Ever see anything totally shocking and unexpected on a cruise?

[VeroBeachGirl]

These are great to read while killing time in the carpool line!

 

[EmilieK]

Just finished reading the entire thread and LOVED it. Anyone want to help me think of at least 8 REALLY good ones to make a "shocking bingo" card? The ones that come to mind first are:

Topless person on the cruise
Topless person at Castaway Cay
Drunken Outburst
Some form of entitled guest (should I have more than one type here)

For me personally, I will NOT but anything about breast feeding. It's a personal choice how to feed your child.

Any help to spice up our multi-generational family cruise would be much appreciated!

What about "incident" in the pool, way to old person walking around with something in a stroller/babycarrier or naked people on verandas/rooms on the cruiseship docked next to yours? Or inapropriate PDA?

Theese things are too funny and some really disturbing but I just couldnt stop reading

 

[sesame_123]

We were sailing on the dream, when a young boy probably around age 5 had to be rescued from the Donald pool. It was very shocking as I never saw him until the life guard pulled him out. The boy proceeded to throw up (from taking in too much water) the pool was shut down. The most shocking part was it took the CMs more than 20 mins to find a family member. Later I saw the kid with his family and it was like nothing happened. They stayed at the pool for quite awhile.

 

[valee]

I"m glad the lifeguard was there, but unfortunately I think the presence of the lifeguards will mean more instances of unsupervised children at the pools. I'm not talking about unsupervised meaning reading a book poolside and glancing up from time to time to check on your ten year old. I fear that parents will think it's acceptable to head for a quick coffee, or even go for a soak in the adult area hot tub while their four year old paddles around.
Please be your child's first line of defense.

 

[TwinPrincessMermaids]

I totally agree with you, parents parents parents! However, parents cannot be guaranteed to do the right thing. I would run out of typing space to demonstrate instances of this. Sometimes, I'm REALLY glad there is SOMEONE ELSE looking out for the little guy so he can grow up and hopefully have a choice to become responsible. Thank goodness for the lifeguard. Seriously, someone has to be these babies' advocates, as much as I wish it was the parents, there are a thousand reasons sometimes it just really isn't. Disney is doing a good job making sure that while its on their turf, they have an extra set of trained eyes.

 

[lorimay]

Yet another child pool story.

On The Fantasy last week at the Mickey pool with my grand kids.
I am a nervous wreck when they are in the pool. We were 6 adults 2 kids.
The kids were with their mom and dad and I went to get a drink.

I hear a mom tell her daughter to stay in the Mickey pool and not leave it unless she goes and tells her!!!!!?????
WHAT?!? This little girl was no older than 5-6. Are you kidding me?
Then she says "Don't go near the ears, the are deeper".
I was freaking out.
There is not a lifeguard at the Mickey pool. What was she thinking and where was she going that the kid had to go and tell her?? She should have been sitting right there with her.

I had noticed on the first day that the black Mickey ears are dangerous because if a child goes under there, you can't see them because of the black paint. They need to get rid of that black paint.

 

[lorimay]

I have another one that is gross and I wished I would have done something more than gasp.

We were walking down deck 8 on our way back to our room around 10pm or so.
Now lots of us castaway members put out little magnetic boards out with notes and such.

Well some one, I am going to say a male tween/teen drew a picture of a mans genitalia on a family's board. This was a very clear picture that took some time to do. It was awful. I gasped and pointed it out to my husband in shock. We shook our heads and walked on. I really wished I would have pulled it off the door and put in face down on the floor. But I didn't even think of it at the time.

We were told that at shutters they have facial recognition for the pictures where you don't swipe your key card. I wonder if they had security footage if it would have worked for this situation if the security cameras happened to catch it.

The one and only low point of the cruise.

 

[jplee3]

Just got back from the Fantasy Western Caribbean (2/15-22) and had a great time. On Thursday (I think?) rumors were swirling around the ship about a Coast Guard rescue where they had to send a helicopter in to transport someone off. Apparently, a guy suffered from a heart attack and his entire family got onto the helicopter back to wherever they were headed to. I didn't get to witness anything as I think we had plans. But my dad and brother got one or two pictures of the helicopter. Hopefully the man is doing ok...

