What has freaked you out on a cruise?

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Over a decade ago on a Royal Caribbean ship sailing to Bermuda with extremely rough seas. While sitting in the MDR the waves were crashing over the windows and the waiters were dropping plates left and right. In my over dramatic teenaged brain 100% thought the ship may go down Titantic style which lead to a panic

 

I would have thought the same as a teenager.

 

Upon boarding the Sky last week, we were shocked to find that a group called College Party Cruise comprised about 80% of the guests on board. All of the bars had long lines for the duration of the cruise and we had the pleasure of having screaming kids running down the hallways and banging on doors until 4 a.m. each night.

 

I think I would have wanted to jump ship. During a Christmas/New Years cruise we had children running down the hallways and banging on our door until 4 a.m. at night. We now avoid that time of year.

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We sailed on the Royal Caribbean Anthem last month. While waiting in line for the bumper cars, we saw a young girl (10/11 years old) in the pink #1 car cornered against the wall. Another car came flying at her and T boned her car. Since she was already against the wall, the car couldn't move much, but the impact caused the girls head to jolt all the way to her right side. We all witnessed a serious whiplash injury. They stopped the session so the girl could get out. The driver of the other car must have felt horrible..It was the girls mother.

When we all piled into cars for our turn, even though there were still people waiting to go on the ride, no one got in the pink #1 car. It floated around empty.

 

How sad!

 

Last year while sailing the Caribbean I was hit on by a drunk women in the casino. I agreed to go for food with her late at night at o'sheehans but had no interest in her and thought I had made it clear. At the table she got super depressed and crying as I wouldn't take her back to my stateroom. She assumed I thought she was ugly and wondering why this always happens to her.

 

She said by the end of the cruise I'd have sex with her. So anyway my whole cruise I had to avoid this drunk lady who was double my age.

 

I saw her a few times in the casino and she made me look like I was in AA she drank so much.

 

One time she asked to borrow 100.00, so basically I paid someone 100.00 not to have sex.

 

That was my weirdest story on a ship hahaha.

 

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Too funny!

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I have a couple...

1.) My 2nd cruise, 1st cruise in a storm. Hurricane Sandy. The day we were suppose to dock in Jamaica was the day Sandy hit them. I have never been so scared in my life. I quickly turned my phone on to call home. I wanted to hear my mothers voice. Lol. I hated that cell phone bill later but it was worth it. Thankfully AT&T helped me with the bill.

 

2.)Not really about me, but about a couple I went on a cruise with. My friend who has been on multiple cruises, and her boyfriend who had never been on a cruise before. They had the UBP so her bf got pretty drunk to say the least. In the middle of the night he went to pee (he was naked) and instead of going back to his bed, he turned and went out the door. There he was butt naked banging on the door. She was too knocked out to hear him. He had to go down to Guest Services and get someone to open the door for him. OMG. To hear her tell me that story the next day I couldn't stop laughing!

 

LOVED the 2nd story! I can't imagine seeing that on a cruise!

 

I was on the Queen Victoria world cruise a few years ago. We were on our first of two days in San Francisco. I had just returned from a few hours walking around town. They were not letting anyone board.

 

Seems a storm came up suddenly and the ship broke away from its ropes and started floating out to the middle of San Francisco Bay. Both gangways were hanging off the side of the ship into the water. Luckily no one was on the walkways at the time. There was a tug near by and pushed her back to the dock.

 

It took several hours to get one of the gangways operational. I spent the remainder of the afternoon watching a large crain removing one of the gangways out of the bay. Also had lots of news helicopters flying overhead during the nightly news.

 

Don

 

I always think of "bays" as being protected, but they aren't always. I've seen a tug boat push us along side a dock for 2 days in a major storm to keep us stable (we actually missed a port as a result).

