Took an Alaskan cruise on a name line and the wind was blowing heavy. On the first night they slowed the ship down so the performers on the stage for the opening night performance wouldn’t fall off the stage. Before the show they locked all the outside doors to the deck and when the show was over, all entertainment stopped and they ask everyone to retire for the night.
During the night my wife and I were in the center of the bed, face to face, with pillows wedged at our backs to stay in place. And after the first few minutes we took everything that was not tied down and put it in the shower and shut that door. So nothing even the loose lamp, was free in the room except us and the pillows. Didn’t sleep much as the ship was in all kids of positions.
In the morning, they wouldn’t let us on the departing gang plank for excursions saying there was a problem with customs. As this was coming and going from a US port there should not have been any custom problem. We found out later they were moving the injured and hurt off the ship to hospitals and didn’t want the other passengers to see it.
About a dozen people with cuts and bruises, broken bones, one a hip, and a couple of heart attacks had their cruise ended. The line should have cancelled the trip but they love their money and will always find someone to take it possibly unsuspecting like us.
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whitney69 wrote: “About a dozen people with cuts and bruises, broken bones, one a hip, and a couple of heart attacks had their cruise ended. The line should have cancelled the trip but they love their money and will always find someone to take it possibly unsuspecting like us.”
There are social media sites for cruises. The biggest, most well known is Cruise Critic. I post a lot there. Here’s the point: do you have any idea how many would protest/complain about cancelling the trip?
Several years ago, there was a series of terrorist attacks in Israel and multiple cruise lines cancelled port calls there. Cruise Critic was alight with complaints. ‘They should have let us make up our minds if it was too dangerous.’ Of course, these would have been the first to file suits for compensation if they were injured in an attack.
Early December 2006 we were between Los Angeles and Hawaii in Princess and had the most horrible seas. Pouring down rain. All events were cancelled. It was difficult to walk around. Dishes flew everywhere. Water sloshed into the decks. It lasted between 12 & 24 hours, I guess.
Many Navy vets were aboard, headed to Pearl Harbor for 65th anniversary events. THEY were getting sick.
We didn’t know WTH was going on, and nobody told us ANYTHING. This was before cruise ships had any live news available via satellite, any Internet, cell phone reception at sea, etc. Everyone was terrified.
Two weeks later we returned to CA, and our pastor said, “You must’ve had some terrible days at sea.” He was a surfer and monitored some sites having to do with buoys or something. We had been at a location where three different storms converged. From Japan, Alaska, and somewhere south, IIRC.