friends balcony next to us.

Yep, we were at the railing looking down at him as he attempted his ascent. All the while his family (think “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo”) and his friends/family next to us were cheering him on. He never did make it. He slipped and fell a few times but that didn’t dissuade him. About the third or fourth attempt I think he got the wind knocked out of him. He didn’t get up for a while. They threw a couple empty beer cans at him and went inside.

 

 

Somebody peed in the gene pool.

 

 

We still laugh at that act.

[LadyShiva]

Spirit out of New Orleans. Parents next door bought their young kids a ukulele. :rolleyes: Even my child was mumbling deadly thoughts at the idiotic neighbors by the end of that long, noisy cruise.

[nanagirl]

Years ago on the Norway, we made the first time cruisers mistake of saving money by booking the cabin next to the anchor chain....quote possibly a true statement., or so it seemed. Aside from the obvious anchoring noise, the men in the cabin across the 1 ft hallway from us partied every night then vomited outside our cabin door. Lovely.

[$hip$hape]

Late one night, I got a phone call in our cabin.

When I said "hello", some guy said,

"Who is this?... Put Sue on the phone ! "

I told him he had the wrong number.

He said if I don't let him talk to his wife he was going to come to (our) cabin and beat me up.

Figuring he had the wrong number, I said, "Come on down ! ", then hung up.

Nobody came.

Actually, it took about an hour of waiting to get back to sleep. LOL

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[albingirl]

On a Carnival cruise, during school vacation, we had a least a dozen pre-teens running up and down the hallway and screaming all night long. Have no idea where their parents were. Never took another Carnival cruise again, nor sailed during any school vacations, including spring break.

[Kwaj girl]

Haven't seen anything like this on any of our Regent cruises.

[jaxw17]

Knock on wood , but nothing horrible stands out so far. I will say that my first cruise was in a connecting stateroom and I made sure that I never had connecting after that, as the kids next door banged on the door frequently.

 

My first real experience in learning that some parents are truly on vacation, even from their own kids, when they go away.

Yes they do abdicate totally some of them

[hladygirl]

We had a grandmother and adult granddaughter next to us on the Dawn minisuite a few years ago. The grandmother never shut up on the balcony. All the other neighbors called her Gladys Kravitz. She did sound like her. If I lit a cigarette she would yell obscenities and go in her cabin and slam the sliding door. It got to the point that whenever she would go out on the balcony the neighbors would ask me to light a cigarette to get rid of her. This was when smoking on the balcony was allowed.

[$hip$hape]

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[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

This is an excerpt from the Adventure of the Seas review I wrote last year...

 

Our cabin (7378), was very nice. Superior Ocean View Balcony cabin. Clean, with more than enough space. We enjoyed room service coffee, pastries, and fruit plates each morning on the balcony. This was especially nice on the days we’d sail into a new port and new adventure! Marley, our cabin attendant, was outstanding in every way. The first night (Saturday), we had some issues with the people in the cabin next to us.

 

Screaming, yelling, bumping against the bulkhead, you name it. Sounded like a knock-down drag out fight at 0100-0300. Obviously, it woke us up and kept us up. The next day, we decided to take a nap around 1630, and they went at it again! This time, I called Guest Services, and asked for security to come around. At 2330 that same (Sunday) night, they were brawling yet again! I immediately called security again, and we waited in the passageway for the 2 guys to arrive. They came by pretty quickly, and we recapped the past two days’ worth of shenanigans. I don’t know what they told these women…but we never saw or heard from them again.

 

Maybe they moved them to another stateroom, maybe they made them walk the plank…. I dunno. We found out (from Marley) that that cabin, and the one adjoining it on the other side, was a mother and 3 adult daughters.

[BKNYChick]

Worst neighbors on a cruise for me had to be in April 2015 aboard RCCL 's Allure... a pair of sisters and their children booked the same type of set up as my husband and I with our kids... connecting cabins.

Well for some reason, these two sisters kept forgetting that their children were next door to them and kept knocking or rather banging on my hubby and I's cabin numerous times in the morning and evening... everytime they were re-directed to their side of the hall and the inside door that constituted a connected room.

