Rude Cruisers

[herrmfam24]

I just wanted to say that on our cruising experience we had the best time of our lives but we couldn't believe one of the cruisers. We saw him several times throughout the cruise complaining to the CM'S that his bed was too hard. They tried to accomidate him and even put a board under his bed to help. Even after they did that...he STILL persisted on complaining that it was screwing up his back and had the nerve to ask for a free massage from the spa. i'm sorry...but this really made me mad to think that people are this rude. give me a break...what do people expect out of a single person?

Ok i'm off my soapbox now....thanks for listening!

 

[herrmfam24]

**sorry...he complained that is bed was too soft

 

[din]

Reminds me of a cruiser complaining about the Bingo. We were in line for the pictures and there was this cruiser complaining something about bingo not being clear or something like that. The prize if I recall was about $200. The a nice change, but Disney was going to him a something else, but he was insistent about the prize. Did not hear the end as the line moved.

Oh well!!!

 

[Mermaid02]

There's always someone trying to get something for nothing.... figuring how Disney wants to make the guest as happy as they can they try and take advantage...... happens every day!

 

[danicaw]

Its so frustrating isn't it.
We had someone on our Dec cruise that kept picking fights with our stateroom hostess. He even swore at her in the hallway and tried to get her fired, just for doing her job.

We wrote her a note on the last day, just telling her how much she added to our experience. She came to me with tears in her eyes, soo thankful for our note. This was her last week onboard, she was finishing her (is it a 3 or 6 month term they serve) term and going home to see her 3 year old daughter.

I can't imagine leaving a little one for that long. My heart just broke for her. Every time we saw her she was smiling and happy to help, even through this one guys rudeness.

 

[ducklite]

Originally posted by herrmfam24
**sorry...he complained that is bed was too soft

I would have told him to sleep on the floor. Jerk.

Anne

 

[Doctor P]

Some people.....

 

[BeanoC]

Some people are just so unhappy with their own lives, they seem to feel they MUST try to make others miserable and complain about EVERYTHING!! When I witness people like that, I just think to myself, wow, must suck to be him!!

Can you imagine being on the Disney Magic and doing nothing but whine about it? Geez. Gimme a break.

Tell you what - if he didn't like the bed, I'd have been glad to show him off the ship and I'd take it instead!

Life is as magical as we choose to make it. If this person chooses to live inside their own miserable hell, it doesn't mean I have to let them make me miserable too!! Just enjoy life and let these poor lost souls be cluelessly unhappy. As for me, I'll continue to be thankful for the delight of seeing my wife and kids on the Magic
having the times of their lives!


'Beano'

 

[prymsu]

well said BeanoC. Some people are just never satisfied no matter what!!!

 

[Ginny]

Danica -

I just have to tell you how incredibly thoughtful I think it was for you to write your stateroom hostess that note. It brought tears to my eyes. Your note took only a few minutes to write but it meant the world to her and probably undid a great deal of the pain that the other guest caused her.

I cannot imagine having to work those incredibly long hours, be separated from my children, consistently be "on" and put up with abusive guests. Your kindness was truly what "Disney Magic" is all about. Thank you so much for sharing!!

BeanoC is right, it must be heck to be that guest and so miserable. But, Danica, you went the extra mile and turned a bad situation into a much more positive one with your thoughtfulness!!

 

[inkkognito]

The complainers must be totally clueless as to how other people think about them. When we were on Voyager, we ate lunch at a large table where one of the other people had us all in stiches. He was telling us about this one old lady at his dinner table. She was a widow who cruised a lot and who spent the entire time of every meal complaining, sending her food back, complaining some more, then adding a little more whining and complaining. I'll bet she had no clue that she was providing entertainment for so many other passengers (I'm sure this guy told his lunch mates about her exploits every day). What I couldn't understand is why she cruised so much if it made her so miserable.
On our last Disney cruise, I saw people yelling at crew members who asked them to remove their children from the adult pool...they were way out of line, with no excuse to get snotty with the crew, but they are so self-centered.
Barb
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[Dave_from_Marietta]

The most extreme display of rudeness I ever saw didn't occur on a cruise ship, but it did involve traveling.

I was flying home to Atlanta from Boston, and was attempting to get through the security checkpoint. Delta Air Lines and United Airlines were making things difficult by putting templates on the metal detector belts. If your bag couldn't slip through the template, you had to go back to the checkin counter and check your bag. (I <i><b>hated</b></i> those templates... I was so glad whey they were court-ordered to remove them.) As I was waiting in line, a young mother with child-in-tow was attempting to clear security. She was traveling with a safety seat so her child could be strapped into the airline seat. The safety seat wouldn't fit through that stupid sizing template so there was a delay as the security checkpoint personnel tried to figure out if they were allowed to lift the template out of the way to allow the safety seat to be examined.

A business traveler lost all his patience and uttered a curse word at her, as loudly as I'd ever heard one uttered, and with as much hatred and frustration as he could muster. This stunned the entire crowd into silence... we couldn't believe anybody could treat anybody so badly.

I tried to find that young mother after I'd cleared security... I wanted to apologize on behalf of humankind that anyone could treat her so badly. I couldn't find her. I think I cried later on. It was awful.