 

[lorimay]

Just got back from the Fantasy Western Caribbean (2/15-22) and had a great time. On Thursday (I think?) rumors were swirling around the ship about a Coast Guard rescue where they had to send a helicopter in to transport someone off. Apparently, a guy suffered from a heart attack and his entire family got onto the helicopter back to wherever they were headed to. I didn't get to witness anything as I think we had plans. But my dad and brother got one or two pictures of the helicopter. Hopefully the man is doing ok...

Hi
I was on the same cruise. We were at the Mickey pool when it happened. We saw the helicopter approach the ship, very intense to see.
It was actually a 21 yr old man who suffered a collapsed lung while scuba diving.
I hope he's ok now. Our local news station (in Miam/Ft. Laud) had some pictures of him being lifted off the ship.

 

[sugarsugar1]

Hi
I was on the same cruise. We were at the Mickey pool when it happened. We saw the helicopter approach the ship, very intense to see.
It was actually a 21 yr old man who suffered a collapsed lung while scuba diving.
I hope he's ok now. Our local news station (in Miam/Ft. Laud) had some pictures of him being lifted off the ship.

I was on it too. I have close up shots of the rescue. He definitely had a collapsed lung, and a few days ago was listed in stable condition. Hope he's doing better!

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

Well some one, I am going to say a male tween/teen drew a picture of a mans genitalia on a family's board. This was a very clear picture that took some time to do. It was awful. I gasped and pointed it out to my husband in shock. We shook our heads and walked on. I really wished I would have pulled it off the door and put in face down on the floor. But I didn't even think of it at the time.

Yuck that sounds like the really old french text books we had in gr 8 at my old elementary school most of them had some really nasty drawing poel had don in them over the years, even whited out they were still bad.

We were told that at shutters they have facial recognition for the pictures where you don't swipe your key card. I wonder if they had security footage if it would have worked for this situation if the security cameras happened to catch it.

I don't think they do have cameras in the hallways and if they did they did I doubt they could use the photos from shutters to identify anyone for legal reasons.

 

[CaliforniaMama]

I just finished reading this entire thread, and oh wow. What if they put us at a table with some strange fake baby person? Or the couple drama at dinner? Will they move you if you are at a table with someone who makes you feel uncomfortable?? And poop in the pools?? Parents telling their kids to just pee in the pool??? gross! My 7 year old son would definitely loudly comment on a thong suit, completely freaked out that a butt was showing. I hope these stories are the few and far between. Yikes!

 

[cmurray234]

I was on it too. I have close up shots of the rescue. He definitely had a collapsed lung, and a few days ago was listed in stable condition. Hope he's doing better!

That's great news! We were on this sailing also and were at the pool deck watching. It was indeed intense.

Glad to know this young man is feeling better.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I just finished reading this entire thread, and oh wow. What if they put us at a table with some strange fake baby person? Or the couple drama at dinner? Will they move you if you are at a table with someone who makes you feel uncomfortable?? And poop in the pools?? Parents telling their kids to just pee in the pool??? gross! My 7 year old son would definitely loudly comment on a thong suit, completely freaked out that a butt was showing. I hope these stories are the few and far between. Yikes!

If you are seated with tablemates that you just don't mesh, you can request to be moved. Just as your head server. It may be necessary to switch dinner seatings, or they may be able to move to a different table on the same seating.

I'd suggest a talk with your son about the variations of clothing worn world-wide and how it's impolite to comment on how someone is dressed (except in the privacy of your stateroom).

 

[jplee3]

Hi
I was on the same cruise. We were at the Mickey pool when it happened. We saw the helicopter approach the ship, very intense to see.
It was actually a 21 yr old man who suffered a collapsed lung while scuba diving.
I hope he's ok now. Our local news station (in Miam/Ft. Laud) had some pictures of him being lifted off the ship.

Oh geez... I guess my word-of-mouth source was completely off regarding the medical condition.

In any case, that's really scary - I can't imagine that happening while diving. Hope he's doing okay.

 

[jplee3]

Oh yea, I have another crazy experience to share although it's a bit indirect and didn't actually happen on the ship (but the involved family did happen to be on the ship).

So it was day 2 of our WDW tour and we were staying at the Hilton @ Lake Buena Vista (so we got the extra magic hour). We were on the early 7:30am shuttle to take us to the parks when the chaos ensued....

The bus driver is slowly driving off when the bus comes to an abrupt stop and the driver opens the doors. I think I saw a brother and sister run off the bus and then get back on with the flustered parents following. First the mom storms on, points at the driver, and yells "COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE! COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!!!" ohhhhhkay.... then the dad storms on and is like "DUDE, THEY'RE ONLY 10YRS OLD! WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM!?!?!" - apparently the kids got on the bus first and the driver drove away without the parents? I'm not entirely sure what happened but that leads to the next part...

