What is the best or worse thing a cabin neighbor has done?

[rlpolobear9]

Sad to see the negatives out numbering the positives, especially the domestic violence. Hopefully if your a wife beater or drunk reading this you'll realize cabins are the most "private" of places

[Rick.D.Parker]

It was not technically a cabin neighbor, but we won a (not so) free cruise. The ship was fully booked and our room was on deck 1, the last room before the crew entrance. The door slammed closed every time the crew would walk through. People were ordering room service all night and I did not get much sleep and there was nothing that could be done.

[Sun 4-ever]

We had 3 adults who smoked non-stop on their balcony. One of them was always going out there so 1. we could never use our balcony because the smoke smell was so strong and making me sick 2. the balcony door was always slamming because one of them was always going out there. They smoked so much that it was coming through the walls into our cabin. Even the cabin steward complained. They tried to move us but the ship was full and we needed a cabin that could hold 3.

 

And before you smokers get all pissy about people complaining I was a smoker for almost 25 years. I NEVER smoked in any place that it would bother others. I believe ALL cruise ships should have no smoking in cabins, balconies, casinos and lounges or around the pool and deck areas. There just be one spot on the ship for all smokers to lite up.

[keegosmom]

My worst experience was 7 years ago on the Valor , we always get rear aft balcony, I was laying out on balcony on 7 floor and customer above me was smoking and tossed their lit butt haphazardly and it landed on my 7 month pregnant belly burning me. The man laughed when I screamed and ran in his room. My husband was angry and all set to go say something when we and everyone in the back heard his wife beating on him. He never went to balcony rest of cruise. Best part is we met all our neighbors including a doctor next to us who took care of the burn

[2-laner]

We were in PH1 on the Inspiration and heard a huge blow against the closet door separating the two Penthouses. That was followed by a lady screaming and sounds of scrambling around.

 

My wife called security while my two sons and I started around the railing to the other door on the starboard side of the ship. About half way around the lady ran out and was grabbed by the husband from behind. I yelled to release her and he flung her by the shoulders back into the door.

 

I told the boys to restrain and apply passive control holds to the man while I checked the woman. She was stunned and semi conscious. Security arrived and called for medical and a ships officer. The man never said a word. They took a written report and kept him in a secured area until port and turned him over to local authorities. Ships personnel cleared the room and we said goodbye to the lady as she left to meet family flying in for her.

 

It appears she fractured a wrist and her clavicle.

 

 

I applaud you and your boys for stepping in and helping. Many people would not have gotten involved.

[MarylandCruiseCouple]

6 cruises here and we have been just as lucky .

 

One time the couple next door got a little loud in the "Throws of passion" , but that was actually kind of funny. :)

 

Been there, heard that too! Same couple twice.

[U2FanHFX]

It's ALWAYS smoke for us. We have started to debate the need to pay for a balcony since we never get to use it. Celebrity is the only line we have been on where we can enjoy our balcony for hours a day everyday without being disturbed by others. Disney, Royal and Carnival have all forced us to stay indoors. Now I'm not talking 1 or two cigs a day, I'm talking constantly! I'm not sure what else they do on the cruise. ;)

 

I know this is a hot topic on here and flames are sure to be flaring, however, I do not believe that anyone should do anything on their balcony that impedes or disturbs others enjoyment on their balcony. This includes loud music, smoke, loud talking etc. that have been mentioned here. It's your home away from home so I treat my "new" neighbours as I would my daily ones. Smoking for us is the most intrusive as it's also a health hazard where as talking and music, depending on the volume, are not. In this day in age, I'm not sure why more lines don't move to Celebrity's policy or one where one side of the ship (port for instance) are "smoking balconies" and the other side is "non-smoking balconies".

