Ever see anything totally shocking and unexpected on a cruise?

[ruadisneyfan2]

Omg of course I had a choice...I didn't have to click on the link.... But I did. I cannot reverse what I have seen lol. No amount of therapy can help me now. For others that are still without this knowledge...still to click that link..still have that card to play...it's too late for me and kitkat2704 Lol. You lot go on without us....

Too late for me to. Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated.

Those babies aren't cheap either. Being is expensive though still not as expensive as being a parent.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

Too late for me to. Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated.

Those babies aren't cheap either. Being is expensive though still not as expensive as being a parent.

I know! Where there is a need there is somebody willing to exploit it and get rich. I am sure re expense of being a parent. We own dogs and they are a joy but very expensive. They do have the bonus though of you can put them in kennels when on vacation. Not sure you are allowed to do the with kids lol..

 

[Ellester]

So tempting to comment on the "doll" discussion, but I will just have to let that one go....

Mine is in the unexpected category. Years and years ago my dad got a "great" deal on a Dolphin cruise. He had his own business at the time so a big group from his office went along with our family. DH and I were newly married. Anyway, once aboard we discovered that the reason the deal was so good was that we were filling the unsold cabins for a special reunion cruise, for some apparently very popular South American pop music groups from the 70's. ALL the entertainment was to do with these groups, according to their contract nothing could go on unless it had to do with the reunion. So we watched several shows that consisted of screaming Spanish women singing along to their favorite songs from 15 years earlier! We still had fun but it was a very different experience.

The ship was so small, DH and I had little twin beds in our room. No option to put them together so we just had to hold hands across the 1 foot gap between the beds! The ship bounced around like crazy, the first night was so rough that out of our group of 20 only 5 of us made it to the dining room. The rest were too sick to leave their cabins! One of the 5 was pregnant and when the first tray of food went by, she got up and ran out of the dining room with her husband on her trail. So we had a quiet dinner for 3 at our table for 10! The rest of the trip, the crew put single packs of dramamine out all over the ship so you could just grab a pack and hope for the best. It was quite the adventure!

 

[ranidayz]

The monkeys were better looking.

This is the last thing...or I'll get a warning to take it to the community board...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyakBk7JrU

Too bad these babies aren't like the ones the middle schoolers bring home for home ec class. I'll never forget my daughter saying "I'll do it, I'll do it!" Then "here, I have to go the bathroom" or me waking her up at 2:30 am as she's sleeping through the crying. Honey, wake up... "WHAT, LEAVE ME ALONE~!" LOL.

Five lbs and 25 inches! Hmmmm.... maybe it's better she sticks to dolls rather than real babies... Its a little unreal to watch and listen to these videos.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

So tempting to comment on the "doll" discussion, but I will just have to let that one go....

Mine is in the unexpected category. Years and years ago my dad got a "great" deal on a Dolphin cruise. He had his own business at the time so a big group from his office went along with our family. DH and I were newly married. Anyway, once aboard we discovered that the reason the deal was so good was that we were filling the unsold cabins for a special reunion cruise, for some apparently very popular South American pop music groups from the 70's. ALL the entertainment was to do with these groups, according to their contract nothing could go on unless it had to do with the reunion. So we watched several shows that consisted of screaming Spanish women singing along to their favorite songs from 15 years earlier! We still had fun but it was a very different experience.

The ship was so small, DH and I had little twin beds in our room. No option to put them together so we just had to hold hands across the 1 foot gap between the beds! The ship bounced around like crazy, the first night was so rough that out of our group of 20 only 5 of us made it to the dining room. The rest were too sick to leave their cabins! One of the 5 was pregnant and when the first tray of food went by, she got up and ran out of the dining room with her husband on her trail. So we had a quiet dinner for 3 at our table for 10! The rest of the trip, the crew put single packs of dramamine out all over the ship so you could just grab a pack and hope for the best. It was quite the adventure!

Oh my! Tell me after this experience of sheer horror you must have braved it up to try another cruise! I assume so as you appear on the Disney Cruise line forum. how brave! I hope the next cruise was better! Lol re the South American music groups from the 1970's! I bet that was quite an experience! Not often you go on a cruise and lose weight lol. We had one cruise with a breakout of a virus. The last night the dining room was empty. But that's a whole different story... I thank Disney for it's constant use of gloves with its CM and giving us that anti bac liquid going into the dining rooms!

