What has freaked you out on a cruise?

My husband and myself along with my sister and bro inlaw were on the epic, one night we were all playing in the casino when all hell broke loose. A lady started screaming, a man in a wheelchair beside me looked past me and started screaming. I jumped up to see a mother and child on the escalator. She had been holding one toddler and had a baby sitting on the hand rail with her arm around her. The baby's leg had gotten pulled inbetween the rail and glass wall pulling it in tighter. She dropped the toddler and was trying to get her baby loose. My bro inlaw ran and hit the emergency stop while crew members rushed in and helped the family away. I always wondered if they were okay. That night was horrible.

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On my first cruise which was on the Disney Magic, we were sitting down for dinner within an hour of leaving Port Canaveral. We were seated by the windows. It was choppy seas and as we approached where we were seated,I could see out and had this overwhelming desire to throw up. I excused myself and went back out of the restaurant to compose myself. It lasted a few minutes but it did subside. When I went back in to the restaurant, they had shut the blinds so could not see out.

 

Anyway, 8 cruises later, I have never felt that sick again and rather like watching the ocean now especially during a meal.

Oh gosh - now that you say that. one cruise we had several family members on (11?). Well one didn't make it through a dinner and actually vomited in the dining room while trying to make it to the restroom! :-(

We were on the Empress of the Seas during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Now you can just imagine the seas, the rocking and rolling, but that was not what freaked us out as we both grew up on the water. The part that freaked us out was that before we made it home, Katrina made landfall, and we started hearing rumors of the complete destruction of New Orleans. Now, RCCL did a wonderful job keeping those of us informed that had family in the worst hit areas, but they were giving us all the information they had. The worst was not knowing for sure if our families had survived the storm. It was VERY long sail home.

Oh how sad! I was watching the news 24-7! I left it on while sleeping so I could easily wake up every hour just to see the status of the city! I can't imagine being on a cruise during that time. :eek:

my husband and myself along with my sister and bro inlaw were on the epic, one night we were all playing in the casino when all hell broke loose. A lady started screaming, a man in a wheelchair beside me looked past me and started screaming. I jumped up to see a mother and child on the escalator. She had been holding one toddler and had a baby sitting on the hand rail with her arm around her. The baby's leg had gotten pulled inbetween the rail and glass wall pulling it in tighter. She dropped the toddler and was trying to get her baby loose. My bro inlaw ran and hit the emergency stop while crew members rushed in and helped the family away. I always wondered if they were okay. That night was horrible.

 

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holy crap! Yikes!

We sailed shortly after September 11th. we were out in the middle of the ocean, and my husband insisted that there was an "amphibious assault ship"/aircraft carrier accompanying us, protecting us. I don't know if that's true, but we did see the ship throughout the whole cruise, just close enough where we could see it. it was such a scary time.

Not unusual at all.

We also did a trans-Atlantic shortly after 9/11 on Celebrity.

12 days after.

So much so, that the ship was only 1/2 full.

We made 4 port stops on the way back to the States and had military smaller vessels surround the ship equipped with machine guns while in port, and divers were searching under the ship. In one port they also surrounded the ship with a net.

It was the least comfortable cruise we had and was the quietest.

Christmas 1973. Of course I was much younger then so it was all an adventure, now as a senior citizen would stress me out a bit.

Spent a month on the SS Canberra, only 45,000 tons but a large cruise ship in those days, in fact flag ship for P&O at the time.

Southampton to the Caribbean and return to Southampton.

Very rough crossing some of the way, I remember one night a grand piano sliding across the dance floor, completely from port to starboard.

In St. Thomas (had to tender ashore in those days), one of the tenders returning to the ship exploded, all those aboard the tender went into the water, everyone was saved but one woman suffered a broken jaw because an over zealous passenger on board the ship threw a deck chair overboard for survivors to cling to!!

When we were leaving another Caribbean island (can't remember which one, maybe Bonaire or Curacao), ship was grounded on a sandbar, had to wait for high tide for a tug to drag us off!).

A petition went round the ship to have the captain removed but don't know if that happened.