 

Let the flames flow. ;)

[cruisenanny]

My worst experience was 7 years ago on the Valor , we always get rear aft balcony, I was laying out on balcony on 7 floor and customer above me was smoking and tossed their lit butt haphazardly and it landed on my 7 month pregnant belly burning me. The man laughed when I screamed and ran in his room. My husband was angry and all set to go say something when we and everyone in the back heard his wife beating on him. He never went to balcony rest of cruise. Best part is we met all our neighbors including a doctor next to us who took care of the burn

 

Yikes!:eek: That's just awful! How did you get on a cruise 7 months pregnant?:confused:

[jints07]

Some of these about just hearing your neighbors make me laugh....you mean it's possible in living quarters where folks are packed in to 250 square foot areas with paper thin walls that are adjacent to each other that I may hear talking or doors opening and closing from my neighbors? I thought I'd be the only one on the boat! The humanity! :rolleyes:

 

I get that some people are just rude and inconsiderate, but honestly, if being able to hear noise from neighboring cabins is an issue, then maybe cruising isn't the best choice. I suppose there is always the option to spend a bit extra and get the enhanced privacy and serenity that a suite offers.

[scomar]

I know some of you young people won't remember this, but I know some of you will.

 

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,

A beautiful day for a neighbor.

Would you be mine?

Could you be mine?...

 

It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,

A neighborly day for a beauty.

Would you be mine?

Could you be mine?...

 

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.

I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

 

So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.

Since we're together we might as well say:

Would you be mine?

Could you be mine?

Won't you be my neighbor?

Won't you please,

Won't you please?

Please won't you be my neighbor?

 

Won't You Be My Neighbor

By Fred M. Rogers

© 1967

[AZChristian]

We just returned from cruising on the Coral Princess through the Panama Canal.

 

We have a habit - now a trademark - of wearing matching t-shirts while we're cruising. (1) It makes people smile, and (2) It helps us find each other if we get separated.

 

We had purchased Panama Canal t-shirts on board, and were wearing them on the actual day of going through the canal. We started out before the crack of dawn on deck 15 as we approached the canal, and moved to other areas of the ship throughout the day. At one point, we were out on our balcony, marveling at how CLOSE we were to the ground on each side of the canal.

 

As I looked around to see if anyone else was out on their balconies, I also looked at the deck above ours. Our "upstairs neighbor" was there with a camera. She said, "Turn back around; I have to get a shot of you two in your matching shirts." So I did. I told hubby to stand still, as we were having our picture taken. He said, "Great. This lady wants a picture of our butts for her scrapbook???" We all had a good laugh, and she thanked us for "posing" for her.

 

A couple of days later, there was a knock on our door. She had gone to the photo lab onboard and printed out a copy of the picture for us. We absolutely love this shot . . . it's our new Cruise Critic avatar AND my new Facebook profile picture.

 

:)

[missygirl]

We were next door to close friends of ours for 10 nights and he snored very loudly every night...but we just laughed and keet the tv on with the sound low.

 

Another trip we went to Alaska... it was in May and pretty cold on the balcony with the wind blowing..I went out for a few minutes and the older couple next door with their PJ's on and no coats had been trapped with their door locked for a few hours...they said that they were freezing and please call for help...I did...later in the week the same happened again.

 

Missygirl

[timetravler]

The worst thing that happened to us and actually the whole ship was a teenage decided to spend the night in someone else's cabin and didn't tell her mom. At 4am the Captain woke everyone up looking for this dumb teen. They found her of course sleeping with some guy. No one would talk to her from then on except the guys(teens) that is.

The best thing was being entertained for about 1/2 hour as we watched a very very drunk person coming back from a rum drinking excursion with only his shorts on. No shoes, No shirt. He could not find his cruise card. He could barely stand up. They offered to wheel him up the ramp, but he refused. Finally some of the crew literally pushed him up the ramp and found his cruise card at the same time. Bet the next day he stayed in his cabin. Never the less, some of the best entertainment we have ever had.

[mzloolue]

Some of these about just hearing your neighbors make me laugh....you mean it's possible in living quarters where folks are packed in to 250 square foot areas with paper thin walls that are adjacent to each other that I may hear talking or doors opening and closing from my neighbors? I thought I'd be the only one on the boat! The humanity! :rolleyes:

 

I get that some people are just rude and inconsiderate, but honestly, if being able to hear noise from neighboring cabins is an issue, then maybe cruising isn't the best choice. I suppose there is always the option to spend a bit extra and get the enhanced privacy and serenity that a suite offers.