So the lady who scolded the bus driver, proceeds to start flapping him mouth at an elderly woman who was sitting across the aisle and apparently staring or looking her direction: "EXCUSE ME, YOUNG LADY... WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM? YOU BETTER STOP LOOKING THIS WAY, YOUNG LADY!"
Apparently, the elderly woman's daughter (also with her husband and son) became extremely defensive and upset at this treatment towards her mother and said to the lady "YOU NEED TO WATCH YOUR MOUTH." to which the lady replied "YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH WHAT I'M SAYING?"

Then it was sort of a blur... the daughter was like "YEA I HAVE A [choice word here] PROBLEM WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING" followed by more choice words between both parties. All this right before the daughter got up and started rushing towards the lady as if to tackle and beat her. Fortunately, both husbands stepped in to intervene as I think the daughter would have really done some damage (let's just say she was probably two times bigger than the petite woman with major attitude).

Then everybody calmed down and apprehensively enjoyed the ride to the happiest place on earth. My wife told me about how her coworker was saying she's seen countless mommy-meltdowns especially at Disney parks. Haha, this was no exception! I think it was just early and all parties were probably stressed trying to make it on time to magic hour, etc... but way to cause a scene! I felt so bad for the bus driver - those guys must get a lot of flak from jerk-parents, and I'm sure some of them must absolutely hate it. And it's not as though the driver could have said anything or talked back because a family's complaint will probably almost always outweigh a driver's defense. Poor guy...

I guess the kids were okay, because they were just calmly sitting there as if nothing happened. LOL! My wife was irritated because the loud-mouthed mom was just sitting there sweet-talking her kids right after, as if nothing happened 5 minutes earlier... I was thinking she might have been saying something along the lines of "Now kids, do you see what happens when you get mommy upset? She turns really mean...and we don't want that, do we? So eat your veggies from now on!" ... jk hahaha

Anyway, we ended up overhearing the offended family say something along the lines of "they must be from Canada..." while walking into the entrance after exiting the bus.
We also saw our favorite instigators several times after this. We spotted them out of a crowd a couple times in the parks and then, would ya believe it, we end up seeing them on the ship too! Totally unexpected and random! I think we saw them walking around on one of the decks as well as seated several tables away from us in Enchanted Garden. I think the husband might have recognized either of us from the bus and sort of looked away embarrassed for a second. He was a bigger guy too - looks as though he played hockey or football in HS - would've been scary if he actually retaliated on the shuttle that morning. Fortunately (or unfortunately?!) no further scenes were observed from this family during any of our other encounters...gosh, I feel like I'm reminiscing about this as if I was on 'Kilimanjaro Safaris' !!!

I'll be darned if I get a reply from a very angry woman in response to my post...!

 

[100AcreWood]

Oh yea, I have another crazy experience to share although it's a bit indirect and didn't actually happen on the ship (but the involved family did happen to be on the ship).

So it was day 2 of our WDW tour and we were staying at the Hilton @ Lake Buena Vista (so we got the extra magic hour). We were on the early 7:30am shuttle to take us to the parks when the chaos ensued....

The bus driver is slowly driving off when the bus comes to an abrupt stop and the driver opens the doors. I think I saw a brother and sister run off the bus and then get back on with the flustered parents following. First the mom storms on, points at the driver, and yells "COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE! COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!!!" ohhhhhkay.... then the dad storms on and is like "DUDE, THEY'RE ONLY 10YRS OLD! WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM!?!?!" - apparently the kids got on the bus first and the driver drove away without the parents? I'm not entirely sure what happened but that leads to the next part...

So the lady who scolded the bus driver, proceeds to start flapping him mouth at an elderly woman who was sitting across the aisle and apparently staring or looking her direction: "EXCUSE ME, YOUNG LADY... WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM? YOU BETTER STOP LOOKING THIS WAY, YOUNG LADY!"
Apparently, the elderly woman's daughter (also with her husband and son) became extremely defensive and upset at this treatment towards her mother and said to the lady "YOU NEED TO WATCH YOUR MOUTH." to which the lady replied "YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH WHAT I'M SAYING?"