The sisters apparently had a mission to "lure" my husband and any other man they'd set their eyes on (they made themselves QUITE known in the casino, pool area and all the bars) to their lair because each time they would knock, they'd be partially dressed. One morning, one of them decided to GO THERE and knock on our door calling out her son's name with only a towel covering her breasts... yeah well, I answered the door that time and had to unleash the native Brooklyn, NY wife and "I WILL beat that ass", tone with MY re-direct to the correct cabin...

I mean really... I got that they were single and ready to mingle... the cruise is a perfect venue for a drive by love affair, but not in my space sweetheart... one of the few times I ever recalled being thoroughly annoyed on a cruise, but by Day 3, they got themselves together... even though the last night of the cruise they got into a heated argument with each other... over a man of course, which spilled out into the hallway and one of their teen daughters had to keep the peace... smh...

A mess...

[helen haywood]

We were on an Alaskan cruise on Celebrity Infinity in an aft balcony cabin. We spent all our time out on the balcony when we were cruising...however the balcony next to us had a couple that were either practicing for America's Got Talent or stuck on Play...because they had a guitar and played and sang Whiskey Lullaby over and over and over and over and over again. We finally just started talking in much louder voices than we usually do.... It could have been worse; if it had been rap I would have called Guest Services.

 

 

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[toyotaford]

We were on an Alaskan cruise on Celebrity Infinity in an aft balcony cabin. We spent all our time out on the balcony when we were cruising...however the balcony next to us had a couple that were either practicing for America's Got Talent or stuck on Play...because they had a guitar and played and sang Whiskey Lullaby over and over and over and over and over again. We finally just started talking in much louder voices than we usually do.... It could have been worse; if it had been rap I would have called Guest Services.

 

 

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Several years ago we were on a cruise and came back from supper one night and there were two security people outside the room next to ours. After a while the left the room and they were still there. When we came in for the night they were still there. The next morning they were still there. As soon as we got our steward alone we asked him what was going on. He said the newlyweds in the next cabin had been fighting so badly (and he made his hands look like a cats claws and made scratching motions) that they were going to be put off the boat at the next stop. They were not allowed out of their room. After the next stop the guards were gone and never came back. I don't know if that was the truth or not but it made for an interesting story. (But I couldn't believe they were both in there or we would have heard some yelling and screaming. They must have separated them and was trying to keep one of them from getting out of the room and scratching the others eyes out.)

[nena09]

I was on my first cruise on the NCL Gem last year with my husband. We had a balcony on deck 9 which was very nice btw. Anyway, there was a husband, wife and I assume a 7-9 year old daughter who can talk very well in the cabin next to us. Everyday they would argue for 5 minutes until 1 of them storm out:

 

Wife: I saw you, you know? Do you think I'm stupid? I saw you looking at that woman!

 

Husband: You are crazy! Why are you being so jealous? She was looking at me, not the other way around.

 

Wife: Whatever! Spend this vacation with her then!

 

'Door Slams'

 

It would only last a couple of minutes a day and although it is unfortunate that they were arguing, it was entertaining for me because it was like a soap opera I could look forward to every day, (sorry lol)

 

Well one day, the dad and the daughter was alone in the cabin...

 

Daughter: I TOLD YOU NOT TO TOUCH IT!!

 

Dad: Calm down hunny, I didn't mean to

 

Daughter: I TOLD YOU NOT TO TOUCH MY BUTT!!!

 

me whispering to my husband with our ears against the wall: "omg, I think we need to call security.

 

my husband: no, no, this is none of our business. Maybe its a misunderstanding.

 

Dad: Look, look, hunny, I put it back, I'm sorry. I wont touch it again.

 

Daughter: DONT YOU EVER TOUCH MY BOOK AGAIN! THIS IS MY BOOK. OK DAD?!

 

me to my husband: We almost ruined this guys life.

 

Moral to the story, me and my husband will blast our tv or music to avoid listening to loud neighbors conversations on future cruises. lol