What have you forgotten or left ON the ship?

[sassystyxfan]

The previous thread was about what we forgot to pack, but I wondered if anyone else has learned the hard way about the opposite like me. :o

 

We went to the Western Caribbean with friends and bought some really good portraits of all of us. This was great because my best friend hates having her picture taken so it doesn't happen very often. There was even a really good picture of just her and I, as the best friends we are, although she didn't buy one - she hates pictures of herself. I coulda scanned hers later, but NOOOO (tee hee). So we kept stacking the pictures on top of the safe the whole week. Somehow they didn't get packed. Called Royal Caribbean's Lost & Found. I even sent them similar ones that were taken with our digital cameras to show what we all look like and what we were wearing in some of the pics. They said they weren't there. We even tipped our cabin steward very generiously before we left. I can't believe he wouldn't have turned the in. *sigh*

 

So NOW - they go straight into my laptop case after we buy them and they stay in there the whole cruise.

[lougee1043]

i forgot to leave myself on the ship after my cruise----really wanted to see what it was like to be a stowaway

[jcruise67]

Though this question is about what you left on the ship, I can't help but be reminded of a horrorific experience I encountered prior to boarding the Carnival Spirit in Miami a couple of years ago: Without changing the topic, I would like to share it with all of you.

 

On Carnival cruise lines, I'm an Ocean Player's Club member. My wife and I had priority check-in and a private escort to the gangway of the Spirit. We were escorted through the secrity check point and I had to take off my fannie pack and put it through the x-ray machine along with our carry-ons. Needless to say, all our money and credit cards were in my fannie pack. After everything came through the machine, I grabbed it and proceeded with the escort to the gangway. Right before we boarded the ship, I exclaimed "Holy S***!!!" I suddenly realized that I didn''t have my fannie pack. You should have seen the look on my wife's face when I told her. I was horrified. I sprinted all the way back through the cruise terminal, passed the military men with machine guns, all the way back to the x-ray machine. I informed security that I lost my fannie pack and asked if it was returned. They said they didn't know. I was in a state of panic, and needless to say, security and the military police thought I was crazy. I explained what happened, but at this time I thought our vacation was over before it started. In a last ditich effort, I asked security to stop the x-ray machine and look inside to see if my fannie pack may have become stuck on something, never making it through. Sure enough, my fannie pack strap git hung up inside the machine. You could imagine the sigh of relief when it was recovered. Iwas re-escorted to the gangway by the military officers. By the time I reached the gangway I was laughing with the MP's. At this point my wife realized that I found it. My God, did I panic. Could you imagine if I had to tell my wife on our 10th wedding Anniversary that we couldn't go on the cruise? That had divorce written all over it.(LOL) Since then, I learned a valuable lesson, and I changed how I carry my money and passports. It was probably the only time in my life I actually went into a state of panic. After we got on the ship, I needed a stiff drink to take the edge off.(LOL) Hell yea, I got drunk.(LOL)

 

John

[sassystyxfan]

Though this question is about what you left on the ship, I can't help but be reminded of a horrorific experience I encountered prior to boarding the Carnival Spirit in Miami a couple of years ago: Without changing the topic, I would like to share it with all of you.

 

Holy COW! I woulda had a heart attack! No way to start your vacation that's fer sure!

[waterbound]

The only thing I've ever left onboard was my Bath and Bodyworks Bath gel.. I was kinda bummed cause that stuff isnt cheap and it was a new bottle.. I wish I had left myself onboard though.. :0)

[bilgeboyPa]

I always end up leaving my sanity on board :-).

 

Jeff

[yesitsfree]

Dh left a pr of Nike tennis shoes in the closet on the Conquest last year. He thought I packed them. I told him it was up to him to get his stuff and I would get mine. He found out he left them after we got home-in Ohio. I guess whoever found them kept them. Brand new only wore once on the cruise. Nice gift to leave behind huh? This time I am checking ALL closets and cabinets the day we leave to make sure this doens't happen again.

[danyelle]

I forgot my 'special pillow' on the ship and after we'd disembarked and were about to get in a taxi, I remembered. I ran back on the ship, not stopping for security or anyone else asking me what was up....i got back to my stateroom just in the nick of time. A room steward (not ours) was about to toss it in the trash!!! I yanked it from him and ran back out

[Diamond Graham]

I accidently left the rechargable battery base to my portable DVD player in a storage cubby on the Carnival Glory. First realized it when I was sitting in the airport trying to figure out what movie to watch on the trip home. I immediately called Carnival to report it, gave them cabin number, exact location of item, and to my horror...I never did get it back:eek:

 

 

Had to buy a replacement that cost over $100.00. Expensive lesson, but one I won't soon forget.