Then it was sort of a blur... the daughter was like "YEA I HAVE A [choice word here] PROBLEM WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING" followed by more choice words between both parties. All this right before the daughter got up and started rushing towards the lady as if to tackle and beat her. Fortunately, both husbands stepped in to intervene as I think the daughter would have really done some damage (let's just say she was probably two times bigger than the petite woman with major attitude).

Then everybody calmed down and apprehensively enjoyed the ride to the happiest place on earth. My wife told me about how her coworker was saying she's seen countless mommy-meltdowns especially at Disney parks. Haha, this was no exception! I think it was just early and all parties were probably stressed trying to make it on time to magic hour, etc... but way to cause a scene! I felt so bad for the bus driver - those guys must get a lot of flak from jerk-parents, and I'm sure some of them must absolutely hate it. And it's not as though the driver could have said anything or talked back because a family's complaint will probably almost always outweigh a driver's defense. Poor guy...

I guess the kids were okay, because they were just calmly sitting there as if nothing happened. LOL! My wife was irritated because the loud-mouthed mom was just sitting there sweet-talking her kids right after, as if nothing happened 5 minutes earlier... I was thinking she might have been saying something along the lines of "Now kids, do you see what happens when you get mommy upset? She turns really mean...and we don't want that, do we? So eat your veggies from now on!" ... jk hahaha

Anyway, we ended up overhearing the offended family say something along the lines of "they must be from Canada..." while walking into the entrance after exiting the bus.
We also saw our favorite instigators several times after this. We spotted them out of a crowd a couple times in the parks and then, would ya believe it, we end up seeing them on the ship too! Totally unexpected and random! I think we saw them walking around on one of the decks as well as seated several tables away from us in Enchanted Garden. I think the husband might have recognized either of us from the bus and sort of looked away embarrassed for a second. He was a bigger guy too - looks as though he played hockey or football in HS - would've been scary if he actually retaliated on the shuttle that morning. Fortunately (or unfortunately?!) no further scenes were observed from this family during any of our other encounters...gosh, I feel like I'm reminiscing about this as if I was on 'Kilimanjaro Safaris' !!!

I'll be darned if I get a reply from a very angry woman in response to my post...!

That's pretty scary when tempers flare. Some people on my dh's side (especially my father in law) have really bad tempers. I found out when my oldest dd was diagnosed with high anxiety (she has a temper too) that most people with bad tempers are suffering from anxiety and it shows up in the form of a bad temper. Her psychologist explained they actually feel a sense of relief by making other people unhappy. Then, feel a lot of regret later.

 

[jplee3]

That's pretty scary when tempers flare. Some people on my dh's side (especially my father in law) have really bad tempers. I found out when my oldest dd was diagnosed with high anxiety (she has a temper too) that most people with bad tempers are suffering from anxiety and it shows up in the form of a bad temper. Her psychologist explained they actually feel a sense of relief by making other people unhappy. Then, feel a lot of regret later.

No kidding... what was scary was that both the husband and the wife seemed to have pretty bad tempers. But the wife just couldn't resist the extra jawing to push things over the edge. Oh and the daughter seemed to have a bit of a temper too, else I'm sure she wouldn't have reacted violently. It was just a big blow-up...

 

[CaliforniaMama]

If you are seated with tablemates that you just don't mesh, you can request to be moved. Just as your head server. It may be necessary to switch dinner seatings, or they may be able to move to a different table on the same seating.

I'd suggest a talk with your son about the variations of clothing worn world-wide and how it's impolite to comment on how someone is dressed (except in the privacy of your stateroom).

I guess I better I was just imagining his reaction to seeing that type of bathing suit somewhere. He would be pretty shocked. Good advice!

 

[jmedrew]

We cruised on a Med cruise this past Sept. We are Americans stationed in Germany. One thing I cannot get over is how some Europeans do not use lines or they have no sense of personal space. Doesnt matter if you are at Mcds or in line for a cruise...they either stand behind you breathing down your neck or just ignore the line.

So we are in line to get on our excursion bus. There is a group of people...2 woman and 2 kids....I beleive they were Spanish. They walk up to the line, just pass all of us and push people out of the way and board the bus. Everyone around us was like (the english and americans) Did they just do that?? And they did it again and again during excursion and other ones we had the joy of sharing with them. It kinda became a joke...we just started parting the seas so they didnt have to push. It was so odd....it was like we werent even standing in a line at all.

I have a few more stories but I dont want to sound like I am bashing europeans. Just different cultures I guess.