Our cruise made the news in the British newspapers - passengers overboard in shark infested waters, etc!

When I was five I was on a transatlantic in steerage with my dad. People joke about steerage but we really were. Our cabin had several bunk beds and we shared it with strangers. No bathroom in the room.

So my dad was sick in bed the whole way and he let me roam unattended. He wasn't very attentive of a parent under the best of circumstances : ) There was no kid's camp so I was just alone. So I made friends with an older child who delighted in taunting me with threatening to sink the ship by turning one of the large valves on deck. I didn't know any better, lol

This was in 1965.

When I was five I was on a transatlantic in steerage with my dad. People joke about steerage but we really were. Our cabin had several bunk beds and we shared it with strangers. No bathroom in the room.

So my dad was sick in bed the whole way and he let me roam unattended. He wasn't very attentive of a parent under the best of circumstances : ) There was no kid's camp so I was just alone. So I made friends with an older child who delighted in taunting me with threatening to sink the ship by turning one of the large valves on deck. I didn't know any better, lol

This was in 1965.

Everything about that story freaked me out.😱

I woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and saw a scroungy

old bum looking into our cabin window. It startled me and I was about to call security but stopped when I realized the window was actually the mirror.

Over a decade ago on a Royal Caribbean ship sailing to Bermuda with extremely rough seas. While sitting in the MDR the waves were crashing over the windows and the waiters were dropping plates left and right. In my over dramatic teenaged brain 100% thought the ship may go down Titantic style which lead to a panic

Upon boarding the Sky last week, we were shocked to find that a group called College Party Cruise comprised about 80% of the guests on board. All of the bars had long lines for the duration of the cruise and we had the pleasure of having screaming kids running down the hallways and banging on doors until 4 a.m. each night.

We sailed on the Royal Caribbean Anthem last month. While waiting in line for the bumper cars, we saw a young girl (10/11 years old) in the pink #1 car cornered against the wall. Another car came flying at her and T boned her car. Since she was already against the wall, the car couldn't move much, but the impact caused the girls head to jolt all the way to her right side. We all witnessed a serious whiplash injury. They stopped the session so the girl could get out. The driver of the other car must have felt horrible..It was the girls mother.

When we all piled into cars for our turn, even though there were still people waiting to go on the ride, no one got in the pink #1 car. It floated around empty.

I woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and saw a scroungy

old bum looking into our cabin window. It startled me and I was about to call security but stopped when I realized the window was actually the mirror.

Made me laugh..Thanks

And you never will, won't happen. You would need a huge stabilizer fin to force the ship onto its side. The stabilizer doesn't reduce (and therefore can't increase) the ship's roll, it just changes the period (duration) of the roll, and takes it out of harmony with the seas forcing the roll.

I was hoping you would respond since you understand these things much better than I do. It hasn't stopped me from cruising but I do feel more reasurred.

Last year while sailing the Caribbean I was hit on by a drunk women in the casino. I agreed to go for food with her late at night at o'sheehans but had no interest in her and thought I had made it clear. At the table she got super depressed and crying as I wouldn't take her back to my stateroom. She assumed I thought she was ugly and wondering why this always happens to her.

She said by the end of the cruise I'd have sex with her. So anyway my whole cruise I had to avoid this drunk lady who was double my age.

I saw her a few times in the casino and she made me look like I was in AA she drank so much.

One time she asked to borrow 100.00, so basically I paid someone 100.00 not to have sex.

That was my weirdest story on a ship hahaha.

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Last year while sailing the Caribbean I was hit on by a drunk women in the casino. I agreed to go for food with her late at night at o'sheehans but had no interest in her and thought I had made it clear. At the table she got super depressed and crying as I wouldn't take her back to my stateroom. She assumed I thought she was ugly and wondering why this always happens to her.

 

She said by the end of the cruise I'd have sex with her. So anyway my whole cruise I had to avoid this drunk lady who was double my age.

 

I saw her a few times in the casino and she made me look like I was in AA she drank so much.

 

One time she asked to borrow 100.00, so basically I paid someone 100.00 not to have sex.

 

That was my weirdest story on a ship hahaha.