 

[doulasue]

I try to remember, for every rude jerk I have encountered while travelling, I have met at least 100 extremely great people. At least the nice ones are still the majority!!! -Sue

 

[wishiwasgolfing]

We just came back from the May 4th Cruise and my wife went to a show at the Buena Vista theatre and she told me some lady was trying to save seats (which the navigator tells you it is NOT ALLOWED) and she went Balistic at some guy because he sat down in one of the seats she THOUGHT she could save. Well my wife said the lady would not quit on the guy. My wife said the guy
took his kid and put him on his lap to give one seat back (I would not have) and the lady refused to sit there. Then to top it off after the show was over she went Balistic on the guy again saying something like "you are a rude man! You are wrong" blah blah blah!!!! Can you believe it? People, do yourselves a favor and READ THE NAVIGATOR.

Repeat after me "NO SAVING SEATS"

GET IT ?

There. I feel much better now. Whew!!!

 

[ducklite]

Originally posted by Dave_from_Marietta
A business traveler lost all his patience and uttered a curse word at her, as loudly as I'd ever heard one uttered, and with as much hatred and frustration as he could muster. This stunned the entire crowd into silence... we couldn't believe anybody could treat anybody so badly.

I think I would have had somehting to say to the guy right then and there. And it probably would have been nastier and meaner than he had been to begin with.

She was being responsible and taking a safety seat on board for her kid. It was the screeners who were the problem. Actually, not really, it was the company who they worked for who didn't provide adequate training on that type of situation. I mean really, like it didn't happen daily?? Are there that few responsible parents out there who value their kids lives enough to buy a ticket and haul along that safety seat? Geezzz......

Anne

 

[herrmfam24]

Thanks for all the reponse guys! I like your idea anne ! I guess we just have to face the facts that there are rude people out there who just seem to always be unhappy! Oh well...nothing even rude people will ruin my vacation!

 

[wovenwonder]

Ummmm, How about people that are just too 'happy' on the trip. Let me explain....

On the 4/20 Magic we had this passenger 'Johnny' who was always very friendly and happy AND INTOXICATED. It did not matter if you saw him at 9 in the morning or 9 at night. He has a 'drink' in hand and was being very bubbly. I never seen him with a child ---- gee, I hope he was not someone's father. He was the highlight of many conversations I had with fellow passengers --- everyone seemed to know 'Johnny'. (I never seen him rude or out of line -- he was just having a little too much 'magic' in his vacation.)

 

[ducklite]

Originally posted by wovenwonder
Ummmm, How about people that are just too 'happy' on the trip. Let me explain....

Well...maybe he needed to find the Friends of Bill W. meeting. (and PLEASE--I AM NOT DISPARAGING THAT GROUP!!!)

Seriously I'd rahter deal with a fun drunk than a mean one.

I have an off topic (kind of) tale about a drunk.

In 1991 I was in Seattle at one of the concert venues downtown. (The Palace maybe?) Anyhow I was there for business. It was late, about midnight, and the show had ended about an hour earlier. I was in the lobby with a couple of others that worked at the theatre. All of a sudden ::::BOOM::::!!!

We looked up, and there's this guy laying on the lobby floor. He had fallen over the railing on the balconey in the Loge area above.

So we're looking at him with our mouths hanging open, literally frozen thinking we had just seen this guy die, and he starts to move. He stands up, shakes himself off, and looks at us. Then he says "Hey dudes, when's the show start?"

We looked at him and each other in amazement. One of the people I was with tells him, "Sorry man, shows over. Time to leave."

The drunk then says, "Oh, OK man, hey does anyone have any beer?"

We told him no, and he staggered off out the front door. We just looked at each other and I could tell we were all thinking the same thing...

Anne

 

[Jillie]

wovenwonder....we were also on the 4/20 Magic and we are still laughing about Johnny(or Charlie as we called him as we thought he looked like Charles Manson). No one who was not on that cruise could possibly imagine what he was like....doing cannonballs in the adult pool to purposely get women, in particular wet. One of our friends said they now truly believe that people can actually win cruises from being on Jerry Springer!!

Johnny was traveling with an older man and woman who looked just like him but were even more rude! On Castaway Cay we were in line to get lunch when they bumped into this man and spilled the red punch all over him and as they walked away said "Oh well it had to spill on someone" and walked off laughing. They were quite the family!

 

[taswira]

In the silent auction on the Wonder this week, I placed a bid on the autographed captain's hat. Right after me, a man bid twice as much, so I didn't bother bidding again. At 12:30am, I received a call saying the high bidder had not shown up and it was well past the deadline for payment and pickup, asking if I still wanted the hat. Then they suddenly said they'd call me back. When they called again at 1am, I was told that the man showed up while they were on the phone with me, heard them saying I could have it, and pitched a fit, becoming totally irate and uncontrollable. They decided to let him claim the hat for his outrageous bid price. I remarked that unlike him, I was not going to become irate, but it seemed to me that by giving in to him they were rewarding his bad behavior and disregarding their own auction rules, and I thought that might be setting a bad example. Next thing I knew, they said they would have an identical captain's hat autographed for me by Captain Tom and I could pick it up at 8am before disembarking, for my bid that was half the irate man's bid. I reveal this only to let people know that DCL does it right. After they told me I could have the hat, I wasn't going to have to disembark without it just because someone who did not abide by the auction rules verbally abused the CMs. He got a hat, but I think the price he paid was sweet revenge. Hopefully he is not a DISer!