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We were sailing out of San Diego on the Carnival Spirit & 5 minutes out we saw a capsized boat with several people holding on. We tried to find someone of authority to tell but couldn't. We figured someone on the bridge must have seen it. Asked around to ship personnel, no one knew anything. Found out later it was an overloaded boat with special needs kids. Some did not make it.

 

How sad.... I thought all vessels were supposed to help in a capsized situation?

 

Circa 2002 on the Norwegian Majesty (first cruise), a sea day returning to BOS from BDA. Sitting on the top sun deck with 60 or so other pax, laying in the sun and just dozing off, the abandon ship alarm sounds (you know--seven short and one long). One by one people become vertical in their loungers, heads on a swivel. As the resting heartbeat climbed from 60 to 120 bpm, several minutes pass. Well maybe it was like 45 seconds. A unidentified voice on the PA proclaimed "sorry, that was a mistake". The nap was ruined.

 

Now that is wrong! A mistake? Who hit the wrong button??? I think people should be able to throw a pie in their face! ;)

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Deb, was his name Captain Lars? We were on the Gem and we LOVED his updates! He was the best! We have no idea who our Cruise Director was, but we still display our photos with Captain Lars proudly. Hilarious. "Well folks, I am not going to lie to you about the weather... there IS weather." "Don't get off at this port with your wife, or you will end up quite poor."

 

I need to meet Captain Lars!

 

In January, we were on Adventure of the Seas headed to the ABC islands from San Juan. Somewhere in the middle, the captain announced that the water depth was almost 16,000 feet. It was pretty creepy knowing it was that far down!

 

After doing several Transatlantic's, I feel the same! The water depth is soooo deep and kinda creepy. I try to not think about it by doing activities on board!

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Feb 2014, DW and I were on Norwegian Breakaway when the 4 year old drowned and sadly passed. We were off the coast of (I think) North or South Carolina when it occurred. We were outside, walking around the Waterfront, when all hell broke loose. We could hear all kinds of screaming and commotion on the pool deck. A few minutes later, Dan (CD at the time) came on the PA and mentioned that an airlift would be taking place. The rest of the cruise had a somber mood, with some passengers blaming the cruise line, and others blaming the caregivers. We had news and media choppers buzzing the ship for the rest of the trip.

 

That is horrible. We know what it is like to have the "mood" change on a cruise. Unfortunately, we had someone jump and commit suicide on a cruise. The mood of the cruise completely changed. Weird part was we were on a back to back... the next cruise knew nothing of it. Our "mood" was still bleak, but everyone else was, how should I say it, "normal?"

 

It happened on my second cruise. We were sailing from BOS to BDA on the Dawn and during dinner the power went out. Smoke filled the dining room as the AC vents stopped working. The engines stopped so we were floating about in the middle of the Atlantic. No power to flush the toilets. It was eerily quite and this lasted about 2 hours until the power problem was fixed. My heart stopped when it happened.

 

That sounds scary! Dead in the Water - NOT good.

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Never been freaked out on a cruise ship. But if you all remember back in 2009 when the swine flu happened. My wife and I were booked on a trip to the Yucatan and 4 days before we were supposed to leave the swine flu was announced in Mexico. We didnt have trip insurance. Had never purchased it before that trip. We had to decide whether to go on the trip or stay home and lose all of that money. We decided that we would either get the darn flu in Mexico or get it when we got home. So we went on the trip. It was the weirdest trip of our lives. Their were maybe 15 people on the airplane going to Mexico. When we landed the airport was a madhouse with people trying to get out of there. We went to the all inclusive resort and had basically the entire place to ourselves. There were maybe 100 people there. It was one of the most amazing vacations of our lives. Once the week was over we got to the airport and their were still thousands of people trying to leave. There were doctors in full hazmat suits that asked us questions about how we felt and took our temperatures. I told them I was hungover as hell but felt fine. They all got a laugh out of it. Needless to say we ALWAYS buy trip insurance now.