 

[Plaid Princess]

I can't believe I forgot about this one...

On our very first Disney cruise, we were wandering the ship fairly late on our last evening, and wandered into one of the shops. There was no one about except the merchandise CM who was busy stocking, and the cruise director... Who had gotten cornered by some frequent cruisers.

Now, we had encountered this particular couple all over the ship for those past 4 days. They were the type who were constantly interrupting everything to let you know how many cruises they had been on (including trying to correct the CM giving the safety instructions during muster).

Well they had the poor cruise director trapped, and were asking him about his wife, and getting much too... erm... personal. The poor guy was trying to politely suggest a different line of conversation, while trying to figure out how to extract himself from the corner of the shop they had backed him into.

After a few minutes we felt so bad for the poor guy that we played tourist and asked him if he could come take a picture for us outside the shop. He quickly agreed, and followed us out the door (if looks could kill, that couple would have killed us!).

When we got outside, he asked us where we wanted the photo, I told him we didn't need one... We just thought he looked trapped. He smiled and said, "thank you, you have no idea", before quickly ducking down the hall.

 

[chris31997]

I can't believe I forgot about this one...

On our very first Disney cruise, we were wandering the ship fairly late on our last evening, and wandered into one of the shops. There was no one about except the merchandise CM who was busy stocking, and the cruise director... Who had gotten cornered by some frequent cruisers.

Now, we had encountered this particular couple all over the ship for those past 4 days. They were the type who were constantly interrupting everything to let you know how many cruises they had been on (including trying to correct the CM giving the safety instructions during muster).

Well they had the poor cruise director trapped, and were asking him about his wife, and getting much too... erm... personal. The poor guy was trying to politely suggest a different line of conversation, while trying to figure out how to extract himself from the corner of the shop they had backed him into.

After a few minutes we felt so bad for the poor guy that we played tourist and asked him if he could come take a picture for us outside the shop. He quickly agreed, and followed us out the door (if looks could kill, that couple would have killed us!).

When we got outside, he asked us where we wanted the photo, I told him we didn't need one... We just thought he looked trapped. He smiled and said, "thank you, you have no idea", before quickly ducking down the hall.

Some people just don't know when to stop. To put it nicely

 

[princesscate]

The one and only cruise we were on was a carnival cruise 16 years ago! We saw a guy "digging for gold" while waiting to sail away. Yuck! He needed a tissue! We also saw someone sitting in a chair outside a cabin down our hall. Turns out someone was under house arrest for disorderly conduct.

I am enjoying these stories! Keep em coming.

 

[TwinPrincessMermaids]

The one and only cruise we were on was a carnival cruise 16 years ago! We saw a guy "digging for gold" while waiting to sail away. Yuck! He needed a tissue! We also saw someone sitting in a chair outside a cabin down our hall. Turns out someone was under house arrest for disorderly conduct.

I am enjoying these stories! Keep em coming.

Mentioned it before but I guess it fits on here. Just a few minutes embarked and got key card for room on CCL Triumph in 2011. Security on each side of a "lady" asked if she was with us. She was utterly completely toasted and passed out so they escorted her back. Asked if she was with us... Happened to be our next cabin door neighbor...great. We had been on ship probably about 30 min and she was just gone. CCL actually turned her card off for the day! (Yikes! Its BAD if Carn cuts you off!) Also the yrs may not have been kind but she was NOT less than mid aged or maybe even older. Def not a college chick or something...

 

[grimgrningghost]

OK, I'll tell this one on me. I spend a lot of time shopping and dressing DD because she spent her first few years in a Russian orphanage.

I had carefully set out matching outfits for DH and DD for a shore excursion. DD was wearing a pair of capris that she had worn another day. As we were walking through the restaurant on board, her panties from the previous wearing fell out of one of the pant legs. She picked them up and started saying at in a very loud voice, "Look Mama! My panties fell off! How can that happen if I have my pants on! Do you want me to try to put them back on? How did this happen? Hey! I thought I had my Cinderella panties on and these have flowers! Wow! It's magic! Is there a Panty Fairy! Look!"

