700 Carnival Passengers Struck Down… (Getting the norovirus on a cruise ship means house arrest)

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | November 16, 2006 | Sofia Santana and Bob LaMendola

[Don Carlos]

Here's a good word for you. The evening dining room meals were excellent. Chateau Briand, Filet Mignon, Lobster, all excellent.

Carnival's idea of fun ships, apparently, is for everyone to get drunk, loud and stoopid. Oh yeah, and bring a bunch of brat kids and don't bother supervising them.

[HitmanLV]

Glad to hear! That's the first I have heard of it!

[Vicki]

I still wouldn't take a cruise. I don't care for the water and I would rather get where I am going. Just not my thing.

[finnman69]

Well I have been fortunate enough to have taken two cruises, 1 Royal caribbean Caribbean cruise, a Cunard Alaskan cruise, and a 2 week private safari in Kenya.

If I had to rank the three from best to last:
1:Kenya, i'll never forget it
2:Alaska cruise, amazing, but I was on a small 500 luxury passenger liner. Not a 5000 passenger hamburger and fries serving monster.
3. Caribbean cruise. Fun, but not really special.

[Kozak]

I took a cruise this summer of the Eastern Mediterranean with my family for 11 days. It was wonderful. We did port calls in Athens, Mykonos, Santorini, Rhodes, Istanbul, Kusidasi (Ephesus) and Naples. The food was great, the entertainment was great, the accommodations were comfortable, we didn't need to shleep bags or repack. We got to do port calls that were wonderful, but still had a "home" to return to at the end of the day. I plan to go back to some of the cities to get a more indepth visit, but it was a great way to see a lot in a short time and be very comfortable.

[backslacker]

(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")

LOL! True tagline. Call it the revised Shahada.

[taxed2death]

You could give me the free month cruise and $100,000.00 and I wouldn't hop on one of those disgusting germ factories.

[taxed2death]

"I absolutely hate puking. I'm obsessed with it, as my parents would tell you. I avoid stomach-sick people at all costs. Not very loving when it comes to that. Not only fear myself getting it, but it's just absolutely disgusting and the sight/sound makes me sick by itself! Other sick people, I will nurse them and entertain.

Puking - forget it! :O

Being on a ship surrounded by stomach-sickies - I would be apoplectic if not sick myself!"


Well, well, well...have I got a home movie for you!

I used to go to bike week in Daytona from the late 80's to the mid 90's....the first year I went I noticed that the last weekend of bike week was also the first weekend of spring break!
I remember all these young college types falling out of the buses and projectile vomiting as soon as the bus doors opened. Not being one to "miss a shot"...I hurriedly got my camcorder into play.

I've now got a gut bustingly funny compilation vid of about 30 or so spring breakers puking their brains out upon exiting these buses over the years!!!!!!!!

You want a copy?

Now each year when my friends and I all sit down to watch the daytona 200....I am always asked to pop in that vid first.

;)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

but what was troubling to me was that the Oriental doctor gave me an injection of something

A Naughty Nurse could inject me with anything, for all I care...

[Species8472]

Got this in an e-mail some time ago, true or not I dont know ---

About 2 years ago we were on a cruise through the western
Mediterranean aboard a Princess liner. At dinner we noticed an elderly
lady sitting alone along the rail of the grand stairway in the main dining
room. I also noticed that all the staff, ships officers, waiters, busboys,
etc., all seemed very familiar with this lady. I asked our waiter whom the
lady was expecting to be told she owned the line, but he said he only knew
that she had been on board for the last four cruises, back to back.

As we left the dining room one evening I caught her eye and stopped to
say hello. We chatted and I said, "I understand you've been on this ship
for the last four cruises". She replied, "Yes, that's true." I stated, "I
don't understand?"

She replied without a pause, "It's cheaper than a nursing home".

Here's the proof -- when I get old and feeble, I am going to get on a
Princess Cruise Ship.

The average cost for a nursing home is $200 per day. I have checked on
reservations at Princess and I can get a long term discount and senior
discount price of $135 per day. That leaves $65 a day for:

1. Gratuities which will only be $10 per day.

2. I will have as many as 10 meals a day if I can waddle to the
restaurant, or I can have room service (which means I can have breakfast in bed
every day of the week).

3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free
washers and dryers, and shows every night.

4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.

5. They will even treat you like a customer, not a patient. An extra $5
worth of tips will have the entire staff scrambling to help you.

6. I will get to meet new people every 7 or 14 days.

7. TV broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress
replaced? No Problem! They will fix everything and apologize for your
inconvenience.

8. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don't even have to ask for them.

9. If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip you are on Medicare.
If you fall and break a hip on the Princess ship they will upgrade you to a
suite for the rest of your life.

Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the Panama
Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, or name where you want to go?
Princess will have a ship ready to go. So don't look for me in a nursing
home, just call shore to ship.

P. S. And don't forget, when you die, they just dump you over the side at
no charge.

[Eclectica]

Will never go on a cruise. Between the viruses, people disappearing and criminal activity. Forget it.

You forgot rogue waves.

Hey, I got reply 50 at last!

[theFIRMbss]

>have I got a home movie for you!

Kind of off topic,
but a Google image search
on the phrase passed out

returns some of my
favorite images. They
are so real-world sweet . . .