 

I don't even know how trip insurance would have helped in this scenario! If you had "cancel for any reason" then you could have gotten some back, but otherwise not sure. Sounds creepy.

 

I am a combo of just plain stupid, freaky, and bizarre...

1. Playing "most dramatic bingo death" on Carnival. Object was not to get your number called. They called my number, I pitched myself over the seats and whacked my head on the ground. The Ship on a Stick was not worth it, nor was the delay of game for the other players,

2. Racing up the coast to beat either Hurricane Sandy or Irene. Paying $7.95 a minute to call and tell my dad we were ok. It was worth it because he called NCL a few times and they said they were unable to locate our ship. Getting loaded into the giant elevator as they rushed us off the ship and getting stuck in the back corner with so many people sent me into my first and only panic attack. Driving through New York and seeing no one else on the road was pretty creepy too.

3. Eating in the steakhouse on Princess. My brother in law had spit a piece of steak into his napkin. He had no way to know that when he got up and then returned from the restroom, the waiter would come over to shake out his napkin like a parachute and put it on his lap. The steak was airborne and landed on the table next to us.Nothing says ambiance like flying bits of beef.

 

Beating hurricanes can suck.

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We were also on a Transatlantic back in 2010 from Venice to New York on the NCL Gem, and a 40 foot wave hit the ship, glass broken everywhere, everything came out of our fridge in our stateroom, there were broken noses, wrists, dinnerware, and I myself was thrown across the room on the 14th floor outside the elevator and got hurt. My shoulder was in a sling for about 4 months and i had to do PT to be able to bring it back to normal...

 

it was scary but i still enjoy transatlantics :D:D:cool:

 

We love transatlantic too! But you never know what you'll get!

 

We were on the Dawn a few weeks back and I think on the 4th or 5th morning we hear an emergency siren over the intercom with an announcement "BRAVO TEAM to CABIN 8550" woke me up with a start and I couldn't get back to bed. Went exploring later that morning and found out that something had caught on fire in that cabin and you could just smell burnt plastic on the entire 8th deck.

 

Being in a sling for that long must have been miserable.

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My husband and I were on the Carnival Dream on the last night returning to port on the last night of the cruise. We were in a cove balcony and at 02:30 AM we heard the couple in the stateroom next to us start fighting very loudly. The man was screaming at his girlfriend about "hooking up with some guy". We thought that it would be fine because it was just screaming but all the sudden we heard some things crashing and then heard something from the balcony hit the side of the ship and then there was no more screaming. We thought for sure that the man had thrown the woman off the ship. Long story short. Security came to the room and they couldn't find the woman right away. The man attempted to fight with some very large Thai men (these guys were super buff) and when he punched the one security guy the forced him to the ground. They ended up finding the woman and then the staff apologized for keeping us up as they needed our information for authorities in Fort Lauderdale. As soon as we docked in Fort Lauderdale the local authorities took the woman off the ship. Our room steward told us that he had punched his girlfriend and she ran out of the room and he then pulled the TV from the wall smashed the room and threw a deck chair over the railing. That was what hit the side of the hull.

 

Yikes!

 

Unfortunately on a few cruises the officer of the watch came on the P a to ask for blood ...that was freaky ..On Emerald Princess it was just before dinner .....it got very quiet in the hallways of the entertainment deck

The freakiest was on a Transat on Reflection ..same thing officer of the wAtch came on requesting AB blood in the middle of the night ....not sure ifthey got it but I know we turned back towards Madeira for a rescue ...very eerie to be awakened like that and next morning hear the helicopters hovering above .We figured the injured party got whisked away ..thank God we were not far from Madeira

On GetawAy same thing request for B blood ......I mentioned it to my son.s adult friend ...gambling buddy ...he volunteered to give and actually saved that womans life ...direct transfusion .He was very moved and emotional about it .

Getting sick on board is very scary

 

On all the cruises we have been on, we've never heard a request for a type of blood. Interesting, but makes sense.