 

What?

 

Most of us who have described objectionable neighbor behavior are not talking about normal everyday life noise levels.

Occasionally hearing talking or a door closing or a drawer slamming is understandable.

Yeah, that is life and that is normal.

 

A bunch of people on a group cruise are usually noisier than smaller groups.

Especially if they are 10 guys on a high school graduation trip, annoying but I can understand it.

 

However yelling, talking loudly ALL day and night, holding yelling conversations between their balcony and stateroom, continually slamming doors all night and being a peeping tom is not normal.

 

In 12 cruises I have had only one in which the neighbors had an effect on my sleep and enjoyment of the cruise.

Admittedly the peeping tom creepy guy in the next room definitely put a damper on my excitement about finally having a balcony...

They did not ruin my cruise, but I remember them really well and they are a part of the whole experience.

 

It is easy to make light of some things when it is not you spending a week next to a troop of morons.:)

[dillonsmimi]

Sloppy drunk tried to climb over to my balcony.

Didn't have the presence of mind to call security.

Just went inside and locked the door.

 

mimi

[lgerrish]

We have been pretty lucky with our neighbors. On one side is always our best friends we cruise with each time.

 

On our last cruise to Alaska, neighbors on the other side would let their door slam, and it slammed a lot! Not a big problem, but it often would jumped the bejeepers out of me!

 

But the one that takes the cake...

 

...don't think it was a neighbor, but someone (we think a drunk girl), took a "dump" outside our cabin door - NASTY!!!!! :eek: Housekeeping came to the rescue and cleaned it up - they were not happy either.

[Aplmac]

Slamming cabin doors frequently. It's un-necessary.

 

Cabins are now where near as soundproof as some folks imagine

-like they even care?

.

[Aplmac]

We were on the Ecstasy and had a connecting room just were we ended up, not a choice of ours. The family in the connecting room allowed their young child to play with the door handle. We would be woken up by that door handle many times at night/early morning and it continued during the daytime too. Always sounded like someone was coming into our cabin. My cousin had stopped by my cabin to talk to me and was startled to see and hear just how much that child played with the door handle. We did mention it to the parents but they felt it didn't cause any harm and it kept the child quiet. No apologies.

My DH found something that "jammed" the handle from our side so it wouldn't move

(just temp and we removed it when we got off the cruise, no harm done to the door). Only thing we could do to get some sleep.

This sort of cabin-oriented problem might be better handled by your cabin steward

who might arrange for the door handle to be removed over on the kid's side?

I would've spoken to him -if no discipline came from the parents.

.

[bobsfamily]

And before you smokers get all pissy about people complaining I was a smoker for almost 25 years. I NEVER smoked in any place that it would bother others. I believe ALL cruise ships should have no smoking in cabins, balconies, casinos and lounges or around the pool and deck areas. There just be one spot on the ship for all smokers to lite up.

 

Smoking for us is the most intrusive as it's also a health hazard where as talking and music, depending on the volume, are not. In this day in age, I'm not sure why more lines don't move to Celebrity's policy or one where one side of the ship (port for instance) are "smoking balconies" and the other side is "non-smoking balconies".

 

The only thing I can say to you is that, you know in advance that balconies are used for smoking.... WAY in advance you know this. If it is that big of a deal, go on a cruise that does not allow it, get a spa cabin or don't get a balcony... pretty much that simple. People will and do get a balcony so they can smoke... some the only reason as smoking is no longer allowed in the cabin.

[jints07]

What?

 

Most of us who have described objectionable neighbor behavior are not talking about normal everyday life noise levels.

Occasionally hearing talking or a door closing or a drawer slamming is understandable.