[kris12]

My "left behind" is truely horrible. I left (sniff sniff) Sonny , my cabin steward. I called and reported that I had left him onboard but they never did send him to my house. There went my towel animals on my freshly turned down bed with a chocolate on the pillow. He always seemed to know when I was heading to my room and would be waiting , see me walking down the hall and would open the door for me. I last saw my missing Sonny on the Elation last April. If you see him please return him ASAP!!!

[Chef Sandy]

DH left his dress shoes under the bed on Norwegian Majesty.... we often think of those lucky shoes sailing around and around and around without us!

[patnjohn]

It was my job to clean ou the safe. I thought I got everything, but left my husbands cell phone. Did not miss it until we had to call a friend hours later. Called the cruisline, told them cabin # etc. We got a cell phone in the mail, but it was not ours. We scrolled down some numbers & called one & it was the owners son. We mailed it to him. Never got ours back, but had some St. Thomas calls on it before we called phone company & reported it missing.

[BluexMoon]

I left the charger for my camcorder on the ship. Didn't realize it till we tried to use the camera a few days ago. We played back the last few seconds of the tape in the camcorder, and realized it had not been used since Mexico in Nov! And remembered I left it plugged in on the vanity!:( Had to order a new plug on ebay

[Mary Jane 711]

I left these items on my last cruise in my stateroom:

 

New Brita pitcher

string of colored xmas lights and hooks

can of Lysol

over the door shoe hanger

 

I gave them to the steward who smiled from ear to ear when I said he could have them. It was not really charity, although I was happy to give them to him.. Actually I had no more room in my luggage!

[lovemylife]

We somehow left my son's favorite stuffed animal, Spotty Puppy, in an airport, never to be seen again. He was only 4, and was a really good sport about it, but every time he would mention in passing how much he missed "Spot", it broke my heart!!!

[jess43]

We were on a beach in Philipsburg, St. Martin and my husband changed from his brand NEW baithing suit into his shorts. Later that night when he went to go change into his NEW baiting suit it was nowhere to be found. E-mailed the beach bar we were at, but no reply was ever made. Leason Learned: Never assume my husband has remembered anything!

[tunegoon]

A buddy of mine and I left a wrapped condom for some female friends that were cruising in 4 months, as a joke. We hid the item on the ship, then took a picture of the location from VERY close up...they didn't know what we left them or where it was...but the scavenger hunt apparently was fun, even if the prize wasn't.

 

T.

 

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Victory Eastern Carribean 3/6/05

[atlmagic]

Nothing much. Oh, wait. There was that whip and the set of hancuffs. But it's not my fault. I thought DW had packed them the night before.

[Chucksta63]

Crock Pot and Blender?:)

[Danii]

My dad left a pair of shoes and socks!!! I feel sorry for the next guests to stay in that cabin

[Preacher's Kid]

Last year I had to take a cruise with my best friend's mother, because my friend's work cancelled her vacation due to some Department of Energy emergency. Anyway, we got on the Maasdam in Fort Lauderdale, and my friend's mom realized she didn't have her brand new camera. This was one her boyfriend had given her just for this cruise - a Canon digital. We checked everywhere we had been (security, picture taking, etc.) before I started getting specific about when she had last had it. Yes, she had it at the hotel, yes, she had it on the shuttle bus. She couldn't remember picking it up off the seat on the shuttle. So I used my cell phone (roaming, peak minutes) to call the hotel, who in turn called the shuttle driver, who then called me. I described the camera and he said he had it. He pulled up in front of the terminal 30 minutes later, we had to get off the ship (again!) and go through security (again!), back through the terminal and out to the curb to meet the driver. Than I had to give him a tip because my traveling companion had nothing smaller than a $100 with her.

 

She proceeded to also lose a pair of diamond earrings later that week. She still thinks the steward stole them, but I'm more apt to believe that she either knocked them off the night stand and they got sucked into the vacuum cleaner - or they're lying on the bottom of her purse.

 

Moral of the story: Never travel with someone you don't know REALLY WELL.

 

Karenlynne

[maxicat]

Crock Pot and Blender?:)

 

I know why people bring blenders on their cruise, but why bring a crock pot? :confused:

[MGilly]

This wasn't on a cruise, but it DOES have a happy ending...

 

When my daughter was about six years old, she had a big, floppy, stuffed dog that she absolutely loved. We didn't realize until we were about 150 miles away from the motel that we'd left it in Lake George, New York. We called the motel when we got home several days later, and they had it! They mailed it back to us, and our daughter was absolutely thrilled. So were we! It was so nice to find that there are some really wonderful people in this world!

[cincicruisers]

I normally leave behind my size 8 body and come home with a size 12!

[shanman310]

A used roll of duct tape my best friend and a SWEET girl I met on the cruise used to tape me to a chair and put me in the atrium bar.