 

 

 

 

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I just LMAO!!!!!!

I have a couple...

1.) My 2nd cruise, 1st cruise in a storm. Hurricane Sandy. The day we were suppose to dock in Jamaica was the day Sandy hit them. I have never been so scared in my life. I quickly turned my phone on to call home. I wanted to hear my mothers voice. Lol. I hated that cell phone bill later but it was worth it. Thankfully AT&T helped me with the bill.

2.)Not really about me, but about a couple I went on a cruise with. My friend who has been on multiple cruises, and her boyfriend who had never been on a cruise before. They had the UBP so her bf got pretty drunk to say the least. In the middle of the night he went to pee (he was naked) and instead of going back to his bed, he turned and went out the door. There he was butt naked banging on the door. She was too knocked out to hear him. He had to go down to Guest Services and get someone to open the door for him. OMG. To hear her tell me that story the next day I couldn't stop laughing!

I was on the Queen Victoria world cruise a few years ago. We were on our first of two days in San Francisco. I had just returned from a few hours walking around town. They were not letting anyone board.

Seems a storm came up suddenly and the ship broke away from its ropes and started floating out to the middle of San Francisco Bay. Both gangways were hanging off the side of the ship into the water. Luckily no one was on the walkways at the time. There was a tug near by and pushed her back to the dock.

It took several hours to get one of the gangways operational. I spent the remainder of the afternoon watching a large crain removing one of the gangways out of the bay. Also had lots of news helicopters flying overhead during the nightly news.

Don

This didn't freak me out as much as I thought it was cool...I was 20 and indestructible:

1987, and USS Nimitz was transiting around Cape Horn during winter, relocating to her new homeport of Bremerton, Washington, after a 6-month Mediterranean deployment. Seas were so high there was green water coming over the bow and onto the flightdeck.

Think about that for a minute.....

Norhing so far...yet. :cool:

We were sailing out of San Diego on the Carnival Spirit & 5 minutes out we saw a capsized boat with several people holding on. We tried to find someone of authority to tell but couldn't. We figured someone on the bridge must have seen it. Asked around to ship personnel, no one knew anything. Found out later it was an overloaded boat with special needs kids. Some did not make it.

we were on the carnival Ecstasy when it died in the water in 2013.

last cruise, RCL Freedom of the seas, it was so windy the entire cruise they had to close the top deck. One of the members of our party almost had his hipster tank top ripped off by the wind. On the last sea day, we did the theater behind the scenes tour and kept on hearing this disturbing loud banging noise. they were like no worries, its just the anchor hitting the side of the ship, blowing in the wind.

I know, not that exciting

Circa 2002 on the Norwegian Majesty (first cruise), a sea day returning to BOS from BDA. Sitting on the top sun deck with 60 or so other pax, laying in the sun and just dozing off, the abandon ship alarm sounds (you know--seven short and one long). One by one people become vertical in their loungers, heads on a swivel. As the resting heartbeat climbed from 60 to 120 bpm, several minutes pass. Well maybe it was like 45 seconds. A unidentified voice on the PA proclaimed "sorry, that was a mistake". The nap was ruined.

Deb, was his name Captain Lars? We were on the Gem and we LOVED his updates! He was the best! We have no idea who our Cruise Director was, but we still display our photos with Captain Lars proudly. Hilarious. "Well folks, I am not going to lie to you about the weather... there IS weather." "Don't get off at this port with your wife, or you will end up quite poor."

Haha! That reminds me when we were on the ncl gem and the captain who was an amazing character one day in his updates said we are in the middle of no where and the closest land was the bottom of the sea! But he wasn't planning on visiting it that day. We didn't know wether to laugh or be worried 🙂

 

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Deb, was his name Captain Lars? We were on the Gem and we LOVED his updates! He was the best! We have no idea who our Cruise Director was, but we still display our photos with Captain Lars proudly. Hilarious. "Well folks, I am not going to lie to you about the weather... there IS weather." "Don't get off at this port with your wife, or you will end up quite poor."

We had Captain Lars one time too. I remember loving his morning updates. I didn't recall his name until you said it. thank you. [emoji4]

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