I just sighed, collected her bloomers and moved on. No mother of the year award for me this year.

I am truly sorry to any of you who experienced this and lost a little of your appetites.

RTM

I know this was posted ages ago but I just read it and I just about fell off the chair laughing. Read it to my husband and he cracked up too. I can totally imagine my daughter saying this.

 

[MikeAndNick]

http://m.ashtondrake.com/mcategory/baby-dolls_1282/so-truly-real.html

Sorry. I had to! XD

I do not have any little kids and never a girl so I think I have to buy the "Poseable Lifelike Baby Orangutan With RealTouch Vinyl Skin" and carry it around the Disney Cruise Ship in December and tell everyone it is my gradbaby.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

I do not have any little kids and never a girl so I think I have to buy the "Poseable Lifelike Baby Orangutan With RealTouch Vinyl Skin" and carry it around the Disney Cruise Ship in December and tell everyone it is my gradbaby.

Lol. Please what is a gradbaby? I have seen that posted but not sure what it means. I haven't heard that said in UK ( where we live ) . I tried to google it but got some very confusing links!

 

[princesscate]

Mentioned it before but I guess it fits on here. Just a few minutes embarked and got key card for room on CCL Triumph in 2011. Security on each side of a "lady" asked if she was with us. She was utterly completely toasted and passed out so they escorted her back. Asked if she was with us... Happened to be our next cabin door neighbor...great. We had been on ship probably about 30 min and she was just gone. CCL actually turned her card off for the day! (Yikes! Its BAD if Carn cuts you off!) Also the yrs may not have been kind but she was NOT less than mid aged or maybe even older. Def not a college chick or something...

OMG! Did you see her again?

 

[TwinPrincessMermaids]

OMG! Did you see her again?

Yep whole cruise. Her cruise mate was NOT happy with her. You would think it would have been awkward but not too bad as I doubt she remembered it?

 

[cruisecrasher]

Lol. Please what is a gradbaby? I have seen that posted but not sure what it means. I haven't heard that said in UK ( where we live ) . I tried to google it but got some very confusing links!

Pretty sure she mistyped grandbaby. Aka grandchild.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

Pretty sure she mistyped grandbaby. Aka grandchild.

Oh I see. Thank you doh! I should I realised that. I hope being stupid isn't a violation of the Disboards....

 

[Ladyshopper]

We have just got back from the 2 week transatlantic on the Magic. A new entertainment crew joined the ship ready to take over from the old ones at the end of the cruise. During the second week one evening we saw pirate Mickey "practising" his zip wire between the funnels. Watched him do it twice in a row!

There wasn't that many people round the goofy pool, was about 11pm, but all of us that were were cheering him on, and he was playing up to the crowds!

 

[the_bUg]

I absolutely love this thread... Can't think of anything to add, but thanks for all the hilarious stories. It's been a fun read.

 

[dee slack]

We have just got back from the 2 week transatlantic on the Magic. A new entertainment crew joined the ship ready to take over from the old ones at the end of the cruise. During the second week one evening we saw pirate Mickey "practising" his zip wire between the funnels. Watched him do it twice in a row!

There wasn't that many people round the goofy pool, was about 11pm, but all of us that were were cheering him on, and he was playing up to the crowds!

we caught that too, the lights dimmed low, seemed pretty weird.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

This happened to my parents...on an NCL Alaska cruise. A group of about 10 were going on a day trip and insisted that the chef got up early to prepare them all a cooked breakfast as they did not accept that at this early time there would only be cold buffet and serve yourself toast , waffles etc available. My parents were very shocked that the chef did get up ( they were on the same day trip and just had the cold buffet ) and made them all the full cooked breakfast offerings. None of the group turned up to breakfast ( my parents were at the next table at dinner so heard the argument and the chef giving in ) and the poor chef was very confused. When my parents saw the group ( from a certain country but I won't name and shame lol ) on the day trip they asked where they were at breakfast and they said 'they had no intention of going to breakfast but they have paid for it and it's the principle......

Omg...my parents were so shocked. This wasn't the only thing they demanded throughout the cruise. At the end of it they announced they didn't believe in tipping...