Well this looks like a fun NCL cruise...

[RivShore]

We all understand that weather happens but what's with the overflowing toilets...

nypost.com/2019/10/09/passengers-revolt-as-cruise-turns-into-holiday-from-hell/

 

[jdb in AZ]

https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...r/story?id=66169067&cid=referral_taboola_feed
Did the passengers not read their cruise contract that the captain can change the itinerary as needed?

That doesn't excuse the stale food and overflowing toilets. (FWIW, NCL is our least-favorite cruise line out of the nine lines we've cruised with.)

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Did the passengers not read their cruise contract that the captain can change the itinerary as needed?

You think they should?

Seriously, people book cruises anywhere from a week out to a year and half ahead, and are surprised when ports have to be skipped. I think that ANYONE should be aware that a northern Atlantic cruise in the fall could involve skipped ports.

It also sounds like the ship did visit 8 ports (not the 9 on the original itinerary). Yes, some of them were not on the original itinerary, but, really, to demand a refund for something that's out of the control of the cruise line?

 

[eeyorefanuk]

We left from Southampton once for three night cruise. Supposed been two ports. The seas were so bad they could not dock to either. Brugge and Le Havre I think it was. I totally understood safety was more important but wasn’t happy the cruise line didn’t put more activities on due to it

Last year on our dcl panama we lost a port again due to weather. I appreciated again we were being kept safe and just one of those things

 

[Intr3pid]

Overflowing toilets is one thing, but you are ruining your own 14-day holiday by staging a near-mutiny over a couple of missed ports.

 

[ludari]

If I was on this cruise I would be upset for missing these ports but I wouldn't have reacted they way these passengers did. I've been on a cruise where the our port stop where canceled due to safety. Yeah, I wasn't happy but I understood and just made the best of it.

 

[peabody58]

I've cruised the North Atlantic many times and the seas were always rough. Even at 200 ft submerged!! Port calls were far and few between, and I never got a refund!!

USN Submarine Vet '76 - '84: SSBN 626, SSBN 656

 

[jcourtney]

Yikes!

 

[PrincessShmoo]

We all understand that weather happens but what's with the overflowing toilets...

nypost.com/2019/10/09/passengers-revolt-as-cruise-turns-into-holiday-from-hell/

Already a thread on this:
https://www.disboards.com/threads/irate-ncl-cusstomers-demand-refund.3773711/

 

[RivShore]

Actually this one was posted 2 hours before the other one...not that I'm keeping score or anything...

 

[otten]

I can kind of understand wanting a refund but joining a revolt on board is a great way of making sure you never get to take another cruise.

 

[Rob1872]

I've cruised the North Atlantic many times and the seas were always rough. Even at 200 ft submerged!! Port calls were far and few between, and I never got a refund!!

USN Submarine Vet '76 - '84: SSBN 626, SSBN 656

OK, but the beautiful thing about our service is that if the seas are rough at 200 feet, then I could always say, "Diving Officer, make your depth 400 feet."



USS Michigan (SSBN 727)(BLUE), USS Alaska (SSBN 732)(BLUE); currently SUBLANT Fleet Historian.

 

[Pinkgurlshubby]

Our first cruise we missed a port because the Magic was outrunning hurricane Omar. You should have seen the revolt on board. OK there wasn't one. Passengers were well informed and entertained. Couldn't care to be honest it was still a DCL cruise

 

[coast2coastmickey]

Our first cruise we missed a port because the Magic was outrunning hurricane Omar. You should have seen the revolt on board. OK there wasn't one. Passengers were well informed and entertained. Couldn't care to be honest it was still a DCL cruise

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.

 

[Ralph&Pam]

I've cruised the North Atlantic many times and the seas were always rough. Even at 200 ft submerged!! Port calls were far and few between, and I never got a refund!!

USN Submarine Vet '76 - '84: SSBN 626, SSBN 656

OK, but the beautiful thing about our service is that if the seas are rough at 200 feet, then I could always say, "Diving Officer, make your depth 400 feet."



USS Michigan (SSBN 727)(BLUE), USS Alaska (SSBN 732)(BLUE); currently SUBLANT Fleet Historian.

Thank you both for your service.

 

[CamColt]

Since there were 2 threads on the same subject I have merged them.