Yeah, that is life and that is normal

 

And obviously, as this topic comes up in one form or another quite frequently, I was directing my comment to the folks that complain about these very things. As if people expect that a door or drawer won't be heard at least 10 times or whatever. Like I said, put that many people close together for that duration and noises like that should be expected.

 

However yelling, talking loudly ALL day and night, holding yelling conversations between their balcony and stateroom, continually slamming doors all night and being a peeping tom is not normal.

 

No disagreement and I think you know very well I wasn't referring to those situations. From my general experience which includes any type of vacation where others are nearby, it happens and it is rude....definitely the exception though, thankfully.

 

It is easy to make light of some things when it is not you spending a week next to a troop of morons.:)

 

It is also easy for some to over-react. Not at all saying that was the case in YOUR experience, but I trust that given your post count you have read countless posts about people complaining about literally thousands of silly and to be expected things.

[kparc]

What's the worst?

 

Kept their balcony light on ALL NIGHT LONG! :mad: and when they sat on the balcony complained loudly about their in-laws (both sets) on the cruise with them!:cool:

[OceanDreamin]

This one is not a cabin neighbor story, but still a great one for this thread.

 

On our 2007 cruise on the Pride, DH and I were celebrating our 14th anniversary. It was night time and we were enjoying drinks in the hot tub with two other really friendly couples, both newlyweds, all really nice, fun people, talking about marriage, and the "secret" to being married so long, etc. After a while a woman came in by herself. She was plowed. Apparently she had been taking seasick meds and drinking - not a good combination. On top of that she was super depressing, complaining about how her husband had ditched her, life is awful, blah, blah, blah. Just a big dark cloud on this otherwise really fun environment.

 

DH and I got out of the hot tub at that point to pick up DD from Camp Carnival, and get her settled in to bed. I stayed in the cabin with DD, and DH went back up to the hot tub, as he wasn't tired yet. Apparently while we were gone, the depressing drunk woman and one of the newlyweds got into an argument, because the drunk woman had "dissed" the newlywed's husband, the newlywed verbally defended him, and the drunk woman had apparently slapped the other lady. The slapped newlywed and her husband had left to get security, leaving the drunk woman and the other couple in the hot tub. This is the point when my DH, completely unaware of what had happened, returned.

 

He was sitting in the hot tub when security arrived. They tapped the drunk woman on the shoulder. She panicked and jumped into my completely stunned DH's lap. :eek: I guess the newlywed couple in the hot tub thought DH was enjoyed it or something, because they kept saying to him, "but you have such a lovely wife!" :D

 

Security had found drunk woman's husband (who was apparently intentionally avoiding her - go figure!), and escorted them both back to the cabin. They told the husband that he needed to stay with her and keep her in check or they would both be kicked off the ship. We did see a significantly more subdued "drunk woman" a couple of other times during the cruise, so I guess she learned her lesson about drinking and anti-nausea meds.:rolleyes:

 

Five years later we still laugh about this, and I say to DH, " . . . but you have such a lovely wife!" ROTFL!

[crusinpsychRN]

Yikes!:eek: That's just awful! How did you get on a cruise 7 months pregnant?:confused:

 

That was my question too.

[FightOnRon]

Some of these stories are just horrible:eek:. What is up with this domestic violence?!:mad: So sad...very sad.

 

KInd of gives some creedence to the "reputation" Carnival has,,,find these thread on another cruise lines section. Probaby this stuff happens but it is not posted there. Maybe only Carnival people can be honest.

 

If this nonsense ever happpens on a cruise I am on, security will be getting a call every minute until they solve the problems.

 

ETA: there is a post on page 6 about someone taking a "dump" in front of a cabin,,and we get mad at those people that posted that thread about the Klassy Cruise. HOnestly,,has anyone reading this board ever thought,,wow I have to make a deuce,,may as well do it right here in the hallway ! Really?

[Mikey1951]

Our worst experience was in 2009 when a neighbour put a damp towel over a lamp to dry and went out. The first we knew of it was when the steward requested us to evacuate whilst the matter was dealt with. It was quite a while before the smell of smoke went away.